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| Honda Siel Cars added another feather in it's cap by lauching India's first hybridcar, that is 47 per cent more fuel efficient than the Honda Civic petrol car. Thecar is powered by a petrol engine and an electic motor. At high speeds, three stageiVTEC IMA petrol engine work while at idling or at traffic signal, the electricmotor works thus preventi... Read Full News
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| To curtail the demand for gas guzzlers, the Government of India has hiked the excise duty on vehicles. The SUVs, luxury cars having the engine capacity 2000cc and above will see increase in price of Rs20,000. The mid size cars having engine capacity ranging between 1500 to 1999cc increases up to RS.15,000.Sales of luxury brands like Audi,Daimler Ch... Read Full News
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| Hyundai Santro admitted as the number one position in compact car segment in the Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) conducted by JD Power Asia Pacific 2008. JD Power Asia-Pacific study is one of the most esteemed and renowned for its total objectivity conducted the test first time in India in various segments of the car like compact cars, premium ... Read Full News
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| There is total confusion across the country on who would bear the higher excise cost imposed on vehicles with higher capacity engines. Earlier, Govt has slapped an additional specific duty of up to Rs 20,000 per car. The cars which are with dealers right now are sent to them earlier before the new excise duty kicked in by the government. But the an... Read Full News
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| Yamaha which is buoyed by the initial response for its latest offering R15 is betting big on the bike. Yamaha has already made 500 registration in chennai within few days of the commercial launch and it hopes to sell 25000 units of R15 before the end of this year.We will start a new era of Yamaha India with this bike," Yamaha India chief executive ... Read Full News
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| Fed up with raising interest rates,spiking fuel prices, here is an announcement from Mr.Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman,Planning Commission you don't want to hear. The planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said that people in the upper middle class should be ready to spend more prices to the petrol and diesel, while referring to the... Read Full News
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| Royal Enfield, a division of Eicher motors unveiled its much expected Thunderbird Twinspark model with a Unit Construction Engine (UCE) Unlike the previous generation engines, the new UCE features engine, clutch and gearbox tucked into a single casing, thus making the entire assembly more compact, promoting the fuel efficiency by 10 percent and red... Read Full News
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| Ford has launched a new sports variant of Fiesta called Fiesta S that clocks 0-100 km in 11 seconds and an upgraded SXI variant of the Fiesta featuring new front grille and head lamps. The new Ford Fiesta range is priced from Rs. 6, 29, 000 for petrol variants and from Rs. 7, 10,000 for the turbodiesel models. The Fiesta 1.6 S, available only with... Read Full News
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| Tata's Nano may be the world cheapest car but it seems like buying a nano won't be cheaper. The Nano customers might be treated as a buyer of second-hand car if they are taking a loan to finance the Tato Nano says some leading bankers. The leading auto loan financiers are saying that typical loan applicants for the Tata Nano might be people with lo... Read Full News
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| Hyundai has announced an offer for the buyers of i10 and santro. Hyundai will take care of the increase in petrol price that might happen in next six months.The offer is valid only for buyers who book i10 or santro between June 20th to June 30th 2008.... Read Full News
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| To test their claims, I headed to their factory in Amb, Himachal Pradesh to try out the latest iteration. Sonalika have set up a 24,000 unit a year capacity state-of-the-art plant to manufacture the Rhino, and from first impressions, the facility is right up there, among the best in the country. Really. It is completely dust-free, is superbly equipped and the paintshop is good enough for Tata Motors to despatch a 1,000 of their Ace mini-pickups a month to get painted. Read Full News
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| Adding to the ballooning list of luxury cars that cost millions on Indian roads, Italian sports car maker Lamborghini on Friday rolled out its super luxury hot wheels: 'Gallardo' and 'Murcielago'.
Lamborghini president and CEO Stephan Winkelmann told PTI that the company had already sold six cars in India (two of them delivered) and hoped to finish the year with ten.Read Full News
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| Full-blown hybrid vehicles may still be a distance from the Indian market, but miniature versions based on start-stop technology which save 8-10 per cent fuel in city driving conditions, may well flood the market soon.
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| Hyundai Motor India has decided to have one more production base for its i20 cars. The new manufacturing base will be outside India. In the light of the changing environment, the company management sees a lot of economic sense in serving the i20 needs of Europe from a production location closer to t...Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki (MRTI.BO), India's leading car maker, has no plans to enter the Nano segment even though it expects the world's cheapest car to have a marginal impact on sales of its small car model. Tata Motors' (TAMO.BO) Nano is due to hit the market in July. The base model has been priced at around...Read Full News
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| Japanese car giant Suzuki launched its fifth global small car Alto at the Geneva Motor Show on Wednesday. The car will be imported from its manufacturing base in India.
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| Fiat has just gained a 35% stake in the US based automaker Chrysler. This might enable Fiat to bring some iconic models from Chrysler to the Indian market. One of the models being rumored to be heading towards India is the Jeep Cherokee.
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| Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) on Tuesday unveiled the much awaited Mahindra Xylo at its plant here. The multi-purpose vehicle, priced at Rs. 6.25 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) for its base model E2, will be available in eight shades and a total of four variants (E2, E4, E6 and E8) with the top-end E8...Read Full News
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| A US based company is developing a vehicle that would require nothing but air to run on the roads, with Tata already buying the rights to make the car for the huge Indian market. According to a report in Environmental News Network (ENN), Zero Pollution Motors is developing a vehicle that can motor a...Read Full News
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| Honda Motors' upcoming plant in Rajasthan will be an export base for certain key engine components, and not a manufacturing hub like some other auto-makers such as Hyundai, Suzuki and Renault have planned. The company has similar bases in other ASEAN countries.
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