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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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| 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 around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline. Read Full News
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| Amidst the ongoing financial slowdown and production slump, Tata Motors, the largest automobile manufacturer of India, today once again served 'no work' notice to around 400 non-permanent workers of its Jamshedpur plant.Read Full News
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| State Bank of India is going to be the only finance provider for Tata Nano, which is considered to be the world's cheapest car.Market sources are pointing towards a deal between State Bank of India and Tata Motors whereby the former will be the sole loan provider to Nano buyers across the country.Read Full News
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| Tata Motors is considering a soft launch of their upcoming small car Tata Nano before the end of the year. The company is working on making available at least a couple of hundred Nano cars by that time.Read Full News
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| Toronto-based Electrovaya (TSX: EFL) and Mumbai, India's Tata Motors (NYSE:TTM) have partnered to produce the electric version of Tata’s Indica hatchback. The Indica EV is scheduled to be launched in Norway in 2009 and India in 2010. The companies have not disclosed a price. Read Full News
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| Auto manufacturer Tata Motors on Tuesday said it has acquired majority stake in Norwegian innovative solutions maker for electric vehicles Miljo Grenland Innovasjon, with which it is developing the electric Indica in the country.Read Full News
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| India's Tata Motors Ltd (TAMO.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it will make its ultra low-cost Nano in Gujarat state and will launch the car in the the Jan-March quarter of 2009, after it pulled out of West Bengal last week because of protests.Read Full News
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| Will the much-hyped Nano car from house of Tatas be priced at Rs one lakh as announced earlier? The answer from Ratan Tata is wait for the launch. Asked whether Tata Motors would be able to meet the Rs one-lakh tag, Tata told private television news channel Times Now that many things have changed since the announcement of the project, like input prices, and it would be fair to announce the price at the time of its launch.Read Full News
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| Tata, one of India's leading industrial groups, had planned to make what it said would be the world's cheapest car, the Nano, at a factory in Singur. Read Full News
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| Tata Motors said Friday it has decided to shift production of the Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car, from India's West Bengal state because of unrelenting opposition from a powerful local political party.Read Full News
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| Five unidentified men bludgeoned two private security guards at the Tata Motors Nano factory in West Bengal putting one in the hospital, police said.Read Full News
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| India's Tata Motors has begun removing equipment from its "cheapest car" factory in eastern India, after no resolution in a land dispute.Read Full News
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| The Karnataka Government has sought an “early appointment” with Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group, “to take forward the negotiations on relocating the Nano project to Dharwad,” said Mr Murugesh Nirani, Minister for Large and Medium Industries, here on Monday.Read Full News
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| Tata might have suspended the work at the Tata Nano plant in Singur in West Bengal but they continue to work towards the anticipated launch of the revolutionary car in the coming months.Read Full News
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| Shares in Tata Motors Ltd jumped nearly 7 percent on Monday after farmers who had blocked work at a plant to build the low-cost Nano car called off their protest, raising hopes the car will launch as planned.Read Full News
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| India's Tata Motors Ltd (TAMO.BO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Monday it would only review its position in the plant for the low-cost Nano car, where work was suspended last week, if it was confident that the viability of the project was not impinged.Read Full News
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| Despite the political opposition that has resulted in suspension of work at Singur, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata, on Thursday said that the company was doing everything possible to launch the Rs 1 lakh car Nano as per schedule. Read Full News
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| Ratan Tata at the SIAM annual conference in New Delhi said that people are looking for more efficient packaging, more efficient engines, lower consumption. Read Full News
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| India's Tata Motors (TAMO.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to launch an electric version of its Indica hatchback in Norway within a year, and will bring it to the local market at a later stage, its managing director said on Wednesday.Read Full News
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| Tata Motors Ltd., maker of the world's cheapest car, warned it is suspending construction of its Nano plant and reviewing possible plans to move manufacturing from eastern India in the face of violent protests from farmers and local politicians there.Read Full News
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| Tata Motors halted work Friday at a factory manufacturing the world's least-expensive car as thousands of farmers protested outside for compensation for their land in eastern India, a company official said.Read Full News
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