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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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| India's largest car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, has decided to rope in regional banks to push its sales, anticipating a near flat growth in the current fiscal. The company will use regional banks, which have a good presence in the semi-urban and rural areas across the country, to make its vehicles, particularly the just launched hatchback A-star, accessible to customers. Read Full News
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| Country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki on Wednesday launched its new hatchback 'A-Star' in the Indian market and said it would in four years come out with its first indigenous car. The 'A-Star' will be available at an introductory price ranging from Rs 3.47 lakh to Rs 4.12 lakh. Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki India (MSI), the country's largest carmaker, which has been struggling to keep its sales momentum, is all set to launch its compact car A-Star to beat the year-end blues.Read Full News
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| Unperturbed by the slowdown in the auto sector, India's largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India is going ahead with its hiring plans and expects to have a total staff strength of 7,350 by the end of the year.Read Full News
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| Maruti seems to have come off age after more than two decades it was formed as a joint venture between Japan`s Suzuki Motor and the Indian government, it is set to develop an all-new model from scratch by 2011 using its Indian engineering strength, reports Economic Times.Read Full News
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| MARUTI SUZUKI India Limited (MSIL) plans to refurbish all its cars under production so that it will be compatible with the stringent recycling norms, laid down by the European Union’s End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) recycling norms by 2010.Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest car manufacturer, is planning to ramp up production to 1 million (10 lakh) units by early next year. The company has also launched its KB series engine, focused for its upcoming model A-Star. Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki (MRTI.BO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), India's top car maker, on Tuesday launched a new plant that will have annual installed capacity to produce 240,000 fuel-efficient petrol engines.Read Full News
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| Expecting robust sale in the ongoing festive season, country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India has increased production of its 'hotcake' models by about 6,000 units in September after continuously reducing in the previous four months.Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL) will launch its new hatchback car, A-Star, by mid November in the domestic market. India will be the first country to drive this car designed and developed by the company as a global strategic model, a company official said, here today.Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), the country’s largest passenger car manufacturer, is in talks with the Haryana government for acquiring land for setting up a crash test facility. Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki is the biggest Suzuki operation outside Japan, accounting for 30% of the parent’s worldwide sales. More importantly, India’s biggest car maker accounts for a third (34%) of Suzuki Motor Company’s profitability.Read Full News
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| Japanese auto major Suzuki Motor Corporation has asked its Indian subsidiary Maruti Suzuki to enhance the level of research and development (R&D) for small car engines to meet growing demands. Read Full News
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| Domestic automobile sales in August showed a mixed trend with Maruti Suzuki, the largest car maker, reporting a first time dip in sales in the current fiscal and the top two-wheeler maker, Hero Honda, posting robust increase in sales .
Industry experts see some fatigue in car sales. The top three two-wheeler manufacturers have reported growth in sales. Read Full News
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| Tata Motors said that the industry would grow at modest pace only in the second quarter of this fiscal owing to rising lending rates and fuel costs.
“We think overall automobile industry’s growth will again remain in single digit in the second quarter of this fiscal as it was in the first quarter,” said Nitin Seth, Tata Motors Car Product Group Head.Read Full News
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| In what would be a generational change in its engine technology, India’s largest car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki has decided to introduce the new K-series petrol engine in all its cars in India in the next three to five years, according to the company’s annual report for 2007-08.Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki India appears to be serious about designing cars from scratch in India by the turn of the decade.Read Full News
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| At a time when car sales have started moving southward for the first time in nearly three years, country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki is turning to 15-20-year-old cars to push new ones through exchange.Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., maker of half the cars in the country, posted its slowest sales-growth in four months in July as rising interest rates and accelerating inflation damped demand.Read Full News
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| Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MRTI.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), the country's top car maker, reported a 7 percent fall in quarterly net profit on Monday as high costs of raw materials and a new depreciation policy outweighed a rise in sales.Read Full News
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| The vendor incentive programme that Maruti Suzuki initiated last year among its 200-odd vendors may not fetch the company the same numbers this year since the market is close to saturation and interest rates have risen.Read Full News
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