Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., maker of half the cars sold in the country, unexpectedly posted a 25 percent increase in first-quarter net income on demand for its new hatchbacks and record exports.Read Full News
Tata Motors Ltd (TAMO.BO), India's largest vehicle maker, is conducting a feasibility study to market its cars in Indonesia, a senior company official said on Thursday.Read Full News
The Nano can now hold its head high in the international arena. The small car passed the 40 per cent offset crash test at 56 kmph and the side-impact tests at the MIRA test facility in Birmingham, UK recently.Read Full News
Maruti Suzuki India Limited, on Friday, introduced a brand new version of its popular high end SUV — Grand Vitara. The new Grand Vitara 2.4 comes reloaded with a 2.4 litre VVT (variable valve timing) engine that delivers a maximum power of 163.5 bhp @ 6,000 rpm and a torque of 225 NM @ 4,000 rpm. Read Full News
Domestic car majors Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai Motors managed to better their overall sales last month, thanks to a major boost from the export markets of Europe, where a majority of customers have started preferring smaller and more fuel-efficient cars.Read Full News
Tata Motors has finally launched Land Rover, Jaguar in India. The entry level cost for the Range Rover and Jaguar is Rs 63 lakh. While the top end model of Range Rover will cost Rs 89 lakh.Read Full News
Tata Motors has selected the first 100,000 owners of the Tata Nano from among the 206,703 final list of applicants who had booked the car. The company had announced at the Nano launch on March 23 that the first 100,000 owners would be selected through a computerised random selection process.Read Full News
The country's largest manufacturer of passenger vehicles, Maruti Suzuki, today announced plans to offer the CNG fuel option in select models by 2010.Read Full News
Maruti Suzuki India Limited has bagged the 'Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award' for adopting environment friendly technology in its products and processes.Read Full News
Fiat India is betting on its new models -- compact car Grande Punto and sedan Linea -- to drive it into the break-even zone two years from now.The 50:50 JV between Fiat Group Automobiles and Tata Motors, which sold just 8,000 odds cars in 2008, expects the number to swell to 50,000 units this year. Company officials say that as much as 90% of the sales this year would come from Grande Punto and Linea.Read Full News
Fiat’s recent move to get into the driver’s seat at Chrysler and work out a revival plan for the US carmaker will have no implications for India in terms of Chrysler models coming into the country. Read Full News
Maruti Suzuki India has announced that they are now planning to launch their A-Star hatchback in new markets. They are considering launching A-Star in African and Latin American countries in the coming months. Maruti Suzuki A-Star was launched in India earlier this year. Read Full News
India's Tata Motors (NYSE:TTM) said today that a project to develop mini eco-cars in Thailand is underway, with the company planning to invest 5 billion baht ($147 million) to launch the cars by 2012. Read Full News
The Indian subsidiary reports 10% growth, while its Japanese parent registers a 55% decline.For the first time in more than a quarter century, Maruti Suzuki, the Indian subsidiary of Suzuki, posted higher revenues from the US than that of the Japanese car-maker during the last financial year.Read Full News