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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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| General Motors India (GMI) plans to export 10 per cent of its production of the yet-to-be named Mini Car, expected end of this year, 12 months from its launch, and gradually take this up to 20 per cent.Read Full News
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| With Tata Motors Ltd launching Nano on March 23 and, just two days later, General Motors India saying it will wheel out its new mini-car by the year-end, Gujarat is set to emerge as a mini-car hub. Read Full News
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| General Motors is upbeat on the Indian car market and plans to launch one more ‘mini car’ by the end of 2009. “This is the right time to go for new launches as there’s renewed interest among Indians to buy new cars,” said Karl Slym, President and Managing Director of General Motors India. Read Full News
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| The fourth largest car manufacturer by sales, General Motors, is planning to launch its mini commercial vehicles (MCV) sold in China under the brand name Wuling in India in the near future.Read Full News
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| Hindustan Motors (HM) of the CK Birla group today sprung a surprise by launching, what it claimed, the first Chinese vehicle in India. The auto company rolled out a 1-tonne-capacity mini-truck produced under licence from Shandong Shifeng in the Shandong province of China. Priced below Rs 4 lakh, the vehicle is named the HM-Shifeng Winner.Read Full News
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| General Motors India today said its proposed mini car, to be launched by this year end, would be exported after meeting the domestic demand.Read Full News
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| Leading luxury car makers, BMW, who were planning to roll out their hatchback called Mini in 2009, will be delayed for some more time. A feasibility study by the company pointed out that conditions were not conducive to bring the model.Read Full News
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| BMW is likely to launch a premium compact range of cars under its ‘Mini’ brand in the Indian markets by 2009. The company has already done a feasibility study and would make an announcement on a possible launch over the next two-three months.Read Full News
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| South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. is planning to produce a low-cost mini car in India by 2011 to compete with locally produced vehicles such as Tata's new Nano, a company executive said Wednesday.
The low-cost, fuel-efficient mini car models will be priced between 3.5 million Korean won (US$3,700; euro2,500) and 5 million won, Cho Won-suk, executive vice president of Hyundai Motor's Advanced Technology Center, told Dow Jones Newswires at an industry event.
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