Dubbed as Minicat, Tata Motors is getting ready for a new car that runs on compressed air. This means that the Indian auto-maker may offer a “zero emission” passenger vehicle to the world after launching the world’s cheapest car. The car runs on compressed air that pushes the ...read more

January 06, 2009

Toyota Kirloskar Motor has announced increase in prices of its models Toyota Innova and Corolla Altis. Toyota Corolla Altis got costlier by Rs. 16,000 and Rs. 25,000 and the MUV Innova experienced price rise between Rs. 10,000 and 25,000. According to the company officials, the company has tried ...read more

January 06, 2009

Japanese national daily, Nikkei, reports that Suzuki Motor Corp plans to delay launching its large cars in 2010. Suzuki planned to launch Kizashi in India in 2010 but now its plans to delay the start of overseas factories amidst sharp economic deterioration. The company is under growing pressure to ...read more

January 06, 2009

Talks with Germany are going to bring the luxury car, Porsche Cayenne Diesel, to India. Porsche is planning to bring the diesel model to Middle East and Asia. It currently manufactures the car at Leipzig in Germany and will be available in select European markets from February 2009. The car was ...read more

January 05, 2009

Hyundai Motors India Limited is planning to launch a new face-lifted Hyundai Verna in India in January. According to the sources, the new Verna will have cosmetic changes in the front as well as in the interiors. There may be changes in the interiors, music system with USB port, etc. The new ...read more

January 05, 2009

Speculations are rife about Nano! According to a national-daily, highly-placed sources in dealership circles claim that Tata Motors may make a national statement by rolling out Nano on 26th January! What a Republic Day that would be! Highly placed sources at top Tata dealers and on-field ...read more

January 05, 2009

Honda Siel Cars India and Hyundai Motors India Limited ended the year with positive sales growth figures in December 2008. Both the companies were benefitted by new launches, price cuts and discounts offered on their various models. Hyundai Motor India Limited registered an overall 55.7 percent ...read more

January 03, 2009

The world’s cheapest car, Tata Nano, may also turn out to be world’s cheapest hybrid version as well. Tata Motors intends to offer micro-hybrid version of Tata Nano with micro-hybrid technology that allows the vehicle to reduce fuel consumption and emissions by up to 10 ...read more

January 03, 2009

The first Multi-purpose vehicle from Mahindra is ready to hit the Indian roads in January 2009. It has already started the production for its model at its Nasik manufacturing facility. It plans to start booking of the model most probably from 14th January 2009. The company intends to launch the ...read more

January 03, 2009

Today, one of our users sent us footage of the long awaited Fiat Linea. The suspense has been gradually rising around this car, but it finally found its way to the dealerships in India this week, as we reported a few days back. The security did not allow mr D. to make clear photos of the car, nor ...read more

January 03, 2009

Mumbai, 1st January, 2009: ŠkodaIndia, a fully owned subsidiary of ŠkodaAuto a.s., Czech Republic (Volkswagen Group), one of the fastest growing car manufacturers in Europe, today announced that the company achieved record sales of 16188 units in the year 2008. With this figure ...read more

January 02, 2009

The world’s cheapest car, Tata Nano, gave a test drive by driving from the Pantnagar manufacturing unit to hilly town of Gopeshwar. It surprised the residents of Gopeshwar in Chamoli district in Dehra Dun when the car went for a test drive in the town driving down the serpentine and tough ...read more

January 02, 2009

Maruti Suzuki India Limited became the first auto maker in India to announce its fuel economy details to its customers for all its models in India. The company currently has 14 models in its product portfolio and has earlier announced that it will disclose the fuel economy details for all its cars ...read more

January 02, 2009

Foreign car makers can now export cars to India from any country and not only from their home country, says the new government notification. This means that companies like Toyota can bring cars to India not only from Japan but also from other countries where it has its factories. However, the ...read more

January 02, 2009

After the success of Hyundai i-series cars in India, Hyundai is planning to introduce face-lifted version of Sonata Embera India. It is the D-segment sedan in India and its face-lifted version is expected to hit the India market soon in January 2009. Most of the changes expected in the new version ...read more

January 01, 2009