audi

Audi is eyeing the Indian market seriously and intends to grab a larger market share by competing fiercely with its competitors like Mercedes and BMW. BMW has already surpassed Mercedes in sales figures in India. Now Audi intends to do the same. It is geared up to increase its dealership networks ...read more

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Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Group, will hand over the keys to the first proud owner of Tata Nano today at Tata Motors showroom at Prabhadevi, Mumbai. The identity of the lucky owner of the first Nano is still a mystery but it is a “common man”. It is widely anticipated that the perso

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Hyundai Motors India Limited is offering diesel variants of its premium hatchback model i20. "Hyundai also introduces the i20 Automatic Transmission (AT) with the power-packed 1.4 litre GAMMA petrol engine," Arvind Saxena, Sr Vice President, Marketing and Sales, HMIL, told reporters ...read more

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Nano is expected to come to the U.S. in a couple years, owner Tata Motors has indicated. Don't expect to see one on the freeway: at 624 cubic centimeters, the engine is smaller than those found on many motorcycles. Safety in crash? Not as bad as you'd expect, if early crash test results in Europe hold up. Tata already has a huge backlog of orders for Nano

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Renault, France’s second-largest carmaker, is working with India’s Bajaj Auto to create a competitor to Nano. It would also sell for about $2,500.
Before it goes on sale in the U.S., Tata Motors may sell the Nano in Europe starting in 2011. Chairman Ratan Tata in March said it was too early to comment on a breakeven for the vehicle.

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Nano is expected to come to the U.S. in a couple years, owner Tata Motors has indicated. Don't expect to see one on the freeway: at 624 cubic centimeters, the engine is smaller than those found on many motorcycles. Safety in crash? Not as bad as you'd expect, if early crash test results in Europe hold up. Tata already has a huge backlog of orders for Nano:
Tata, which owns Jaguar and Land Rover after buying them from Ford, has 206,703 orders. That's more than double its initial sales plan. The company chose the first 100,000 customers through a lottery. It will take a year of production to catch up to the backlog.

When Buying a New Car

Be Educated When Buying New Car
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Buying new car that saves you money, that has the features that you want, and which produce the least amount of headache is the purpose of this site. But the car of your dream will not just appear magically in your driveway. Some research and a fair amount of knowledge brings you that desired sports coupe or family van with the least amount of aggravation

When Buying a Used Car: Knowledge is Power...

Americans are buying used cars more than ever, 41.4 million of them compared to only 16.1 millions new cars in 2007, according to CNW Marketing Research Inc. New cars, on average, lose 15-30% of their value the moment they're driven off the lot, according to auto web site Edmunds.com. Automobiles, new or old, are becoming more reliable but with bad economy, Americans are preferring to buy second hand cars which are turning out to be, more and more, reliable used cars with the advance in innovations

Kia Starts Its Green Market Future

WEYBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM: Kia Motors has launched its first commercialised hybrid electric vehicle, the Forte Liquid Petroleum Injection Hybrid, onto the Korean market. This move represents Kia’s first step on the road to a greener future with hundreds of millions of dollars of research and development work now coming to the market. Although the UK will not get this model, British motorists will be able to choose to buy Kia hybrid vehicles under the company’s Eco-dynamics brand withi...

When to expect: Late 2009

It is nothing but courage in the face of adversity. Indian carmakers, which saw their sales figures crashing to an eight-year low in the September-December quarter, will launch 50 new models this year in an attempt to revive their fortunes. The new launches are expected to inject some enthusiasm into the domestic car market, troubled by the economic uncertainties triggered by global recession.The first to hit the market this year is M&M’s Xylo, touted as India’s answer to Toyota Innova. Designed and developed at M&M’s Nasik facility

Mercedes-Benz C-Class 230 Avantgarde road test : Six appeal

The sound a car makes can make a fan out of the unbeliever. There have been times when I’ve heard a loud car while walking the streets of Mumbai and have stopped, trying to make out what car it was, only to see a taxi going past, its driver in a hurry to ferry his passenger to the destination. In a country full of cars powered by four cylinders, the offbeat burble of a crossplane V8 is like manna from heaven. Even the strange there-are-aliens-under-the-hood sounds that emanate from diesel V6s are preferable to the frankly ordinary sounds from other engines. Does the C230 Avantgarde pass the aural test? We put it in neutral, floored the throttle to find out, and did it again, because we didn’t believe our ears. It was like prodding a sleeping tiger in it’s eye – the tachometer needle gathered momentum as it raced around the dial, stopped only by the rev limiter. Accompanying the snarl from under the hood was a shimmy from the body on its springs, much like a muscle car. This was going to be a fun test!

Volkswagen Polo Coming in Early 2010

Volkswagen Polo
Expected in Early 2010
Estimated price: Rs 4.5- 6 lakh
After launching the Jettas, the Passats and the Touaregs; the first VW hatchback will hit the Indian roads. The Polo is a premium hatchback that will be manufactured from the recently inaugurated Volkswagen plant in Chakan.Currently the Skoda Fabia is being manufactured at the Chakan plant, so it could be possible that the Polo could have a share a similar platform with the Fabia.

Hyundai i20 diesel test drive

Hyundai has launched two new versions of the Hyundai i20 to widen the appeal of this premium hatchback. In addition to the current 1.2 litre Kappa engine, the i20 now gets a pair of Hyundai’s latest engines; a 1.4 litre CRDI motor putting out 90bhp and the 1.4 ‘Gamma’ petrol that puts out a potent 100bhp but is mated only to an automatic transmission
. With these two new variants Hyundai hopes to boost sales of the i20 to over 4,000 units a month (the i20’s monthly sales are currently 2,500 units

Nano

The Tata Nano has passed current European front and side impact standard

Tata's 1st Nano delivered

The first batch of 50 examples of the world’s cheapest car have been produced at a factory in Pantnagar. Ashok Raghunath Vichare of Mumbai was the first customer to get a Tata Nano and was handed the keys by Ratan Tata

honda

HSCI’s state-of-the-art manufacturing unit was set up in 1997 at Greater Noida, U.P with an investment of Rs. 450 crore. The green-field project is spread across 150 acres of land (over 6,00,000 sq. m.). The initial installed capacity of the plant was 30,000 cars per annum, which was thereafter increased to 50,000 cars on a two-shift basis. The capacity has further been enhanced to 1,00,000 units annually in February 2008 . The capacity expansion was necessitated by the excellent performance of all the Honda models, particularly the growing demand for City in India. Several modifications were done by the company with the objective of offering higher quality products to its customers, faster and quicker. The expansion process also included expansion of the covered area in the plant, from 1,07,000 sq. m. to 1,31,794 sq. m. HSCI currently produces the newly launched Honda Jazz, All New City, Civic and Accord models in India and the premium SUV, CR-V is sold as a fully imported unit from Japan. The company operates under the stringent

Honda In India

Honda Siel Cars India Ltd., (HSCI) was incorporated in December 1995 as a joint venture between Honda Motor Co. Ltd., Japan and Siel Limited, a Siddharth Shriram Group company, with a commitment to providing Honda’s latest passenger car models and technologies, to the Indian customers. The Honda City, its first offering introduced in 1997, revolutionized the Indian passenger car market and has ever since been recognized as an engineering marvel in the Indian automobile industry. The success of City as well as all its other models has led HSCI to become the leading premium car manufacturer in India. The total investment made by the company in India till date is Rs. 1620 crores, further investment of RS. 1000 crore is planned and being currently invested for the coming second plant in Rajasthan. The company has a capacity of manufacturing 100,000 cars

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Japan
Japan plays a key role as the center of Global Honda, honing our edge in advanced technology.

Building a framework of craftsmanship as Honda's model for the world
Our Japan headquarters plays a key role in global operations by working to develop advanced technologies and coordinate worldwide business efforts for optimal performance. This role continues with construction of a new R&D facility opening in 2009, further strengthening Hondaﾕs prowess in value-added research and enhancing Hondaﾕs reputation for distinctive ingenuity. In the manufacturing sphere, a new engine plant opens in 2009, followed by a new automobile factory in 2010, and we are also boosting production of automobile automatic transmissions at our Hamamatsu Factory. In the motor-cycle area, where manufacturing being consolidated at our Kumamoto Factory is the most advanced operation of its kind in the world, Honda focuses on high-efficiency, high-quality production systems to meet worldwide demand. Honda shares this expertise and know-how in all technical fields with our pro-duction facilities throughout the world, enhancing advanced craftsmanship wherever we operate.
Unique Honda initiatives on display in the Japanese market
Japan plays an important role as a major world market for Honda innovation. For example, the majority of motorcycles sold in Japan are equipped with electronic fuel-injection control, which improves fuel efficiency and environmental performance. In our automobile business, Honda launched a full model change of the Fit in 2007. By November of the same year, with the enthusiastic support of a wide range of customers, domestic sales of the Fit passed one million units. In our power products business, domestic sales of the compact household cogeneration unit launched in 2003 reached 50,000 units in July 2007. Also in the same year, Honda commenced sales of the next-generation non-silicon thin-film solar cell developed with proprietary technology, accelerating efforts to counter global w

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