Hyundai has been clocking good sales with its Hyundai i10 which is one of the finest petrol cars in its price segment, however, in the segment lower than Hyundai i10, Hyundai seems to be loosing its grip to the Maruti Alto K10 and Maruti Alto 800 CC. Hyundai Santro, which is the cheapest car from Hyundai in India at an ex-showroom price of the base variant being around Rs. 2.9 lakh misses to even close to the sales number of the closest competition Alto. The Hyundai 800 CC car, aka Hyundai HA which is expected to debut in India around the end of 2011 or early 2012 will change the equation. The car will be aggressively priced in a range which is very competitive the world's largest selling car (not only in India, Alto is the largest selling small car of the world), Maruti Alto.   Not only the pricing of the small car, but also the presence matters a lot in the Indian markets. To keep up with this challenge, Hyundai will open about 1000 new dealerships in rural parts of India which brings most of the small cars customers for the India automobile market. With the trust and [...]

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Volkswagen has been growing steadily on a global level with increased car sales. The growth in the sales of first four months of the year 2011 has been a strong 13.9 %. The global sales figures of the VW Group have been better than the world market growth by about 6.2%. Below are some extracts from the official press release: The Volkswagen Group reported a further rise in global vehicle deliveries for the first four months of this year. Europe's largest automaker delivered 2.66 (January – April 2010: 2.34; +13.9 percent) million units during this period, once again clearly outperforming the world market (+7.7 percent). The company also reported a rise for the month of April, when 690,900 (April 2010: 603,500; +14.5 percent) vehicles were sold. "As expected, deliveries by our Group brands developed well in April, too," Group Board member for Sales Christian Klingler said in Wolfsburg on Friday. "As a result, we have made a good start to the second quarter. We aim to maintain this momentum over the coming months." Overall, the Group brands delivered 1.23 (1.13; +8.4 percent) million vehicles throughout Europe from January to April. In Western Europe (excluding Germany), 703,000 (665,100; +5.7 percent) customers [...]

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India is slowly taking shape of a global automobile hub with automobiles majors from around the world setting up their plants in India. Many automobile giants like Maruti Suzuki, General Motors (Chevrolet), Ford, Hyundai etc. do export cars which are made in their Indian manufacturing facilities. Many cars like Hyundai i10, Ford Figo, Maruti Alto and Tata Nano are manufactured mainly in India only and exported to many countries across the globe. Taking this trend forward, General Motors India has announced that it may set up its global small electric car facility in its India plant. GM India has manufacturing facility in Talegaon in Chennai, which is the major plant for Chevrolet cars in India. On 5th June 2011, on the occasion of the World Environment Day, GM India will showcase their small electric car, which has been developed by General Motors. Earlier there were plans on developing an electric version of Chevrolet Spark in collaboration with REVA, but these plans were dropped after Mahindra and Mahindra took over Reva last year. The new small electric car is said to be developed by GM using its own technological know how and will be most likely based on the Chevrolet Beat [...]

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Volvo has decided to increase its presence in India by bringing more cars to India. Currently Volvo sells only four car models in India with less than 3% share in the car sales in India. These cars include the recently launched Volvo S60 Sedan which is loaded with innovative safety features like automatic brakes to avoid pedestrian crashing in busy city roads.   Volvo has recently reported a 200% growth in the India in last one year which has motivated it to launch more cars in Indian automobile market. The cars will be brought to India via CBU or CKD and Volvo will not start producing cars in India until a substantial sales figure is reached. At present the cars sold by Volvo in India are Volvo S80 Sedan, Volvo S60 Sedan, Volvo SC60 Crossover and Volvo SC90. With more cars from Volvo coming to India in various other segments, the sales are expected to increase even further. Volvo cars are among the safest cars in the world and are built with many innovative feature focussed around safety and performance at the same time. Having more cars from Volvo will give car buyers more choice in the premium car segment [...]

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Honda SIEL India is worried about the fierce competition to Honda City from the refreshed sedans in its segment offering better engines, features and more value for money. The recent report on Honda City sales affected by Maruti SX4 Diesel and Volkswagen Vento clearly indicates that Honda need to work on it. Better late then never, Honda has acknowledged that it need to bring in the Diesel variant for its most popular sedan in India, the Honda City. Honda City Diesel will be powered by an all new engine which will be nearly 1.5 Litre in displacement. The engine is still under the development stage and may take up to two years to take final shape. Since the existing diesel engines of Honda are not at par with the latest CRDI diesel engines in terms of performance and emission, so Honda has decided to develop better engines to power its diesel cars for future years. As per an official statement from Jnaneswar Sen, senior vice-president (sales & marketing) at Honda SIEL We are developing a diesel engine in Japan to power City. It could take us more than two years. The rapid dieselization of the market has happened only in [...]

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Talking in pure layman terms, Maruti Swift 2011 new model which is due for launch anytime now will have a better CRDI diesel engine response because of the tweaking done to the existing engine. The Fiat Multijet-Diesel  1.3 Litre engine which is used in the present model of Maruti Swift Diesel deliver the peak torque of 190Nm at about 2000 RPM. With the new Swift 2011, the engine has been re-tuned to deliver the peak torque of 190 Nm at even lower RPM of 1750, which means lesser turbo-lag and better pickup. I have driven the old Swift Diesel and the pickup in the first gear is not impressive, but is very punchy in second gear, which is because of the turbo-lag only. So talking in plain English, without trying to confuse you, the new Diesel Swift 2011 features better pickup (acceleration) in lower gears compared to the old one. This will mean lesser gear shifts needed in congested city traffic and less frustration on busy roads. We will bring you detailed road test review as soon as we get our hands on the new Swift. Till then you can stay tuned by liking our Facebook page or signing up [...]

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Audi has officially confirmed its plan to launch Audi Q3 in India in early 2012, which seems like a very good time with the Auto Expo 2012 in Delhi is scheduled for January 2012. The car maybe officially unveiled or even launched at the Auto Expo itself. The Q3 is the latest compact SUV from Audi and has been officially revealed on global level in April 2011. The segment of the Q3 falls in the rivals like BMW X1 which is one of the hot selling compact luxury SUVs in India. Also the Honda CRV and Toyota Fortuner are tough competitions in the same segment. The Q3 is also expected to be priced in the band of Rs. 22 Lakhs to Rs. 25 Lakhs to give the competitors a reason to buckle up. Audi executive Michael Perschke in an interaction with media quoted: We are planning to launch the A6 in August followed by the Q3 early next year. Which clarified the clear intention of Audi India to be aggressive on launched and provide India buyers with choices in more and more segments to help Audi India achieve high sales targets it set for itself. source- JustAuto For complete details [...]

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BMW has finally realized the importance of entry level cars which are low on budget and still manage to offer some good features. As far as the Indian market is concerned the German automaker is considering launching its BMW 1 Series and Mini sub-brand soon. Although no timeframe has been decided for the same, it is expected to take nearly an year to bring it to reality. The importance of these new launches lies in the fact that they would fall in the price band of around and below Rs.20 lakh which is a great thing for Indian buyers. Andreas Schaaf, President of BMW India has reportedly said ," The company was re-looking at both BMW Mini and One-Series cars for launching in India" He added, "We had thought about launching these cars a couple of years ago but decided that the Indian market was not ready for such products" Now that BMW has become the ultimate luxury car seller the consideration of launching these new cars was bound to come. BMW 1 Series Specifications In India BMW 1 Series is doing well in other international markets where it is available in the following variants: Petrol variants 116i 118i 130i [...]

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