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Tuesday, 30 September 2008
New Variants added to Indigo CS
Tata Motors, a leading car manufacturer in India, launched the high-end versions of its Indigo CS series. Tata Indigo CS series launched in the first quarter of the year has received a grand response from customers across the country compelling the company to clock over the Indigo range and launch more siblings. The new variants launched are the petrol GLX model, diesel LX TDi, and diesel LX DiCOR. All the three versions are available with exciting features like a rear windscreen defogger, central locking, and rear and front power windows. The exterior of all the three variants is artistically crafted delivering a sporty look. Body coloured outer rear view mirror and rub-rails with chrome inserts add to the charming appeal of these new variants. The cabin is adorned with elegant and mind-blowing beige appeal coupled with premium seat fabric and sporty leather-wrapped steering wheel. In line with the old Indigo CS, the siblings also carry a good cabin space and a spacious boot. Available in an option of vibrant body colours, all the three Indigo CS variants are attractively priced. The GLX model will be available at Rs 4.08 lakh, the LX TDi for Rs 4.63 lakh, and the LX DiCOR model at a price of Rs 5.10 lakh. For Tata, the desire for moving ahead is always burning! Labels: Indigo-CS, Indigo-CS- LX-DiCOR, Indigo-CS-GLX, Indigo-CS-LX-TDi, New-launch, Tata-Motors
New Lancer for New Generation
Mitsubishi Motors is currently working to introduce a new Lancer for the new generation. The plan to launch the new sibling is aimed at participating in the midsize car segment once again. When Cedia was launched in the market, it showcased lack of interest from the customer view point. Lancer customers were not satisfied with the bland styling and dull interiors of the Cedia. This forced the company to re-think on the launched Cedia. After that there were rumours that Mitsubishi has stopped the production of Cedia in response to the customer’s reviews. In the mean time, the company was in process to design and manufacture a whole new lancer that will fit the taste of Indian car buyers. It will come with a new chin, sporty front grille, innovative headlamps and a Kenwood Dual DIN touch screen music system. Apart from this various advanced features will be available in the car, fulfilling the increasing demand of the present generation. No specific dates are announced for the launch of this facelifted version of Mitsubishi Lancer Cedia. But speculations are there that it will roll out during the festive season this year. Labels: Lancer, Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsubishi-Cedia
Smaller than Jazz
Currently, Jazz is globally considered to be the smallest car in Honda’s portfolio of cars. Now with high inflation, the company feels the need to produce cars smaller than its Jazz. Aimed at reducing environmental emissions and shortage of fuel in near future, the company is also in progress to design and develop small cars that will take on less fuel and will be lower in CO2 emissions. The way forward, Honda plans to launch small and affordable hybrid engines. It also has plans to add more number of diesel engines in its car portfolio. Honda Jazz will hit the Indian shores by next year and the company will launch another small car in a couple of years, a global car with an improved engine technology and better performance. Expectations are high that Honda will now enter the core of Indian car industry and establish a stronger niche with a range of small cars. Labels: Honda, Honda-Jazz, Indian-Car, Small-Car
Electrifying Reva
Long before when green cars was only a concept for global car industry, a small two-seater boxy car came rolling out a small factory in Bangalore. This boxy car was named Reva, a car that shines above all in the electric car segment. The Reva, brainchild of Chetan Maini, rolled out the car during the period when feasibility of electric vehicles was skeptical. Today, the car has scored the highest in the global car market with its bright colours, curious looks and modest appeal. It is believed to be the world’s first electric car sold commercially. The car built of lightweight steel and plastic is entirely indianized. People just love this car and the fact is proved by having a look on the Bangalore city roads. The fully-automatic version of Reva, delivering a top speed of 65 km/h, is not as popular among Indian populace as the entry-level car. After Bangalore and New Delhi, Reva made its debut in the international market as well. In United Kingdom and Europe, Reva is sold by the name of quadricycles and in Britain it is branded as G-Wiz. Reva is now also exported to various other countries including Cyprus, Malta, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Norway, and Sri Lanka. Maini is still working to produce high-end versions of its electric car. Reva Maini-holds the history of electric cars! Labels: Electric-Car, G-Wiz, Maini-Reva
Monday, 29 September 2008
Honda Accord Gifted
Honda recently gifted the Honda Accord to Mr. Digvijay Singh, winner of the Order of Merit List for gold tournament held in India. Digvijay, a happy owner of the Honda Accord must be smiling with the car keys in his hands. Obviously, he has a reason to smile. Honda as a brand is a super success in the country and people love to own Honda cars like City, Civic, CR-V, and Accord. The new Accord is a perfect blend of unmatched performance, inspiring style, high-end safety, and refined comfort. Who will not love driving a classy car like this? By gifting this car to the winner of a sport event, Honda is making an attractive move towards branding. Indian car manufacturers are going hand in hand with sports events because of the huge crowd following sports activities. Even Volvo tried to brand its car model by gifting it to the first Indian individual winner of Olympics. Labels: Honda, Honda- Accord, Honda-City, Honda-Civic, Honda-CR-V, Indian-Car, Volvo
Audi Technology
The best brains of Audi have come up with an innovation that will take the frustration out of waiting for traffic signals. Audi’s innovative system, christened as Travolution, is an awesome technology. This system will inform the driver in advance when the traffic lights ahead is going to change and whether the car will pass the signal at the current speed. The most interesting part of this advanced system is that if there is no traffic on road, then this latest invention by Audi will automatically turn the signal green. The system would be supported by new hardware installed at every traffic signal. Isn’t it something exciting and convenient? This device is still under development and is being tested in Ingolstadt, Germany. Such advanced technology will have a greater impact in Indian car market but sadly as every goodie comes last to India, so will this Audi Travolution. Labels: Audi, Audi- Travolution, Indian-Car
Pay More for Imported Cars
Wake up car importers! It’s time for car importers to open their eyes and see the expected price hike for imported cars. Yes, the prices for imported cars are expected to rise due to the weakening of rupee against dollar. At this stage of downturn, car exporters are rejoicing the market but reality is that the importers will have a tough time. We just wonder how severely this will affect the foreign car manufacturers like Mercedes, BMW, Nissan, Volvo, and Porsche, who are importing their cars to India as Completely Built Units or CBUs. Even Honda CR-V would be affected by weakening of the rupee. This will definitely increase the prices of imported cars. All the luxury car manufacturers are trying hard to cushion the impact on Indian car customers but till how long? Labels: BMW, Car-Manufacturers, Honda-CR-V, Imported-Cars, Luxury-Car, Mercedes, Nissan, Porsche, Volvo
Friday, 26 September 2008
Amby Has Its Own Charm
With the advent of new cars loaded with luxuries and amenities, the faith of the old Ambassador was lost in India. Earlier it was the only choice for people when people think of cars but today a number of luxurious and advanced cars in all segments are available in the Indian car market. The wide choice of cars has imposed people to move away from the Ambassador. This king of yesteryear was gradually pushed out of contention. But…it’s surprising to know that the Amby still holds its own charm. Nowadays, the old iconic car is becoming a hot favourite for expatriates working in the corporate sector of India’s IT hub. In the past couple of months, 6 Hindustan Ambassadors have been sold to foreigners living in Bangalore. Foreigners in Bangalore feel that the Amby is an attractive car with a rich history. They just bask the glorious ride in this old car. Labels: Ambassador, Hindustan-Ambassadors, Indian-Car, New-Cars
Audi India Drives to Kochi
 Audi India, a German luxury car major, is a leading car manufacturer of luxury cars in India. Aimed at expanding its operations in India, Audi announces five new dealerships in the country, scaling up the network to 12 locations across the country. The new Audi showrooms are established at Ludhiana, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kochi and Kolkata, laying emphasis on Kochi showroom. Kochi is a principal city of Kerala and is believed to emerge as the potential market for Audi’s luxury car. Kochi showroom situated at Maradu, near the NH bye-pass will have a separate workshop to service the entire range of Audi cars in India. The showroom will also have Audi’s entire car model range mated with different equipments. Audi India has high hopes with this new network of dealerships across the country. Labels: Audi-Cars, Audi-India, Car-Manufacturer, Luxury-Car
Older Car Models Have Coup the Nightmare
In the present scenario, older car models are proving their real worth during the worst ever slowdown in the car market. Among a long list of popular Indian cars, Santro, Indica and Accent are believed to be real time winners. Despite of the fact that the new generation siblings are introduced in the market, these old models are contributing a good percentage of car sales in the market. Hyundai Santro, a car ranked top by J.D Power Asia, has been a great time success even though the next generation hatchback Hyundai i10 is already in the market. It is one of the hot time favourite in compact car segment. Along with Santro, the old Toyota Corolla and Honda City have also been successful in overcoming the sluggish car market. All these cars not only have successfully held their position but have also generated incremental numbers in Motown. To bank on more numbers in the Indian car industry, car manufacturers are fighting hard to design and manufacture advanced and high-end cars. Some of the launches are siblings of the old car models and some are completely new for the market. Inspite of the fact that many new cars are rolling out on Indian roads older car models have coup the nightmare. Labels: Accent, Car-Manufacturers, Honda-City, Hyundai-Santro, Indian-cars, Indica
Time to Drive New Honda City
Spread the carpet for new Honda City! The all new Honda City has rolled out on Indian roads. The car is just fabulous with innovative, design, engine, and various advanced safety features. The car is designed keeping in mind Indian market. Landed with a unique ‘Arrow Shot Form’ design, this new car is available with attractive interiors and exciting exteriors. The car exterior gives a powerful and imposing presence with a streamlined grill, sharp headlights, aerodynamic looking rear combination lights, and sporty looking tail design. The new City is also longer, wider and sturdier than the old Honda City but fortunately the same ground clearance and head clearance has been maintained. Even the wheelbase has been extended to give a spacious cabin interior. Car interiors are just amazing with calming colour contrasts, active and passive safety features, advanced integrated audio system. The new City also comes loaded with an environment friendly engine compliant to Euro IV emission levels, delivering the same fuel economy as the Honda City ZX. Available in two grades and six colour options, the new City will definitely bring a revolution in its own segment and create a stronger niche for sedans in the Indian car industry. New Honda City is a complete blend of inspiring style, breakthrough performance, refined comfort, and unmatched safety. Labels: Honda-CityZX, Launch-India, New-Car, New-Honda-City
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Govt Helps Improve Auto Exports
It’s glad to know that India as a whole is contributing to boost the most indispensable part of the growing Indian economy. After the heavy decline is domestic car sales, Indian car manufacturers, auto components manufacturers, OEMs, SIAM and even the Government of India is lending out its hand to boost sales and export of vehicles. The government has come up with a scheme known as Focus Market Scheme (FMS). Under the scheme, the government will give cash-incentives to auto exporters for exporting vehicles to the targeted global markets. The FMS covers emerging markets like Africa, Latin America and the CIS bloc along with other developed countries. The key motive of the scheme is to incentives to escalate the competitiveness of the Indian automobile industry overseas. Indian car exporters like Hyundai Motor India and Maruti Suzuki hope to take advantage of the cash-back scheme offered under FMS. Such a kind of unity in the country will definitely take the Indian auto industry to great heights. Labels: Auto Exports, Domestic-Car-Sales, Indian-Car, Indian-Car-Manufacturers
Birthday Wishes for General Motors
On its 100th birthday, GM is happy to look back and rejoice the milestone the company has created in the past one century. The company was founded on September 16, 1908 by William C. (Billy) Durant, General Motors. Since then, the company has launched nearly over 450 million cars and trucks in the global auto market. All these vehicles are sold globally under different brand names - Chevrolet, Buick, GM Daewoo, Cadillac, GMC, Holden, Opel, Pontiac, HUMMER, Saab, Vauxhall Saturn, and Wuling. With so many brands coupled with manufacturing operations in about 33 countries, the company today is believed to be the one of the world’s largest auto manufacturer. In India, the company has its manufacturing plants in Halol, Gujarat and Talegaon from where GM has rolled out a slew of launches like Chevrolet Tavera, Chevrolet SRV, Chevrolet Optra, Chevrolet Aveo U-VA, Chevrolet Aveo, Chevrolet Spark and Chevrolet Captiva for the Indian market. Apart from celebrating its birthday anniversary, GM also has another reason to rejoice. That’s the 5 successful years of Chevrolet brand in India. Yes, Chevrolet is celebrating its fifth anniversary in India when GM completes 100. Labels: Chevrolet-Aveo, Chevrolet-Aveo-U-VA, Chevrolet-Captiva, Chevrolet-Optra, Chevrolet-Spark, Chevrolet-SRV, Chevrolet-Tavera, GM- Anniversary, GM-India
Lamborghini Super Models for India
super luxury car car manufacturer, Lamborghini, eyes India for its super car models. The luxury brand identifies India as one of the most promising car market. With this identification, the company plans to launch its super models in the country where people are becoming more open to buying ultra-luxury and high-end cars like Rolls Royce Phantom and Bentley. The company looks at the future to increase the numbers as well as sales volume. These plans are aimed at creating brand awareness and brand promotion in the country. The high profile brand name attracts a number of car buyers. This has eventually strengthened the promises and vision of Lamborghini in India. Will Lamborghini be successful in creating brand awareness? Will Indian populace accept these super luxury car models? Labels: Car Models, Indian-cars, Lamborghini, Super-Luxury Cars
Mitsubishi Enters Small Car Stable
India has become a symbol for small cars! A number of small cars are in line to enter the Indian car market. First, Nano made an approach to roll out a small and cheap car on Indian roads. Following the trend, Hyundai Motor India, Honda Seil India, Maruti Suzuki, GM and now Mitsubishi also plans to introduce their small cars in the Indian market. Doesn’t it look like that Indian car manufacturers are on their way to establish a small car stable? Mitsubishi’s small car will be introduced in markets like India and China somewhere in 2010. This forthcoming global car will have a rear engine similar to the one in Nano. Though the position of the engine is same, the performance, economics and capacity vary. The new car will come with a 1.0 litre engine. So know, who is next in line for small car race? Labels: GM, Honda-Seil-India, Hyundai-Motor-India, Indian-Car, Indian-Car-Manufacturers, Maruti- Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Nano
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Kappa Challenge!
 The first time in the 10 years long history of Hyundai Motor India, the company has thrown out a ‘Kappa Challenge’. This challenge is aimed at proving the preeminence of kappa engine to all its existing and potential customers. The company offers a unique concept to all the customers to touch, feel, drive and experience the beauty, thrill and drivability of Hyundai i10 kappa. Apart from the experiencing the touch, feel and drivability, the company also couples the concept with interesting options in the form of various counters like used car counter, special finance scheme counter, product demonstration, accessories zone and even fun loving children enjoyment zone. The 'Kappa Challenge' is being organized in 10 different cities across the country. All the customers will be given an opportunity to complete a set of challenges and drive other cars to feel the difference and judge the best car. Each one of them will be given an assured gift apart from a grand prize… Any guesses, what’s the grand prize? Yes…Hyundai i10 Kappa! Labels: Hyundai-i10, Hyundai-i10-Kappa, Hyundai-Motor, Kappa-Challenge
Vision GM
General Motors, a leading car manufacturer, made its venture into India with its successful Chevrolet Tavera in 2003. Since the time of its first launch, the company has created many milestones in the country and is having an optimistic and exciting vision ahead. The Tavera MUV has been a great success in the Indian cab market. After that the launch of Aveo has also been on a steady growth scale. The next launch of Chevrolet Spark is rolling swirling around people’s mind and heart and has attracted a large volume of car buyers. GM with its bright past rolls ahead with expansion plans by increasing the number of car launches, number of service stations and number of showrooms in the country. The company has listed many promises under “Chevrolet Promises”. GM’s vision is to have an Innova like MUV, LPG versions of Aveo and Spark, and a small cheap car for the Indian car market. The company is also working on engines displacing so that it can load better and improved engines in its future car models. GM has a bright vision just similar to its fruitful and shining past! Labels: Chevrolet-Spark, Chevrolet-Tavera, General-Motors, Indian-Car
Volkswagen Polo Cup Now in India
 After introducing a slew of launches in the Indian car market, Volkswagen now wants to introduce motor sports in the country. Polo Cup is a motor sport launched by Volkswagen first in China, then in US and now in India. The company desires to launch this motor sports in all the countries where it has its manufacturing plant. In India, this sports is expected to launch somewhere in 2010. The company also uses this launch as a new marketing strategy. It is believed that the trained officials of the company will train young and talents to participate in the international racing circuit. The company’s first target for the motor race was a Chennai-based Indian formula driver Ashwin Sundar. This 19-year old boy will first take part in the Indian race and will then be groomed to participate in the race on the European circuit. Labels: Indian-car-market, Volkswagen, Volkswagen-Polo-Cup
Renault Makes Mumbai Its Design Hub
Mahindra-Renault, Paris-based car manufacturer, has selected India to be its car design hub for its proposed ultra-cheap car. The car is under development under the joint venture with Bajaj Auto. Till date, Renault has designed its entire range of cars in Paris but now with the growing opportunities in India, the company decided to target India and establish a design center in Mumbai. Though the main car design framework will be rolled out from the Mumbai centre, small inputs on designing will also be received from Nissan design team and other Renault’s design centres across the world. At present, it is believed that almost 10-12 Indian car designers are working on the Renault’s small car project. The key motive of the joint venture is not to produce a cheap car but to design a car with improved fuel economy and the one that meets the emission standards. After forming a design framework, the car will start its production in the Chakan facility in Maharashtra. Expected to roll out in 2011, the car is follows the vision of this joint venture. Labels: Car-Design, Indian-Car, Nissan, Renault, Ultra-cheap-Car
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