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Ford Completes Diesel Capacity Expansion

May 22, 2012

Ford India has successfully completely diesel plant expansion at its Chennai facility. The American automaker has invested US $ 72 million to expand diesel engine capacity, as the demand for diesel cars see an uptrend in the Indian market. This expansion will take Ford’s diesel engine capacity to 3.4 lakh units per annum (earlier the [...]

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2012 Tata Manza Facelift Spied?

May 22, 2012

Tata Motors launched the Indigo Manza almost three years ago and since then the vehicle hasn’t received any significant changes. Sales of the Manza have been decent but nothing to write home about. Tata Motors recently launched a small upgrade for the Nano and Indica Vista, while the regular Indigo and Indica too got minor [...]

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Renault Plans Global Small Car

May 21, 2012

A few months ago, we had reported about Renault’s plans to launch a sub Rs. 4 lakhs small car in India (here). Now the French automaker has made some progress on the small car project by appointing Gerard Detourbet as the master strategist for the development of the low cost small car (codenamed i2) with [...]

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Honda To Launch Maruti Ertigal Rival

May 21, 2012

Honda is looking at increase its market share in the Indian market with the launch of new products such as the new Civic and CR-V. These two cars might not bring such an increase in volumes for Honda. The Japanese automaker is working on a compact MPV (codenamed 2NH), which will hit the markets by [...]

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GM Refuses To Produce Cars For Peugeot

May 21, 2012

General Motors and Peugeot recently tied up to share technology and reduce R&D costs. Soon, news was spread around that Peugeot is pulling off its Indian manufacturing plant plans, thereby relying on General Motors to produce cars for them in India. Such news repeatedly surfaced at various auto events in the recent past. There was [...]

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2012 Ford Endeavour India Launch Delayed

May 21, 2012

Ford was expected to launch the new 2012 Endeavour in India by mid-2012. The American automaker has delayed the launch as the company faces parts shortage in the production of the SUV. Ford has faced loss in production of the Ranger in Asia due to the floods in Thailand. The company has resumed production but [...]

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Mercedes-Benz Stardrive Experience Video

May 21, 2012

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Mercedes-Benz Stardrive Experience Video

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Premier Shakes Hands With Fiat For Diesel Engines

May 21, 2012

We had brought you the news about Premier being in talks with Fiat India for getting its 1.3-litre diesel engine. Back then, when the news was leaked, both the companies refused from divulging any details regarding this deal citing that talks are on and finally, the deal has been done. Premier and Fiat India have [...]

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Verna 1.6 Diesel To Get Lower Automatic Variants

May 21, 2012

The new fluidic Hyundai Verna is a gorgeous looking car with loads of features attracting heavy sales volumes for the company. The Fluidic Verna is also the only car in its segment to offer an automatic variant with the benefit of frugality of a diesel engine. But currently the automatic gearbox is only available with [...]

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Chevrolet Aveo & Aveo U-VA To Be Discontinued

May 21, 2012

General Motors will be pulling the plug on the Chevrolet Aveo and U-VA models soon. These two cars have been in the Indian market for a long time with no significant sales figures. Recently in the month of April, the sales figures plummeted to about a meagre 140 units. It is no rocket science that [...]

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