MotorBeam – Indian Car Bike News & Reviews

When you meet you friends you say yo! With a three finger symbol! (\m/) When you see Ekta Kapoor’s soap operas, the vamp says the main dialogue which is repeated thrice and camera is focused three times!!! We all love our cars and we love the adrenaline rush when they reach “3″ DIGIT NUMBERS and [...]

There was a time when a Tata Safari spotted on road was a big thing. The market of SUV’s then was limited to few options but today it’s raining SUV’s in India. The gas guzzlers have found a liking in the emerging India with more and more SUV’s being launched in the market by car [...]

CarWale and Inorbit Malls have organised Vintage Wheels 2011, an annual event which showcases timeless classics for two weeks at Inorbit Malad and Vashi. This year over 40 cars have participated in the drive to Lonavla including the 1929 Fiat Millecento , 1932 Lancia, 1934 Austin-7, Ford Jeep-1942, 1946 Volkswagen Beetle, 1948 Wolseley, 1951 Cadillac, [...]

The year 2011 was an interesting year for the auto enthusiasts  as well as the industry. Not only because Audi and its contemporaries listed out the line-up for India but also saw Mahindra unveiling its Global SUV and Hyundai its smallest car Eon. MotorBeam lists out the cars launched in the mainstream category (luxury cars [...]

If chain emails circulating are to be believed, then we do pay way too much for petrol than even our neighbours. But has that deterred consumers from switching on to diesel variants than petrol? Sales figures do suggest a downfall and quite a few that we spoke to shared the rising price of petrol as [...]

Mumbai (including peripherals) is probably the only place where driving is no more a pleasure but a pain. Traffic is one thing; but the pain is more caused by half dug roads, barricades without neons; and non-observant of lane driving. Here are some serious tips apart from the one issued by the government. Ten Tips [...]

In what seems like yet another set back for the auto industry, car makers are planning to hike prices of their cars owing to depreciating Rupee. The companies are also claiming that their margine are affected severely due to higher cost of imports, leading to higher input costs. The price hike will be announced shortly [...]

The Indian economy is growing at a very fast rate and this is clearly reflected in the auto sales happening year-on-year. Though fuel prices are rising, that is not going to stop the Indian and the foreign car OEMs from bringing in their all new or revised offerings to the Indian soil in the quest [...]

“BlueMotion” the next thing by the German car brand Volkswagen – Das Auto making its mark in the Indian Auto industry. Mercedes Benz says it Blue-efficiency and the Bimmer, BMW calls it Efficient Dynamics. These Blue technologies has nothing to do with the color blue, it’s just a fine blend of some modern age technologies [...]

We at MotorBeam are pleasantly surprised with what’s happening in the Indian automotive industry of late. It seems as if the car-makers have suddenly figured out the formula to crack open our market and are hell-bent on succeeding in their attempts. Still guessing on the magic formula? It is nothing but ‘Value For Money’, something [...]