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Honda India has been recovering from drop in sales post the negative shift in demand for petrol cars. The Japanese automaker doesn’t have a single diesel engined car for sale in the country and are now working on a diesel motor which will debut in the Brio, Jazz and City. Honda’s diesel engine is being [...]

Honda plans to commence operations at its second facility in India by 2014. The company currently manufactures components at its Tapukara plant in Rajasthan. The main facility at Greater Noida for the Japanese automaker was setup in 1997 and can produce 1 lakh vehicles per an year. Honda doesn’t sell more then 1 lakh vehicles [...]

Honda, the company which was a manufacturer of premium cars in India till a few months ago is now gearing towards the mass market. However, many were interested to know how Honda changed its thought by offering such insane discounts on the City and Jazz? The company attributes to the reduction in prices to increase [...]

Honda has announced production cut in India by abount 50%. The company’s Greater Noida plant will work at 50% of its capacity from May, 2011. Honda also announced production cut at its plants in Japan earlier on, following a shortage of components due to the impact of the Tsunami on its parts suppliers. The situation [...]

Honda Products India, a subsidiary of Honda Motors Japan has launched its range of outboard engines in the country priced between Rs. 1.85-8 lakhs. The outboard engines will be first available in Kerala and will be subsequently launched nationally. Outboard engine is very popular in fishing business and has a market size of around 1400 [...]

Honda will resume production and shipment of component parts for use in production in regions outside Japan on Monday, April 4, 2011. However, as the situation with parts supply remains fluid; production of component parts and vehicles at Honda plants will resume at approximately 50% of the original production plan at the outset. Honda will [...]

Honda India will be hiking the prices of its cars by 2-3% from April 1, 2011. The price increase is being attributed to rise in commodity prices and will affect the Jazz, City and CR-V. The Accord has been excluded from this round of price hike as it recently received a price revision with the [...]

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Honda has not officially confirmed the name of their small car yet, but sources on the web reveal the name to be Brio. The small car, which was codenamed 2CV at the 2010 Auto Expo is expected to be launched early next year and will feature a trimmed down version of the 1.2L i-VTEC powerplant [...]

Honda India has not yet decided on starting assembly operations at its second manufacturing facility in Rajasthan. The company’s first plant near New Delhi has a capacity of 100,000 units and isrunning at only 60% capacity. In the first four months of the year, the company’s production fell close to 15% on the back of [...]