General Motors has unveiled 2010 Chevy Cruze which will be on sale in Europe from March next year onwards. The car is in mid range of its own products, i.e. it is larger than existing Cobalt and smaller than Malibu. The car will be shown in next months Paris Auto show. The firm conveyed that ...

The General Motors Europe has released the very first pictures of its Orlando concept, slated to debut at the Paris Auto Show October this year. Even though much compact in size, the Orlando concept of GE makes one remember the Chevrolet Sequel SUV/crossover concept from 2005. It is being touted as ...

The Mercedes-Benz Concept Fascination, the concept car of the Mercedes Benz will grace the 2008 Paris Auto Show. One word that aptly describes the present and future design line for Mercedes-Benz is 'change'. After giving a most remarkable makeover to the C-Class, it is the E-Class that is headed ...

Nissan Note, the popular MPV will appear in new avtar at Paris Motor Show, next month. Nissan Note will appear alongside the Pixo and Nuvu.
The revised Nissan Note has a new front end designed to give a more premium look, and a new central instrument panel for clearer use of the car’s ...

Small car market will see another car from Audi as it will show Audi A1 concept car in the 2008 Paris Motor Show next month. News reports suggest that Audi A1 concept car is another extension of the Metroproject Quattro concept that was shown at the Tokyo Motor Show last year; however this ...

Hindujas in addition to truck manufacturing are mulling a plan to enter into car manufacturing. Currently, the firm is in expansion mode of its commercial vehicles production and news in regard to car production accordingly can not be ruled out. The firm with the investment of Rs 1,500 crore has ...

It's for the first time in the Indian automobile industry that one car will have three different names in the global market. Maruti Suzuki — manufacturer of the car — will don it A-Star in India. The same car will be contract-manufactured by Maruti for Nissan Motors and will be called ...

Honda has said that it will launch a concept version of its new small hybrid vehicle called 'Insight' at the Paris International Auto Show in Oct 2008. The car will have a capacity of five passengers. The car would be developed on an entirely new platform and will be smaller than the Civic Hybrid. ...

Indian celebrities, very often, are heard confessing how he / she dreams of owning a Rolls Royce someday. That dream inched a little closer to realization on Friday, September 12, 2008 after New Delhi saw the opening of the very first Rolls Royce car showroom. With a price tag of Rs 31.5 million or ...

The Yamaha India Company is all geared up to launch its much-awaited FZ-16 bike in the market mid-September this year. The Yamaha FZ 16 is being touted as the bike-lover's delight as it embodies all the latest technologies. Macho and muscular in appearence, the innovative FZ 16 set to redefine the ...

Come October and the Indian market will see the launch of five models of electric scooters from the BSA Motors camp. South India is where the company is initially wants the launch to happen and so its media campaign shoots off the south of the Vindhyas in November.
 
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Yamaha Motor Company Ltd is planning to introduce gearless scooters in India and is presently studying the market for this. Pankaj Dubey, national business head, sales and marketing, Yamaha Motor India Sales Pvt Ltd, said 'This is a lucrative segment and we are studying the market to see which ones ...

A day after the launch of its Honda City subcompact car, the Honda Company announced on Thursday, September 11, 2008 that it has chosen its plant in Thailand as its global hub. The manufacturing unit of Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co in Ayutthaya, therefore, will now serve as the 'parent-plant' and ...

The General Motors Company was planning a stupendous launch of its much-touted 2011 Chevrolet Volt hybrid car. But all that got botched up on Monday, September 8, 2008 after the photos of the production car got uploaded briefly on its website by mistake. The duration, however, was long enough for ...

World’s leading automaker Mercedes Benz has decided to launch its small range of A- class cars in India. The company would also launch different models of hybrid cars on global basis. Mr. Rainer Schmuckle, COO of Mercedes Benz says that the company is evaluating the Indian market regarding ...

Apart from the MX-5 facelift, the Mazda Company said that the Paris Motor Show will also see the introduction of their latest concept car, the Mazda Kiyora. In Japanese, the Kiyora stands for 'clean and pure'. The company says Mazda Kiyora is based on its 'Zoom Zoom vision' and is a lightweight ...

The fully owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation of United States, General Motors (GM) India has declared its aim to sell about 2000 units of its newly launched 'Chevrolet Tavera Neo 2' car every month. The car was introduced with 20 new features and carries a price tag of Rs 9.54 lakh ...

Honda will bring out small car next year. The car will be manufactured at its factory in Rajasthan. The company has already invested Rs 1,000 crore at the production center. Japanese car Manufacturer Company sees a huge potential in Indian market for its cars. According to Honda source the new car ...

Maruti Suzuki MD Shinzo Nakanishi has said that Maruti A-Star Concept car would be launched in October this year. The car is designed by Saurabh Singh and Rajesh Kumar Gogu of Maruti Suzuki India. The major attraction of the car is it has five-doors, and a 1,000 cc petrol engine. The company aims ...

The Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) Limited is reported to be engaged in talks with light commercial vehicle manufacturer Swaraj Mazda (SML) as it wants to sell its stake to Sumitomo Corporation of Japan.  Sources inform that this development follows the recent decision of M&M to infuse ...

Tata Motors is mulling a plan to introduce an electric version of its Indica in Norway. The demo car called Indica ev was recently shown in a industry conference. Ravi Kant, MD of Tata Motors said that electronic version of the car and its technology is something which Tata has been looking for. ...

The Indian road is soon going to get one more new 800 cc car. This time from the stable of the Hyundai Motor India, the wholly owned subsidiary of South Korea's Hyundai Motor Company. This information was revealed by an official from the Hyundai Motor India, who said that the car will hit the road ...

Hyundai will launch its i20 passenger car in Paris Auto show starting from October 2. The passenger car, according to the company source will add value to Hyundai. The firm believes that the car would be the best selling Hyundai model in the European range.
 
The car is designed at Hyundai's ...

Indian auto parts manufacturer Ashok Minda Group said on Tuesday, September 2 that it has acquired the Schenk Plastic Solutions GmbH of Germany. How much the acquisition cost the Minda Group was not revealed.  The buying of the German company will assist the Ashok Minda Group in foraying into ...

India, a growing market for commercial vehicles, will soon see the entry of Hino trucks. A segment, which already has got some big names like Volvo, Tatra, MAN-Force, Tata Daewoo and Ashok Leyland, is going to see the entry of the Japanese giant in April 2009 with the launch of its 500 Series. ...

The largest automobile manufacturer in the world, the General Motors (GM) has stated that it is going to spend $200 million at Talegaon close to Pune in Maharashtra for building a powertrain (engine, gearbox and transmission) project. The yearly production capacity of this powertrain project will ...

The 2,985mm long and 1,500mm high small car iQ will be fully revealed at Paris Auto Show to be held in the month of October. The journey of iQ started in 2007 at the Frankfurt show, there it was shown as a concept car. Later on, this year in March, Toyota showed its production version at Geneva ...

Toyota release informs that Toyota will come up with the latest European-market Avensis model in the Paris Motor Show in October this year. However, this redesigned third-generation Avensis car will go on sale in first month of next year only. The car will be built at Toyota's Burnaston plant in ...

Major tractor production company Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is looking for a deal with Italian 2-wheeler company Malaguti Moto to start a joint venture.  M&M has already entered into 2-wheeler production after buying up Kinetic’s two-wheeler business for Rs 120 crore. ...

The Tata Motors appears to have made a few crucial changes to its manufacturing plan for the Nano. As per vendor sources, the automaker is now preparing to churn out a couple of thousand units from its Pantnagar plant in Uttarakhand. The Tata Motors has decided to do so to meet its October deadline ...