Archive for December 17th, 2007

Maruti to start designing products from 2010

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, the country’s biggest carmaker, will start designing cars in India by 2010, for which it has sent close to hundred employees for training in Japan, a senior company official said on Monday.

“We are training about 100 people in research and development area at Suzuki Japan. They have been sent to Japan for two years and would come back in batches between 2008-10,” Maruti Suzuki India’s Executive Director (HR) S Y Siddiqui said. Read more
Courtesy:economictimes.indiatimes.com

Tata Motors to test run small car in April 2008

Tata Motors will conduct the first test run of its ambitious small car in April 2008 before the scheduled roll out during the middle of next year.

Sources close to the development told reporters that the track would be ready by next April, after which test run of the Rs one-lakh car would be carried out.

According to the sources, civil construction of the project was nearing completion. The engine shop, paint shop, press shop and the assembly area were getting ready while construction of individual roofs was complete. More
Courtesy:www.indiacar.net

Toyota to raise 2008 global output to nearly 10 million vehicles, may outnumber GM

Japan’s top carmaker Toyota Motor Corp will raise its projected global production to almost 10 million vehicles next year, and could soon outpace US rival General Motors Corp to become the world’s biggest automaker, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Toyota plans to raise its output projection for 2008 to 9.95 million vehicles worldwide from 9.90 million projected for the current year, the Nikkei business newspaper said. It did not say where it got the information.

The production increase reflects booming sales in China, the Middle East and other emerging economies, the Nikkei said. Read more
Courtesy:www.indiacar.net


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