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The launch on Thursday of India’s low-cost car at just 2,500 dollars points the way to a higher standard of living for the billions of people in the developing world but at the price of increased pollution, congestion and energy consumption.
“Global growth is profiting” from the rapid growth of the Asian giants, China and India, […]

With the likely emergence of a niche, new super bikes category of two-wheeler buyers, companies like Harley-Davidson and Yamaha have evinced interest or have gone ahead and announced plans to import and market such bikes. The latest to join the fray is the Bajaj-Kawasaki alliance.
Fresh after revealing its plans to launch new KTM bikes, Bajaj […]

First the Nano, and now the Bug. A day after Tata Motors unveiled what is the ‘cheapest car in the world’, the original people’s car, the iconic Volkswagen Beetle, is set to drive into India.
Volkswagen, Europe’s largest car maker, announced on Friday that its retro small car Beetle would hit Indian roads in the next […]

Auto component makers have played a major role in the creation of Nano, which has dominated the Auto Expo 2008. Vendor companies, that are supplying parts to the car, consider it a matter of pride to be associated with the world?s cheapest car.
?Have you seen the response at Auto Expo? It?s phenomenal! Roads are clogged […]

German component major Bosch was driven to join Tata Motors’ Nano project by the possibility that Indian component rivals would use the Rs 1-lakh car’s experience to undercut it in Europe.
Although the Tata project was a ‘challenge’ in terms of cost and technology, Bosch went along so it could use the Tata Nano experience to […]

The cheapest car in the world, Nano, unveiled by the Tatas, could translate into a 65 per cent increase in the number of families that can afford a car, as per the estimates by Crisil Research.
The agency, in an analysis said today the expected consumer price of the car would be around Rs 1.3 lakh. […]

India’s largest commercial vehicle maker Tata Motors on Friday said it will introduce up to 20 new products this year, while plans are afoot to start exporting its mini truck ACE to South Africa.
The company, which is also enhancing its bus portfolio, will set up a bus manufacturing for its joint venture with Brazilian firm […]

Two-wheeler maker TVS Motor Company on Saturday said it expects a dip of 1 lakh units in sales during the current fiscal to 1.4 million units, against 1.5 million units in 2006-07.
The company expects to make a turnaround during the next fiscal, when it plans to launch 3 two-wheelers and 4-stroke and 2-stroke three-wheelers. […]

International Cars and Motors Ltd (ICML), a Sonalika Group company, has announced its plans to launch a world car by 2010. The company has entered into a technical collaboration with Italian car designer Pininfarina for design and process engineering.
Unveiling the concept car at the Auto Expo here, the ICML Chairman, Mr L.D. Mittal, said, ?The […]