Archive for the 'Honda India' Category

Honda launches select Jazz edition priced at Rs 7.21 lakh

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Car maker Honda Siel Cars India on Monday launched a select edition of its small car Jazz priced at Rs 7.21 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi).
The new select edition has been launched to commemorate the ‘Car of the Year’ award bagged by Jazz at a prestigious auto award and Bike India Awards 2010, Honda Siel Cars India […]

Honda says new hybrid system for big cars in sight

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Honda Motor Co has taken a big step towards developing a new hybrid system for larger cars, its head of automobile research and
development said on Friday, indicating a finished product could be about three years away.
“We’ve left the research stage and entered the field of development,” Tomohiko Kawanabe, chief operating officer of automobile R&D at […]

Hero Honda to vroom in Gujarat; may set up unit in Sanand

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Gujarat has changed gears to become an auto hub. After Tata’s Nano, the Munjals want to park two-wheelers in Gujarat. The world’s
largest two-wheeler maker, Hero Honda, is hunting for a location to set up a manufacturing unit in the state. Sanand, where Tata Motors is setting up Nano plant, could be the site for Hero […]

Honda unveils CB Twister in Kerala

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Kerala remains one of the best markets for Honda motorcycles in the country and the company enjoys more than 24 per cent market share in the State, according to Mr A. Mohindroo, Vice-President (Purchase), Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Pvt Ltd.
This year the company plans to sell 65,000 units in the State through a network […]

Honda looks at Haryana for its second plant in India

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India said it is not averse to set up its second plant in Haryana, in the country.
“We are not averse to Haryana,” HMSI’s Operating Head, Sales and Marketing N K Rattan said here.
The 100 percent subsidiary of Japan’s Honda Motor Company has its plant at Manesar in Haryana, with a capacity […]

Honda India revives plan for second unit

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Japan’s Honda Motor Co’s Indian car unit has revived plans for production at its second plant in India, a senior company official said.
Honda had deferred plans for its new plant in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, citing depressed auto demand. Read more
Courtesy : indiacar.net

Honda India to sell 1.25 million two-wheelers in 09-10

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI), a unit of Japan’s Honda Motor Co, expects to sell 1.25 million two-wheelers in the fiscal
year ending March 31 and 1.5 million units in 2010-11, it said on Wednesday. More
Courtesy : economictimes.indiatimes.com

Honda City owners may have to wait for ’safe switch’

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Owners of 8,532 Honda City cars made in 2007 may have to wait as much as three weeks to get the possibly defective power-window switches replaced, as Honda Siel Cars imports the component from Thailand, said a senior company official.
Honda is set to recall these cars, the third in its history in India, to replace […]

Honda to recall over 8,000 units of sedan City in India

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Honda Siel Cars India on Saturday said it will recall over 8,000 units of sedan ‘City’ in the country due to defective power window switches as part of a global recall.
The vehicles, which have been recalled, were manufactured in 2007, a company official said.
Yesterday, Honda had announced a global recall of 6.46 lakh units of […]

Honda recalls Fit/Jazz cars over window fault

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Honda Motor Co recalled 646,000 of its Fit/Jazz and City automobiles globally over a faulty window switch after a child died when fire broke out in a car last year.
The recall includes 140,000 vehicles in the United States and covers the models sold in North America, South America, Europe, South Africa and Asia, but […]