To be made in India, the car is expected to make its debut within two years and will be sold globally, Skoda India Director Thomas Kuehl said. Skoda?s smallest offering is the premium hatchback Fabia, which was launched in India in January. ?Our small car will be launched first in India. More
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Skoda starts work on small-car platform
Published May 9th, 2008 in Skoda Auto India and Volkswagen. 0 CommentsVolkswagen appoints two dealers for Chandigarh, Ludhiana
Published May 8th, 2008 in Volkswagen. 0 Comments“The partnerships are in line with our strategy to extend Volkswagen’s reach in the country,” said Joerg Mueller, Volkswagen Group Representative for India and President of Volkswagen India in a statement issued here on Thursday. More
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Car makers set to scorch motown with new launches
Published May 3rd, 2008 in Fiat India, HM/Mitsubishi, Honda India, Hyundai Motors, Launches, Tata Motors, Volkswagen, volvo and Maruti Suzuki. 0 CommentsWhile at the more modest-end of the spectrum, a slew of domestic and international carmakers are waiting to unleash a few surprises. Auto firms such as, Fiat, Volvo, Hyundai, Maruti Suzuki, Volkswagen, Tata Motors, Honda Siel and Mitsubishi Motors are all in queue to yank the covers off their gleaming beauties. Read more
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Volkswagen will increase investments in India by 40%
Published April 4th, 2008 in Volkswagen. 0 CommentsGerman auto group Volkswagen AG is increasing its spend in India by around 40 per cent, and will now invest ?580 million against the ?411 million announced earlier in its plant coming up at Chakan near Pune. It is also setting up a vendor park on a third of the 575-acre plot area where suppliers can lease space, and is in the midst of a tender process for a developer.
Calling its investment the largest by any German company in the country, Mr Joerg Mueller, President and Managing Director, VW India Pvt Ltd, said that the biggest growth will come with the VW brand. ?We can import, assemble (from knocked down units) and produce cars with the complete range ? press, body and paint shops to assembly,? he said. More
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A project by vehicle design students at London’s RCA brought thoughtful visualizations of future market sectors
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Vehicle Design students at the Royal College of Art in London, UK, started work on a project sponsored by Volkswagen in October last year. Asked to research and visualize future market sectors and the needs, aspirations and desires of potential users; VW’s brief to the students was to create a vehicle which had an innovative, integrated interior to reflect the research the students conducted, in a space that had equal value both in the daytime and at night.
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JBM Auto in JV with Italy’s Magnetto
Published March 18th, 2008 in Tata Motors and Volkswagen. 0 CommentsJBM Auto has entered into 50:50 venture with Magnetto Automotive, Italy for manufacturing skin panels, body, welded parts and subsystems for 4-wheeler original equipment manufacturers in Pune–Tata, Fiat Tata, Volkswagen group. Read more
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After getting their doze of adrenaline in the board rooms and earning crores for that, the restless young Indian is turning to yet another power-booster. With their pockets loaded with huge dispensable income, increasing number of young Indians are taking positions behind hot wheels and not shying away from coughing out crores to get on road for the kick of it.
Times have changed. Unlike some years back when automobiles like the Volkswagen or the Audi or the Bentley were unthinkable for someone as young as 35-year-old, presently, the high-end cars are finding substantial takers among the 30 and 40-year-olds. While the market is seeing sales of some 5,000 cars in 2008 calendar year, with the young Indian fuelling the segment, auto players expect it to grow 100% by 2010. More
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Premium small cars like Fiat 500, Volkswagen’s New Beetle & BMW’s Mini prepare to drive in India
Published February 20th, 2008 in Fiat India, Volkswagen and BMW. 0 CommentsFor India, this is the year of the small car, with the launch later this year of the world’s cheapest car, Tata Motors’ Nano, priced at just over Rs 1 lakh. This small car will have company at the premium end, too, with European majors bringing in their premium small cars, starting with the Fiat 500. It will be joined later this year by Volkswagen’s New Beetle, and even perhaps by the BMW-owned marquee Mini. The New Beetle and Mini are expected to carry price tags of around Rs 20 lakh. More
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Volkswagen partners with PCH, launches Passat Sedan
Published January 22nd, 2008 in Volkswagen. 0 CommentsVolkswagen, Europe’s largest car maker on Monday signed a partnership agreement with city-based PCH Group, making it the first authorised dealer for Volkswagen in Bangalore and announced the entry of the Rs 25 lakh Passat sedan in the Silicon city.
The PCH group will invest around Rs 50 crore towards setting up two world class showrooms for Volkswagen cars in India, Gurjit Singh, Managing Director of the group told reporters here.
It will open the first Volkswagen showroom in Bangalore at Hosur Road by end of 2008. The showroom will offer 3S facility- Spares, Sales and Service, equipped with the latest service infrastructure, he said. They also plan to open a first-of-its kind bouitque by June 2008 at 100 feet Indiranagar, which will provide Volkswagen offerings. Read more
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