List of articles tagged: cars

The Indian automakers are on a roll as car manufacturers like Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai have recorded an all time high overall sales (which includes domestic sales and export).  Tata Motors, Fiat India, Toyota Kirloskar, Mercedes-Benz and General Motors sales figures too jumped up by a huge margin.

The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's 2010-11 budget has led to mixed reactions from the industry. Earlier in the day, the minister had announced a 2% hike in excise duty on large cars, SUVs and multi utility vehicles taking the excise duty from 8% to 10%.

The annual CarWale awards are back and like last time, this year too we are expecting you to participate in huge numbers and vote for your Best Car.

The Finance Minister in the on-going budget speech mentioned the need for bringing in more electric cars and that for them to smoothly drive into India, he made an announcement that a full excise cut will be given to electric cars. Thumbs Up to the electric manufacturers!

The excise duty on large cars, SUVs, multi utility vehicles has been hiked in the Budget 2010-11. The excise duty has been hiked to 10% from 8%.

In a new development in the auto citing the strong economy resilience India showed, leading carmakers are heading towards the tier II and III towns to push up sales.

The brand image of Japan as a leading 'quality' car manufacturer is at stake now. After Toyota recalled its much successful Prius for braking problems, now Honda has found problems with the airbag in its premium cars.

In spite of being engulfed in crisis internationally over the Toyota’s first hybrid car ‘Prius’, Toyota India today went ahead and began their exhibition of various products including the Prius in Mumbai today; also unveiling the Etios sedan and hatchback concepts. The show being held today and tomorrow will showcase the ‘green’ products as well as new variants from the Toyota stable.