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Mercedes Launches New E Class Coupe

Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:58 PM by Sreehari Nair

Mercedes-Benz today unveiled the all New E Class Coupe in Mumbai. Priced at Rs 54.83lakhs (ex-showroom Mumbai), the company expects the car to redifine the luxury and driving with this new car. The sporty looking muscular machine will be available through Mercedes Benz dealerships across India.

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Posted in: New Arrivals

Sonata Recall Won't Affect India

Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:40 PM by Sreehari Nair

The recall saga continues. After Honda and Toyota recalled their cars due to technical glitches, it is now turn of Hyundai to recall their Sonata for a fault in the door latch.

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Posted in: Misc

India, China Lead Auto Sales Recovery in 2010: Study

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:34 PM by CarWale Team

Buoyed by the booming markets of India and China, global auto sales is expected to grow 4.3%  this year to 66.1 million units, a South Korean automobile research body forecast today.

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Volvo Will Never Get Phasing Out Cars to India

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:15 PM by Sreehari Nair

In an exclusive interview to CarWale.com, Paul de Voijs, managing director, Volvo Auto India talks about the silent existence of the brand and its dynamic future plans Volvo has been present in India for some time now but still the brand remains unknown to many? Volvo Auto is relatively still new to the market. Although, we had a Ford backing, Volvo always took its own decisions. We opened our first dealership in March 2008 in Chandigarh which makes us a very young player in the market and there is a strong reason why we haven’t made much noise in the Indian market till today. For any company to become a brand takes some time. Volvo might be a reckoned name outside India but here one has to start from scratch. We did not want to come to India and launch an ‘x’ amount of cars; idea was to go at a slower pace and make people get used to the brand. Exploding into the market with too much hype didn’t make sense to us. This is probably one of the reasons why people are not much aware about Volvo cars in India but we are now increasing the marketing and branding activities for the cars in India.

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