List of articles tagged: Polo

Maruti scores an ace in Africa, Fiat needs 18 months to get the sales and service sorted while the new race Polo is launched for the 2012 Polo R Cup.

Renault-Nissan planning an onslaught on the Indian market, Students in Michigan aim at 1400 kmpl, Aditya Patel to drive at the Nurburgring 24 hours while Steve Jobs dreamt about the iCar before his demise.

Ken Block goes miniature, thanks to Hot Wheels RC cars, BMW lends its wind tunnel for Olympic torch design, Beijing Auto show creating waves with new leaks everyday while the Mahindra XUV500 wins the Dakshin Dare Rally 2012.

The first round of the Polo Cup kicked off today at Coimbatore with two exiting races.

The VW group has published record sales for the first almost. The VW Vento has been very well in India too. VW reported strong growth in India, where 28,100 (7,900; +256.7 percent) vehicles were handed over to their new owners. “Developments in the first quarter were excellent. Growth regions such as China, India or Russia again produced a strong performance. And delivery figures for our innovative and young model range remained high in the mature markets in Western Europe and North America as well,” Group Board member for Sales Christian Klingler said in Wolfsburg on Friday.

The Golden Steering Wheel, Europe’s most coveted automobile awards, celebrated automotive excellence second year in a row in India on the 9th of March. These awards which recognise the best in field of cars, motorcycles as well as products and technology were held by CarWale, India's no. 1 Automotive Portal and Auto Bild India, the only fortnightly automotive magazine in India.

The A1 is Audi's supermini-class car based on the Volkswagen Groups PQ25 platform which is incidentally, the same platform that is used in the VW Polo and the Skoda Fabia. The Audi A1 was launched by the carmaker at the Geneva Motor Show in 2010. The deliveries of the car in Europe started in Christmas last year.

Volkswagen ended the year 2010 with sales of 32, 627 unit vehicles across India. This showed a sales growth of over 974 per cent when compared to the same period last year (January-December 2009 – 3039 units were sold). 5772 unit vehicles were sold in the month of December itself.

Volkswagen announced an increase in the price of the Polo. Starting January 1, 2011 this popular hatchback will witness a hike starting at 2.9 %. Commenting on this, Mr. Neeraj Garg, member of Board & Director, Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Group Sales India Pvt. Ltd. said “We have been faced with constant rise in input cost over the past several months and have tried our best to absorb it.  However, in order to continue to maintain our quality standards that our customers expect from us we have had to increase the price by a small percentage.”

Volkswagen successfully ended the month of November with sales of 4,612 units across India. In fact the Brand has had a successful year till date with sales surging to 26,855 for the period January to November 2010. This effectively shows a growth of over 900 per cent when compared to the same period last year (January-November 2009 -2638 units were sold).