Sometime in the near future, when you run into traffic and are unlikely to make it to a meeting on time, your car will control the damage. All you will need to do is tell the car, before you start, the route you want to take and the time in which you have to make it to the destination.

The 'What-Next' guy

Business Standard

Hero MotoCorp, the country&rsquo;s largest two-wheeler maker, has inked an agreement with US-based Erik Buell Racing (EBR) to source high-end technology for developing new products, 14 months after its partnership with Honda Motor Corporation ended. While the agreement with Honda had cemented Hero&rsquo;s footprint in the mass commuter segment, with the hugely popular Splendor and Passion, the company is now setting sights on the premium end after forging the new technological alliance.

This partnership will help us improve our own capability: Pawan Munjal

In a move to increasingly synergise operations with subsidiary Ssangyong Motor Company (SMC), homegrown auto major, Mahindra &amp; Mahindra (M&amp;M), is looking at commencing production and sales of its products in Korea.

M&M to enter Korea with Ssangyong

Despite exit alarms ringing off among foreign institutional investors (FIIs) in the market in India, domestic automobile manufacturers found reasons to cheer with foreign institutional investments in the companies seeing an uptick in the third quarter of the current financial year.

FIIs raise stake in auto companies

After international acquisitions, homegrown auto majors Mahindra &amp; Mahindra (M&amp;M) and Tata Motors are increasingly focusing on developing global products and mulling setting up assembly facilities abroad to scale up international business over the next three to five years.

Manufacturers look to grow footprint abroad

When Pranab Mukherjee rises to present the Budget a month from now, car companies will be among those watching him anxiously. A proposed tax on diesel vehicles could increase prices by 22 per cent, worrying enough to defer ambitious investments in diesel engine factories. The investment plans were prompted by brisk sales of cars that run on this highly subsidised fuel.

Car firms stall diesel investments as tax looms

Toyota Prius, the world&rsquo;s best-known and highest-selling hybrid car, sold over two million units worldwide in the last 15 years but only 150 vehicles in India last fiscal. So far this financial year, not a single Prius has been driven out of a Toyota showroom in the country.

Still waiting for an electric start

A year after ending its partnership with Japanese auto major Honda Motor Corporation(HMC), Hero Group launched a motorcycle, the Impulse. On Wednesday, it unveiled three other products. Sunil Kant Munjal, joint managing director, Hero MotoCorp, spoke to Sharmistha Mukherjee on the roadmap for India's biggest two-wheeler maker.

Q&A: Sunil Kant Munjal, Hero MotoCorp

Space constraints, traffic snarls force organisers for a venue rethink.

F1 track may play host to Delhi Auto Expo 2014

Mere marginal growth in November-December instils desperation in manufacturers, 2012 too &lsquo;unfavourable&rsquo;.

Expo fails to dispel slowdown gloom & doom

Tata Motors is working on an upgraded version of the Nano destined for the European markets, India&rsquo;s biggest automobile company by revenues said today, but declined to provide details of probable launch dates.

Europe-bound Nano to be a 'significant' upgrade

Homegrown auto company Mahindra &amp; Mahindra (M&amp;M) is looking at introducing the first product it is developing in association with Korean arm SsangYong Motor Company (SMC) in two to three years.

1st product from M&M-SsangYong likely to hit mkts in 3 yrs

Dozen two-wheelers, 30 passenger cars and CVs unveiled.

Small goes big, big goes small 

Suzuki Motor Corporation&rsquo;s Indian subsidiary, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), is going to play an increasingly important role in designing and developing global vehicles for the Japanese auto company in the coming years.

Maruti to develop global products with parent Suzuki

The Auto Expo is set to get bigger and bolder this time, with compact cars making way for swankier utility vehicles.

Bigger models to dot 11th Auto Expo 

After Toyota Motor Corporation, compatriot Nissan Motor Company has started to delve into the luxury side of the passenger vehicle business in India.

Nissan considering Infiniti for India

Mahindra &amp; Mahindra, has planned to double production capacity of its indigenously developed sports utility vehicle, the XUV500, to expand presence in European and Australian markets. Touted as its first global product, the diesel SUV was recently introduced in the South African market.

Mahindra to double capacity for XUV500, launch in Australia, Europe

Aims at 10-fold sales growth by 2020, even as BMW, Audi battle fiercely for mkt share.

Mercedes to invest Rs 1,000 cr

The country's third-largest heavy commercial vehicle manufacturer, Asia Motor Works (AMW), is exploring opportunities to export medium and heavy commercial vehicles (M&amp;HCVs) to overseas markets.

Sharmistha Mukherjee