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Kia Motors India to launch Sonet compact SUV during festive season

Kia Motors India on Thursday said its upcoming model Sonet, to be launched during the festive season this year, will inject new dynamism in the compact SUV segment in the country

Spurt in demand for pre-owned personal vehicles during April-July: Report

Pre-owned passenger vehicles market has seen steady recovery and growth in April-July period this year with demand for such vehicles growing by around 25 per cent this month as compared to February

Buses, non-personal passenger cars to adopt electric mobility next: Report

India's first wave of electric mobility adoption has penetrated the two- and three-wheeler segments with a variety of new products

How Tesla is heralding a new culture in auto industry, one car at a time

Investors are betting on Tesla's ability to scale up manufacturing just as they once backed Toyota Motor Corp, which defined the auto industry's last era

Global spread helps Motherson Sumi tackle Covid-19 pandemic pain

The third part of the series looks at how the firm used its first-mover advantage to get production back on track

Covid-19 impact: Over 54% potential buyers prefer used car, says study

Even as the preference for a personal vehicle is growing owing to safety concerns, buyers are not willing to fork out much

Covid-19: June passenger vehicle sales dip 38% to 126,417 units, says FADA

Commercial vehicle sales plunged 83.83 per cent to 10,509 units as against 64,976 units in the year-ago period

Auto spare revenues may drop 11% as lockdown persists in 75 key districts

Crisil Research says the 75 districts together account for a huge chunk of automobile sales by OEMs and 46% of the automobiles sales in the country

Piaggio India launches updated models of Vespa VXL, Aprilia Storm scooters

The company also rolled out the new 125-cc Aprilia Storm scooter with disc brake and digital cluster priced at Rs 91,000 (Pune), Piaggio India said in a release

Changes and challenges for automakers as India eases coronavirus lockdown

March and April were the cruellest for automakers because of a nationwide lockdown. As economic begins to pick up, Surajeet Das Gupta explains how automakers can get business in these uncertain times

June vehicle registrations dip 43% to 967,000; tractors up 10%: Report

A total of 16,93,569 vehicles were registered at regional transport offices across the country in June 2019

First FIR filed against Audi, VW in India for emission cheat device

The first FIR against Volkswagen and Audi in India for installing cheat devices in their cars to misrepresent emissions has been filed in Noida

Honda Cars India plays a competitive pricing game with the new City

Honda aims to fill the wide gap in entry-level sedans that include Ciaz and Hyundai Verna as well as upper-level versions such as the likes of Honda Civic, Skoda Octavia and Toyota Corolla Altis.

Respite for pandemic-bruised automakers: Tractor, two-wheeler sales rebound

Pent-up demand, rural focus of these segments aid sales recovery

Ford India launches automatic variant of EcoSport at Rs 10.66 lakh

The new variant will be the only automatic compact SUV in its price range to offer its mobility and connectivity solution FordPass

Skoda unveils Rapid Rider Plus at Rs 7.99 lakh with higher fuel efficiency

The new trim, Rapid Rider Plus comes powered with BSVI-compliant one-litre petrol engine which delivers a power output of 110 PS

India's auto sales volume will take 3-4 years to recover: Industry body

Nifty auto index, which tumbled nearly 11 per cent in 2019, crashed over 31% in March

Mahindra & Mahindra's XUV300 tops Global NCAP's 6-year safety rankings

GNCAP has completed safety assessments on more than 38 vehicles so far from 2014, and the XUV300 scored the highest safety rating among all the models tested, the company said in a release

India passenger vehicle demand likely to rebound slowly this fiscal: Report

Currently, affected by an economic slowdown and the coronavirus-induced lockdown, both demand and production have been disrupted

Passenger vehicle sales decline 49.59% in June over coronavirus, lockdown

Motorcycle sales were at 7,02,970 units as against 10,84,596 units in June 2019, down 35.19 per cent