Sports cars gaining popularity: Toyota
Toyota Kirloskar Motor will be hosting motorsport activities to popularize its Etios Motor Racing Series in Kolkata. IBNS correspondent Tania Roy caught up with Hitoshi Fukui, Toyota’s Managing Coordinator Marketing Division, during his recent visit to the city. Excerpts: What led you to launch the motorsport activity in Eastern India? We are based in Bangalore [...]
Kolkata, Mar 3 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): Japanese automaker Nissan Motor’s India unit is set to more than double its export volume when it ramps up production from the present capacity of 2 lakh vehicles per annum to 4 lakh at its Chennai facility by the end of March. “We are currently running on a [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Jan 18 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS) Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), India’s leading SUV manufacturer, on Wednesday unveiled the Mahindra XUV5OO at Kolkata. The XUV5OO is Mahindra’s first global SUV platform, with significant inputs in styling and development from customers across the globe. The XUV5OO will now be open for bookings for limited period [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Dec 23 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS) India leading selling car Alto announced it has delivered a mileage of 49.3 in one litre of petrol here on Wednesday. Dilip Das while driving his Alto got this mileage during Alto Xplore Max Mileage Rally organized by Maruti Suzuki India Limited for all Alto/Alto K-10 owners in Kolkata. [...]
Continue reading …New Delhi, Dec 18 (IBNS) Prominent leaders from India and Pakistan on Sunday called for empowering women with education and economic independence to encourage entrepreneurship in south Asia and pulling the masses out of poverty, illiteracy, disease and crime. Providing them networking platforms is also essential in the current globalised world, said member of Parliament [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Dec 7 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS) Automobile major Hyundai Motor India Ltd on Wednesday said it will be hiking prices of its various models from January. “The pressure of rising inflation, higher fuel costs and sharp rupee depreciation has compelled us to look at a price increase on our models. All these factors have [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Nov 2 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): General Motors India, the country’s 5th largest automobile manufacturing company, on Tuesday announced it sold 10,062 units in October 2011 on the back of the overwhelming response received by Chevrolet Beat Diesel, India’s most fuel efficient car. Chevrolet Beat has been one of the top performers for GM [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Oct 20 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): India’s No. 2 motorcycle maker Bajaj Auto on Thursday launched the new Boxer 150 cc for east India on Thursday, with an aim of selling 5,500 units of the bike, targeted mainly at rural customers, per month in the region. Pitted against Hero Honda’s immensely successful 100 cc [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Oct 18 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): Sales of India’s second largest carmaker Hyundai have gained “to some extent” from the labour unrest at bigger rival Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant in the past months, a top official of the Korean undertaking said in Kolkata on Tuesday. The impasse, coupled with the launch of its new [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Sept 27 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): Japanese automaker Nissan on Monday launched its new mid-size petrol engine sedan Sunny in Kolkata for the West Bengal market. The car, priced aggressively between Rs 5,83,138 and Rs 7,74,827 (ex-showroom Kolkata), will compete in in the booming segment that already has an array of offerings like the [...]
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