Toyota feels Indian market is not ready for hybrid cars yet and puts a hold on releasing Toyota Prius. In the Britain market, the hybrid Toyota Prius car has triumphed in a major customer satisfaction survey and has attained an iconic status due to high satisfaction levels with the model’s quality and reliability. The petrol/electric …
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Toyota next generation Camry Picture
While the Honda’s new accord has become the segment leader its archrival Toyota camry is due for a complete makeover. Here’s a picture from autoincar claimed as next generation Toyota camry. The report further claims that the next generation Toyota camry will be out in 2011 and will be powered by 2AR-FE 2.5 litre petrol …
Honda closes Civic Hybrid special offer
Luck is shortlived! Honda today announced the closure of the special programme on Civic Hybrid which was announced on November 12, 2008. According to Honda, the company received an overwhelming response to the car at the special price with more than 1100 enquiries in just 4 days and all cars planned for this programme have been …
Toyota cuts production of Corolla Altis
Yet another shocker for auto sector! as the financial crsis creeps into India we are constantly reporting about production cuts in our stocks section http://vicky.in/stocks/ First we heard about Tata then Mahindra and Bajaj, now its Toyota’s turn. But what surprising is the production cut is made for a product that was launched barely two …
Lohia Auto launches e-bikes
Lohia auto part of Lohia group launched two new electric bikes. Lohia auto will manufacture these electric bikes at Kashipur in Uttarakhand. The two e-bikes are priced at Rs. 25,000 and Rs.35,000. The prices of the two models — Oma and Fame — were kept same and it was before the tax rebate being offered …
GM service centre in BPCL outlets
GM has never turned its business in reverse gear. It ever aims at accelerating its growth in all platforms and the present move, apart from marketing cars, is to install Chevrolet Authorized Service Centre. The project, as a tie-up with BPCL, will be in force at Select BPCL workshops. A Fortune 500 company, BPCL is …
Maruti Suzuki A-star to come in three variants
While the technical specifications are already out (you can read it in vicky forums – http://www.vicky.in/forums/topic/maruti-suzuki-a-star-technical-specifications) slowly we are getting informations on A-star’s prices and variants. Similar to the swift petrol, a-star will come in three variants – A-star LXi,A-star VXi and A-star ZXi. ZXi being the top end will come with loads of features …
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GM Chevrolet plans premium small car
As you read here few days back, GM Chevrolet will launch two new cars in India apart from the upgraded variants of existing cars. GM Chevrolet’s new cars is believed to be the cruze (civic competerior) and spark 800 (alto and Maruti 800 peer). But GM today said that the small car which is due …
Premium car makers facing the heat
Just when premium segment car-makers thought they were insulated from the slump in the automobile market, unlike mass market car-makers, data from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) seem to shake them out of their comfort-zone. In October, sales of high-end cars (priced between Rs 8.02 lakh and Rs 1.24 crore) fell by 30.51 …
Ford to phase out Fusion
Ford Fusion – No non-sense car to go Owing to the poor sales, Ford India plans to phase out the Fusion. First introduced in 2004, the fusion got an upgrade in 2006. In 2007, Ford added a Fiesta diesel to this no non-sense car and in March 2008 it made price cut on Fusion diesel. …