Update: Yamaha’s YZF R1 and MT01 in India

Yamaha R1 and MT01 will soon take the credit of being the first legally available hi-powered bike in india. You no longer have to go grey market for bigger bikes( the super rich in India buys around 250 imported bikes every year but most of them in the grey market). Indian government allowed the import …

10 lakh Indicas fly on Indian roads

Tata Motors today(Novemeber 24th) rolled out the one millionth passenger car off the Indica platform at its Car Plant in Pune, in its ninth year since the commencement of production in January, 1999. While it achieved the 100,000th car in March 2001, and the 500,000th car in February, 2005, the progression from the 900,000th car …

Royal Enfield Fuel Injection engine

Royal Enfield unveiled the first product of its next generation engine. The 500cc UCE (Unit Constructed Engine) or integrated gearbox engine is equipped with Fuel Injection technology. The 500cc EFI will first feature in Royal Enfield Electra. The 500cc UCE still features pushrod operation of the two valves per cylinder but is otherwise very modern, …

Mahindra Scorpio m-Hawk

Since eagle(brand name) is already registered, Mahindra and Mahindra will brand the scorpio with eagle engine as Mahindra scorpio m-Hawk when launched. The high speed direct injection, Common Rail m-Hawk engine develops 120 HP @ 4000 rpm. Mahindra developed the m-Hawk engine with inputs from AVL of austria. This m-Hawk engine will comply to the …

Honda’s new CR-V with 2.0L engine

heart transplantation for Honda CR-V: Indian Stock markets are facing correction(till november 22nd) after a long rally. Similar is felt in Indian SUV market. Tata Motors recently came up with a 2.2L DICOR which replaced the 3.0L engine. Mahindra and Mahindra’s 2.6L engine will pave way for the less displacing 2.2L m-HAWK engine to power …

Tata – ISRO building india’s first hydrogen bus

Similar to China, nowadays india face the heat from global environment protectionist. India’s NTPC(National Thermal Power Corporation) rated as the world’s third largest polluting firm. Another similarity with china, india will ply fuel cell (ZEV-Zero Emission Vehicle) buses in coming years. Indian government already proposed 1 million vehicles running on alterante fules in 2020. Taking …

Hyundai i10 automatic and CRDi in 2008

Hyundai which buoyed by the sucess of i10 (6500 bookings in first 15days of the launch) is planning to add more values to the car. The launch of i10 has increased the traffic in the Hyundai showroom by almost 30% Hyundai is really surprised not because of the response it received but due to indian’s …

Royal Enfield Electra Woodsman 500

Royal Enfield will unveil the Woodsman 500, the latest in a long line of Bullet motorcycles. The Bullet has been in continuous production since 1949 and the Woodsman is inspired by the street scramblers of the late 1950’s that the company exported to the USA. With its distinctive high level exhaust system, trials style bars …

Mahindra relaunched scorpio in oman

a refreshed scorpio for oman Mahindra and Mahindra which launched the Scorpio in Oman through Towell Auto Centre in 2005 has now introduced an upgraded scorpio there. Mahidra Scorpio is also sold in Qatar through Doha Motors & Trading Group of Companies. Scorpio in oman is powered by a 2Litre petrol engine developing a power …

Mahindra Scorpio First

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) on November 22nd said it has launched a new variant (customised version) of its utility vehicle Scorpio at the Autocar Performance Show in Mumbai. Autocar performance show 2007 which kicks starts today and will last till 26th November. The customised version of scorpio to be called as ‘scorpio first’ is specially …