The Tata Motors said global wholesales for the group for the month of November 2018, including Jaguar Land Rover, fell 7% on year to 104,964. Within this, commercial vehicle numbers fell by 6% and passenger vehicle numbers by 7%. Total CV wholesales, including Tata Daewoo,...
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Maruti Suzuki CNG sales on track to jump 54% this year
With rising fuel prices, sales of CNG models are on track to jump 54% this year at India’s biggest car maker, Maruti Suzuki. The company has sold 7.66 lakh units of CNG vehicles in the first eight months of the year, more than the 7.46...
Jaguar Land Rover November retail sales down 8%
Jaguar Land Rover reported an 8% decline in its November retail sales, reflecting what the premium auto-maker called “continuing challenging market conditions in China”. Sales in China were down 50.7% as “market conditions remain difficult with continuing consumer uncertainty following tariff changes and trade concerns.”...
Maruti Suzuki car prices to increase next month
Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, said it will increase car prices next month due to increased costs. “Over the past year, the cost of company’s vehicles has been impacted adversely due to increase in commodity prices and foreign exchange rates, etc. “Hence, it has...
Mahindra acquires Carnation Auto service chain
Mahindra First Choice Services, the servicing arm of Mahindra & Mahindra, said it has agreed to acquire the assets of bankrupt auto-service chain Carnation Auto (India). The company did not disclose the exact number of service centers that will accrue through the deal, but said...
TVS Motor Co posts strong numbers for November, sales up 26%
TVS Motor Co emerged as a strong performer in November, with a 28% jump in domestic two-wheeler sales volumes. This was far higher than the 0.8% jump shown by market leader Hero MotoCorp. TVS’ two-wheeler exports too jumped 24% during the month, taking the overall...
Bajaj Auto reports 45% jump in domestic 2-wheeler sales for Nov 2108
Bajaj Auto reported a 45% jump in two-wheeler sales in India in November, while overall sales of two-wheelers and three-wheelers, including exports, were up 25%. India two-wheeler sales jumped to 2.05 lakh in November from 1.42 lakh last year. However, compared to October, sales were...
Hero MotoCorp reports flattish sales for November 2018
Hero MotoCorp reported only a modest increase in November sales, after two months of record-setting performance. Overall two-wheeler sales came in at 6.10 lakhs in November, up from 6.05 lakh in the same month last year. In percentage terms, the increase is less than 1% (0.8%...
Maruti Suzuki Baleno sales rise 20%, hit 5 lakh mark in 3 years
Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, said its premium hatchback, Baleno, averaged sales of 13,158 units since launch, crossing the 5 lakh mark this month. Moreover, sales in the first seven months of this financial year have been 20% higher than that in 2017. The...
Hero MotoCorp renews partnership with Tiger Woods
Hero MotoCorp, the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters, said it renewed its ‘global partner deal’ with golf player Tiger Woods, originally inked in 2014. Hero Motocorp said it will be the title sponsor of the 2018 Hero World Challenge golfing tournament hosted by...
PHOTO GALLERY: Maruti Suzuki Ertiga gets a Rs 900 cr makeover
Weeks after Mahindra & Mahindra announced the Marazzo, Maruti Suzuki has announced a total revamp of its affordable utility vehicle, Ertiga, at a cost of Rs 900 cr. The company said the vehicle, which has an image of being rather boringly utilitarian due to its...
Maruti Suzuki’s Vitara Brezza sales hit 13,571 per month
Maruti Suzuki is on track to see growth of more than 10% this year in the shipment of its highest-selling premium car ever, the Vitara Brezza. In the first seven months of the year, it has sold 95,000 units of mini SUV, or 13,571 units...
Mahindra Marazzo price to go up by Rs 30,000-40,000 from Jan 1
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, India’s second biggest SUV maker, said it was raising the price of its latest utility vehicle, Marazzo, by Rs 30,000-40,000 from January 1. The utility vehicle costs Rs 10-14 lakhs ex-showroom in Delhi, and has been one of the most successful...
PHOTO GALLERY: Mahindra relaunches JAWA in India
Mahindra & Mahindra has taken a leaf out of its commercial vehicle rival Eicher Motors and brought back to life one of India’s most loved motorcycles – the Jawa, also known as Yezdi. It launched two models today — a classic that closely resembles the...
TREO: Mahindra launches electric auto with 170 km range, Rs 1.3 lakh price
Mahindra & Mahindra, the second largest Indian automaker, today announced the launch of Treo, a range of electric three-wheelers priced at Rs 1.36 lakh onwards with a range of 170 km per charge. Unlike other affordable electric vehicles such as bikes, the Treo uses the...
JLR Woes: Moody’s changes Tata Motors’ outlook to negative from stable
Moody’s Investors Service has changed the outlook on Tata Motors Limited’s corporate family rating to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’, a day after it cut its rating on company’s UK unit by one notch. A negative outlook indicates that there is likelihood of a cut in the...
Hero unveils first touring motorcycle XPulse 200T
Hero MotoCorp Ltd., the world’s largest manufacturer of two-wheelers, said it will launch its XPulse series of 200cc premium motorcycles early next year. The company announced the second in the XPulse series, the XPulse 200T. While the original XPulse is an off-roader, the ‘T’ variant is...
TVS Motor posts 26% jump in October auto sales as Scooters overtake Motorcycles
TVS Motor Co, one of the world’s largest two-wheeler makers, reported a 26% jump in October sales, thanks in part to a festival season that came early this year. Sales, including exports and three-wheelers, jumped to 398,427 in October from 317,411 last year. This is...
Maruti Suzuki reports flat October auto sales as SUV slows
Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, reported flat sales for October. Total sales, including exports, came in 1.47 lakhs versus 1.46 lakhs last year, rising just 0.2% on year. Domestic sales did slightly better than exports as they were up 1.5% at 1.38 lakh. Exports,...
Ciaz 2018 gets 10,000 bookings in first month, says Maruti Suzuki
The 2018 version of Ciaz, the ‘A3’ sedan from Maruti Suzuki, has notched up bookings of over 10,000 in the first month, India’s largest carmaker said. This comes as a relief as the numbers had seen a drastic decline in the run-up to the launch...