Tata Motors again surprised on the upside with its excellent performance as far as October auto sales are concerned, even as market leader Maruti Suzuki faced yet another month of depressingly poor sales in its core hatchback segment. Mahindra & Mahindra, meanwhile, beat the blues thanks to strong demand for its newly launched XUV700 model. […]
Mahindra & Mahindra manufactured 1,535 units and sold 1,370 units of its latest and most high-profile passenger vehicle, XUV700, in the first month of sales – September 2021. This is only 2% of the total outstanding booking for the vehicle. Its predecessor, XUV500, had sold 1,213 units in its first month of sales, in October […]
Mahindra & Mahindra said it will cut its automobile production this month by 20-25% due to a shortage of semiconductors. The company, like most producers, has been finding it difficult to source the chips required that carry out various functions within a car, such as controlling the engine/fuel flow, display boards and so on. “The […]
Mahindra & Mahindra’s efforts to spruce up its utility vehicle range and stick ‘closer to its DNA’ seems to be paying off, with the new Bolero Neo notching up a robust booking over 5,000 units within the first three weeks of its launch. The first model to be based on the new back-to-the-basics philosophy was […]
Sharda Motor Industries, a New Delhi-based manufacturer of auto parts such as suspensions and catalytic converters, and the Kinetic group of Pune have become two of the rare Indian firms to dare to enter the cut-throat world of lithium-ion battery manufacturing. The supply of Li-ion batteries is currently almost completely controlled by Chinese companies, which […]
Maruti Suzuki today launched the all-new Swift 2021, three years after it gave India’s most popular hatchback a overhaul with its 2018 edition. While the 2018 model was a complete makeover that changed the very shape of the car, Maruti Suzuki 2021 carries over much of the design language of its predecessor. Perhaps the biggest […]
Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest carmaker, may soon offer a new product for companies with a large fleet of vehicles, such as taxi operators, BPOs and IT companies. The company has called for a shareholder vote on including fleet management services in its memorandum of association — the most basic document of a company that […]
Three weeks after warning that it will be forced to increase the prices of its automobiles, Mahindra & Mahindra today said it has implemented a 1.9% increase in the prices of its passenger and commercial vehicles. This will result in an increase of around Rs 4,000 — for the cheapest vehicle — to Rs 40,000 […]
Consumer-focused automakers, such as Maruti Suzuki and Hero MotoCorp, fared better than commercial vehicle makers, going by auto sales trends in December 2020. Maruti Suzuki, which accounts for around half the cars sold in India, was among the best performers, with a 20% jump in sales compared to December last year. The company sold 1.60 […]
Mid-range models like XUV300, Thar and Bolero proved to be the wind behind sails of Mahindra & Mahindra’s 27% sales growth in November, according to the numbers released by the company today. On the other hand, sales of both entry-level as well as higher priced models, such as KUV100 and XUV500, proved to be a […]
Maruti Suzuki India today said it had decided not to use Toyota Kirloskar’s factory in India to manufacture Vitara Brezza, also sold as Toyota Urban Cruiser in India. An agreement was announced in March last year in which the two companies announced that Maruti Suzuki will supply Baleno to Toyota in India. At the same […]
Mahindra & Mahindra reported its strongest growth yet in the COVID-19 era after sales in November surpassed expectations, with strong numbers coming in from the tractor department. The company reported a whopping 55% jump in tractor sales for November, compared to just 2% in October. Similarly, sales of utility vehicles such as XUV500 jumped 27% […]
Mahindra & Mahindra, the second-biggest Indian auto brand, is hoping that the valuable lessons that it has learnt from a series of less-than-spectacular product launches — reflected in the design and success of the new Thar 2020 — will be a harbinger of better luck in store for the company in 2021. Over the last […]
After launching car subscription services in Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, India’s largest carmaker has brought the service to Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The service will cost around Rs 14,690 per month in Gujarat for a Swift LXi for a four-year contract, excluding GST. In Chennai, it will cost Rs 15,196 […]
Indian SUV maker Mahindra & Mahindra seems to be finally shaking off its long-drawn legal troubles in the US over its flagship model, Roxor, looking too much like the old Jeep models. The company had carried over an extreme redesign of the Roxor this year, and while that may have irked the fans of the […]
Automaker Mahindra & Mahindra said it has crossed 15,000 bookings for the 2020 version of its Thar SUV in the first 17 days days of sales and that the company is planning to expand the production capacity for the model. The company had, two weeks ago, announced that it had crossed the 9000 mark within […]
Home-grown automaker Mahindra & Mahindra has notched up 9,000 bookings in the first four days of launching the 2020 Thar SUV, marking a strong start for a crucial model for the company. It said this was achieved despite test drive and demo vehicles being present only in 18 cities. The Mumbai-based company said buyers have […]
Maruti Suzuki India reported a whopping 31% jump in its September auto sales, while Mahindra & Mahindra reported a more modest increase of around 5% in its passenger vehicles. The commercial vehicles division continued to struggle with low demand. M&M Unlike Maruti Suzuki, which benefited from higher sales of its smaller cars, Mahindra & Mahindra’s […]
In a move that has the potential to radically alter the way cars are purchased in India, Maruti Suzuki today unveiled a new ‘subscription’ model of car sales that starts at just Rs 14,463 per month, including all maintenance, taxes, registration charges and insurance. For Rs 14,463, Maruti Suzuki will offer the customer a brand […]
Tata Motors and JLR’s bet on reviving the original spirit of Land Rover with the Defender brand seems to be paying off, with the first model already notching up enough orders to keep the production lines busy for the rest of the year. Adrian Mardell, Chief Financial Officer of Jaguar Land Rover, called the launch […]
