BMW dealers have been supplying the M3 and M5 for a while now, but come April 2007, BMW India might think about pushing itself in an even bigger way.
This time, superheroes will drive a Dodge vehicle.
After several unsuccessful attempts to enter the Indian market, Europe's largest car manufacturer Volkswagen has finalised its plans for a manufacturing plant in Pune at an investment of Rs 2,450 crore ($530 million).
Thanks to a well-sorted chassis and Renault's motor, the car induces confidence in the driver to take it for a faster spin
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K K Swamy is between jobs. After spending a little over a decade running Toyota Kirloskar Motors as its deputy managing director, he made a quiet exit a month ago to move to Volkswagen India as its first managing director. He is moving lock, stock and barrel from Bangalore to Pune, where he is set to take charge on July 21.
Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen stitch plans for country-specific mall car models. With India increasingly becoming the production and sales hub for all major car manufacturers, international giants like Honda, Toyota and Volkswagen are pulling out their drawing boards for an all-new India-specific car model.
The demand may increase due to the untapped potential.
Self-indulgence is the new motto of the uber rich as more foreign luxury brands announce their presence in India.
India's handset market is very similar to that of cars. The high-tech PDAs correspond to the luxury cars and the good old Maruti 800 takes the place of the no-frills handset segment.
The Nano does not look or feel like a very 'cheap' car. It is a very thoughtfully designed piece of kit, with an agreeable level of fit and finish. Nor would you expect the kind of space it has in its interior. The two-cylinder 624cc engine hisses like a modern scooter before waking up and settling to an idle. The cable-linked gear lever helped Bijoy Kumar Y select first and presto, we had motion!
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Indian billionaires do not believe in sitting on their wealth.
Motor shows can bedazzle you because there is so much to see.
Co-founder of Twitter Biz Stone tells us what he learned from his enterprising entrepreneurial journey.
Audi's RS6 Avant is not just another car not if it tip-toes behind Ferraris and bites off huge chunks of metal and plastic.
The auto sector is doing well in India, despite stock market meltdown, emerging signals of industrial slowdown and rising costs.
Feel the need for speed? These cars are sure to satisfy, but they'll cost you--a lot. And that's just the speeding tickets
The Audi S8 is a fairly simple car in format. What AMG and M are to you know who, S is to Audi. Take one numbers A8, toss in a suitable engine, garnish with aero kit. Result. But, the suitable engine in this case comes from a supercar.
Barack Obama promised change, and in the beginning it was easy to be skeptical. What does change look like? What does it smell like? He explained it as unity. As a way of being one country, rather than pockets of separateness. Like all good ideas, it seemed simple and attainable.
What is the identity of a brand? Our first answer might be that it is what the brand "says" to consumers -- making a distinction between what it says and how they understand it. The notion of identity is still too little used by managers, and that's a shame, because to our way of thinking it offers some very useful and concrete glimpses into the essence of the brand phenomenon itself.
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People who know Mr Ambani, estimated by Forbes as the world's sixth richest man with a net worth of about $42bn, say the deal is typical of his aggressive style.
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