Maruti, Hyundai, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra and Honda saw their passenger vehicle sales improve in August compared to the same month last year, although Ford and Toyota witnessed a decline.
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Scotland Yard has launched an investigation after a 26-year-old man stopped his car and then wielded a large knife.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd on Tuesday launched its premium sports utility vehicle, the Toyota Land Cruiser in Mumbai.
Toyota is launching a compact car by the end of next year from its new production facility close to its existing plant in Bangalore.
While two-wheeler sales declined 22 per cent, two other segments, bigger in value while being lower in volume, were much less impacted.
Italian Jarno Trulli seized pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday with Toyota team mate Timo Glock qualifying in second place for the team's first front row sweep. Red Bull's young German Sebastian Vettel, winner in the wet in China last weekend, will start Sunday's race in third place with championship leader Jenson Button alongside in his Mercedes-powered Brawn GP.
Honda has grown from 15% in FY12 to 27% now; Yamaha has doubled share to 5% in five years.
The world's largest carmaker, Toyota on Wednesday said it will bring its sports utility vehicle Fortuner in India by September this year, expected to be priced at about Rs 20 lakh.
Sixteen major contracts worth nearly $14 billion to be renewed by June 2018 but uncertainty looms large.
Toyota is recalling the vehicles worldwide to fix faulty accelerator pedals and brakes. "Toyota's problems are not good for the industry.
Car makers see a dip in demand from their biggest buyers, Ola and Uber. Demand from aggregators weakened for a number of reasons after a strong growth last year.
Success-starved Toyota are desperate for a first Formula One victory and Italian driver Jarno Trulli said on Thursday he was ready to deliver it.
The cutback in production has been announced on top of three days' production halt this month and would impact most of Toyota's models made in Japan, excluding those outsourced to subcontractors, the report revealed. Further, sales of new vehicles in Japan slumped to the lowest level in three decades in 2008 as recession hit Asia's biggest economy, piling pressure on its auto giants, an industry group had said.
World's largest carmaker Toyota on Monday said it has cut production in India by 30 per cent this month, but is not holding back its planned investments of Rs 3,200 crore (Rs 32 billion) in the country.
Tata now occupies the fourth slot with the incremental volumes from the Tiago
To celebrate its 50 years of making SUVs, Ford invited MotorBeam all the way to the Philippines to drive their various offerings at different kinds of terrains to show off their true capabilities.
While the top-end diesel engine is mated to a six-speed gear box, the petrol engine is mated to a new five-speed gearbox
'An additional amount of around Rs 15.53 billion will be invested for both general-purpose and specialised equipment necessary for manufacturing a new compact vehicle, ' the company said in a statement. The company had earlier said it would invest about Rs Rs 16.5 billion on its second plant in Bangalore, which would manufacture its 'strategic small car' to be launched by 2010-11. The new plant will have an initial capacity of 1,00,000 units.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor -- a joint venture with the Kirloskar Group -- is the Indian arm of Toyota Motor Corporation. TKM had announced an investment of nearly Rs 1,400 crore (Rs 14 billion) for its second unit at Bidadi near here, for which a foundation stone was laid in July this year.
Japanese auto major Toyota on Wednesday said it could launch a small car in India within two years and its second plant may come up at the existing location in Bangalore.
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Car makers are either tweaking their existing engines or developing new powertrains to attain maximum mileage numbers and attract more buyers.
Car sales likely to touch record 3-mn mark by the end of March.
The new car would come with a 1.8 petrol litre engine in three different grades. "This year's target is to sell 63,000 vehicles, and by fiscal 2015 we are aiming for a market share of about 10 per cent. The Altis marks our big step toward the achievement of this goal," Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) Vice-Chairman Vikram Kirloskar said. The company, which sold about 50,000 units last year, currently enjoys around three per cent of the Indian passenger car market.
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Toyota Motor Corporation, one of the world's biggest automakers, on Thursday set the ball rolling for a compact car for the Indian market by laying the foundation stone for a Rs 1,400-crore (Rs 14 billion) factory near Bangalore.
The Accord hybrid has a 2-litre petrol engine combined with two electric motors
Pakistan's women's football team striker Shahlyla Ahmadzai Baloch has died in a car accident in Karachi on Thursday.
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Maruti Suzuki is set to steer its fourth brand into 2 million club. The numbers convey a sense of the contribution that WagonR makes to Maruti Suzuki.
The Accord Hybrid will be imported through the CBU route to India
Previous hybrid-only strategy changed ahead of 2017 launch.
December is a month of high retail sales for cars, as companies and dealers push stocks to clear inventories
Formula One stewards cleared Brawn GP, Toyota and Williams to race in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix after rejecting the protests of three rival teams on Thursday. After six hours of deliberation at the Albert Park circuit, the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) said the officials had dismissed protests by Red Bull, Renault and champions Ferrari.
Toyota Motor Corporation President Katsuaki Watanabe called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, even as the company continues to hold close to the chest cards regarding plans of its second manufacturing unit in India. Official sources said Watanabe, who led a delegation including TMC Managing Director Akira Okabe, briefed Singh generally about the company.
Formula One newcomer Timo Glock put Toyota on top of the testing timesheets with a best time of one minute 19.779 seconds.
The 17-lender consortium led by State Bank of India has also put the Flying Models, Funliner, Fly Kingfisher and Flying Bird Device on the block.
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