Auto World 2011 - Review of car launches in 2011

By Cartrials

Team Cartrials.com wishes you all a year filled with Happiness and Success, as we continue our pursuit of Excellence together. Happy 2012.

With an year of excitement and love for new car launches, upgrades and hot news from the auto world ending, we have a 2011 rewind special update for you.

Auto Expo 2012 exclusive

Autonews: By Kurian Akkara

With Christmas and New year arriving, Indian auto enthusiasts and car buyers are eagerly looking forward to India's largest Auto Show - Auto Expo to be held from 7-11 January 2012 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

Auto Expo 2012 will have 50 new products unveiled. 32 passenger cars, 9 two wheelers and 6 commercial vehicles.

Mahindra to Display Ssangyong & Reva brands at Auto Expo 2012

Autonews: By Cartrials

With Christmas & New year arriving, all auto majors and their respective dealers are offering a host of year end discounts and offers to attract buyers.

On the other side, manufacturers are busy preparing for the new launches, product preview at the Auto Expo 2012 to be hosted at Delhi from 7-11 of January.

Funny Car Wallpapers

Autoclicks: By Kurian Akkara

Some cars & bikes pics for fun















His passion for toys & support for Go Green resulted in this, but can he look out through this??

Nissan Sunny Diesel prices and specs out, bookings open.

Autonews: By Kurian Akkara

The car comes in two variants with a 1.5-liter CRDI engine paired to a 5-speed manual transmission.

Prices
Ex-showroom prices for Delhi for the Sunny diesel
• Rs 7,98,000 (XL) (1.1 lakh over the XL petrol variant)
• Rs 8,78,000 (XV) (1.1 lakh over the XV petrol variant)

Suzuki's new offering for India - Alto Eco/ A-Star Eco

Autonews: By Cartrials

Japanese auto major Suzuki is planning big for its operations globally. For India is the coming of 'Alto Eco', which the company claims to be a highly fuel efficient model on offer for Indian roads. The Alto Eco was already debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show & was officially announced a efficiency of 32Kmpl.

BMW - Toyota global partnership for green cause

Auto News: By Mathew

Toyota was in media for some time now with facelifts of the famous Innova & Fortuner brands. Now Toyota is back in news, not with product offering but with its partnership with.
BMW and Toyota will be working more closely in the future over the development of green technology.

At Tokyo Motor Show the two auto giants signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) concerning a mid-to-long-term collaboration on next-generation environment-friendly technologies.

2011 Chevrolet Sail

utonews: By Kurian Akkara


Chevrolet India’s plan for the year 2011-12 mainly comprises of launching four new cars. Chevrolet Sail is one of them, planned for Dec 2011. The new Sail is the first GM car to be completely designed and developed in China. This is to bring down the huge development cost.

The new Sail from Chevrolet has the latest family design cues like the bold and modern hood with a bold and large Chevrolet logo.

2012 Fiat Palio Video

Autonews: By Kurian Akkara

2012 Fiat Palio launched in Brazil earlier this month.

Fiat India has not made any comments on the launch of the new Palio in India, but reports indicates that Fiat India is working on a split-up of the Sales & Service partnership with TATA Motors and setup independent dealer network throughout India and new launches are expected to be routed through the Fiat exclusive dealerships.

The next launch expected from Fiat India is the smaller Punto with a 1 ltr petrol engine, following the small Punto would be the launch of new products such as Uno, Panda and this 2012 Palio.

Maruti Suzuki under pressure to hike Diesel Model prices

Autonews By: Kurian Akkara

Indian Automobile Industry and Customers had a slight relief yesterday with Government of India reducing Petrol prices from a steep rise since January 2011.

But now the Diesel sector has a bad news, not in the pricing of the fuel but with the price of the diesel car models.

Maruti Suzuki, India's largest car manufacturer was under pressure to rise the price of their Diesel variants due to rise in Input costs and the adverse appreciation in the Japanese currency Yen that had made imports costlier.

Maruti has hiked the prices of its diesel models by up to Rs. 10,000 with immediate effect. The prce of the Ritz hatchback has been raised by Rs. 2000, while the diesel variants of Swift Dzire and SX4 cars became costlier by Rs. 10,000.

Maruti Suzuki had a massive loss of production and consequent slide in market share this year due to labour troubles at its Manesar plant in Haryana since June that kept plant shut for 59 days. Production declined by 55 percent, profit margins declined to 4.2 percent from 6.3 percent last year.

Maruti Suzuki has seen an appreciable increase in the Diesel car sales, increasing Petrol prices is a main reason for this demand and the company officials believe that the slight increase in price of the Diesel models will not affect the customers much.

Latest updates from Auto Industry

Autonews: By Cartrials

Car sales in India down by 24 per cent in October

In October 2011, sales of passenger cars registered a negative growth at (-) 23.77 per cent, while utility vehicle sales grew at a marginal 0.41 per cent and sales of van declined by (-) 17.57 per cent. Overall passenger vehicle sales declined by (-) 20.25

per cent during the month.

The decline in sales, the sharpest in 10 years, was mainly on account of a huge drop in output at the country's largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki, following labour trouble, hikes in interest rates and fuel prices.

Lamborghini introduces Aventador LP 700-4 in India for 3.69 crore.

With a view to tap the fast-growing Indian market, Exclusive Motors Pvt Ltd unveiled the Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 at their showroom in New Delhi.

James Page, Automobili Lamborghini SpA marketing manager, South-East Asia and Pacific said the company had already received 20 bookings for the Aventador from India and it planned to double its sales next year. He added, globally, the company's bookings for the Aventador had crossed 1, 500 ever since it debuted at the Geneva Motor show in March this year.

Satya Bagla, managing director of Lamborghini's sole dealer in India, Exclusive Motors said, this year they expected to sell around 20 Lamborghinis in India and aimed to double the tally in 2012.

Peugeot Planning big for India - Lays foundation for Rs. 4,000 crore plant in Gujarat.

PSA Peugeot Citroen is investing Rs4,000 crore in a new plant in Sanand in Gujarat, which will be rolling out 170,000 vehicles from there by 2014. Sanand is about 40 km from Ahmedabad and is home for the famous 'Nano' from Tata Motors. Foundation stone laying ceremony was done within two months after Europe's second-largest carmaker signed an agreement with the Gujarat government for the plant.

Gregoire Oliver, CEO, Asian operations, Peugeot, told the media that the company's vision of becoming a global player would be incomplete without a presence in India.

Skoda Citigo not for India anytime soon.

Skoda confirms its stand on the 'Citigo' - Citigo not coming to India anytime soon. Won’t even be shown at Auto Expo says Skoda India boss.

This also means that Skoda isn’t getting into the B segment market anytime soon. Skoda does not have a car smaller than the Fabia in its international range to voyage into the land of the Maruti Wagon R and Chevrolet Beat. The starting point is going to be the Fabia for a good few years.

2012 face-lifted Jaguar XF

TATA Motors is playing big with its recently acquired brands Jaguar and Land Rover.

TATA was in the media a couple of days back with the launch of the new Range Rover Evoque in Mumbai. Now they are back again with the same brands, this time it is the face-lifted model of the Jaguar XF – 2012 Jaguar XF.

Renault’s third offering for India – Renault Pulse

Auto News: By Cartrials

Renault India is at their aggressive best and as per their plan to launch 5 products in 15 months, Renault have now unveiled their third offering after Fluence and Koleos, namely the Pulse.

October 29th was a memorable day for Indian auto enthusiasts as inauguration of Indian F1 Grand Prix. Renault India utilized this venue to highlight its strong F1 story and also to unveil its third offering the Renault Pulse. The car was launched by Red Bull Racing’s Mark Webber and Team Lotus-Renault’s Karun Chandhok. Renault’s COO Carlos Tavares and Renault India’s managing director Marc Nassif did join in to assist them and also outline Renault’s product portfolio strategy which talks about five distinctly different models in a 15 month span.

The new Volkswagen UP – packed with 15 women inside!!

Auto Review: By Kurian Akkara



Volkswagen’s new small car – Volkswagen Up is creating excitement in the Indian market as the new VW UP will be VW’s cheapest entrant to India. Revealed at the Frankfurt Motorshow, the UP is expected to change the usual sensation in the B segment. Sleek design, Efficient engines combined with VW’s promise on quality all will prove the new UP a worthy player in the B segment car market.

Indian F1 Track – Buddh International Circuit.

Auto Review: By Cartrials

For Indian motorsport fans eagerly waiting for the inauguration of Indian F1 GP on 3oth October 2011, Jaypee Sports International has announced that the first Indian F1 track would be named the Buddh International Circuit.

Hyundai Eon Review & Photos.

Auto Review: By Kurian Akkara

Small is always big for India and India auto enthusiasts. Remember the Tata Nano, it made waves among Indian and Global car lovers during the launch, and the next car to whip up similar passion is from Hyundai – the Eon.

Hyundai Eon is a stylish, small hatch from Hyundai developed with Indian customers in Mind. The new offering from Hyundai is positioned below its famous Santro Hatch and is aiming to compete with the likes of the Maruti Alto, A-Star, and Chevy Beat

World's Best and Most Luxurious Motorcades

Video Sharing: By Kurian Akkara

Following are some of the World's Best and Most Luxurious Motorcades

1. Presidential Motorcade in India

Vehicles in the Motorcade: Mercedes Benz S-Class, Tata Safari, Tata Sumo, Tata Indica, Maruti Suzuki SX4, Maruti Suzuki Gypsy, HM Ambassador, Royal Enfield Bullet.

Honda to introduce Diesel engine to Indian customers.

Auto News: By Mathew

Rising fuel prices is not just putting pressure on the car users but also on the car makers.

Auto majors are working hard on increasing fuel efficiencies, introducing alternative fuel engines etc.
In this context Japanese auto major Honda plans to launch diesel cars in India, a top company official said on Monday.

2012 Toyota Innova Facelifted – Images Gallery.

Auto Update: By Kurian Akkara

From the looks of it, Toyota has given the Innova a major facelift, with new lights and a new grille and the profile has been altered a bit as well. At first glance, the new facelifted front end reminds of the current generation Toyota Camry facelift, thanks to the similar shape of the grille and the lower bumper air intakes.

Mahindra XUV 500 launch – Images Gallery.

Auto Update: By Kurian Akkara

Mahindra has launched the XUV500 with the prices starting at Rs 10.8lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi). Mahindra has launched the XUV 500 in three variants, the W6 and the W8 (4X2 and 4X4 models under W8).

2011 Maruti Suzuki Swift – India’s best car launch ever.

Autonews: By Cartrials



India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki had some bad time for the last couple of days, labour strife for the last few weeks, an overall slowdown in the passenger car market
Between April and August, production was down 6.27% to 461,658 units. Domestic sales were lower by almost 17% at 77,086 units, though exports were up almost 19% to 14,356 units.

However the company has now a reason to be happy rather proud of, the new 2011 swift the company launched recently has received a very warm acceptance among the India customers.

108,000 — that’s the number of bookings Maruti Suzuki India had for its Swift car as of last weekend, the highest for any car in India so far.

Frankfurt Motor Show 2011 Exclusive

Autonews: By Kurian Akkara

Its the 2011 Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung, (English: International Automobile Exhibition) or famously known as the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Frankfurt Motor Show is the time when European auto manufacturers get in the top gear with some major news – New launches, Facelifts, Concept Cars and the list goes on.

The Show was held from 15th to 25th of this month and had all major auto manufacturers with their respective model lined up for a global debut. Following were the famous among them.

Production cars

• 2012 BMW M5

· 2012 Ford Fiesta ECOnetic

• 2012 Hyundai i30

• 2012 Audi A5 facelift

• 2012 Mercedes Benz B-Class

• 2012 Jaguar XF

• 2012 Suzuki Swift Sport

From the range, our major interest was towards the newly introduced models for India.


• 2012 Renault Koleos facelift





• 2012 Volkswagen Up

Concept cars

• BMW i3

• Audi A2 Concept

• Ford Evos

• Jaguar C-X16

• Land Rover DC100

• Volkswagen Beetle R concept

• Mercedes-Benz F125

• Volvo Concept You

• Skoda Mission L

General Motors India plan

Sector Flash: By Kurian Akkara

General Motors are working strong on all possible area of the auto industry around the world to gain a stable position and regain its once had No. 1 position in automobile industry.
General Motors has huge plans for potential markets like India and had recently announced that it will launch a few products from the SAIC Motor stable, making two brands – Chevrolet and SAIC operate in India. To start off with, they will launch vehicles from the Wilung line-up which includes the CN-100 which is likely to compete with the Mahindra Xylo, Toyota Innova and the new MPV from Maruti etc.

Mahindra India launches and reports

Sector Flash: By Kurian Akkara

M&M to launch ‘global SUV’ XUV500 by December 2011

India's leading utility vehicle manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra has officially declared that they would launch its ‘Global SUV’ the new XUV500 in India by December.

Interior Photo courtesy – Team BHP

''We created a new segment with the Scorpio. There is a wide price gap between the Rs10-11 lakh and the Rs20 lakh range in the SUV segment. With XUV500, we believe a new segment can be created,'' said Vivek Nayer, senior vice-president marketing, automotive sector, at M&M.

However, Mahindra & Mahindra did not disclose the actual price of its new SUV, but from reports its clear that the new Global SUV will be positioned above its Scorpio and is expected to be priced between 10-16 lakh.

All this would give Mahindra XUV 500 an edge to compete against Honda CRV, Skoda Yeti, Mitsubishi Outlander, and Tata Aria in the Indian market.



M&M targets $15-18bn revenue from Defence Business.

Mahindra & Mahindra has said it is targeting revenues of upto $15-18 billion over the next 8-10 years from its defence business in India.
"Mahindra & Mahindra Group is looking at a revenue of about $ 15-18 billion through its land, aerospace and naval equipments in the next 8-10 years in India," Mahindra Defence Systems CEO, Khutub Hai, told media. He indicated that some of the revenues would accrue from the next fiscal.
Hai also said that currently the group's revenues from the defence business remained insignificant.

Ministry of defence has allocated a capital expenditure of about $100 billion on equipment purchases over the next 7-8 years. Currently, the country imports 70 per cent of its defence requirements.

"What we envisage is that going forward, with Indian companies developing capabilities, supply of defence equipment from domestic sources can account about 50 per cent of the requirement," he added