Volkswagen said today it would recall 384,181 vehicles in China over gearbox defects, marking the German auto giant's biggest ever recall in the world's largest auto market.
The first major all-electric offering by a mass market manufacturer in India came on Monday, when Mahindra and Mahindra launched the latest model of the erstwhile Reva, the ‘e2o’, at a price of Rs. 5.96 lakh (on road Delhi).
India’s car sales in February saw the steepest monthly decline in 12 years and looks headed for the worst annual performance in more than a decade as a slow economy and high interest rates pressured automobile makers, industry data revealed on Monday.
Concerned with the congestion on the highways and increasing damages to cars while transportation, US car major Ford Motor Corp is mulling shipping its cars from its Chennai factory through the sea route to the western side of the country.
The entry-level compact SUVs are locked in a decisive battle.
Sumant Banerji reports.
Tata Motors has said it has cut prices of its hatchbacks and sedans by
Rs. 29,000 to
Rs. 50,000 ($530-$910), in a bid to lure customers to a market that is on course in the current fiscal year to post the first decline in annual sales in a decade.
With automobile manufacturers in India being hit hard by dwindling sales, only 51% of them are likely to hire for new jobs in 2013, according to job portal Naukri.com.
Amid declining sales of its vehicles across all categories, Tata Motors is supporting its component suppliers to deal with the slowdown in the automotive market.
German car manufacturers Volkswagen is set to build a futuristic two-seater diesel-electric hybrid that would travel from Sydney to Melbourne that is, about 870 km, on about 12 dollars of fuel.
Since recession ended, all three Detroit car companies including Ford Motor Company have achieved one of the unlikeliest comebacks among industries devastated during the financial crisis.
Japanese auto major Honda has decided to temporarily discontinue its first small car in India, Jazz, till next year when the next generation version of the car will come into production.
The sand is slipping through the fingers for Tata Motors, which is struggling to arrest its plunging sales graph. Manu P Toms reports.
Honda to temporarily halt production of its premium hatchback model Jazz in India as it prepares for the launch of Amaze, its mass-market sedan, in April.
Late realisation? Japanese auto major Honda has brought the latest version of its offroader to India a full year after its Europe launch.
Sumant Banerji writes.
BMW is recalling almost 570,000 cars in the US and Canada because a battery cable connector can fail and cause the engines to stall. The recall affects the popular 3-Series sedans, wagons, convertibles and coupes from the 2007 through 2011 model years.