Indian Autos blog

The recent worldwide economic crisis as we know, has had a severe impact on Automobile manufacturers. So severe that, Market leaders like Maruti have been forced to hike the prices of select models, before Diwali – during when they normally offer discounts! The rising steel prices has taken its toll on all car makers worldwide. So far, all companies had been trying to isolate the customer from the steel crisis,  [ Read More ]

Changan Suzuki (Maruti counterpart of Shanghai), has confirmed that it has halted production of the existing Alto model back in July itself. This is to pave way for the next generation Alto model due to hit the roads in next September in China. We won’t and can’t expect Maruti to follow suite and discontinue production of the Alto even though the new Alto will be rolled out here in a  [ Read More ]

Since its debut in 1995 with the Honda City, Honda has never thought about a diesel car. Despite the lack of a diesel engine, Honda could somehow entice the consumers with its ultra smooth petrol engines. Even abroad, Honda offers its popular i-DTEC (diesel) engine option only for the Accord and CR-V. Until recently, Honda has found the necessity of launching a diesel engine variant for its City sedan and  [ Read More ]

Nilesh Sawant, an avid reader of IAB has emailed us a comprehensive review of his Zen Estilo. He has owned it for over a year now, and some of his observations and feedback, we believe, will help a lot of potential buyers. I have been using the Zen Estilo Vxi for over a year know. Already clocked 15,000 kms on the board so I thought know is the right time  [ Read More ]

Suzuki considers the concept of ‘lighter, faster, better’ for achieving optimum efficiency in its cars. As an initiative, Suzuki recently launched the ‘one component, one gram’ drive in Istanbul, which aims at reducing the weight of each of the cars’ components by a gram and thereby bringing down the overall weight of the car. Less weight translates into better performance, higher economy and lower price. Highly placed sources have revealed  [ Read More ]

Maruti is striving to push its cars to the next level, a height to which Indian cars can have pleasant experiences on foreign soil as well. The policy of World class cars for India is taking shape as reports claim Maruti Suzuki has decided to set up a Research and Development (R&D) centre at Manesar, near Gurgaon which will be in all angles, similar to Suzuki Motor Corporation’s (SMC) research  [ Read More ]

How many of you know that the Suzuki Swift’s styling was done with feedback principally from European markets? Regardless of that, here’s another country which has been bitten by the Swift bug. China can’t stop buying the hatch which now gets a minor upgrade. To be frank, nothing significantly has changed in this freshened Swift which is out on sale in China. But for the graphics, seats and spoilers, everything  [ Read More ]

India’s most popular car maker Maruti says it’s exports will increase considerably in the coming the years. As many as 200,000 cars a year with the Maruti badge will leave India in 2010-11. Independent of exports, Maruti is also looking forward to increment domestic sales figures to a million cars a year in the same period. Who said the Tata Nano is solely going to increase congestion? The small-car specialist  [ Read More ]