‘German Luxury Car Trio’ Audi, BMW & Mercedes, are ready to unleash Blitzkreig with each other’s ‘Dictators Cars’ (High-end luxury cars). BMW has already revealed its New 7- Series and Mercedes is slowly but steadily bringing its 2010 S-Class close to completion. Not surprisingly, Audi is also at work designing and testing its flagship A8 luxury sedan set to be released in 2010. The designers of the A8 in a new ‘avatar’ are expected by Audi to keep the looks fresh in the market to compete its rival counterparts – Mercedes-Benz S class and BMW 7 series.
Eying a big potential for luxury bikes in India, where tastes are changing from mass-market machines to high-end bikes, Honda and Bajaj are looking at launching new sportsbikes in the country in the next couple of months.
There had been a sudden surge in the number of International Sportsbikes brands entering the Indian market, over the past two years. Initially the trend was set by Kinetic with the launch of the 250cc, v-twin-powered Hyosung Comet in India back in 2005. Then it was Yamaha, which launched the Yamaha R1 in India and the MT-01 cruiser in 2007. Soon later followed by the Italian motorcycle giant Ducati, who launched an array of superbikes costing up to almost 50 lakhs, and finally Suzuki joined the troop in late-2008, with its Hayabusa superbike and the Intruder cruiser.
Tata motors, which recently acquired Jaguar and Land Rover, is now helping the brands to set up their dealerships in the Indian market. Tata Motors is now exploring the domestic market in India after the success of Land Rover in Chinese and Russian market.
The BMW 3-Series, has been voted UK’s most reliable car, and incidentally it’s BMW’s biggest selling model range. The poll, which covered the reliability history of nearly 900,000 vehicles in 2008, also revealed that BMW was the most reliable manufacturer overall. This is a historic win for BMW over the Japanese car manufacturers who traditionally dominate in reliability surveys. BMW has also topped the charts in this year’s annual FN50 [ Read More ]
Yamaha is on a roll now and we really mean it! First the YZF R15, then the FZ 16 and then we might also be getting the Yamaha Scooters that we carried an article about and finally we land up here-the YZF R125, a smaller brother to the R15. Yamaha is not giving up and it wants to be seen as making performance bikes, the position that it had vacated [ Read More ]
Here are some cool final images of the Chevy Lacetti/Chevrolet Optra caught on the streets. You can catch all our previous articles on the Chevrolet Cruze/Lacetti/Optra here. The car looks brilliant in white and is expected to arrive in India in early 2009 by when the Optra will be sold alongside as the new Lacetti is much bigger and is a segment apart. Expect 2.0 Tdi with 150bhp and a [ Read More ]
Nano — “an orphan without a home”, as Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata called it — has finally found its home 25 km from Ahmedabad, at Sanand. After the bitter battle fought by Tata against the West Bengal opposition party, ended in walk out from Singur, this news is of immense consolation to the Tatas. The capacity of the new plant is to be higher than that of the abandoned [ Read More ]
