Indian Autos blog

Michael Schumacher has told the BBC’s Inside Sport that Lewis Hamilton could beat his record of seven F1 world titles. Or maybe Felipe Massa could. Or Sebastian Vettel. Either way, he’s quite prepared for it to happen. ‘Records are there to be broken,’ he says. In the interview he also says that he highly rates Hamilton, but was reluctant to say whether he thought he was the best current F1  [ Read More ]

Honda has earned a repute for itself in India from its ultra reliable cars and of course, their sporty character (excluding the older City). The new City is no different and in spite its stiffer price tag, it has absorbed 2000 orders in just a month of its launch. The deliveries however are anticipated to start only by mid-November by when the order book would have swelled up by a  [ Read More ]

The U.S Auto market is opening up slowly, but steadily towards the favour of economical diesel cars. Introduced in August, VW has sold out this year’s allocation of about 1,300 Jetta TDi ‘clean’ diesels. This is a clear indication of fuel economy reigning supreme even in markets like the U.S. “Although Volkswagen promotes the fuel efficiency of its diesels, we are not competing with Prius,” said Stefan Jacoby, CEO of  [ Read More ]

Audi India creates history due to a huge jump in sales of 163%  for the period Jan-July 08 when compared to that of the last year. There has been a outgrowth of 525% in the month of July alone when compared to same period previous year. Audi has pumped up its sales of cars for the first seven months to 595 cars as compared to a figure of 226 cars  [ Read More ]