Hero Honda likely to stay connected with Honda in the future
Honda Siel Cars India president and CEO Masahiro Takedagawa has been quoted as saying that the parent company Honda has no reason to move away from their joint venture with Hero.
Hero Honda is the world’s largest bike manufacturer.
Honda itself is present in India independently as [...]
All New Honda Civic launched in India
Honda India has launched the latest edition of their Civic premium sedan in the Indian market.
The new edition features enhanced looks. Changes have been made to the car’s grille and bumper.
The company spoke about this new model: “The new Honda Civic carries forward the legacy of [...]
Toyota Prius remains the hottest car in Japan
Toyota Prius has now remained the hottest selling car in the Japanese market for four months.
Toyota sold 21,669 units of Prius last month in Japan.
The second most popular vehicle was Honda Fit.
Industry experts said that the hybrid cars are popular in this market because of [...]
Honda Civic could soon get an update in India
Market sources are indicating that Honda India is now working on enhancing their Honda Civic model.
The company recently launched the new Honda City. Honda Accord has already seen an upgrade.
Honda Civic in its current version is the model which has not received any updates [...]
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India to expand and update bikes
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India has announced that they are going to invest an additional Rs 200 crore this fiscal to ramp up the production to meet the growing demand in the Indian market.
The company is also planning to update all their products to meet [...]
Toyota gained most from the US Cash-for-Clunkers program
The Cash-for-Clunkers ended earlier this week in the US market and we now have some details.
Japanese automaker Toyota was the prime gainer from this program.
The company accounted for 19% of all sales during the period and had two of the top three selling models.
US government [...]
New Toyota Camry coming to India later this month
Toyota India is all set to launch the brand new Camry in the market.
The company would introduce the new generation Camry in India on July 31.
This is not going to be a brand new model as we saw with the current version.
This new version [...]
Bajaj discontinues Pulsar 200 model
Bajaj Auto has announced that they are now discontinuing their Pulsar 200cc model.
The replacement model is the recently launched Pulsar 220cc which has been priced very competitively.
The new updated model takes on rival products in the market including Yamaha FZ series, Hero Honda Karizma, TVS Apache and Honda [...]
Honda CR-Z hybrid coming in February next year
Honda Motor has announced that they are now aiming to launch their CR-Z hybrid sports car next February.
In addition the company is also aiming to launch a gasoline-electric Fit subcompact by the end of 2010.
The company has decided to speed up these two launches to benefit [...]
Budget effect: High end cars to become slightly cheaper
In the just announced Union Budget, Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee proposed to reduce the additional excise duty on big cars with engine capacities of 2,000 cc and above by Rs 5,000 per unit.
This means that high end cars could now become slightly cheaper in the Indian [...]
