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Futuristic Mahindra Navistar's Chakan Plant is a 700 acre massive world class facility set up by automaker Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (M&M) at Chakan, (Maharashtra) India, Testimony to India's growth in Automobile Industry.
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India debut for Ford SUV
Ford Motor Co.'s push to expand its presence in India continues with plans to premiere a new global vehicle at the New Delhi auto show next month.
This next-generation vehicle will be the second of eight products Ford plans to sell in India by mid-decade as part of an accelerated move to tap into one of the world's largest and fastest growing markets.
The small utility vehicle also will be key to growing market share in Asian markets. Ford has targeted selling 8 million vehicles globally by mid-decade, up from about 5 million now.
Ford is not officially disclosing details of the vehicle, but teaser shots and leaked pictures on Ford India's website indicate it is the third-generation EcoSport, a subcompact or B-sized sport-utility vehicle.
Its styling is reminiscent of the new Ford Escape. The EcoSport could also be one of the first vehicles with Ford's smallest EcoBoost engine, a turbocharged 1-liter four-cylinder. The current EcoSport, built in Brazil, is a big-seller in South America.
India debut for Ford SUV | The Detroit News | detnews.com
Ford Motor Co.'s push to expand its presence in India continues with plans to premiere a new global vehicle at the New Delhi auto show next month.
This next-generation vehicle will be the second of eight products Ford plans to sell in India by mid-decade as part of an accelerated move to tap into one of the world's largest and fastest growing markets.
The small utility vehicle also will be key to growing market share in Asian markets. Ford has targeted selling 8 million vehicles globally by mid-decade, up from about 5 million now.
Ford is not officially disclosing details of the vehicle, but teaser shots and leaked pictures on Ford India's website indicate it is the third-generation EcoSport, a subcompact or B-sized sport-utility vehicle.
Its styling is reminiscent of the new Ford Escape. The EcoSport could also be one of the first vehicles with Ford's smallest EcoBoost engine, a turbocharged 1-liter four-cylinder. The current EcoSport, built in Brazil, is a big-seller in South America.
India debut for Ford SUV | The Detroit News | detnews.com
Toyota to start Etios' exports to South Africa from March...
Looks at exporting 20,000 units of the Etios series annually.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKM), a joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and the Kirloskar Group, will start exporting its Etios sedan and its hatchback version Etios Liva from its Bangalore plant to South Africa from March.
“We are looking at exporting 20,000 units of the Etios series annually,” Hiroshi Nakagawa, managing director of TKM, told mediapersons here on Wednesday.
Nakagawa said the domestic passenger car market witnessed a slowdown in growth in 2011, because of inflation, high interest rates and fuel price hikes. “Fortunately, our business here has not been impacted and our market share doubled to 6 per cent this year, driven by robust demand for our Etios and Liva models,” he said. TKM sold 3,943 units of Etios and 4,328 units of Liva in November.
Localisation of Etios is currently 70 per cent. Now that the company is setting up a new engine plant and a transmission facility in Bangalore, it would be able to reach 90 per cent localisation within the next one year, he added.
TKM, in which Japanese car maker Toyota Motor Corporation has an 89 per cent stake, is gearing up to introduce its Lexus range of luxury sedans and sports utility vehicles in the Indian market, which is expected to witness sales of 20,000 units of luxury cars this year, as against 15,000 in 2010. Toyota’s Lexus brand, launched in 1989 in Japan, competes with the BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi globally.
“We will start rolling out our Lexus brand here in 2013. Each model is being carefully studied. A decision on which model to be launched first is yet to be concluded,” Nakagawa said
Looks at exporting 20,000 units of the Etios series annually.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKM), a joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and the Kirloskar Group, will start exporting its Etios sedan and its hatchback version Etios Liva from its Bangalore plant to South Africa from March.
“We are looking at exporting 20,000 units of the Etios series annually,” Hiroshi Nakagawa, managing director of TKM, told mediapersons here on Wednesday.
Nakagawa said the domestic passenger car market witnessed a slowdown in growth in 2011, because of inflation, high interest rates and fuel price hikes. “Fortunately, our business here has not been impacted and our market share doubled to 6 per cent this year, driven by robust demand for our Etios and Liva models,” he said. TKM sold 3,943 units of Etios and 4,328 units of Liva in November.
Localisation of Etios is currently 70 per cent. Now that the company is setting up a new engine plant and a transmission facility in Bangalore, it would be able to reach 90 per cent localisation within the next one year, he added.
TKM, in which Japanese car maker Toyota Motor Corporation has an 89 per cent stake, is gearing up to introduce its Lexus range of luxury sedans and sports utility vehicles in the Indian market, which is expected to witness sales of 20,000 units of luxury cars this year, as against 15,000 in 2010. Toyota’s Lexus brand, launched in 1989 in Japan, competes with the BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi globally.
“We will start rolling out our Lexus brand here in 2013. Each model is being carefully studied. A decision on which model to be launched first is yet to be concluded,” Nakagawa said
Nissan to make diesel engines in India
Japanese automobile major Nissan Motor Company will start making diesel engines in India next year in its effort to increase the local content of its cars made here, said a senior official of its Indian subsidiary.
"We plan to make diesel engines at our plant here so that the level of localisation of all our vehicles goes up to 80 percent. The investment in the diesel plant will be part of our overall investment of around Rs.4,500 crore," Sunil Rekhi, chief finance officer at Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd, told reporters here Thursday.
Nissan Motor, along with its global alliance partner and French auto company Renault, has set up a 200,000 units per annum vehicle manufacturing facility under the company Renault Nissan Alliance India Pvt Ltd at Oragadam near here.
The car manufacturing company started manufacturing petrol engines in May 2010. The plant makes 1.2 litre and 1.5 litre petrol engines.
Currently the plant rolls out Micra and Sunny models for Nissan.
According to Rekhi, the plant's production line is flexible to make petrol and diesel engines and there will not be any major additional investment. Exports of diesel engines may be considered in the future, he said.
Though the investment of Rs.4,500 crore was planned to be made over period of seven years, the company would be completing that much before that timeline, Rekhi said.
He said Nissan hopes to close this fiscal achieving 80 percent of its targeted number of 40,000 units and plans to double the current year's number the next fiscal.
"We will be launching diesel variant of our Sunny model early next year and also increase our dealerships to 70 by the end of this fiscal from the current 44 units," Rekhi said.
Earlier Nissan Motor India announced its tie-up with public sector bank State Bank of India (SBI) to finance prospective purchases of its car models.
According to Rajeev Nandan Mehra, chief general manager (Personal Banking), the SBI is the second largest auto financing bank in the country and offers cheapest car loans in the country.
SBI offers auto loans to Nissan car buyers at 11.25 percent (floating) and 11.75 percent (fixed).
Japanese automobile major Nissan Motor Company will start making diesel engines in India next year in its effort to increase the local content of its cars made here, said a senior official of its Indian subsidiary.
"We plan to make diesel engines at our plant here so that the level of localisation of all our vehicles goes up to 80 percent. The investment in the diesel plant will be part of our overall investment of around Rs.4,500 crore," Sunil Rekhi, chief finance officer at Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd, told reporters here Thursday.
Nissan Motor, along with its global alliance partner and French auto company Renault, has set up a 200,000 units per annum vehicle manufacturing facility under the company Renault Nissan Alliance India Pvt Ltd at Oragadam near here.
The car manufacturing company started manufacturing petrol engines in May 2010. The plant makes 1.2 litre and 1.5 litre petrol engines.
Currently the plant rolls out Micra and Sunny models for Nissan.
According to Rekhi, the plant's production line is flexible to make petrol and diesel engines and there will not be any major additional investment. Exports of diesel engines may be considered in the future, he said.
Though the investment of Rs.4,500 crore was planned to be made over period of seven years, the company would be completing that much before that timeline, Rekhi said.
He said Nissan hopes to close this fiscal achieving 80 percent of its targeted number of 40,000 units and plans to double the current year's number the next fiscal.
"We will be launching diesel variant of our Sunny model early next year and also increase our dealerships to 70 by the end of this fiscal from the current 44 units," Rekhi said.
Earlier Nissan Motor India announced its tie-up with public sector bank State Bank of India (SBI) to finance prospective purchases of its car models.
According to Rajeev Nandan Mehra, chief general manager (Personal Banking), the SBI is the second largest auto financing bank in the country and offers cheapest car loans in the country.
SBI offers auto loans to Nissan car buyers at 11.25 percent (floating) and 11.75 percent (fixed).
India overtakes Brazil as sixth largest vehicle maker
With 7 million units, it is projected to overtake Japan, Germany and Korea by 2017; to beat initial estimate of becoming third-largest market globally by 2020.
India has overtaken Brazil as the world’s sixth largest automobile manufacturing country, going by data on the first six months this year, according to the international organisation of motor vehicle manufacturers
The Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles also reveals that India is steadily inching its way up on the global charts to make its mark as the third largest automobile market over the next five years, even as high interest rates and fuel prices have put a spanner on automobile sales in the domestic market. In 2009, India had raced past Spain in annual automobile production to become the seventh largest vehicle-manufacturing country in the world. India is now projected to overtake Japan, Germany and Korea to sell seven million units by 2017. This is way ahead of the initial estimate of becoming the third largest market globally by 2020.
As many as 2.04 million vehicles were produced in India till June this year, 20 per cent higher than the 1.71 million units rolled out in Brazil.
China continued to be the frontrunner with production of 9.16 million units till June, while India’s share in vehicle production, as compared to China, has improved sharply between January and June this year.
While last year, India produced a sixth of the number of vehicles rolled out in China, till June this year the country produced more than a fifth of the number of vehicles manufactured in east Asian nation. India’s market share in global vehicle production moved up marginally to five per cent from the earlier 4.5 per cent during this period.
PricewaterhouseCoopers says India is likely to produce seven million light vehicles of up to five tonnes by 2017. “Though vehicle sales have slowed down this year, the fundamentals remain strong,” notes Abdul Majeed, partner and head of automotive practice in the global professional services firm. “By 2017, India is likely to emerge as the third-largest market in the world after China and the US.”
What is boosting business confidence is that despite the economic uncertainties prevailing in global and domestic markets, India remained among the fastest-growing automobile markets in the world till October this year. While US topped the charts growing by 10.1 per cent to sell 10.54 million vehicles, Germany and India followed close behind growing by around eight per cent (to 2.93 mn units) and 7.8 per cent (to 2.73 mn units), respectively.
Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers notes that the vehicle penetration in India is one of the lowest in the world — at 10 cars per 1000 people as against 565 cars and 453 cars per 1000 people in Germany and the US respectively. “So,” says Sugato Sen, senior director of the association “ the market will only grow over long term.”
Estimates available with market research firm J D Power show the automobile market in India is set to grow three-fold to sell over 11 million vehicles by 2020.
If we take a closer look at the sales data of the top six vehicle-manufacturing countries in the world currently, the domestic automobile market in India has already overgrown that of Korea at 2.73 million units. Till October, the Korean market had grown by 2.8 per cent to sell 1.23 million units. Vehicles sales in the country have fallen short of Germany (the fourth largest automobile market) by mere 200,000 units.
On the exports front, India stands at around a tenth of the 3.77 mn units exported by Germany till October this year. What is intriguing is that India is fast narrowing the gap with China. Till October this year China (which accounts for 24 per cent of global automobile production) exported only 703,341 units, while Indian exports grew by 17.45 per cent to 489,675 units.
Japan fared the worst in the current year hit by the earthquake and tsunami in March this year. While vehicle production dropped by a whopping 17 per cent to 6.71 million units due to insufficiency in supply of components, domestic sales declined by 20 per cent to 3.47 mn units between Jan and October this yea
With 7 million units, it is projected to overtake Japan, Germany and Korea by 2017; to beat initial estimate of becoming third-largest market globally by 2020.
India has overtaken Brazil as the world’s sixth largest automobile manufacturing country, going by data on the first six months this year, according to the international organisation of motor vehicle manufacturers
The Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles also reveals that India is steadily inching its way up on the global charts to make its mark as the third largest automobile market over the next five years, even as high interest rates and fuel prices have put a spanner on automobile sales in the domestic market. In 2009, India had raced past Spain in annual automobile production to become the seventh largest vehicle-manufacturing country in the world. India is now projected to overtake Japan, Germany and Korea to sell seven million units by 2017. This is way ahead of the initial estimate of becoming the third largest market globally by 2020.
As many as 2.04 million vehicles were produced in India till June this year, 20 per cent higher than the 1.71 million units rolled out in Brazil.
China continued to be the frontrunner with production of 9.16 million units till June, while India’s share in vehicle production, as compared to China, has improved sharply between January and June this year.
While last year, India produced a sixth of the number of vehicles rolled out in China, till June this year the country produced more than a fifth of the number of vehicles manufactured in east Asian nation. India’s market share in global vehicle production moved up marginally to five per cent from the earlier 4.5 per cent during this period.
PricewaterhouseCoopers says India is likely to produce seven million light vehicles of up to five tonnes by 2017. “Though vehicle sales have slowed down this year, the fundamentals remain strong,” notes Abdul Majeed, partner and head of automotive practice in the global professional services firm. “By 2017, India is likely to emerge as the third-largest market in the world after China and the US.”
What is boosting business confidence is that despite the economic uncertainties prevailing in global and domestic markets, India remained among the fastest-growing automobile markets in the world till October this year. While US topped the charts growing by 10.1 per cent to sell 10.54 million vehicles, Germany and India followed close behind growing by around eight per cent (to 2.93 mn units) and 7.8 per cent (to 2.73 mn units), respectively.
Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers notes that the vehicle penetration in India is one of the lowest in the world — at 10 cars per 1000 people as against 565 cars and 453 cars per 1000 people in Germany and the US respectively. “So,” says Sugato Sen, senior director of the association “ the market will only grow over long term.”
Estimates available with market research firm J D Power show the automobile market in India is set to grow three-fold to sell over 11 million vehicles by 2020.
If we take a closer look at the sales data of the top six vehicle-manufacturing countries in the world currently, the domestic automobile market in India has already overgrown that of Korea at 2.73 million units. Till October, the Korean market had grown by 2.8 per cent to sell 1.23 million units. Vehicles sales in the country have fallen short of Germany (the fourth largest automobile market) by mere 200,000 units.
On the exports front, India stands at around a tenth of the 3.77 mn units exported by Germany till October this year. What is intriguing is that India is fast narrowing the gap with China. Till October this year China (which accounts for 24 per cent of global automobile production) exported only 703,341 units, while Indian exports grew by 17.45 per cent to 489,675 units.
Japan fared the worst in the current year hit by the earthquake and tsunami in March this year. While vehicle production dropped by a whopping 17 per cent to 6.71 million units due to insufficiency in supply of components, domestic sales declined by 20 per cent to 3.47 mn units between Jan and October this yea
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