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[patentneer]

Thats not Luna....its the TVS excel super. Its the kalashnikov of the under-100cc vehicles. Abuse it, kick it, hit it, dent it, throw it..does not matter. it will still take you from one place to another without a problem.

^^

Thank-you.

Kinetic Luna Then
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- This Must Be It

Point being, with literally millions of mopeds, scooters, motorcycles, 'auto's', 'auto' based and other mini and micro trucks, 'jeeps', pick-up trucks, LCV's, tractors and mid to full size trucks on the roads is there enough work for all the vehicles.

Indian Railways does a mean job of moving bulk goods. There's coastal and river shipping also. Then there is pedal rickshaw's, human powered 'thela's', horse, donkey bullock and camel carts all over.

Re: Kalashnikov ... hehe ... name me one Indian vehicle which is any less.
Even Piaggio never dreamt what Bajaj Priya & Chetak would be capable of, or Lambretta re: Vijay & Vijay Super, Mahindra's desi jeep was and is something else.

Mercedes or Fiat must wonder what the Tata's, Firodia's (Bajaj Tempo & Matador via Mercedes which had bought out the Tempo Co.) or Doshi's of India 'Fiat' fame did. Then the poor Oxford Morris ppl., or the Bedford, Leyland, Enfield, Standard Herald and even the Rover ppl. had their vehicles put to all kinds of use. Then there was the Jawa, Rajdoot and BSA for a while. Then the flood of Japan collaborations. Many others. But the common factor, specially in the old school days of un-affordability and Socialism, was:

• the Kalashnikov factor.

Example, Bajaj Tempo,, need I say more:

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[kam83]

Not exactly Auto News but Imp news related to Auto so posting here

MapmyIndia GPS navigation now on top-selling car models


MapmyIndia today announced that India’s top-selling car models now offer GPS navigation powered by its maps.
The car models include Honda City, Tata Manza, Mahindra XUV 500, Mahindra Ssangyong Rexton, Ford Endeavour, BMW 7, 5 and 3 series, Jaguar Land Rover Freelander 2, Fiat Linea, and Renault Scala.

MapmyIndia has upgraded its navigation solution to include the latest version 7.1 maps of India. As per an official statement by MapmyIndia, the maps cover 7.1 million places of interest, 1.9 million road kilometres, 600,000 towns and villages, 4,751 cities with street-level details, 39 cities with house-level details, and 36 cities with full 3D city models. The maps also display localised navigation and driver assistance features such as extended lane guidance, junction views, sign-posts, live traffic, city guides, rich points of interest, regional voice guidance, and regional maps.
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Top-selling car models have GPS navigation powered by MapmyIndia


Top-selling car models have introduced MapmyIndia navigation as part of their offering, starting this festival season – such as the Honda City sedan, the Tata Manza entry-level sedan, the Mahindra XUV 500 SUV, and the Mahindra Ssangyong Rexton SUV, the Ford Endeavour SUV, the BMW 7, 5 and 3 series luxury sedans, the Jaguar Land Rover Freelander 2 Luxury SUV, the Fiat Linea sedan, the Renault Scala sedan, among others.



MapmyIndia has already collaborated with all leading car manufacturers across India to offer MapmyIndia GPS navigation to their consumers, including BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Renault, Mitsubishi, GM, Ford, Tata, Mahindra, and Maruti.

“The year 2012 has seen an exponential increase in adoption of navigation into automotive platforms, with over 200,000 cars scheduled to come with built-in navigation systems in India in 2013. MapmyIndia’s own GPS navi-tainment systems, including Portable Navigators, CarPads and fitted in-dash systems, are the best selling navigation systems and MapmyIndia has sold over 140,000 such systems already through its network of over 1500+ car showrooms and car accessory shops across 100+ cities in India. We are excited to further strengthen our partnerships with all leading car manufacturers and the ecosystem to push the many benefits of GPS navigation to consumers across India,” says Shivalik Prasad, executive director, MapmyIndia.


The company statement claims that MapmyIndia’s version 7.1 maps provide advanced navigation and driver assistance, Extended lane guidance (telling the user which lane to get into prior to a turn or exit) Junction views (how the upcoming intersection looks in real-life) Sign-posts (which major landmarks, localities and cities lie in the direction of upcoming turns) Day-time based turn restrictions (based on time and day, whether the particular road is two-way or one-way in a particular directions)



Live traffic (what is the live congestion on roads in the city) MapmyIndia continues to offer the most localized navigation experience, with city guides and rich points of interest, which provide detailed descriptions and photographs of places to visit, stay, eat and shop in popular tourist destinations and cities, voice guidance in nine regional languages, and is also introducing regional maps in four local languages, which displays the map in the regional language, to aid users who prefer to communicate and interact with the navigation systems in local Indian languages, and not just in English.



MapmyIndia’s GPS navigation system enables turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation to the building doorstep, not just a nearby landmark or the general locality. The version 7.1 MapmyIndia maps continue to provide full 3D coverage of India, with digital elevation models and terrain across India, thousands of full-scale 3D landmarks across India, which offer life-like 360-degree views of popular tourist and commercial landmarks, and full 3D city models containing 3D buildings in residential and commercial areas for 36 major cities across India, including all the major metropolitan areas.



Customers can buy MapmyIndia’s GPS navigation systems and update the maps to version 7.1 in their existing navigation systems by visiting MapmyIndia’s online store: Buy GPS Navigation products for your car, Travel Guides, Map Updates, Tracking Devices and Navigation Accessories online at the MapmyIndia Store

 

[patentneer]

Environmentally Friendly auto rickshaw for Indian market by Luleå students

The Auto Rickshaw project was carried out in close collaboration with the Indian company TVS Motors (based in Bangalore), and the company Gestamp HardTech (with production site in Luleå).

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[Water Car Engineer]

Anand Mahindra had confirmed that Quanto will make it to European shores by early next year with 2.2 Mhawk Engine along with a 4X4 hardware, now a Quanto was caught testing along with a range of other Mahindra products in Brazil,but the major challeng for mahindra is to bring in a petrol motor cos Brazil is purely a petrol dominated market.

Spied: Mahindra Quanto caught testing in Brazil

 

[Water Car Engineer]

 

[luckych]

MADE-IN-INDIA DACIA DUSTER GETS 1,000 PRE-ORDERS IN THE UK

Made-in-India Dacia Duster gets 1,000 pre-orders in the UK | IndianCarsBikes.in

Renault India has hit the sweet spot in India with the Duster SUV, a best sellling product that outsells every other Renault badged car in India many times over. The same story it seems will continue in the United Kingdom as well, where Renault sells the Duster under its low cost brand, Dacia. The right hand drive version of the Dacia Duster, which is made in India at Renault-Nissan’s joint manufacturing facility at Oragadam, off Chennai, has already bagged 1,000 pre-orders in the UK. The Dacia Duster is positioned as a low cost SUV in the UK market, an alternative to the popular hatchbacks sold there.

With an entry price of 8,995 pounds, the Duster is the least priced SUV in the UK. The UK-spec Duster is available with petrol and diesel engine options. While the entry level petrol model is a front wheel drive version, an all wheel drive model of the Duster is available as a range topper. In India though, the Duster is available only in front wheel drive guise, much to the disappointment of folks who’d be wanting the additional grip of the all wheel drive mode for slushy conditions and other places where cars wouldn’t dare to tread with a front wheel drive layout.




Incidentally, the Duster SUV is the first Dacia model that has been made available in the UK and therefore, the SUV comes with plenty of baggage riding on it as the model will be crucial for the brand as a whole. In the UK, two petrol engines are available for the Duster, both of them naturally aspirated units. While one petrol engine is a 4 cylinder-1.6 Liter unit that is the same engine that is sold with the Indian Duster, the other petrol engine is a bigger 2 Liter unit that is available with the 4 wheel drive system.
Coming to the diesel engined version of the Duster sold in the UK, the 1.5 Liter K9K turbo diesel engine, that produces a peak power of 110 Bhp and a peak torque of 250 Nm is used on the SUV. This engine, which is known for its frugality will also be offered with front wheel drive and 4 wheel drive options. The Duster comes only with manual gearbox options on the petrol and diesel engines. Like in India, the UK-spec Duster has been launched with introductory prices that are expected to go up once Renault manages to get in enough initial orders.

 

[Gadgeteer]

Tata designs are very old fashioned but Mahindra coming out with modern designs. Their XUV 500 was a blockbuster. No Rexton. The new Safari is still no where near to XUV 500 in looks.

What nonsense! how can you compare TaTa Safari Storm with ugly looking XUV 500..man...Mahindra designs are ugliest..

 

[patentneer]

Both are so-so only.

Only old Toyota Qualis was, and Force & Sonalika remain worse.

Qualis
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Tata & Mahindra, actually all are coming along ok and pretty SUV's are Globally not really the norm.

 

[takeiteasy]

old toyota people carrier=> Toyota Qualis aka Toyota Kijang(SEA countries)

Toyota Kijang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[IndoCarib]

Tata Nano Special Edition for Diwali

 

[luckych]

Volvo for 30% India engines for export

Volvo AB aims to eventually export 30 percent of the capacity at its Indian engine plant opening next year as the world's No.2 truck maker looks to leverage cost-efficiencies from its operations in Asia's third-largest economy.

Volvo will also increase the annual capacity of the plant by 25 percent from 80,000 engines by 2016, Chief Executive Officer Olof Persson said in Bangalore on Thursday.

The long-term capacity of the engine factory is 100,000 engines, Persson said. Around 30 percent of that is going out of India into the European system.

Volvo, which operates in India alongside local partner Eicher Motors Ltd, joins a growing list of global automakers seeking to use the country as a manufacturing centre for parts and components to cut costs and as an export hub to other emerging markets around the world.

Volvo draws up Rs 2,000 cr investment roadmap in India

Volvo Group plans to invest Rs 2,000 crore in India to expand its truck, bus and construction equipment business, its President and Chief Executive Officer Olof Persson said today.

"....we are talking about 20 billion (rupees) going forward in the next coming years," he told a press conference here, adding the proposed investment would be in manufacturing, research and development and facilities.

"We are committed to India going forward in terms of investment," Persson said.

Separately, he added that VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd (VECV), a 50:50 joint venture between the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors Ltd (EML), would make an investment of Rs 1,800 crore in the next couple of years.

This investment would be towards massive modernisation of Eicher product range, exporting the products and setting up of new engine and busbody plants, paintshop and new test facility, Persson said.

The joint venture is setting up a plant at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh, which would have full capacity to produce 100,000 engines by 2016. The Volvo Group, the world's second biggest truck company, aims to source 30 per cent of these engines for its European operations, he said.

The Volvo Group is looking to expand the size and responsibility of India hub, he said, adding, the swedish truckmaker expects the Indian market to grow faster than other regions, given the proposed investment and potential in this country.

Officials added that the Volvo Group in India constitutes three legal entities -- Volvo India Private Limited (VIPL) and Volvo Buses India (VBI) and VECV.

The automaker will work with Eicher to accelerate localisation of parts in the engines produced at the plant in Pithampur, central India, Persson said.

The Swedish truckmaker's plants in Europe were operating at less than full capacity, the company said last month, and it forecast no truck market growth in European or US markets next year.

Volvo, which makes trucks under the Renault, Mack, UD Trucks and Eicher brands as well as its own name, said last month that operating profit for the quarter to September halved from a year previously, as new orders during the period fell 25 percent.

The Volvo Group will spend 20 billion rupees ($363.83 million) in India, Persson said without providing a timeline, in addition to the $330 million that Volvo and Eicher will spend on the 50-50 joint venture over the next two years.

Volvo is also one of a slew of global players, including major rivals Daimler AG and Scania AB, racing to grab a slice of India's buoyant truck and bus market dominated by Tata Motors Ltd and Ashok Leyland Ltd as traditional markets slow.

Volvo for 30% India engines for export - Indian Express

 

[mb444]

90s design..... Cheap European knockoffs

 

[Gadgeteer]

90s design..... Cheap European knockoffs

cycle bananay ke aukat nahi hay aur phokat ka bhashan day raha hay...dumbu...

 

[patentneer]

Which Euro design, :hehe: Spanish Fly, Italian Shtallion or Greek Bail-out type?

My dear Bang.-Bang. forumer, Euro is not what it used to be.
I'm pleasantly surprised by India's range of Rs. 10 Lakh full size trucks.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Interesting@