TOI Auto got an opportunity to check the alliance plant out with the key agenda being how the Nissan Magnite comes to life and how exactly will the current production capacity help the Japanese automaker tackle a high delivery period and the high demand, especially when the Kiger has now been rolled out in the market too.
Tata Motors on Monday launched the all-new Tata Safari after the SUV garnered a lot of attention since it is bringing back an iconic nameplate to the market.
A 2-litre, turbo-charged diesel is mated to an Aisin-sourced 8-speed automatic transmission. The output is 174 bhp, slightly lower than Tucson, and 400 Nm of peak torque. The engine sends out power to the front wheels.
Ford Motor has frozen all projects it was working on with Mahindra & Mahindra while it finalises a new India strategy, three people familiar with the US carmaker’s plans told Reuters, weeks after the two companies called off their planned joint venture.
The street-legal supercar is now the first 992 with a naturally aspirated flat-six mill. The new Porsche 911 GT3 gets the same 4.0-litre flat-six from the 911 Speedster. The 911 GT3 offers a maximum power output of 509 PS and a peak torque of 469 Nm.
Both the motorcycles share plenty of details right from the engine and platform to the BigWing dealership network they will use and goal to pin down 350-cc segment-leader Royal Enfield.
Jaguar Land Rover said on Wednesday it would cut 2,000 jobs from its global salaried workforce, just days after announcing its luxury Jaguar brand will be entirely electric by 2025 and e-models of its entire lineup will be launched by 2030.
The next-gen Honda HR-V is powered by Honda’s advanced e:HEV hybrid powertrain as standard. The HR-V is the latest Honda model to join the e:HEV line-up after the Honda CR-V and the Honda Jazz adopted the clean powertrain in 2020.
The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) is evaluating the feasibility of launching its off-roader Jimny in the domestic market, having started exporting the model from India last month, according to company officials.
The road and transport ministry on Sunday said that any vehicle passing through NH toll plazas without a FASTag from the midnight of Feb 15-16 will have to cough up double the toll charge. “It has been decided that all the lanes in the fee plazas on National Highways shall be declared as ‘FASTag lane of the fee plaza’ w.e.f. midnight of 15th /16th February 2021,” the ministry said.
The increase in raw material costs is set to trigger a second round of price hikes in the auto industry with manufacturers indicating a markup of 1-3%. Mahindra & Mahindra, Eicher Motors and Ashok Leyland may hike prices in April-May to neutralise the pinch of the sharp rise in costs of steel, aluminium and other metals.
TOI Auto got into a conversation with Tarun Mehta, CEO, Ather Energy to understand how challenging was it penetrating into the Tier-2 market and what change in strategy did it actually require.
Toyota says it will roll out two new battery-electric vehicles and one plug-in gas-electric hybrid in the U.S. this year as the parade of new EVs continues.
Volkswagen AG on Thursday said it will use Microsoft Corp’s cloud computing services to help it streamline its software development efforts for self-driving cars.
Royal Enfield on Thursday launched the 2021 Himalayan in the Indian market. The motorcycle has been launched parallelly in the UK and other European markets.
India’s plan to take millions of old gas-guzzling cars and pollution-belching trucks and buses off the roads may be stymied by a lack of incentives for owners and infrastructure to recycle the vehicles.
Suzuki, in 2019, introduced a patented oil cooler with the engine of the Gixxer 250 series. It’s a mechanism to route cooled oil through the piston. Thoroughly impressed with the newly-introduced Gixxer back then, things like accurate fuelling, light levers and briskly shifting gears made the Gixxer a lovely motorcycle to ride.
Renault and Stellantis are both suspending car production at several factories as they grapple with a worldwide shortage of crucial semiconductors, the companies said on Friday.
Apple Inc. has held talks with Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. about building an electric vehicle, though the discussions paused recently, according to people familiar with the situation.
TOI Auto takes a look at the new Mahindra XUV300 petrol AMT variant to see how it fares against the segment and also how better it is compared to the quite established manual variants.
Ford announced Thursday a dramatic acceleration of its investment push into electric autos and signalled deepening collaborations with technology giants on the increased digitization of driving.
Suzuki Motor Corp on Friday unveiled the 2021 Suzuki Hayabusa. The Hayabusa has entered its 3rd-gen now with a full model change for the first time in 13 years.
The 2021 Maserati Ghibli Hybrid ranges between Rs 1.15 crore – Rs 1.42 crore (ex-showroom). The Ghibli V6 starts at Rs 1.51 crore and goes up to Rs 1.57 crore (ex-showroom). The top-end Ghibli V8 Trofeo is priced at Rs 1.93 crore (ex-showroom).
ZS EV was the first fully-connected electric SUV and the second of its kind in the Indian market. The e-SUV has completed a year in the market and a senior official confirmed over 1,400 units have been sold thus far.
The Husqvarna Svartpilen 125 is priced at €5,199 (Rs 4.54 lakh approx.) in Austria. The 125cc model would cost quite low in India since it is manufactured at Bajaj Auto’s Chakan plant. The Svartpilen could roughly cost around Rs 1.30 lakh (ex-showroom) if it were to be introduced in India.
