Honda Enjoys Civic Hybrid Sales in India

Honda Civic Hybrid, Indian first hybrid car experienced a great success in terms of sales.

Even during the time of inflation, this ‘hot’ model made a good sales figure. This ‘green car’ was introduced in India in June 2008 and since then it has sold over 50 cars in the domestic car market. The car has reached unexpected heights giving the manufacturer to reason to celebrate.

Most of the hybrid car customers are those who are nature love and are enthusiastic to uphold the ecological balance. Despite its expensive tag, the car was sold in good numbers. Even Toyota is planning the hybrid version of Prius for India. Let us hope that other car manufacturers too join the race, making our earth more greener and pollution free.

Online Car Showroom

Online car showroom is something that is very common when it comes to global car industry. But when the technology points towards India, we are not so much aware of it.

Excitingly, Carazoo.com has recently introduced India’s first online car showroom that serves as a big platform for complete car solutions. This online store helps you perform complete car research including car comparison, fix car service appointment, download car manual, opt for car finance option, and even paint a car. It sounds to be interesting and is as impressive as the interactive animations personifying the website.

This car showroom website is designed for an authorized Maruti Suzuki car dealer in Bangalore, Sagar Automobiles. The company now gets a wonderful opportunity to further enhance its worth and rejoice customer attention and attraction.

A complete car research at just one click, that’s true! Rejoice the research with the comfort of sitting at home or office.

Future will definitely introduce more such websites or online stores.

New Car from Skoda

Tata Nano has created a new trend of ultra-cheap car in the Indian car market. Now we can see many other car manufacturers joining the bandwagon. Czech car manufacturer, Skoda Auto is thinking of creating low-cost cars fro the Indian car market.

Currently, the entire plan is thoughts and not in papers. The company wants to study the Indian cars market in detail before putting its thought in reality. Other models from Skoda’s stable like Fabia, Octavia, and Superb doing well on the Indian roads and the growing sales is the evidence for its product success.

The company sees India as a promising market for its car models. The numbers are not obvious but one thing can is sure that Skoda new models have their future in India.

Fiesta from Sedan to Hatchback

Ford Motors India tasted the success of its popular model Ford Fiesta and now it is time for the magic of success to flow from the sedan to small car segment. The company is planning to introduce the supermini Fiesta hatchback.

Looks like we are soon to see this dashing hatchback on the Indian roads as t with a new porch is found testing across the Chennai roads. The company is trying to study the car’s performance on Indian roads in accord to the Indian weather conditions.

Ford plans to roll out Fiesta hatchback to India by 2009 and this supermini car is going to give a real tough competition to Skoda Fabia and the upcoming Honda Jazz.

Tata’s Nano to Launch Next Year

The excitement associated with the Nano launches has not yet subsided. Nano was ready to hit Indian roads by October-December 2008. Buyers will have to wait for some more time to buy the much awaited car Nano in India. Now the low cost car Nano will be postponed its launch to January-March 2009 quarter.

Nano that will be rolled out during the 1 Quarter will be available only in petrol engines. However, the diesel version will be rolled out by the end of 2009. The car manufacturer wants to offer continuous supply to its vendors once it is launched and that is the reason why it has delayed the launch of Nano.

However there was a meeting organized by the company and has proclaimed its 100-odd vendors that there will be around 8-10-lakh Nanos within the next 3-5 years. Tata is trying to attempt different possibilities to increase its Nano production in the country. Hope that Nano will be launched at least next year.

New Taxis to Replace the Old Ones in Mumbai

Mumbaikars are tired of the confined and old-fashioned ‘yellow black’ Padminis are looking forward for alternatives. Roomier Maruti Omnis, Indicas, WagonRs, and Santros will progressively replace around 12,000 taxis in the Mumbai city.

The Mumbai Taximen’s Union has decided that metropolitan cities will have 200 Maruti Omni vans plying on the roads, which will replace the old car models. However, the decision is in line with the state government’s policy to discontinue 25-year-old black-and-yellow taxis.

The Union is also phasing out 200 old Premier Padmini taxis with the Omnis by end of October. Despite the fact that Indica, WagonR and Santro have also been chosen, the first 200 cars will be Omnis as they are low-maintenance and cheaper cars with more luggage space than any other car listed above. Also there is a good discount offer on the purchase of 200 cars where the cost will be only Rs 1.89 lakh instead of Rs 2.35 lakh.

So 12,000 old taxis will be replaced in the first phase itself. However, the Govt. has set a deadline for replacement by the end of December 2008. However, union senses that it will take around a year to complete.

Car Registration is a Trend in India

The craze for cars is changing significantly in the country. Previously people were looking only for different choices and handy car features before buying a new car. But the trend has changed were they buy cars which matches their status. They are not only looking for cars with style, loaded features and comfort but look for something beyond that.

Most recently, the trend is having gorgeous and exceptional registration numbers. The craze of auctioning premium vehicle registration numbers is gaining recognition in the country. Car buyers are all set to shell huge money to get fancy car registration numbers.

The Punjab state transport organized an auction of a unique series of car registration numbers and got an outstanding response and good profits.

A number of attractive registration numbers sold with high price tags are 0001 number sold for Rs 70,000, 0002 for Rs 80,000 and 0005 for Rs 55,000.

However, the number that brought good revenue and maximum price to the transport department was the PB-11-AK-47, that bagged a striking price of Rs 2.68 lakh and this heavily priced registration number was sold to a farmer from Ropar, as the number AK-47 attracted him.

This proves that people find different ways to make their car look unique. However, is it really worth to spend so much on the registration numbers? Again, every individual has his own taste and preferences.

Hyundai i20 by November 2008

Hyundai Motors India has made a great impact with its i10 model in the Indian car market and now the company is working on the next i-series model. i 20 from the hatchback segment is expected to launch by November 2008.

Recently showcased at the 2008 Paris Motor Show, this 5-seater is built on a new platform and is customized to European tastes in terms of looks, ride and handling. The new car carries a longer wheelbase than its Getz model and more spacious with vibrant appearance and exciting latest technologies.

The car is expected to roll out in both the petrol and diesel versions and would be competing against It is widely believed that the car would be rolled out in both the petrol and diesel versions and would be pitted against Maruti Suzuki’s Swift. However, the price of the car is not yet revealed but it will be definitely costlier than Hyundai i10.

Volkswagen Set to Roll-Out Caddy for India

Launch of new cars are becoming very frequent nowadays. There is a launch of new car models everyday and this year there has been numerous car launches in the Indian car market. The global car manufacturers strongly feel that India is the prospective market to succeed.

Like other car manufacturers, even Volkswagen is all set to launch its most admired Caddy in the country. This car is mainly going to be used for low-cost taxi for urban use. The reason being that there is a rapid grow in tourism industry in India and many of them would want to travel by taxis rather than self-driving.

However, these commuters sense that the cost of fuel uses for traveling to a preferred destination is almost the same to the fare of taxis. Also the taxis are becoming popular in India and even many car manufacturers are giving their best products that many of the Indians are looking for. The Caddy is proclaimed be priced somewhere around Rs 8-9 lakhs.

New small cars from Maruti-Suzuki

Maruti Suzuki entered the Indian car market with its legendary Maruti 800. They have excelled in the small cars segment and the successful models like Maruti Suzuki Alto, Maruti Suzuki WagonR, and Maruti Suzuki Swift are the best example of the great endeavours the company has made in small car segment.

Following the trend of small car, Suzuki plans to create small and compact fuel-efficient cars for India. The car major believes that fuel-efficient cars from the small segment will be a great success in the Indian car market. In a country like India where there is huge traffic and parking cars is a big problem. Such kind of small cars cater to great help for the buyers.

Suzuki is doing various studies on the most effective engine technology that can be fitted in small cars whereas Maruti is concentrating on the design factor that would be best suited small cars exclusively for India.