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Ford EcoSport spied undisguised in Chennai
Ford EcoSport spied undisguised in Chennai | Full Throttle - Yahoo! News India
Ford EcoSport spied undisguised in Chennai | Full Throttle - Yahoo! News India
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Ford eco sport is very similar to FORD KUGA available in Europe
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What are they pricing it at and what about duster?
What are they pricing it at and what about duster?
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Renault Duster launched. Price ranges between 7.2L (petrol version) to 11L. The diesel start up is 8L. That is an incredibly good pricing to do.
Renault Duster in India - Prices, Reviews & Photos - CarWale
Wonder what would Ford be thinking, they certainly can't let Eco Sport head the Fiesta way, so what is the pricing they would be thinking?
Renault Duster in India - Prices, Reviews & Photos - CarWale
Wonder what would Ford be thinking, they certainly can't let Eco Sport head the Fiesta way, so what is the pricing they would be thinking?
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duster is small suv competing with premier rio or maruti gypsy. I have seen this suv in Europe. its a basic level suv, don't expect luxury interior even in high end model..
i fear that Indian army might not take it as substitute for gypsy
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Kitna Deti Hai?duster is small suv competing with premier rio or maruti gypsy. I have seen this suv in Europe. its a basic level suv, don't expect luxury interior even in high end model..
i fear that Indian army might not take it as substitute for gypsy
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Renault Duster - it not SUV is a crossover. Fully normal and durable car. But he is intended for a ride on a city by family and on the small lack of roads, when earth dry. He is built fully on the base of passenger car Renault Logan. Not wait good off-roads internalss from him. So he is not replacement of Maruti Gypsy
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Looking at the craze of an SUV and the prize at which it has been launched in India, it looks likely to be a winner. Mahindra XUV 500 watch out, you have serious competition.
With a mileage of 20 KMpl should shut up some of the anti diesel lobby.
With a mileage of 20 KMpl should shut up some of the anti diesel lobby.
Tata to Buy Chinese Auto Parts at 'unbelievable' Prices
Mumbai: Tata Motors Ltd, maker of the world's cheapest car, is turning to China to buy autoparts unavailable in India as it seeks to offer vehicles with automatic transmission at home, Chairman Ratan Tata said.
The maker of trucks, sedans and utility vehicles may benefit from "unbelievable" prices at Chinese component makers, he said in an interview with Charlie Rose that aired on July 6. Tata, who will step down as head of the company in December, spoke on topics ranging from cars to philanthropy. The company will buy "sub-assemblies" including automatic transmissions from neighbouring China, he said.
Chairman Tata, 74, who led the truckmaker's move to manufacture cars in 1999 and purchased Jaguar Land Rover in 2008, is seeking to offer a wider choice to entice customers as competition from Toyota Motor Corp and Ford Motor Co intensifies at home. Profit at the company's Indian unit, which makes the $2,700 Nano (Dh9,914), fell to its lowest in three years in the 12 months ended March 31.
"Sourcing from China would be the only way forward for Tata given that an Indian supplier may not be willing to build something like an automatic transmission unless the volumes were high enough," said Deepesh Rathore, the New Delhi-based managing director of IHS Automotive in India.
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Tata Motors' domestic business doesn't produce any automatic transmission vehicle, according to its website, while Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, India's biggest carmaker by volume, offers five automatic variants of the 15 it sells. Hyundai Motor Co, the country's second-largest carmaker, offers the technology on most of its eight models.
Tata Motors has risen 36 per cent this year, buoyed by record sales at its Jaguar and Land Rover units, making it the third-best performer in the 26-member MSCI Emerging Markets Automobiles & Components Index. It rose 0.9 per cent to Rs242.7 (Dh15.91) at 11.32am in Mumbai.
Ratan Tata's move to purchase Jaguar for $2.5 billion helped Tata Motors, the biggest company in India's largest business group, expand overseas and tap sales in China.
"China is the largest automaker and auto market in the world and it's going to get even more predominant than it is today," Tata, who will be succeeded by Cyrus Mistry, said in the interview. China has "produced cars which in fact exceed what India did in the same period of time", he said.
Sales of Jaguar and Land Rover in emerging markets including China helped the company more than double group profit to a record Rs62.3 billion ($1.1 billion) in the year to March.
'Visible goal'
Tata, who also spent $12.9 billion in 2007 to acquire Corus Group Plc and helped propel Tata Steel Ltd. into India's biggest maker of the alloy, plans to focus on rural development, water conservation and child nutrition after he steps down as chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., the group holding company, and its units.
"My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers," Tata said. "Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come."
In the 2005 National Family Health Survey, when India last weighed, measured and counted its children for signs of hunger, it found 46 per cent — 31 million — weighed too little for their ages. In 1999, that number was 47 per cent.
At Tata Motors, his successor Mistry, will need to decide whether the company wants to continue making passenger cars at home or exit the business, said Rathore. Market share at the company that sells vehicles including the Indica, Sumo and Indigo fell to 13 per cent in 2011 from 16 per cent in 2007.
India's poor
Profit at the local unit, which started as Tata Engineering & Locomotive Co in 1945, fell 31 per cent to Rs12.4 billion in the year ended March 31. Sourcing products from China may help Tata Motors control costs at home, said Ammar Master, an analyst with LMC Automotive based in Bangkok.
"Chinese component makers have advanced themselves in quality, and the vendors have geared up to supply components to global manufacturers, who now have a presence in China," Master said.
Apart from boosting growth, Mistry may also seek to make products for India's 900 million people who the World Bank says live on less than $2 a day.
"Thinking of how to make products that are affordable to that segment of the population, I think, is a real challenge," Tata said. "We haven't succeeded in being innovative enough to do that."
gulfnews : Tata to Buy Chinese Auto Parts at 'unbelievable' Prices
Mumbai: Tata Motors Ltd, maker of the world's cheapest car, is turning to China to buy autoparts unavailable in India as it seeks to offer vehicles with automatic transmission at home, Chairman Ratan Tata said.
The maker of trucks, sedans and utility vehicles may benefit from "unbelievable" prices at Chinese component makers, he said in an interview with Charlie Rose that aired on July 6. Tata, who will step down as head of the company in December, spoke on topics ranging from cars to philanthropy. The company will buy "sub-assemblies" including automatic transmissions from neighbouring China, he said.
Chairman Tata, 74, who led the truckmaker's move to manufacture cars in 1999 and purchased Jaguar Land Rover in 2008, is seeking to offer a wider choice to entice customers as competition from Toyota Motor Corp and Ford Motor Co intensifies at home. Profit at the company's Indian unit, which makes the $2,700 Nano (Dh9,914), fell to its lowest in three years in the 12 months ended March 31.
"Sourcing from China would be the only way forward for Tata given that an Indian supplier may not be willing to build something like an automatic transmission unless the volumes were high enough," said Deepesh Rathore, the New Delhi-based managing director of IHS Automotive in India.
Article continues below
Tata Motors' domestic business doesn't produce any automatic transmission vehicle, according to its website, while Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, India's biggest carmaker by volume, offers five automatic variants of the 15 it sells. Hyundai Motor Co, the country's second-largest carmaker, offers the technology on most of its eight models.
Tata Motors has risen 36 per cent this year, buoyed by record sales at its Jaguar and Land Rover units, making it the third-best performer in the 26-member MSCI Emerging Markets Automobiles & Components Index. It rose 0.9 per cent to Rs242.7 (Dh15.91) at 11.32am in Mumbai.
Ratan Tata's move to purchase Jaguar for $2.5 billion helped Tata Motors, the biggest company in India's largest business group, expand overseas and tap sales in China.
"China is the largest automaker and auto market in the world and it's going to get even more predominant than it is today," Tata, who will be succeeded by Cyrus Mistry, said in the interview. China has "produced cars which in fact exceed what India did in the same period of time", he said.
Sales of Jaguar and Land Rover in emerging markets including China helped the company more than double group profit to a record Rs62.3 billion ($1.1 billion) in the year to March.
'Visible goal'
Tata, who also spent $12.9 billion in 2007 to acquire Corus Group Plc and helped propel Tata Steel Ltd. into India's biggest maker of the alloy, plans to focus on rural development, water conservation and child nutrition after he steps down as chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., the group holding company, and its units.
"My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers," Tata said. "Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come."
In the 2005 National Family Health Survey, when India last weighed, measured and counted its children for signs of hunger, it found 46 per cent — 31 million — weighed too little for their ages. In 1999, that number was 47 per cent.
At Tata Motors, his successor Mistry, will need to decide whether the company wants to continue making passenger cars at home or exit the business, said Rathore. Market share at the company that sells vehicles including the Indica, Sumo and Indigo fell to 13 per cent in 2011 from 16 per cent in 2007.
India's poor
Profit at the local unit, which started as Tata Engineering & Locomotive Co in 1945, fell 31 per cent to Rs12.4 billion in the year ended March 31. Sourcing products from China may help Tata Motors control costs at home, said Ammar Master, an analyst with LMC Automotive based in Bangkok.
"Chinese component makers have advanced themselves in quality, and the vendors have geared up to supply components to global manufacturers, who now have a presence in China," Master said.
Apart from boosting growth, Mistry may also seek to make products for India's 900 million people who the World Bank says live on less than $2 a day.
"Thinking of how to make products that are affordable to that segment of the population, I think, is a real challenge," Tata said. "We haven't succeeded in being innovative enough to do that."
gulfnews : Tata to Buy Chinese Auto Parts at 'unbelievable' Prices
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Hero MotoCorp announces Rs 160 crore investment in Rajasthan
26 Jul '12, By Team Overdrive
The world's largest two wheeler manufacturer, Hero MotoCorp Limited (HMCL) has announced that it will invest Rs 160 crore into setting up a Global Parts Centre (GPC) in Rajasthan. The state-of-the-art GPC will have an automated storage and retrieval system, automated packaging and sorting system, on-line tracking of parts through Warehouse Management System (WMS), lean manufacturing systems and most importantly, the Green Building Concept. The proposed GPC comes close on the heels of Hero announcing an investment of over Rs 2500 crore in setting up two new plants (Neemrana, Rajasthan and Halol ,Gujarat),
expanding capacity of existing plants and building an integrated R&D centre at Kukas in Rajasthan. With this expansion, total installed capacity of the company would be touching more than nine million units in two years, a step forward to the 10 million units that it plans to achieve within the next five years.
Pawan Munjal, managing director and chief executive officer of HMCL said "We will be setting-up a state-of-the-art Global Parts Centre spread over 35 acres at Neemrana with an initial investment of Rs 160 crore. The highly-mechanised, technologically-superior GPC will be a new industry benchmark once it becomes fully-operational."
Hero MotoCorp announces Rs 160 crore investment in Rajasthan - Overdrive
26 Jul '12, By Team Overdrive
The world's largest two wheeler manufacturer, Hero MotoCorp Limited (HMCL) has announced that it will invest Rs 160 crore into setting up a Global Parts Centre (GPC) in Rajasthan. The state-of-the-art GPC will have an automated storage and retrieval system, automated packaging and sorting system, on-line tracking of parts through Warehouse Management System (WMS), lean manufacturing systems and most importantly, the Green Building Concept. The proposed GPC comes close on the heels of Hero announcing an investment of over Rs 2500 crore in setting up two new plants (Neemrana, Rajasthan and Halol ,Gujarat),
expanding capacity of existing plants and building an integrated R&D centre at Kukas in Rajasthan. With this expansion, total installed capacity of the company would be touching more than nine million units in two years, a step forward to the 10 million units that it plans to achieve within the next five years.
Pawan Munjal, managing director and chief executive officer of HMCL said "We will be setting-up a state-of-the-art Global Parts Centre spread over 35 acres at Neemrana with an initial investment of Rs 160 crore. The highly-mechanised, technologically-superior GPC will be a new industry benchmark once it becomes fully-operational."
Hero MotoCorp announces Rs 160 crore investment in Rajasthan - Overdrive
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Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. inaugurated its first platinum rated automobile manufacturing facility in Bangalore. Take a tour of the world–class, energy efficient, green manufacturing facility to discover how Anand Mahindra's vision to co-create and shape the "future of mobility" is being materialized here.
Mahindra REVA's Green Manufacturing Facility
Mahindra REVA's Green Manufacturing Facility
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The demand for affordable SUVs/MUVs is growing at a good pace despite the overall fall in sales of 4 wheelers in the Indian market.
Demand for Duster, XUV 500 & Ertiga soars, utility vehicle makers ramp up capacity - The Economic Times
Demand for Duster, XUV 500 & Ertiga soars, utility vehicle makers ramp up capacity - The Economic Times
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General Motors turns to China to crack India's tough car market
Talegaon:
General Motors began initial production of its first ever Chinese-designed car for the Indian market this week, a major step for the U.S. automaker as it tries to scale up in a market where foreign companies have struggled.
India's love for the small car and its highly-competitive, price-sensitive market has confounded many of the world's major automakers, who wrestle with lacklustre market shares against small car focused brands selling India-specific models.
The compact Sail, sold as a sedan and hatchback, will go on sale next month as the first model designed by GM's Chinese partner SAIC Motor Corp, the president of GM India told Reuters in an interview at a factory in western India.
"What (SAIC) bring to us is more of a regional focus and more of an emerging market focus," GM India's Lowell Paddock said. "Sail is in some ways perhaps the first vehicle designed with primarily Asian customer requirements."
SAIC holds a 50 percent stake in the Indian unit. A larger passenger van from SAIC's stable will begin production in India by the end of 2012.
Unlike in China, where GM and Volkswagen AG top the passenger vehicle market with a combined 30 percent share, all foreign automakers combined -- excluding Hyundai -- account for less than 25 percent of the Indian market, despite billions of dollars in investment and decades of toil.
Cars designed for customers and segments in other countries have failed to capture the hearts of India's demanding car buyers, leaving companies such as GM, Volkswagen and Ford with forecourts filled with ill-suited models and falling capacity utilisation at their plants.
GM needs a shot in the arm. Its India sales fell an annual 11 percent in the first six months of 2012, against a 10 percent rise in overall car sales, according to data from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers.
The factory producing GM's Sail had previously been forced into production shutdowns and downsized shifts as sales slump.
Paddock acknowledges the company has "underperformed".
"We've had an under-representation in the growing segments," he said. "As the market moved, we were left with a void."
SEEKING A GAME-CHANGER
When Paddock joined GM in 1992, India's roads were dominated by small, low-powered Maruti Suzuki hatchbacks for the simple reason that there was little else on offer.
Twenty years later, the same models still account for close to half of India's new car purchases, with local titan Tata Motors and Hyundai Motor together accounting for almost 30 percent. Utility vehicle maker Mahindra & Mahindra sells 10 percent of all the country's passenger vehicles.
Other foreign automakers have failed to match the approach of Hyundai, which entered the country after GM but with an aggressive small car focus and India-specific models.
"The Indian market has been incredibly difficult for us and for everybody else," said Tim Lee, head of international operations at GM. "We underperformed both from a share stand point as well as a total volume standpoint."
"If we claim to be a global player then we need to be successful (in India) and we have not been today," said Lee.
Almost all of GM's nine Indian models are based on vehicles designed by South Korea's Daewoo, and cost more than their main competitors. Its entry-level Spark is over 30 percent more expensive than the Maruti Alto, India's biggest-selling car.
Its Aveo sedan and Aveo U-VA hatchback, based on Korean designs and first launched without diesel models, mustered a combined 3,328 sales in 2011. Toyota Motor Corp's India-specific Etios and Liva -- direct competitors to the Aveos in both segments -- sold a total of 63,500 in the same period.
"It's no good having a vast array of products that no-one is going to buy," said Michael Boneham, president of Ford India. Ford's sales in the first six months of 2012 also fell an annual 11 percent, with Volkswagen's sales down 8 percent.
Ford, which has operated in India since 1996, underperformed in its first decade selling European models such as the Escort and Mondeo. It has recently seen sales jump with the Figo, its first small car manufactured only in India.
"As a business, what we were doing was shipping vehicles from Europe and trying to shoehorn them into the consumer here." Boneham told Reuters. "Figo was a game-changer for us."
That is GM's hope for the Sail, China's biggest selling car in June, and offered with both petrol and diesel engines.
GM sold 111,510 cars in India in 2011, less than a third of its total installed capacity. Ford's sales accounted for just over half of its total capacity in India last year, even as it spends $1 billion on a new 240,000 vehicles-a-year factory.
Where GM and Ford have adapted to India's car market is in diesel production, investing in plants to meet a surge in popularity for the fuel due to government subsidies that make it around 50 percent cheaper than petrol.
GM's powertrain facility in Talegaon, around 100 kilometres outside Mumbai, is its first in the world to produce both petrol and diesel engines simultaneously, the company says.
"In the past we did not have as broad a portfolio here, we did not have, for example, a small vehicle with diesel, and we underperformed because of that," said Paddock.
"But I think if we look at the opportunity that we have now, with the right vehicles, the right powertrains, the right level of tailoring... we think we have the right recipe."
General Motors turns to China to crack Indias tough car market - NDTVProfit.com
Talegaon:
General Motors began initial production of its first ever Chinese-designed car for the Indian market this week, a major step for the U.S. automaker as it tries to scale up in a market where foreign companies have struggled.
India's love for the small car and its highly-competitive, price-sensitive market has confounded many of the world's major automakers, who wrestle with lacklustre market shares against small car focused brands selling India-specific models.
The compact Sail, sold as a sedan and hatchback, will go on sale next month as the first model designed by GM's Chinese partner SAIC Motor Corp, the president of GM India told Reuters in an interview at a factory in western India.
"What (SAIC) bring to us is more of a regional focus and more of an emerging market focus," GM India's Lowell Paddock said. "Sail is in some ways perhaps the first vehicle designed with primarily Asian customer requirements."
SAIC holds a 50 percent stake in the Indian unit. A larger passenger van from SAIC's stable will begin production in India by the end of 2012.
Unlike in China, where GM and Volkswagen AG top the passenger vehicle market with a combined 30 percent share, all foreign automakers combined -- excluding Hyundai -- account for less than 25 percent of the Indian market, despite billions of dollars in investment and decades of toil.
Cars designed for customers and segments in other countries have failed to capture the hearts of India's demanding car buyers, leaving companies such as GM, Volkswagen and Ford with forecourts filled with ill-suited models and falling capacity utilisation at their plants.
GM needs a shot in the arm. Its India sales fell an annual 11 percent in the first six months of 2012, against a 10 percent rise in overall car sales, according to data from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers.
The factory producing GM's Sail had previously been forced into production shutdowns and downsized shifts as sales slump.
Paddock acknowledges the company has "underperformed".
"We've had an under-representation in the growing segments," he said. "As the market moved, we were left with a void."
SEEKING A GAME-CHANGER
When Paddock joined GM in 1992, India's roads were dominated by small, low-powered Maruti Suzuki hatchbacks for the simple reason that there was little else on offer.
Twenty years later, the same models still account for close to half of India's new car purchases, with local titan Tata Motors and Hyundai Motor together accounting for almost 30 percent. Utility vehicle maker Mahindra & Mahindra sells 10 percent of all the country's passenger vehicles.
Other foreign automakers have failed to match the approach of Hyundai, which entered the country after GM but with an aggressive small car focus and India-specific models.
"The Indian market has been incredibly difficult for us and for everybody else," said Tim Lee, head of international operations at GM. "We underperformed both from a share stand point as well as a total volume standpoint."
"If we claim to be a global player then we need to be successful (in India) and we have not been today," said Lee.
Almost all of GM's nine Indian models are based on vehicles designed by South Korea's Daewoo, and cost more than their main competitors. Its entry-level Spark is over 30 percent more expensive than the Maruti Alto, India's biggest-selling car.
Its Aveo sedan and Aveo U-VA hatchback, based on Korean designs and first launched without diesel models, mustered a combined 3,328 sales in 2011. Toyota Motor Corp's India-specific Etios and Liva -- direct competitors to the Aveos in both segments -- sold a total of 63,500 in the same period.
"It's no good having a vast array of products that no-one is going to buy," said Michael Boneham, president of Ford India. Ford's sales in the first six months of 2012 also fell an annual 11 percent, with Volkswagen's sales down 8 percent.
Ford, which has operated in India since 1996, underperformed in its first decade selling European models such as the Escort and Mondeo. It has recently seen sales jump with the Figo, its first small car manufactured only in India.
"As a business, what we were doing was shipping vehicles from Europe and trying to shoehorn them into the consumer here." Boneham told Reuters. "Figo was a game-changer for us."
That is GM's hope for the Sail, China's biggest selling car in June, and offered with both petrol and diesel engines.
GM sold 111,510 cars in India in 2011, less than a third of its total installed capacity. Ford's sales accounted for just over half of its total capacity in India last year, even as it spends $1 billion on a new 240,000 vehicles-a-year factory.
Where GM and Ford have adapted to India's car market is in diesel production, investing in plants to meet a surge in popularity for the fuel due to government subsidies that make it around 50 percent cheaper than petrol.
GM's powertrain facility in Talegaon, around 100 kilometres outside Mumbai, is its first in the world to produce both petrol and diesel engines simultaneously, the company says.
"In the past we did not have as broad a portfolio here, we did not have, for example, a small vehicle with diesel, and we underperformed because of that," said Paddock.
"But I think if we look at the opportunity that we have now, with the right vehicles, the right powertrains, the right level of tailoring... we think we have the right recipe."
General Motors turns to China to crack Indias tough car market - NDTVProfit.com
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Something I was talking about with a friend when duster was being launched, the aspirations for the second car have changed. Gone are the days when the second car had to be a 8-12 L sedan. The preference is shifting for a SUV, and not the bulky ones, a consumer who has been heavily fed on a compact car, will develop a liking for down sized SUVs as well. I am pretty certain, come 2015, and most of the companies should have a decent presence in this segment and without waiting periods.
