Hyundai Getz I have just been through a newspaper report that says that the Hyundai Getz sales have been disappointing. At around 1,500 units a month, I can only agree with the report. The Getz may be a premium hatchback but anything without a boot selling less than 3,000 units is bad news for the manufactur... Similar Editorial : Hyundai Unleashes H by Zeke Gervis. | Source : Hybrid Car News
Indian Two Wheeler Industry - Survival Of The Fattest The Indian two wheeler market is increasingly becoming a price warfield. Everyone and their competitor wants to win the title of the 'World's cheapest bike' and the cutsomer has become the King, actually more like God! But I often wonder if this price based competition is good for the h... Similar Editorial : The Indian R by carazoo.com. | Source : How to Install Auto Parts
Engine Families And Development Costs So where is money spent in a product's development? That would be an interesting thing top think about. Let's see. About 40% of a bike's development comes in the engine and gearbox part. Another 40% in chassis and the other components account for the remaining 20%. Obviously I am makiing up a... Similar Editorial : Alzheimer and Families by nkthen. | Source : Engine Oil
Marutis Future Plans From this Sunday, I am starting a series of weekly specials. These will be insider news about future company model programs, happenings, stuff that you will not have read in any of the enthusiast magazines and stuff that when they publish is accompanied by 'SCOOP' in caps and bold. As none of ... Similar Editorial : Wedding Plans by Kathleen. | Source : Concept Cars
Gm India And Ford India And Their Small Big Problems If ever I was to leave my profession of an automobile industry analyst with SupplierBusiness, I would surely love to work with some of the multinantional auto manufacturers in India. Not for the work but surely for the money and the perks. Look at it, Ford India and GM India are perhaps the high... Similar Editorial : ERP India by Abhay Mathur. | Source : Concept Cars
Aveo Hasnt Made Gm Proud In the middle of the steel issue, I really missed this one. Think of it no one in India picked this up either? The Chevrolet Aveo - yes the one recently launched in India and peddled by Saif and Rani for its superlative, mindblowing, etc performance - has received a two star rating in the Euro N... Similar Editorial : The New Chevrolet Aveo by Cristi. | Source : Concept Cars
Suzuki Two-wheeler Is Confused Suzuki is a very late entrant in the Indian two wheeler sector. But late is as relative a term as old and it doesn't matter five years down the line when the market is even more mature. However what I am really perplexed by is Suzuki's attitude to the market. Those bunch of Japs ar... Similar Editorial : Suzuki Recalls 2006 Eigers by Sarah Mcbride. | Source : Car Headlights
When The Car Is The Real Star? A recent press release that landed in my inbox was from Lamborghini about the Gallardo featuring in the Tom Cruise starrer Mission Impossible: 3 quite prominently. Apparently, the movie's cast arrived in ten Gallardo's to the movie's premiere in Rome.The connection between cars an... Similar Editorial : Star Trek by Britt Gillette. | Source : Supercars
Is The Indian Auto Industry Responsible Enough? Yesterday's event of a Honda City catching fire all of its own on the Oberoi flyover in New Delhi is quite alarming in nature. The two occupants of the car perished in the accident, their bodies charred beyond recognition. It was visible from the scene that they had tried escaping the burning c... Similar Editorial : Indian Two Wheeler Industry by Deepesh. | Source : Car Accident Prevention
Hyundai Indias New Head Is A Simpleton I am just back from a media event organised by Hyundai. No, it was not the launch of a fancy car. It was, instead the launch of H S Lheem, the new Managing Director and CEO of Hyundai Motors India to the Indian media. It was a necessity as the post-Subbu Hyundai needs someone with whom the media... Similar Editorial : Hyundai Getz by Deepesh. | Source : Detroit Auto Show
Chinas Tryst With The Xerox Machine I was recently in China for the Beijing Auto Show. Having roamed around the New Delhi Auto Expo a number of times, the Beijing show is a pleasant surprise in the sense that it is housed in about one-fourth the area of the New Delhi show. At the same time, Beijing has four times the number of new... Similar Editorial : A Tryst with phentermine by Rob Albert. | Source : Car Wash
Zen Estilo Is Maruti Playing On Its Strengths The Zen Estilo is a cute car, though not cute as a rabbit like the Matiz. It is more of a warped cuteness. It's more like a cross between Drew Barrymore and the Mogwai from Gremlins. To put it in perspective, I loved it, my wife hated it. It should have been the other way around since it is sup... Similar Editorial : Your Strengths by Darlene Arechederra. | Source : Detroit Auto Show
Maruti And Fifty Thousand Luxury Condominiums As a small kid, in the early 1980s, I grew up in the suburban town of Gurgaon - then more known for growing wheat and vegetables than rampaging Toyota Qualises ferrying sleepy teenagers. Things changed in 1983 when the government set up Maruti, in collaboration with Suzuki, and its c... Similar Editorial : Fresno Condominiums by Paul Escobedo. | Source : Detroit Auto Show
Hyundai To Hire Its Own Government Guy Recently, there has been a buzz that Hyundai India may be looking at Union finance secretary Ashok Jha for the post of the President. Before you throw up your hands in despair and exclaim, "What the heck?", have a look at the reasons.HMIL has been on the receiving end of the gove... Similar Editorial : Hyundai Getz by Deepesh. | Source : Ford Concept Cars
So How Many Platforms Does Maruti Have? Automotive reporting done by daily newspapers seems to be getting absurder by the day. Most of our reporting relies on 'getting a byte from some senior executive' and then 'weaving a tall tale around it'. There is very little research, no understanding about the functioning of the industry a... Similar Editorial : Platforms and profitability by Deepesh Rathore. | Source : Ford Concept Cars
India Small Scale Industries Both their parents should be worried but then the Indian operations losses are probably just a trickle from a nick, nothing major when you have an entire leg and an arm chopped off.... Similar Editorial : 3g Services In India by Aaider. | Source : Ford Car Review
Keep Track Of My Finances How about a Tier 1 using the cash flow from OEM payments to fuel its own expansion and acquisitions while delaying payments of its Tier 2s? Think of it, there is very little a Tier 2 can do in these ...... Similar Editorial : Color Of My World by Rony Walker. | Source : Used Cars Sale By Owner
Price Of Bajaj Pulsar True the globe revolves around 16-17 wheels but in the case of Bajaj it was more supplier driven than performance driven. The Discover already has 17 alloy wheels.... Similar Editorial : A Hundred Thousand Dollars by Bob Kish.
Price Of Hyundai Getz On a side note, the Getz TV promo is simply ludicrous. Loud and proud, the television commercial has all the sophistication of a Mallika Sherawat and a jingle that is reminiscent of Bappi Lahiri... Similar Editorial : A Hundred Thousand Dollars by Bob Kish. | Source : Lease Cars For Sale
