Tata Steel In The Mid Of Mittals Arcelor Bid L N Mittal's audacious USD 22.0 bn bid for steel giant Arcelor must have left the top management in a pensive mood. Arcelor is an important joint-venture partner in Tata Steel's ambitious automotive steels foray. The Indian steel major has major plans for the automotive steels segment and has been quite aggressive in winning new business from Indian carmakers. Tata Steel now has a supply contract...... Similar Editorial : Tata Nano by Adam Boulton. | Source : Cheap Car Hire Orlando
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 the media outlets have any use for my rantings, as accurate as they may be, I will use my blog as an...... Similar Editorial : Dental Plans by lynter. | Source : Cheap Car Hire Orlando
Indian Automotive Suppliers Have A Promising Future I will not be the first one to say that Indian automotive suppliers have a promising future; analysts from consultancies, big and small, have already stated that in many of their glitzy presentations to present and propsective clients. What I am observing is a trend that is getting stronger and stronger. OEM purchase managers across the world no longer look at India and move on, the idea is now to...... Similar Editorial : Broadband Suppliers by Steve Wilson. | Source : Luxury Car Hire Uk
GM India - The Unending Comedy Show The company plans to launch three (make that four, only the Spark / Matiz isn't quite ready) cars in 2006 and the marketing head feels that this is the year of GM. Yes, and this is also the year when the US of A starts getting addicted to health food. If selling a little more than 2000 cars a month is GM India's idea of dominating 2006 then the guys seriously need to look outside the windows of...... Similar Editorial : India on the Rails by Roozbeh Gazdar. | Source : Luxury Car Hire Uk
ICOTY Is Here And The TV Jocks Hate It The Indian Car of The Year awards have been constituted and the nation's leading 13 automotive hacks (from the seven leading enthusiast publications) are part of the team. They will decide, what else, but the Indian Car of The Year. And the ICOTY will coexist with about a half a dozen Car of The Year awards already present. While the hacks in the ICOTY will use their collective wisdom to declare a...... Similar Editorial : I Hate Writing Articles by Carina Ljungqvist. | Source : Luxury Car Hire Uk
Car Customisers I am often intrigued and worried abt the car customisation scene in India. There are too many of these wannabe Gandinis and Pinifarinas on the streets and I fear that in the sheer zest of turning out mind-numbing creations, they are messing up with the structural integrity of the original cars. Self-learned Anyways, the motor vehicle act forbids changes to the body of a car. And one can easily...... Source : Luxury Car Hire Uk
Platforms And Profitability A news story that caught my atention today was one in FE about a recently published Deutsche Bank report saying that the Indiaca and Scorpio have not been profitable platforms for the manufacturers. Intersting reading though I don't have the complete document. About the report, I am not sure if calculating the profitability of a platform is the right thing to do. The Indica also has the Indigo and...... Similar Editorial : Digital Kanban Impacts Profitability by Thomas Cutler. | Source : Luxury Car Hire Uk
Divided We Standin, United We Fall! While talking with Edmund Chew, the Publisher of SupplierBusiness, the other day, I was surprised to know that Indian supplier companies haven't been exactly on their radar till now. SupplierBusiness' parent company AutoBusiness (how apt can names be!) publishes a number of reports on the global supplier industry, including one report on the Asian Supplier Industry. Surprisingly, Indian suppliers...... Source : Luxury Car Hire Uk
Bajaj Pulsar Seems Out Of Shape It's the thing with automotive design. Mess with an original (update it, that is) and it is highly unlikely to get something better. take for example the Bajaj Pulsar. The original had this fronmt heavy scrambler styling. Lokked like a dream and handled like a nighhtmare. A longetr swingarm was called for and the guys at Pune sort of pulled the rear wheel back, by quite a bit that is. Handling...... Similar Editorial : Shape Up by Laura Turner. | Source : Luxury Car Hire Uk
Surveys, Surveys And More Surveys We have been inundated with press releases from NFO (TNS) and JD Power, their PR agencies and some automakers during the last couple of days. Yes its survey time in the automotive industry. Every year both TNS and JD Power release their surveys with much fanfare - I am sure a press do is just arond the corner. The surveys rate the carmakers on various parameters of customer satisfaction amongst...... Similar Editorial : Doing Client Surveys by averymanko. | Source : Luxury Car Hire Uk
