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Mahindra Will Offer Android Auto In XUV 500 & Scorpio; 1st Indian Car Maker To Be Included In…
Indian automobile industry breached a major milestone this week as Mahindra & Mahindra became the first Indian company to be included in the prestigious Open Automotive Alliance. As a result, Mahindra has announced that their XUV…
Govt Plans 7M Electric Vehicles on Road By 2020, To Give Rs. 1.38L Worth Incentives For Every Car
This new move by the Government can be described as the biggest push to encourage sales of electric and hybrid vehicles in India. Under a unique and innovative scheme named as FAME, Government will provide incentives upto Rs 1.38 lakh…
A Fascinating Glimpse At Future of Our Cars!
In the era of smartphones and internet at the tip of our fingers, we live in a smart world. We make smarter decisions day in day out for every small or huge matter at hand. The new entrant to the smarter world is smart automobiles, mostly…
Ford Opens Rs 6000 Cr Factory In India As Part of Make in India Vision
Mark Fields, president and chief executive of Ford Motor has inaugurated their second Indian factory at Sanand, Gujarat which will be made at an expenditure of Rs 6000 crore ($1 billion). As part of Make in India vision, Ford has…
Remember Bajaj Chetak Scooter? It’s Coming Back In New Avatar!
The image of an Indian family with the husband driving a Bajaj Chetak scooter, wife sitting at the back with 2 kids will be embedded forever into our memories. In 2009, this image got a slight interruption as Bajaj had decided to stop…
Airbags, ABS To Become Compulsory For All Cars From Next Year
By the time you will finish reading this article, a person must have died somewhere in India due to reckless driving and ignoring safety precautions.
Statistically, more than 500,000 accidents happen every year, resulting in 150,000…
Datsun Go & Maruti Swift Fail Global Car Crash Test. Declared Unsafe For Indians [Videos]
In order to make roads safe for driving, and ensuring that no lives are lost due to accidents, The UN Road Safety Collaboration has developed a Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. Some of the pillars of this…
Meru, Ola Or Uber: A Cab Driver’s View!
I came across this interesting post on Facebook by Ruche Mittal (Tip: Anand Muglikar) on Facebook that tells you the other side of the story of wars between Meru, Ola and Uber. The post is based on the conversation Ruche had with a cab…
Uber Is Disrupting Indian Taxi Market And Here Is The Proof
Meru Cabs, Easy Cabs and Mega Cabs are names which are considered a success in the competitive Taxi market in India. But it seems that a technology backed startup, which has nothing but a humble mobile application to it’s arsenal has…
Diesel Vs Petrol Car Decision Making Calculator
We had written about this Diesel Vs Petrol Car decision making calculator back in 2012, when the petrol prices were going through the roof and diesel prices were relatively quite low. Now the scenario has changed quite a lot. Diesel prices …
Honda Bringing World’s Largest Scooter Factory In Gujarat With 12 Lakh Units/Year Capacity
2 Facts - a) Even after 13 years of it’s launch, Honda Activa is still in ‘waiting list’ for delivery and b) Even as Honda has more than doubled it’s production during last three years, 60,000 Honda scooters in India are in backlog…
The 2014 Ford Fiesta – Fast, Furious And Intelligent With A Sleek New Design
Ford Fiesta is one of the most successful Ford vehicles ever created; since 1976 when it was first launched, it has sold over 16 million units all over the world! Fiesta was first introduced in India in 2005 and has witnessed several…
[Updated] Vicky.in Launches India’s first Used Bike Valuation Tool
Vicky.in, one of the leading Indian car & bike portal has today announced launch of Indian's first used bike valuation tool. The new service allows one and all to evaluate the market price of their old two wheeler an a jiffy.
Using…
Honda Activa Beats Splendor To Become India’s Best Selling Two-Wheeler
It seems India’s fascination with motor bikes is now lowering down as more and more Indians are preferring motor scooters. In a recent market research, it has been revealed that Honda Activa is now India’s best selling two wheeler.…
Indian Passenger Vehicle Sales Growth Halts; Approx 1.5 Lakh Jobs Lost
There is some bad news for the automobile industry in India – Passenger car sales have come down this year, as 6% less cars were sold in the first quarter of 2014 compared to last year.
Total of 25.03 lakh passenger vehicles were sold in…
Auto Expo 2014, A Bumper Hit: Over 320,000 Footfalls In 3 Days
Auto Expo 2014 is a bumper hit this year as more than 3.2 lakh people have thronged the Expo Mart campus in Greater Noida to witness World’s second largest Auto Expo, live in action. Newspapers reported that 60,000 people visited the expo…
Best Selling Indian Cars Taken for Crash Tests And Look Who Passed [Videos]
NO ONE. Every SINGLE one of them failed. Even surprisingly each scored a ZERO on a scale of 5. The tests was conducted by London based car-safety watchdog Global NCAP.
The cars that was selected for the safety test were hatchbacks; Tata…
2 Revolutionary Indian Cars To Watch Out At Auto Expo 2014
Between February 7th and 11th, 2014, automobile fans and enthusiasts will stop all their appointments to get bedazzled at World’s 2nd biggest and Asia’s largest Auto Expo to be held in New Delhi.
The expo is being organized at Pragati…
Japan’s Terra Motors Enters India With 1000CC Kiwami Electric Super Bike!
If you are a bike enthusiast, this news is going to be music to your ears - Terra Motors Corporation, the No.1 manufacture of electric two and three wheelers in Japan, has today announced their presence in India by introducing Kiwami -…
Maruti Suzuki To Launch A Car Without Clutch… No, It Is Not Automatic Transmission!
A car without a clutch is not a big thing. Traditional Automatic Transmission cars do not have them, but still majority of car drivers prefer manual transmission cars with gears.
The reason why Manual transmission cars are preferred is…