Global luxury cars thriving in India amidst sales slump

Although Fiat was among the first Western automakers to enter India, it is the worst performing. The Italian automaker plans to open on April 1st a new, fully-owned 57-dealer network, aiming at attracting more than 1.2 customers in India. Currently ...

Indian annual car sales are poised to rebound from the first annual decline in a decade and rise as much as 5 percent over the next year, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers. Local deliveries of passenger vehicles, including ...

The board of Maruti Suzuki, India's biggest passenger carmaker, has just cleared a suggestion to start manufacturing light commercial vehicles (LCV). Senior Maruti Suzuki executives communicated this decision at an offsite with its vendors in ...

SAO PAULO - The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry's biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of Brazil's new middle class. The shiny new Fords, Fiats, and Chevrolets tell the tale of an economy ...

SHANGHAI, China BYD is known for electric cars but this year's flagship model is the S7, a gasoline-powered SUV. It comes with an air purifier, radar to help with backing and digital TV. An onboard hard drive can hold 1,000 films. This is ...

Compared to other emerging markets in the world, the Indian luxury car market isn't very big. But it is interesting to see that even with sales of just about 29,000 odd units in 2012, car companies are still willing to invest and slug it out. Later ...

General Motors, the US-based automobile major, on Thursday launched a multi-purpose vehicle, the Enjoy, at an aggressive entry price of Rs 5.49 lakh for the petrol variant (ex-showroom, Delhi) and Rs 6.69 lakh for the diesel variant, squarely taking ...

Auto exports, especially to destinations such as Africa and West Asia, have provided auto makers in India much-needed succour in the past six months as domestic sales plummeted in a slowing economy. India's passenger vehicle market, which expanded ...

LOS ANGELES A Chinese company whose mantra is Build Your Dreams plans to build all-electric buses in Californias Mojave Desert. Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris and officials of BYD Automotive scheduled a news conference Wednesday to announce plans to ...