Archive for August, 2009

Maruti A-Star New Commercial!

Posted on August 31st, 2009 by by admin

Unlike its recent offerings in the Indian market, A-Star hasn’t been a runaway success for Maruti as they would have hoped. The cheeky little car has all the right ingredients though, a peppy fuel efficient engine, cutesy styling and sharp handling and it also comes with all the safety gear if you are ready to [...]

Honda Civic Facelift Coming In September

Posted on August 31st, 2009 by by admin

Honda Civic sales have been on a downward spiral in India. To pent up demand, Honda is gearing up to launch the facelifted version of the Civic in Septmber.
The changes are minor with a new front grille which will have sharper edges and a thick chrome bar at the top to give it a wider [...]

Fiat Punto Evo Facelift Revealed!

Posted on August 31st, 2009 by by admin

The Grande Punto has been a huge success for Fiat. Although launched just recently in the Indian market, Grande Punto was first launched in the year 2005 in Europe and is due for a facelift.
Fiat has done just that by revealing the new Punto EVO which would make its public debut at the upcoming Frankfurt [...]

Mercedes Benz Launches B-Class F-CELL

Posted on August 31st, 2009 by by admin

Mercedes Benz has launched the new B-Class Fuel Cell car, the first series produced hydrogen fuel cell car from the maker. The company will lease 200 cars to its customers in Europe and USA starting early next year.
The B-Class F-CELL is front wheel drive and comes with a 100 kW electric motor that generates an [...]

Fisichella Finishes Second At The Belgium Grand Prix

Posted on August 30th, 2009 by by admin

Following his first ever pole position for the Force Indian formula 1 team, Fisichella went on to finish second place at the Belgium grand prix today. Fisichella in the process also helped Force India team score their first ever championship points in the F1 world champioships.
The closely fought race was won by Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen [...]

GM Chevrolet Cruze Coming In October!

Posted on August 30th, 2009 by by admin

Recession may be the biggest news on the year around the world, but as far as Indian automobile market is concerned, there isnt any as far as new launches are concerned. This has been the year of car launches and we have seen some big launches in the past 7 months which includes, the Fiat [...]

Fisichella Gives Force India Its First Ever Pole Position In Belgium GP

Posted on August 30th, 2009 by by admin

At last some good news for the Force India Formula 1 team. Giancarlo Fisichella drove a perfect lap to give the Force India team its first ever pole position in Formula 1 grand prix at the Belgium circuit.
Fisichella finished ahead of Toyota’s Jarno Trulli who was the second fastest and BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld in [...]

Hyundai To Launch All New Santro On 1st September, To Phase Out Getz By 2011

Posted on August 29th, 2009 by by admin

Hyundai will launch the revised version of its best seller Santro in the Indian market on September 1st. The launch looks to have been pre-poned due to competition from the just launched Maruti Suzuki Estilo which comes with revised styling and interiors and an all new 1.0 Litre K-Series engine which is more fuel efficient, [...]

Mahindra Pik-Up Driven StateSide: Impresses Folks At Pickuptruck.com

Posted on August 28th, 2009 by by admin

Pickuptruck.com’s Mike Levine got a chance to drive the Mahindra Pik Up regular cab stateside and he has some good things to say about it.
The version driven was the recently refreshed Australian version of the pik-up with the 2.5 Litre CRDe Turbodiesel engine which is a generation behind the all new 2.2 Litre mHawk engine [...]

Hyundai India To Move Some i20 Production To Europe

Posted on August 28th, 2009 by by admin

Hyundai is planning to move more than a third of its i20 car production to Europe by the middle of 2010.
Hyundai India, Managing Director, H.S. Lheem told reporters that the automaker would shift the production of about 70,000 cars to Europe to get the newly announced tax benefits. Hyundai currently has an installed capacity of [...]