Sunday, 6 April 2014

Automobile Industry Update - 06/04/2014


  • Troubled Hindustan Motors (HM) is pinning hopes on its recent divestment of the Chennai plant and has initiated talks with global automobile firms to set up a joint venture there. The Chennai plant manufactures cars under licence from Mitsubishi Motors of Japan. 


  • The management-employees standoff over lockout at Toyota Kirloskar Motor's two plants at Bidadi near here persisted today even as one of the employees on indefinite hunger strike was hospitalised owing to low blood pressure 


  •  Automobile manufacturers' demand to introduce a policy for mandatorily scrapping older vehicles has been met with an opposition from road transport and highways ministry. While Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) had proposed 1996 as the cut off date, which many feel was aimed at pushing sales of new personal vehicles, government agencies have recommended that fitness test results should be the basis for phase out.


  •  Titan Company's smallest business vertical, Precision Engineering, aims to record a ten-fold growth by 2019, during which time a possible decision to carve out the vertical as a separate company would also be made by Tata Sons.


  • Nissan has launched the Datsun brand in Russia with the introduction of the On-Do sedan. With this, Russia becomes the first market where all of Nissan’s three brands – Nissan, Infiniti and Datsun .



  • Suzuki Motorcycle India Ltd., a subsidiary of one of the world’s leading two-wheeler manufacturer Suzuki Motor Corporation, registered an 19% increase in their March 2014 sales figures as compared to March 2013. 

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