- Maruti Suzuki India Ltd has extended its
engine-sourcing agreement with the local unit of Italian carmaker Fiat SpA for
three years, according to four people familiar with the development. The agreement
for sourcing the 1.3 litre multijet diesel engine, which powers various models
of Maruti Suzuki including the Swift and Dzire, ends in April 2015, said one of
the four people who all spoke on condition of anonymity. Spokespersons for both
Maruti and Fiat declined to comment. (livemint.com)
- Scania Commercial Vehicles India (SCVI) is all
set to open a new bus manufacturing facility at Narasapura, near Bangalore, in
August. The company will start production of Metrolink coaches with an annual
capacity of 1,000 buses. Following the launch of the coach in February this
year, SCVI has till now sold 35 units thus far and expects to close CY 2014
with sales of 150 buses in the Indian market, 50 percent of them manufactured
at the new plant. The company, which says its Metrolink buses are designed for
Indian road conditions and offer ultra-luxury features and comfort coupled with
adequate safety measures, is confident about selling 500 units by 2015. Autocarpro.in)
- Former CEO of Ford Motor Company, Alan Mulally
who retired from this position on July 1, 2014 has joined Google’s board as of
July 9, 2014. It was earlier rumored that Mulally would be joining Microsoft
but instead he has become the 11th member of Google board.(rushlane)
- Volkswagen
AG will
increase the amount of locally-made parts in the cars it sells in India to cut costs and lift
falling salesin a competitive market dominated by cheap
compacts. Five years after
entering India, VW has captured just 2.1 per cent of the market because its
cars are seen as relatively expensive and it lacks a diverse mass-market product range. VW
is the market leader in China, yet it has struggled in India against competition
from compact carmakers like Hyundai Motor Co and Maruti Suzuki Ltd, and mid-market offerings from carmakers like
Toyota Motor Corp . .(etauto)
- Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) has announced that it
will replace the passenger side airbag inflator in 1,085 units of the Accord
saloon and 253 units of the CR-V SUV manufactured in 2003 (including one in
2002) as a preventive measure. The carmaker says a problem during the
propellant forming process may damage the casing of the inflator when the
airbag is deployed, in the event of an accident or in any other situation, thereby
injuring passengers.(Autocarpro.in)
- Nissan Motor Company has shown interest in
getting their best-selling electric car, the Leaf, to India. In order to
achieve this, the Japanese manufacturer is open to collaborate with local
manufacturers to provide charging facilities for this vehicle.(carwale.com)
- Royal Enfield today announced the Corbeta Group
as their exclusive distributor for Colombia. The Corbeta group will be responsible
for supplying, marketing, reselling, distribution and servicing of Royal
Enfield products in the Colombian market.Commenting on the partnership with the
Corbeta Group, Lal said, "Royal Enfield has had a great run in the recent
past with a 50% year- on- year for the last three years and aims to become a
leading player in the global mid-sized motorcycle segment.(etauto)
- BMW has issued a worldwide recall for 3 Series models to replace
passenger-side front airbags. The recall has been announced over a concern that
the front-seat passenger could be injured by metal shards being deployed by a
faulty component from inside the airbag, in the event of a crash. It will cover
upto 16 lakh cars worldwide, manufactured between May 1999 and August 2006.(carwale.com)
- Rocket science long dismissed as too
impractical and expensive for everyday cars is getting a push into the
mainstream by Toyota, the world's top-selling automaker.Buoyed by its
success with electric-gasoline hybrid vehicles, Toyota is betting that drivers
will embrace hydrogen fuel cells, an even cleaner technology that runs on the
energy created by an electrochemical reaction when oxygen in the air combines
with hydrogen stored as fuel.(ETAUTO)
- On the sidelines of
delivering the first Scania Metrolink multi-axle luxury coach in Chennai, Mr.
Anders Grundstromer, Managing Director, Scania India and Senior VP, Scania
Group, told Indian Autos Blog that the bio-gas powered Scania vehicles could be
seen plying on Indian roads as early as next year.He added that the ethanol
powered Scania city buses would commence testing in Nagpur next month. All
Scania engines are capable of running on 95% ethanol. (Indian auto blog)
image from burnyourfuel.com; nissanusa.com
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