India's second largest car manufacturer, Hyundai Motors is planning big in order to take on the largest Indian car maker, Maruti Suzuki India. Indian auto industry is basically a small car industry. India's highest selling car is Maruti Alto which sells around 30,000 units monthly. Hyundai Motors do not have a product which can compete with Alto currently. But, as we all know Hyundai are planning to... 

Hyundai Motors is the second largest car maker in India. The cheapest car available in the market today by Hyundai is available at a price on more than Rs 3 lakhs. This is leaving the market for small cars in Indian auto industry competition free for Maruti Alto and Tata Nano. So in order to compete where the most volume of sales are made in the Indian car market, Hyundai Motors is planning to launch... 

For the first time, an Indian car manufacturer has won the award for selling the most number of small car in a calendar year. Maruti Suzuki Alto overtook VW Golf (Germany) and Fiat Uno and VW Gol (Brazil) in terms of number of units sold in 2010. In 2010, MSI managed to sell 3 lakh units of Alto, a 25% hike from last year's figure. Maruti stated that the launch of Maruti Alto K10 in mid 2010 is the... 

Korean car manufacturer, Hyundai Motors, also India's second highest car maker, announced today that they are "well on course" with their plan to introduce a small car in India. In order to give stiff competition to country's highest selling car, Maruti Alto, Hyundai Motors will be launching a similar priced car soon. Mr Arvind Saxena, Marketing & Sales Director, Hyundai India kept using words... 

Most will agree on the fact that the reason behind Maruti's success in India is the launch of Maruti 800, the people's car. Maruti got the timing and car combination right when they launched M800, as at that time it was the best value for money car in the country. Today, Maruti is leading the auto industry with more than 50% market share. But the arrival of International manufacturers and newer cars... 

Maruti Suzuki India has taken their first step towards a better environment by launching 5 of their top models in CNG. The cars that will now be available with company fitted CNG option are Alto, Wagon R, Estillo, Eeco and SX4. As of now these cars will only be available in Delhi, NCR, and Gujarat. Maruti will launch in other parts of the country at a later stage. All these cars will be fitted with... 

In a bid to keep its market share safe, Maruti Suzuki India will be launching CNG variants of their following variants, Alto, Estillo, Wagon R, Eeco and SX4. All these cars will be available with company fitted CNG kit from second week of August. Mr Shashank Srivastava, MSI Marketing Manager said, "The CNG models will be very important in our portfolio. We are the first company to come out with factory-fitted... 

Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) has recalled 6000 Alto's that were manufactured in April this year. These cars were leaking oil through engine causing starting problems. To rectify this Maruti has told its network of 800 sales centers and over 2700 service centers around India to rectify and fix affected Alto's. When spoke to MSI, their spokesperson replied in negative saying, "The vehicle, if affected,... 

Maruti Suzuki has been working on a new engine which would replace the engines (F8D) of Alto and Wagon R. It is expected that once the engine is replaced, the price would lower down significantly to boost the sales of these cars. The new engine is expected to be more powerful than the current one and is expected to be a revolutionary change. The engine has a codename - Yp3. The new engine will be... 

The Indian auto market is certainly seeing a lot of movement and no one ones to lose out on momentum. Maruti Suzuki has done well in India ever since their peoples car concept that began with the dream run of the M800. However, the era has changed and now there's stiff competition at the entry level, compact car, and small car segment from global leaders like Volkswagen, Toyota, and Honda. As such...