Most vehicle manufacturers in India have registered good sales during the month of January 2012. Ashok Leyland too has joined that list of growing vehicle manufacturers and begun the year on a good note. Commercial heavy vehicle manufacturers, Ashok Leyland today posted a 33.58% increase in sales during the month of January 2012. This increase was seen specially in commercial vehicle sales which stood... 

Ashok Leyland has launched India's first 37 tonne haulage truck. The truck is built on U Truck platform U 3723 and promises to offer highest possible performance with enhanced durability and high level of efficiency. It may be mentioned here that Ashok Leyland 37 tonner has five axles which include two steerable front axles, two rear axles, one self steering lift axle which is what ensures that the... 

Ashok Leyland, of Hinduja Group successfully launched 'Dost' at the beginning of September.  The company is now keen on bringing out a passenger version of Dost for the Indian car market.  Ashok Leyland isn't keen on entering the passenger cars market in India but are looking at an SUV variant of the Dost irt is a segment that is more closely matched. Mr. V Sumantran, Executive Vice Chairman of Hinduja... 

In a bid to make India the focus of global attention in the auto sector, Nissan Motors of Japan is planning to export 20% of mini vans which are produced in a joint venture with Ashok Leyland. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Andy Palmer, Executive Vice President of Nissan Motors said that the company is planning to launch these passenger vehicles or mini vans during the coming year. Production of 55,000... 

Global leaders in commercial vehicles are getting ready to enter the Indian auto industry in order to take on the long existing monopoly of Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland in the segment. The thriving Indian auto industry has successfully attracted every major passenger car manufacturer in the world today, but has somehow failed to get world class heavy commercial vehicles to its shores. If we are to... 

Reports released by The Economic Times between the tie up of Japan auto giant Nissan and Hinduja Group's Ashok Leyland has been quickly denied by the latter's official spokesperson: "As we have said at our previous press meet, Ashok Leyland is just weighing options to develop a small car. No plans have been firmed up on that. All the reports pertaining to Nissan-Ashok Leyland tie-up are purely speculative." The... 

Ashok Leyland posted their sales figures for April 2010 today, which remarkably have increased threefold when compared to the sales figures of April 2009. Ashok Leyland sold 6,500 units in April 2010 compared to just 1,750 units sold in April 2009. There is more good news in store for Ashok Leyland as their assembling unit in UAE has started rolling out 2,000 units as per international regulations... 

The all new hybrid bus from Tata Motors will be displayed at 2010 CWG as part of the growing demand for hybrid vehicles in all the segments of automobiles. The other makers who want to foray into this segment includes Ashok Leyland, Volvo buses, etc. All the companies are still working on the blue prints of the design of such a new concept in the heavy vehicle segment. There are many of them who have... 

Expansion projects are what the Hinduja group-owned auto company Ashok Leyland is looking at in the coming three years. It plans to invest Rs 3000 crore with this intent. The company last year was facing the brunt of the economic slowdown and hence had reduced this estimated investment to Rs 2000 crore as opposed to the Rs 3200 crore. The company plans to target this investment on both the development... 

After partnership with Bajaj and Renault for manufacturing an ultra low cost car, Nissan, is all set to make an agreement with Ashok Leyland for developing a small car for the global market to be priced around $4500-$5000 (about Rs 2.25 lakhs-2.50 lakhs). Collin Dodge, Nissan, said that the small car is intended to attract customers from the price brackets of $4500-5000. He also said that this price...