For over 2 years, Honda Cars India has been at the receiving end of the unprecedented diesel rush that has enveloped the consumer mindset across the country. It is this, that has led to the diminishing halo of a company that had at one point of time led every segment it participated in. Read more

For now, BMW is ahead of Audi by 457 cars in the first half of this year. And Audi that recently dislodged Mercedes to become the prime suspect for BMW for the number 1 slot is ahead of the Stuttgart based firm by another 673 cars. In a luxury car industry that is worth around 30,000 cars a year, that means one good quarter and any of the three can come out on top by the end of this year. Read more

Starting this Tuesday, domestic car companies would start an initiative to declare problems in their cars and offer to replace or repair them based on their internal quality checks. This kind of an activity is commonly known as a recall around the world. Read more

A peeved customer writes about the unpleasantness of being a Micra owner. Read more

On Tuesday, while on my way back from Gurgaon, I was witness to an unfortunate accident between a cyclist and a burly Audi Q7 right before the toll gate on the Expressway. Thankfully, besides the fact that the cycle was reduced to a mangled heap, no major harm was done and the cyclist Satpal Singh, was rather more shaken than injured. Read more

On a sunny Wednesday morning in December last year, the top management of India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki were busy patting their back at the Gurgaon plant, the country’s largest car factory till date, for regularly exceeding targets and producing more cars than capacity at each of their plants. Read more

Thanks to Maruti’s persistent problems with its workforce at the manesar factory, the outstanding bookings of the new Swift has risen to 1.08 lakh units. Read more