At the height of the deluge of recalls that engulfed the global automotive industry back in 2010, Toyota Motor Corp executive vice president Yukitoshi Funo met a group of Indian journalists visiting Japan to specifically get a first hand experience of their cheapest global offering Etios. 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

It was the biggest story of 2011. So much so, that any blog or article that mentioned the two cars in the same breath immediately drew traffic and any television show that featured the two together attracted TRPs. But that was last year and much water has flowed down the yamuna since then. 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

For all reasons good and bad, 2011 was a forgettable year for Toyota. Besieged by problems ranging from an earthquake followed by Tsunami in its home country and a once in a centennial floods in Thailand, another major hub for its production, the company lost its number 1 position to General Motors. Read more

Taking off from an earlier blog on whether bollywood and films help in selling cars, two new releases—Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol and Don 2– deserve a mention or two. While the similarities that the two movies share in terms of storyline, thrills and even actors maybe “coincidental” the use of some stunning cars is certainly not. Read more

“A jerk”
“Brainless Idiot”
“Government should start censorship drive with this blog”
“Either you guys have not seen any car, or some company has bribed you all to do this review.”
“Clearly this guy has not driven any of these cars. Worse, maybe he does not know how to drive at all.” Read more

For a car with such a huge potential, the launch of the Hyundai was rather subdued. But does it have enough punch in it to unsettle the 6 year long hegemony of the Maruti Alto as the largest selling car in India? Read more

A two part series that looks on and back at the intense rivalries that have structured the course of the Indian automotive landscape Read more