Maruti Suzuki India is the most trusted car brand in India and this is because of some reasons. Firstly Maruti has the "biggest service network", second thing is "cheapest spares" and last one is "best after sales and service". All of the new launches by company are writing their own history, Swift DDiS is a recent example followed by Dezire. Now company nows that its time for some friesh air again and they are doing it in the form of Ritz next month. Maruti is planning to put some more Diesel options in its list as well and they are thinking about the 1.6 ltr diesel borrowed from Fiat which is doing its duty in Europian market for SX4. Maruti can put 1.3 ltr DDiS in Ritz too and that 1.6 ltr diesel in SX4, so that company can compete with the up coming diesel avtars of Hyundai i10 an i20.
I saw people driving or riding with high beams on all the time at night and makes the person blind who is coming from the opposite direction. May be some time earlier I was also one of them but not now. Its a hazard some times, you all know what I wants to say, PLZ respect others on the road and use high beam when necessary, not all the time. It takes only 2 seconds to touch the switch-gear to make the head light looking downwards, but these 2 seconds can be life saver for you too if some other person will invest those 2 seconds for you.
Mahindra ( M&M ) which is a pioneer player in Utility vehicles in India had bought Kinetic Motors in 2008. And now they are going to launch new models in every segments of two wheelers under Kinetic Motors. Mahindra will launch models in 100, 125 and 150cc segment to compete with big players like Hero Honda, Bajaj Auto and HMSI. They have already an automatic 125 cc scooter Flyte present in the Indian market, which is grabbing good numbers around 4000 per month. To develop small and fuel-effecient engines for their up-coming models M&M is using their recently baught Italian facility "Engines Engineering". At this point of time M&M is having 80% and kinetic is having 20% stake of the venture. They have to fight the market leader HH which is having 60% command over motorcycle sales and HMSI which is having 58% hold on the scooter arena.
Porsche will unveil Panamera at upcoming
2009 Shanghai Motor Show and they officially announced the engine options available. Price range for
Panamera is 1.4 crore to 2.2 crores and the base version of Panamera i.e
Panamera S is equipped with a
4.8-ltr V8 with a power rating of
400 bhp and is a rear wheel drive with
7-speed PDK ( Porsche Double Clutch) transmission. Panamera S will hit the ton in
5.4 seconds and top speed is
283 kmph.
Panamera 4S is also having the same details but having a four-wheel drive system with same 7-speed PDK gearbox. Because of the four-wheel drive 0-100 acceleration time improves from
5.4 sec to 5.0 sec. And
Panamera Turbo features a
4.8-ltr biturbo V8 with a power output of whooping
500 horses and is also having the same PDK transmission.
Yamaha is a well known name for its performance machines and Indians have once tasted this performance in the form of RD350. These were the times when Indians first time rode a homologated bike with more that one cylinder and after the death of RD people were again became habitual of riding puny 100cc s . Yamaha was loosing the ground in Indian market as rapidly as the first gear acceleration of RD, but they have managed to change it little bit by their re-entry in the performance department. First they make the hype by the launch of the performane kings R1 and MT01, Yamaha knew that these bikes can't sell in big numbers in India and can't generate revenues for the Tuning-Frok logo, but that was the starting of the game plan. After that Yamaha launched two bikes R15 and FZ 16, which were specially designed for Indian market and were going to sell in mass numbers and they succeed this time.
But now Yamaha is going to keep the game on in multi-cylinder department. This time they are trying to lure Indian power hungry and heavy pocket buyers by low pricing. Yamaha is planning to launch FZ1 which comes in two flavors, one is naked and another is with quarter fairing. Bike supports a 998cc, liquid-cold, in-line four cylinder engine from previous generation R1 and produces a hefty 150 bhp. Yamaha is thinking about the SKD route (i.e Semi Knocked Down units) to keep the price under check, so that Yamaha can price FZ1 below Honda CB1000R.
