DriveInside.com | Tuesday November 18, 2008
Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI), which last week took the auto industry by surprise when it announced a massive price cut on the Civic hybrid, has closed the offer after receiving 235 bookings for the car in 4 days. The Honda Civic hybrid was priced at Rs. 21.5 lakh, before Honda brought it down to Rs. 13.36 lakh. The offer is now closed, the company Read More...
DriveInside.com | Saturday November 15, 2008
Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI) shocked the auto industry last week by cutting the price of the Honda Civic hybrid by Rs. 8 lakh, for a limited period. The car was earlier priced Rs. 21.50 lakh. In the five months since its launch, before the price cut, the Civic hybrid had managed to sell only 60 units, owing to its rather forbidding price tag. Read More...
DriveInside.com | Saturday October 4, 2008
The liquidity crunch and the September Shraadh season have hit sales across segments. Market leader Maruti Suzuki posted a marginal 2.53 per cent increase in sales to 64,682 units, compared with 63,086 in September last year.
India’s largest car exportor Hyundai Motor India grew by 23.89 per cent totaling to 22,311 units this September as Read More...
DriveInside.com | Thursday September 25, 2008
Car maker, Honda Siel Cars India launched its Third Generation Honda City with a completely new design and engine. The new City will be available in three variants namely 1.5E (MT) and 1.5S (MT and AT) with options of six colours The 1.5E MT comes with grayish beige interior colour while 1.5S(MT and AT) have beige interiors.
The all new Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday September 2, 2008
The slump in car sales mainly came from rising inflation and interest rates coupled with high fuel prices which continued to dissuade customers from any fresh purchases.
India’s biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India reported a 9.2% decline in sales to 59,908 units in August from 65,968 units in the same month last year. The domestic sales dipped Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday September 2, 2008
Japanese car maker Honda Siel Cars India reported a 19.14 per cent fall in its August sales at 3,945 units as against 4,879 units in the same month a year ago.
The sales figures included 2,763 units of sedan City ZX, 588 units of premium sedan Civic, 460 units of luxury sedan Accord and 129 units of SUV CR-V.
The recently launched sedan Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday August 26, 2008
Second time in a row, Skoda Auto India topped the customer satisfaction survey in JD Power Asia Pacific 2008 India Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) study.
The study, in its 9th year, surveyed 5,416 new passenger car owners in 20 Indian cities having ownership tenure of two to six months. Forty-one different passenger car brands were assessed in the Read More...
DriveInside.com | Monday August 11, 2008
Japanese car maker Honda has crossed three lakh customers in India since its entry in 1997. To mark the occasion, they have launched a limited edition sports variant of its sedan Civic priced at Rs 12.36 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
The new sports Civic will be powered by the same 1.8 litre petrol engine which is in the present Civic along with Read More...
DriveInside.com | Saturday August 2, 2008
India’s top three car makers - Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai and Tata Motors reported a decline in domestic sales in July 2008 as compared to July 2007 while Skoda and General Motors grew during the same period.
Maruti Suzuki India's July domestic sales stood at 52,911 units against 52,839 units in the same month a year-ago, up by 0.1 per cent.
Tata Read More...
DriveInside.com | Saturday August 2, 2008
Honda Siel Cars India reported a dip of 4 per cent in July sales to 4,339 units from 4,533 units last year.
While, the cumulative sales from the January-to-July period was 36,849 units, a marginal rise of 0.2 percent, over same period last year.
In July, Honda Siel sold 52 units of its first hybrid car Honda Civic Hybrid, launched in India in Read More...
DriveInside.com | Wednesday July 2, 2008
Japanese car maker, Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI) recorded 5.4% increase in sales for the month of June 2008 with 4,748 units as against 4,503 units in June 2007.
Honda sold 2,507 units of its sedan City ZX and 1,104 units of its sedan Civic. The SUV CR-V sold 294 units in June 2008.
Honda Accord which was launched in May 2008 sold 843 units in Read More...
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DriveInside.com | Wednesday June 18, 2008
Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI(, manufacturers of premium cars for India, launched the country's first hybrid car - Civic Hybrid.
The Honda Civic Hybrid System features a 3-stage i-VTEC + IMA that employs Honda's 1.3L i-VTEC engine to provide three stages of valve timing, combined with a compact and efficient electric motor, Honda's IMA Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday June 17, 2008
Honda City ranked highest in the vehicle dependability for the mid size car segment, according to J.D. Power Asia Pacific 2008 India Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS).
The study measures problems experienced by original owners of 30- to 42-month-old vehicles by examining more than 150 problem symptoms across nine vehicle categories. The ranking Read More...
DriveInside.com | Friday June 13, 2008
The government has imposed an additional excise duty of about Rs. 15,000-20,000 as a specific levy on large cars, MUVs (multi-utility vehicles) and SUVs (sports utility vehicles) produced in India. Excise duty on cars of engine capacity exceeding 1500cc and upto 1,999cc has been increased by Rs 15,000 per unit. Similarly, vehicles having engine Read More...
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DriveInside.com | Wednesday June 4, 2008
Indian car makers saw an increase in the sales of May 2008 as compared to May 2007 despite rising interest rates and anticipated rise in fuel prices.
India’s biggest car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki saw a rise of 15% in domestic sales to 64,143 units as compared to 55,952 units in May 2007. India’s biggest car exporter, Hyundai recorded a sales Read More...
DriveInside.com | Sunday June 1, 2008
When all the automakers in India are increasing the car prices, Honda Siel Cars have reduced the prices of its popular Sedans City and Civic from 1st June 2008.
“We have received notification from the government on the central sales tax cut from 3 percent to 2 percent announced in the Budget. Hence we are reducing the prices of our models City Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday May 13, 2008
Honda Siel Cars unveiled their 8th Generation luxury sedan Accord in India eight months after the global launch.
Honda has sold 16,000 units of Accord since its debut in India in 2001. The new Accord comes in three variants of 2.4, 2.4 Elegance and 2.4 Inspire. The price of the Accord range between Rs 16.49 lacs and Rs 18.14 lacs (ex-showroom Read More...
DriveInside.com | Thursday April 24, 2008
Car maker Honda Siel Cars India will increase the prices of its two sedans City and Civic between Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 by next month.
A company official said the rising steel prices and other input costs have put immense pressure, which the company has been trying to absorb.
"But it has reached a stage where we have to pass on a part of Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday April 1, 2008
Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI), manufacturer of premium cars in India recorded its highest ever monthly sales in March 2008. The company sold 8,895 units in March 2008 as compared to 8,487 units in March 2007 and thus growing at 4.8%.
The company recorded sales of 20,436 units for the first quarter of 2008 20,436 units as compared to 18,021 Read More...
DriveInside.com | Monday March 17, 2008
SX4 is the new winner for Maruti and setting new records. The latest one is that the SX4 sales have surpassed those of Honda’s City and Hyundai’s Accent and Verna.
Compared to the 27,283 sales last year in the same period, MSIL this year recorded 41,799 sales riding on SX4’s back. Honda’s sales stopped at 34,029 as against 35,300 last year. Read More...
DriveInside.com | Thursday February 28, 2008
Unlike other Japanese manufacturers Nissan and Mitsubishi, Honda doesn’t want to get into the race for manufacturing dirt-cheap cars. Speaking on Friday, Takeo Fukui, the President of Honda said, “I don’t think our Indian customers buy cars that are cheaper but at the same time poor in quality.
“Whether it is the Indian market or the Chinese Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday February 26, 2008
Honda plans to launch the hybrid version of Civic in India soon. Mr. Takedagawa, the CEO & President of Honda Siel India said that the company planned on an increase of 35% in the sale figures of the cars and hence, increasing it from 68,000 cars in this financial year to 90,000 in 2008-09.
Mr. Takedagawa was visiting Greater Noida for the Read More...
DriveInside.com | Monday February 11, 2008
Tata seems to be bent on making path-breaking definitions. After having launched Nano, Tata Motors is considering hybrid vehicles, beginning with Indica and spreading out to other passenger and commercial vehicles.
A company official commented, “The company is working on or supporting development of alternate fuels, including bio-fuels, Read More...