DriveInside.com | Wednesday November 19, 2008
Finance Minister P Chidambram’s plea to the auto industry to reduce product prices has met with a rather unenthusiastic response from auto majors. Companies such as M & M, Hyundai, Bajaj Auto and Hero Honda have said a clear no to the FM’s appeal, stating reasons like increasing input and operational costs, a disappointing last quarter and the Read More...
DriveInside.com | Saturday November 15, 2008
Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) recently reached the 20 lakh sales landmark, becoming the fastest car manufacturer to reach this milestone, in India. It took the company 10 years to get to this point. Hyundai is planning to make attractive offers to its potential customers to celebrate this occasion. At a function held in Mumbai, the 20th lakh Read More...
DriveInside.com | Friday October 10, 2008
India’s second largest carmaker, Hyundai Motor India Ltd announced a special scheme for the state and central government employees. Under the scheme, there will be special pricing, attractive finance options etc to enable the government employees to own a Hyundai car.
In view of the fact that government employees are due to receive the arrears Read More...
DriveInside.com | Wednesday October 8, 2008
India’s second largest passenger car manufacturer, Hyundai Motor India Ltd, successfully culminated its i10 Delhi to Paris drive in Paris on 29th September, 2008. Through this drive, Hyundai has demonstrated the outstanding performance of its technically superior Kappa engine in terms of fuel economy and reliability. One of the two i10’s driven to Read More...
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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 October 2, 2008
India’s second largest car manufacturer, Hyundai Motor India Ltd announced a cumulative sales growth of 68 per cent for the month of September, 2008.
The total sales for the month of September ‘08 stood at 46,222 units. While the domestic market accounted for 22,311 units and exports totaled 23,911 units in September, 2008. The cumulative Read More...
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DriveInside.com | Tuesday September 30, 2008
India’s second largest car manufacturer, Hyundai Motor India Ltd. launched the LPG version of its flagship brand Santro. The LPG variant will be priced Rs 21,500 more than the existing petrol model. The new LPG version of Santro, named Santro eco comes with a factory fitted LPG kit and boasts of features that meet global standards of performance Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday September 23, 2008
India’s second largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor India Ltd. announced the start of its third shift of operations at its new plant at Sriperumbudur. The reason behind the move is due to a continuing high demand for the i10 in the domestic as well as the export market. The plant, which started operations in February this year, is dedicated Read More...
DriveInside.com | Wednesday September 17, 2008
India’s largest car exporter, Hyundai Motor India Ltd commemorated its decade old journey in India by organizing a unique transcontinental Delhi to Paris drive that was flagged off from the national capital- Delhi on 10th September 2008 by Olympic Gold Medallist Abhinav Bindra.
The drive passed through the historic city of Agra and Gwalior along Read More...
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DriveInside.com | Friday September 12, 2008
India’s second largest car maker, Hyundai launched the fifth nationwide Free Car Care Clinic in an effort to extend the advantage of its excellent services and free check-up to a large number of its customers. To celebrate and commemorate its 10th Anniversary, Hyundai has organized “Free Car Care Clinic” at all Hyundai Dealerships for the period Read More...
DriveInside.com | Monday September 8, 2008
India’s largest exporter, Hyundai Motor India Ltd announced a unique customer centric initiative:- ’10 Year Celebration Offer’ marking its Tenth anniversary of operations in India. As part of the scheme, Hyundai is offering free 24 carat gold coin, MP3 player and insurance cover to those purchasing Hyundai cars this year.
The scheme has been 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 | Sunday August 31, 2008
India’s largest car exporter Hyundai Motor India is developing a model in the 800 cc segment which would be rolled out in the next three to four years.
Hyundai Motor India Managing Director Mr. H S Lheem said that the model would be smaller than Santro and compete in the 800 cc segment. This car is being researched and developed jointly by Indian Read More...
DriveInside.com | Saturday August 30, 2008
India’s second largest car seller, Hyundai Motor India Ltd will organise a Trans-World Endurance Drive from Delhi to Paris as a part of the celebrations to mark the tenth anniversary of its India operations next month.
The company’s Managing Director, Mr. H.S. Lheem, that the objective of the drive was to celebrate 10 years of Hyundai Motor in Read More...
DriveInside.com | Friday August 29, 2008
India’s largest passenger car exporter, Hyundai Motor India Ltd plans to export vehicle kits in ‘completely knocked down’ condition. Hyundai India is investing Rs 200 crore to create a new press shop at Sriperumbudur for this project.
In 2007, Hyundai exported 1.27 lakh cars. The exports in the form of kits could start from July next year, with a 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 | 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
Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) announced a cumulative sales growth of 28.2% for the month of July, 2008.
HMIL’s total sales for the month of July ‘08 stood at 36,152 units. While the domestic market accounted for 15, 066 units, exports totaled 21,086 units in July, 2008. The cumulative sales for July, 2007 had been 28,204 units with the Read More...
DriveInside.com | Thursday July 24, 2008
India’s second largest carmaker Hyundai Motor India has started the shipment of disassembled knocked down (DKD) units of cars, including i10, to Sudan.
The company’s first shipment to the East African country of over 2,000 units comprised 96 DKD units of Hyundai's compact car 'i10'.
"We are today embarking on a new journey with the shipment of Read More...
DriveInside.com | Saturday July 5, 2008
India’s largest car exporter, Hyundai India announced an Exchange and Upgrade Scheme that allows customers to lower their monthly car-loan payments even as they upgrade to a bigger car. The scheme is targeted at all those users of smaller compacts who would prefer to upgrade to a bigger car but are prevented from doing this by the higher EMI’s of Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday July 1, 2008
India's second largest car maker, Hyundai India registered an overall growth of 45.3%, exports growth of 61.7% and growth of 34% in domestic sales during June 2008 as compared to the same period last year.
The total sales stood at 40,182 units of which domestic market accounted for 21,881 units, compared to a 16,335 units for the same month Read More...
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DriveInside.com | Friday June 27, 2008
India’s largest car exporter has started a new program – ‘Sketch the I’ where it encourages schoolchildren across India to ‘Sketch the i’- an educational program aimed at creating safer drivers in the future by targeting today’s school children. It would organize a series of school meets where students would be encouraged to present imaginative Read More...
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DriveInside.com | Wednesday June 25, 2008
India’s second largest carmaker Hyundai Motor India Ltd has come out with free fuel vouchers for every purchase of its Santro and i10 models. A free fuel voucher worth Rs 2,700 comes with every Santro and i10 model purchased between June 20 and June 30.
"This is our way of helping customers cope with increased fuel costs and to demonstrate Read More...
DriveInside.com | Monday June 23, 2008
According to market sources, Korean car maker Hyundai India plans to launch a whole new range of i-series post the success of its hatchback i10. The other cars from the i-series would be bigger than the current i10 and would be available to the Indian and the overseas market for sale as a new product or as a replacement in the next few years. Read More...
DriveInside.com | Tuesday June 17, 2008
Hyundai Motor India Ltd., India’s largest car exporter, bagged the number one position in the compact car segment for Santro in the Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) conducted by JD Power Asia Pacific 2008.
The JD Power Vehicle Dependability Study conducted for the first time in India, ranks vehicles within eight market segments: compact cars, Read More...