Passenger car sales in India rose significantly in November 2009, on the back of a low-base effect and festival discounts. Car sales had plummeted by 19.3 per cent in November 2008, compared to sales in the same month in 2007. Maruti Suzuki posted a 61.6 per cent growth in domestic sales, up from 47,103 units [...]

Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI) launched a new version of its SUV, the Honda CR-V, this week. The new CR-V is priced between Rs 21.9 lakh and Rs 24.12 lakh (ex-showroon, Delhi), and comes in three variants with engine capacities ranging from 2.0-2.4 litres. It is 45mm longer than its previous version, and sports a [...]

Car sales continued to show an impressive growth in April 2009, compared to sales in the corresponding period last year. While Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai Motors grew by 9 per cent and 4 per cent respectively, sales at Mahindra & Mahindra increased by a whopping 36 per cent. Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI) too saw [...]

Japan based Honda Motor Company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. Takeo Fukui will be stepping down in June 2009 to hand over the company’s reins to Mr. Takanobu Ito, who is currently the Senior Managing Director. Ito’s career trajectory has been strikingly similar to that of Mr. Fukui, moving from R&D to Senior Management, leading many [...]

Scarcely nine months after the Civic Hybrid’s launch, Honda India has decided to discontinue retailing the car in its showrooms. It was only a matter of time, if you ask us, with the company having had to offer all kinds of allurements to customers to clear the car’s stock pile, after realising that its sales [...]

Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI) has sent a legal notice to Maruti Suzuki over an SX4 ad published in a newspaper in Chandigarh in November 2008. According to Honda, the ad, which compares the Maruti SX4 with the Honda City, shows inaccurate data to make the City appear inferior to the SX4. The company claims [...]

Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI) bagged four major awards at the UTVi Autocar Awards 2009 held this week. The ceremony was held at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai. The ‘Best design’ award went to the Honda City (new), the ‘2009 green’ award to the Honda Civic Hybrid, the ‘Best luxury car’ award to the [...]

It lasted all of seven days, and had the entire auto industry talking about it while it did. We are referring here to the massive price cut announced by Honda on the Civic hybrid last week. Honda slashed the Civic hybrid’s price by an unprecedented 37 per cent, bringing it down from Rs. 21.5 lakh [...]

The 12th largest consumer market in the world currently and rushing headlong to become the 5th largest by 2015, India seems to be turning out into world’s automakers’ touchstone to see where lies the gold. While a couple of years back, bullock carts, cycles, scooters, Ambassador and M800 ruled the Indian roads, there is a [...]

If there has to be a future, it has to be green. Honda seems to have taken this future-fad quite seriously and is here to make its concern for the environment felt with Honda Civic Hybrid. I read a very interesting comment somewhere that hybrids are anti-status status symbols. This could be quite true for [...]