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Auto Expo To Take Rural Ride

India’s premier Auto Expo, which being held at New Delhi biannually, is on rural ride. The auto enthusiasts in tier -2 cities got a reason to cheer. They need not to flock to much congested capital city for Auto Expo.Next year onwards at least two Auto expo will be conducted in cities like, Bangalore, Kolkota, Pune, Mumbai in the years which Auto Expo will not be conducted at New Delhi.

Mr.Dileep Chinoy,Top executive of Auto Expo hosting organization The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers(SIAM) pointed out that due to the increased buying power of growing middle class Autos and Auto shows are in huge demand. According to SIAM even though Auto Shows are conducted in regional level they are not well managed and entry of SIAM will make the situation better.

By this movement ultimately both exhibitors and auto buyers will be in advantage as they need not spend much for regional shows. The next show at Bangalore will be conducted for public transport and a complete vehicle show at Kolkota, The firm dates are yet to be announced.

So get ready to visit Bangalore and Kolkota.

Mahindra Associates with Yancheng Tractor On World?s No.1 Route

Today Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) announced the acquiring news of China?s 3rd largest tractor manufacturing company,Yancheng Tractor. M&M is currently India?s No.1 in tractor segment already acquired many other small and big firms including Gujrat Tractors,Punjab Tractor in their home turf.

Last year?s overall sales figure of M&M was 90000 units and by this latest acquisition they can produce nearly 160000 units and the world leader John Deere(JD) last year sold 170000 globally. Now we think JD will be the most cautious party in tractor segment.

Both companies top officials explained the pro?s of this developments, as M&M will be getting benefit from Yancheng?s higher version Tractors, and part sourcing and developments. Similarly Yancheng Tractor will gaining from M&M?s expert management team and R&D capabilities.M&M may get another opportunity to sell their utility vehicles in China.

Let see who is M&M's next prey.

TATA Ace LPG Variant Soon

Tata Ace was the best debutant in Light Commercial Vehicle(LCV) segment in 2005.After Tata's entry into this segment we saw entry of Piaggio,Force Motors,Bajaj into this product but non of them couldn't erode Ace's position much.

Now again Tata's readying another variant of Ace. Tata is aggressively testing LPG and CNG variants of Ace.The load carrying capacity looks similar to basic Ace. By introduction Tata may gain some volume in metroes where LPG/CNG is very common.

Recently Mahindra's also launched their CNG variant of pick ups in Bolero platform.
The pictures will be uploaded soon,stay tuned.

A Mouth Watering Ferrari

Last week Royal Plaza,a restaurant at Scotts,Singapore displayed a ' Chocolate Ferrari'.The life model of this Chocolate Ferrari measured 4.7 Mtr length and 2.0 Mtr wide made of chocolate.This special creation was to celebrate Singapore's first ever motor race event.

The Royal Plaza's chefs spent one week in kitchen to finish this unprecedented car making. This car made its entry to record of largest chocolate car in Asia.The team comprised of eight chefs lead by Mr.Choo Eng Tat.

We believe a hotel doesn't have a better way to promote a motor race event.

[Picture,Content:- sgcarmart]

Atlas - Nissan's LCV Ace For India

The light commercial vehicle (LCV) market is getting hot in India. The expected addition to this segment is Atlas -F24 from Nissan. Nissan made three joint ventures (JV) with Shook Leyland for making LCV and transmission assembly.
The whole JV costs 23Billion and will be completed by 2011-11.

Nissan Atlas F24 is an intelligent designed LCV with six peed gear box. The fuel efficiency of Atlas is much beyond the available LCV's India.The load carrying capacity is varying from 1.5T to 5T. The Atlas needs minimum turning radius in it's class. The Atlas is totally packed with futuristic cab design and other latesst tecchnologies like real time vehicle perofmance detaails,fuel conssumption and engine immobilizer with remote control.

The Atlas is powered with diesel/petrol engine which is compatible for Euro-IV,V regulations.Seems Nissan will give tough times for other LCV manufacturers.

Reflections Of A Survivor By Alexis Leon

During a short visit to my friend's home I could go across a Readers Digest (RD)magazine.I don't exactly remember the publication details of RD due to the shock given by an article by Madhavankutty Pillai about Alexis Leon.

The article briefly explains the evolution of Mr.Leon and how an ordinary man transformed to a icon of confidence.Read the full story here . Mr.Leon was a a brilliant software and industrial engineer,a talented employee of TCS,Chennai when he met with an accident due to negligence of a auto rickshaw driver.

The speeding auto rickshaw jumped a red signal and smashed him down while he was riding his scooter.After the accident he became paralyzed chest-down, but due to his confidence and positive thinking now he is engaged with six enterprises.Could you imagine his talent? Read his resume once.Also have look at his personal Blog ? Reflections Of Survivor

Dear readers have you ever thought of such after effects a signal jumping?.Hats off to Alexis Leon,may God bless you.[Pict:-Alexisleon.com]

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Will Volt Revive General Motors In US?

Yesterday Bob Boniface,Director advanced design,General Motors(GM) displayed the images of their first electric vehicle, Volt.Automobile world was keenly waiting to see the first glimpses.The Volt is designed truly to match American customer expectations.

Mr.Boniface claimed that Volt is much fuel efficient that any other car in the market. He expects this car will revive GM from its unhealthy business performance.
Mean while Mr.Dennis a GM fan launched a site www.gm-volt.com conducted a registration for booking for Volt. He received Amazing response from prospective customers.Within a short period of three months he received 33000 booking sign ups.

What's more on the same day GM's stock surged 10%.Now all eyes on GM to see the whole vehicle rolling out of the factory.But world should wait till 2010 to grab a volt.

Happy Independence Day

Today our mother India celebrating 62nd birthday.We are privileged to post our 50th post on this auspicious day.Our journey just started six months before our viewer ship is growing slowly.

Wish you all a very happy Independence Day,Seeking every one's support for our further journey. We promise best from our side.

Thank you.

Chrysler Entering India For The Third Time?

Chrysler is in talk with Tata Motors,India as per reuters. Chrysler's maiden Indian operation was too short,which commenced in 1949 by forming a new company,' Premier Automobiles Limited'.They again entered India in a big way after the collaboration with Willey Overland (which had a tie up with Mahindra & Mahindra).This partnership end in early 1994 after Mahindra's decision to enter Indian market independantly.

Now Chrysler is talks with Tata Motors,to open their third spell.The talks are in very initial stages so that the game plans are yet to be disclosed.We will be tracking the development closely.

By forging this tie-up Tata will be facilitating the quorum of Big - 3 in India.

General Motors Concluding Hummer Deal

We had reported General Motor(GM) is engaged in frisk discussion with three automobile major for sealing the sell-off deal of Hummer.To affirm this GM's Chairman Rick Wagnor said they are prepared to sell off assets worth $4billion.Also he indicated right now only Hummer is on board.

GM suffered heavy losses for last three years and need $9billion for FY-09 smooth running.GM has a different history in India and other asian market. GM's market share has been surged pheominaly for the last years by the boost of new launches in different segments.

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Winglet-Toyota's Personal Cruising Device

Toyota has made its creativity in many fields. That helped them to be No.1 automobile manufacturers in the world.Please be remind that Toyota started absolutely from dust from the aftermath of World War-II.Here by unveiling 'Winglet' a personal cruising device again they proved that creativity doesn't have limits.

Winglet,as per Toyota is a personal cruising device with all sort of latest automation techniques.The winglet takes continuous feedback from the sensors installed and control the next movement.Winglet will be available soon in three varieties,Type-L,M,S.

Toyota have not yet disclosed the official launch date,available countries and pricing.Winglets are truly making the the cruiser fly in no time .[Picture:-daylife

Yaris Toyota's Small Car For India

Toyota's small is in news for a long time,recently India's active automotive fourum www.team-bhp.com reported, Toyota testing its small car in Bangalore. The car holds similar features to Yaris Toyota's world small car.

Toyota planning big for India and completely dedicated to tap Indian small car market. Yaris was a super hit in small car segment across the world. Yaris is powered by 1.5ltr engine which deliver 106HP and available in 5 Speed manual and auto transmission. This car is one of all time favourite in US in terms of fuel economy.

This is about Yaris in world market, Now what about India,here Yaris will be available in both diesel and petrol version.We may see Yaris in Indian roads in early 2009.

West Too Turn To Car Pooling

The gas price upward rally made carpooling a good option to western countries too.The scoring fuel price made the carpooling websites much useful. The carpooling is already in use some of the Indian metros also to some extend. We have had covered it before.

In west as of now a ten odd sites are existing which facilitates millions to share or match their car.Eve though there are many short fall American prefer to pool their car as they have to shelve extra bucks.

In India car pooling couldnt make the impact that they expect.As more Indian's may look for this option as we are always look for West for examples.[Pic:-gmtma.org]
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New Generation Beetle

Beetle was once German auto major Volkswagen's masterpiece,this ruled automobile the world for 65 years continuously and was given its exceptional contribution to today's Volkswagen(VW).

Last week Momir Bojic of Banjaluka,Bosnia came out with a totally new Beetle,that VW never dreamed of.The beetle is totally covered with oak wood and to viewers surprise it is still in drivable condition. Wirednews reported he took nearly one year for the completion of this task.

Now this has become the moving attraction of Banjaluka, we are absolutely speechless (Photo:-AFP)

China Launches Cleanest Cars During Olympics

Our sport icons may be sweating in China to achieve their best, But the hosting coutry taken this occasion to launch the cleanest car called 'Mini Rick'.Yes we said rightly this should be the cleanest car ever hit roads.The Mini rick is a pedal operated cycle car.

Mini ricks are plying in main streets of Beijing, they show justice all stake holders interest. For visitors its another attraction than Chinese food, for drivers it give an opportunity to earn handsome money finally for public its the cleanest car.

The car image from chinacartimes shows its similarity to the Indian rickshaws, but they are well manoeuvred to serve customer to his fullest satisfaction. The car is totally covered and holds a good interior and exterior. Its obvious they are doing business good infact morethan that they expected.

China has always demonstrated their skill in delivering things fast and at low cost in mass scale, this is just an extension of that.

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