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Plans for the upcoming Mangalore Auto Expo 2012

Manipal Ace Event Management Company Ltd will conduct ‘Mangalore Auto Expo 2012′ at Karavali Ground in Mangalore on February 18 and 19. Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Mr K. Narasimha Prabhu, Chief Executive Officer of the company, said that nearly 20 dealers of various vehicles, about 6 banks and finance companies. Apart from the automobile [...]

Garage – Yousuf’s Karizma-R

Date of acquired – July 2009 Efficiency – 40.06kmpl Distance covered – 15,729 km COSTS – Disc pad Kit Rs.349/-, Chain spocket Rs.856/- For – Performance, plush ride, fit and finish Drawbacks – Nothing much, spares are an issue though. Let me tell you the story that made me choose the Karizma as my street [...]

Bike Modification in India

India has now become the favourite market for all bikemanufacturers. There are more bike enthusiasts then anywhere in the world. That may be the reason that all major giants in two wheeler industry are seeing India as the perfect place to launch their new bike or a new model. In recent past we have seen [...]

Bajaj to re-launch Boxer 150cc by next month

As bharathautos had reported earlier, Bajaj is all set to launch their 150cc bike under the Boxer brand by next month. In fact, Bajaj Auto has already soft launched Boxer 150 cc in some cities of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, as a part of the initial feedback drive we reckon. We would like to think [...]

Spied – Honda’s Brio in Greater-Noida

Honda Siel Cars India Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of premium cars in India will launch the company’s first car in hatchback segment, Brio to be launched later this year and will be priced at around Rs 4.5 lakh. The very first pictures Honda’s Brio caught testing at Greater-Noida Area by AutoCarIndia reader Vineet Kumar. [...]

Delhi Belly might get sued by Hyundai India for derogatory use of Santro in movie

The popular song ‘Bhag DK Bose’ in the movie Delhi Belly has got under some serious legal trouble emanating from Hyundai. If you have seen the movie you will surely know about the red Hyundai Santro which Imran Khan is gifted by his father in law. Hyundai feels that the movie is depicting the company’s [...]

TVS Apache Racing DNA Edition unleashed

Recently TVS did something new with TVS Apache. It came up with the launch of the ABS edition and when utility of the bike was not much highlighted as everyone wants to test the bike’s race capabilities, the ABS feature didn’t see find much favour with bikers. Now the company has released TVS Apache RTR [...]

Video – Renault Fluence TV commercial

Renault India finally released its first TV commercial for the Fluence sedan. The spot is a typical auto manufacturer ad, trying to play it safe, keeping things simple, harping on the car being modern, while also giving you a quick glance of the salient features. It’s a nice ad, which tells the customer about the [...]

Audi A3 Sedan India launch by 2014

German automaker Audi could launch the A3 sedan in India by 2013-14, as revealed by Mr Peter Schwarzenbauer, the board member of Audi AG to a team of Indian journalists. Audi seems to have done the latter and has become very ambitious about the Indian car market. With almost all top cars already launched, it’s [...]

Spied – Skoda Youngster in Europe

Skoda Youngster, Is this Skoda’s small car for India? This test mule was spotted somewhere in the Europe. Like its parent company Volkswagen, Skoda also intends to launch a small car below Fabia in India. The Youngster will share platform with VW Lupo and Seat Arena though the exterior will look completely different from each [...]

Jimmy Sheirgill new brand ambassador of Mahindra Verito

Mahindra has made Jimmy Shergill the brand ambassador of the Verito. The company has rolled out the first TV Commercial, which features Jimmy as the Verito man (they make him sound like some superman). See the commercial below the jump Also see - Video – Mahindra Verito Commercial Video of new ad for the Verito with bollywood [...]

Bangalore Engineering students develop 110 km/liter Diesel bike

Four mechanical engineering students from M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology have developed a bike, which runs on diesel. However what is most interesting is the mileage which the bike gives. Naveen V V, Tony Paul, Nadeem Anwar and Sanjay Bhushan claim their innovative bike, have shocked the world by developing a diesel engine motorbike [...]

2011 Skoda Laura RS in India by this September

Skoda India will launch a cosmetic uplift of Skoda Laura RS at the festival season to attract more sales in India as people consider it more auspicious to make purchases around Diwali festival season. The company will launch the Laura RS with the RS body kits, but not the 200 bhp, 2.0 litre turbo-petrol engine, [...]

Volkswagen India Hikes Vento Diesel Price

Volkswagen has announced that effective July 1, 2011, the prices of Vento diesel variant will be hiked by 2.2 percent. This comes as a result of continually increasing input costs. The customers who book the Vento diesel until June 30, 2011 will be able to avail the car without the price increase. At the same [...]

ŠkodaAuto celebrates completion of 10 years in India

Škoda India celebrated its 10th Anniversary in India. Škoda has been operating in India since November 2001 as a subsidiary of ŠkodaAuto a. s. Czech Republic (Volkswagen Group). Škoda entered into the Indian market with the launch of the Octavia sedan. It soon started its assembly operation in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Shendra near [...]

Renault India has added the top end Diesel variant of Renault Fluence D Segment sedan in India. During the official launch of Renault Fluence in May 2011, Renault launched Diesel variant with E2 Trim and Petrol variant with E4 trim. The E2 Diesel had lower feature sets and only manual transmission option in India while the petrol E4 came with fully loaded features and automatic transmission. Now the E4 diesel Fluence trim mirrors the features list of the E4 petrol variant. Now, there are quite a few exciting new features in the diesel variant, which the consumers can look forward to. The dual zone automatic climate control is included, which is a must-have in all the latest upmarket sedans. One of the most advanced safety measures, the cruise control, automatic light sensing headlamps and rain sensing wipers are a part of the upgrade. On the interior end the car now gets a beige shade and leather upholstery, rear sun-blinds, USB and Bluetooth equipped audio system, dual zone climate control and rear AC ducts. However, the upgraded E4 diesel is only available with a manual transmission. Bookings for the Fluence diesel E4 have already commenced and its priced at Rs 14.50 lakh (ex-showroom, New Delhi), which is Rs 1.5 lakh dearer than the base E2 variant.   Prices of Renault Fluence (Ex-showroom, New Delhi) - Renault Fluence E2 Diesel with Manual Transmission Is Priced at Rs. 12.99 Lakhs Renault Fluence E4 Diesel with Manual Transmission Is Priced at Rs. 14.50 Lakhs Renault Fluence E4 Petrol with automatic Transmission Is Priced at Rs. 14.40 Lakhs   Also see - Renault to launch Fluence diesel with new features in November   See more pictures of Renault Fluence -