Ratan Tata dreams of running a car fueled by water

     Ratan Tata is an industrialist who does not want to hang up his boots. After the launch of Rs 1 lakh car which was his dream, he has an other dream of running a car on water. It might sound strange but the way scientists are going the possibility of a car being run on water might come true.

     Ratan Tata has invested US $ 15 Million with a Professor of Massechusetts Institute of Technology for reseach on breaking the hydrogen and oxygen from water in a new way to propel the vehicle. Mr. Tata intends to buy the technology which it comes true. 


     The information of the funding was given by noted Scientist of India and Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister Prof C N R Rao.

New car launches for India in 2011

Chevrolet Beat LPG and Diesel: Launch Jan 2011

Maruti Suzuki Kizashi: Launch Jan 2011

Next Gen. Maruti Swift/Dzire: Launch April 2011

Renault Fluence: Launch early 2011

Honda Brio: Launch March 2011

New Volkswagen Jetta: Launch 2011

Nissan Sunny: Launch mid 2011

Skoda SK215: Launch Sep 2011

Toyota Etios Liva: Launch mid 2011

New Ford Fiesta: Launch Dec 2011

Maruti Suzuki min SUV launch in India by 2012

     India's largest car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki has hinted about the launch of a mini SUV in Indian market. The company is finding hard to maintain its 50% share in Indian market, thanks to the launch of small cars from Chevrolet, Ford and Nissan. Inspite of though going in the last 2-3 months of 2010, it managed to register double digit growth which is phenonmenal.

     Suzuki, the parent company of Maruti Suzuki has currently one mini SUV in its portfolio - "Jimny". It is more likely that Jimny will be launched as a mini SUV in India. Jimny, sold in Japan is powered by a petrol engine will find a diesel heart in India as petrol SUVs are not percieved well in India. The diesel engine could be the same 1.3 DDiS currenty powering Swift, Ritz and Dizre cars or it could be outsoured from Volkswagen.

     A little modifications in the body can be expected to make it a four doored vehicle. Again, since Jimny is a two doored vehicle, it will not be well percieved by the Indians.

Maruti to launch 7 new models in next 2 years

     Maruti is one company which is always on its toes. Whatever the market demands the company has the capacity to fulfill it in a short possible time. When there was small car wars launch in 1998 when the country's first indegenous car Tata Indica was launched, most of the industry experts thought it be end of the road to Maruti. Maruti's market share of 84% was in a huge danger. But the company bounced back by series of launches and upgradation of its products and finally could maintain 50% of the market share inspite of all the Global leaders launcing their latest cars in the country.

    
     Now Maruti has different plans for furute in India. It wants to tap the unattended potential segments to reamain the market leader for much more time. Here are the launches from Maruti in the next two years

1. Jimny - Mini SUV
2. Kizashi - Luxury Sedan
3. SX4 Diesel - Mid Sedan with Diesel engine
4. Next Generation Swift - Upgradation of its premier hatchback
5. Next Generation Dzire - Upgradation of its entry level sedan
6. R3 - Multi Utility Vehicle
7. Small Car - Indegenously built small car to rival Nano
8. Cervo - New small car in A2 segment