Honda City sales zoom post price cut

     Honda City sales have bounced back after the price cut from the company. Honda owing to low sales had announced price cut upto Rs. 66,000 on its popular model City.


     Not only the City but also other models from Honda - Jazz, Civic, Accord and CR-V have also done well in June 2011. Overall Honda sold 3,455 units in June 2011 as compared to 2,334 units sold during May 2011 posting 48% growth.








Model wise sales of Honda cars in June 2011 is as follows

Jazz: 361
City: 2802
Civic: 175
Accord: 103
CR-V: 14


     Honda is planning to launch its small car Brio in India by October this year. With Brio, the company aims to enter into volume market in India. Expected to be priced between Rs. 5-6 lakh, Brio seams to be the blue eyed car for Honda in emerging markets like India.

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Nissan Sunny India launch in December 2011

     Nissan will launch its global sedan Sunny in India in December this year. Nissan has been testing the Sunny sedan on Indian soil for some time. In our earlier post we had showed the Nissan Sunny spy pictures taken near Chennai.

     The Nissan Sunny sedan was unveiled at Guangzhou Auto Show earlier this year. The sedan is based on the Micra small car and is built on Nissan-Renaults V platform. The Sunny will be available in both petrol and diesel variants.

     The Sunny will be manufactured at Nissan’s Chennai plant. After the sedan launch Nissan plans to launch a MPV in Indian market. Nissan along with its partner Ashok Leyland has developed a MPV – NV200 which was spied testing near Bangalore. The Nissan-Ashok Leyland MPV (NV200) will bring in versatility in Indian MPV segment. 

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2012 Honda CR-V spotted in China

     Last week we had showed you the teaser of 2012 Honda CR-V on Honda’s US website. Now the next generation Honda CR-V has been spotted in China. The 2012 CR-V is expected to be unveiled at Gungzhou Auto Show later this year. Will it come to India? We feel it definitely will. With the strong competition for Honda in India for its cars, Honda will try to launch the 2012 CR-V as soon as possible and hopefully with a diesel powertrain.

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Toyota Etios Liva well received, clocks 1000 bookings in 3days

     Toyota Etios Liva was launched on 27th of last month in India and in just 3 days has clocked over 1000 bookings. Earlier when Toyota had launched the Etios sedan, it too got an overwhelming response with waiting periods going up to 6 months. If the things go the same way, even Etios Liva might demand a huge waiting period.

     As we have always said, it is the Liva diesel which the people of India are waiting for. It is the Liva diesel which is expected to give run for its money for the market leader Swift. If not the petrol Liva, the diesel version will definitely create a long waiting period. Toyota is running full capacity with 2 shifts at its Bangalore plant. The company is hiring over 2000 professionals to meet the market demand. Even after this, we feel Toyota will fall short in fulfilling the demands - only in quantity and definitely not in quality.

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India car market sales data for June 2011

Chevrolet

Spark : 3318
Beat : 1614
UVA : 95
Aveo : 160
Tavera : 1738
Optra : 241
Cruze : 860
Captiva : 161

Fiat

Linea : 350
Punto : 1150
Palio : 6

Ford

Fiesta Classic : 1077 
Figo : 5698 
Endeavour : 248 

HM-Mitsubishi

Ambassador : 250 (approx)
Pajero : 107
Outlander : 41
Montero : 8
Lancer + Cedia : 7
Evolution X : 0

Honda

City : 2802 
Civic : 175 
Accord : 103 
Jazz : 361 
CRV : 14

Hyundai

Santro : 7114
i10 : 10969
i20 : 7152
Accent : 941
Verna : 4102
Sonata : 24
Santa Fe : 100

Mahindra

Verito : 1510
Xylo : 2573
Scorpio : 3645
Bolero : 7558
ST + Maxx + Marshal : 767

Maruti

M800 : 1823
Omni : 6683
Alto : 23240
Estilo : 1532
WagonR : 12215
Dzire : 2486
SX4 : 713
Eeco : 5499
Swift : 9468
A-Star : 905
Ritz : 5239
Kizashi : 32
Gypsy : 182
G.Vitara : 3

Nissan

Micra : 1609
X-Trail : 16
Teana : 5
370Z : 2

Skoda

Laura : 693
Fabia : 1461
Superb : 325
Yeti : 132

Tata

Nano : 5452
Indica : 8188
Indigo : 4882
Sumo : 1470
Safari : 1223
Aria : 356
Venture : 423 

Toyota

Innova : 4,665
Corolla : 629
Fortuner : 990
Etios : 5,002
Liva : 737 
Camry : 9
Prius : 2

Volkswagen

Polo : 2,679
Vento : 2,457
Jetta : 59
Passat : 197
Beetle : 3
Phaeton : 2

Source: Team-Bhp

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Audi Q3 India launch in 2012

     Audi has confirmed the launch of Q3 SUV in India next year. The Q3 SUV will come with both petrol and diesel engines. An all wheel drive system might also be incorporated in the Q3.


     Recently Audi unveiled the Q3 SUV at Shanghai Auto Show. Q3 has been essentially developed to compete against BMW X1. In India too Q3 will be pitted against the X1 and Audi will definitely work to price the Q3 very close its BMW counterpart. Expect the Q3 to be priced between Rs. 23-25 lakh.


     Audi Q3 will be manufactured at Audi's Aurangabad plant. Audi hopes to sell 5000 units of Q3 in 2012 and 30,000 units by 2020.

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New Volkswagen Touareg spied in Pune

     The new Volkswagen Touareg was spied testing near Pune. According to the report the new Touareg is roomier, more powerful, more efficient and lighter than the current generation model. The vehicle spied had a V6 TDi badge on the rear. The new Volkswagen Touareg will make its Indian debut in August 2011.

Source: Overdrive

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