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September 9, 2020 No Responses

Volkswagen Ends Dealership Ties Over Symbol

Volkswagen has announced it was cutting commercial ties with a Mexican distributor which displayed an old photograph of an iconic Beetle car alongside Nazi soldiers and swastikas.The picture shows “a regime that emphasized hatred and discrimination” and was “completely alien...

August 7, 2020 No Responses

Toyota Reports 74 Per Cent Drop In Profit

Toyota‘s profit plunged 74 per cent in the last quarter as the coronavirus pandemic sank vehicle sales to about half of what the top Japanese automaker sold the previous year. Toyota Motor Corporation reported on Thursday a profit of 158.8 billion...

July 22, 2020 No Responses

Ceat Unveils Contactless Services For Customers

Ceat has announced a slew of new service offerings to ensure safety of its customers and business continuity for its dealer partners.The new services offerings include contactless pick & drop service, appointment-based service and in-shop measur...

July 17, 2020 No Responses

European New Car Sales Down 24.1%

European passenger car sales slumped in June compared to a year ago but showed an improvement since May with the easing of coronavirus lockdown measures across the region, industry data showed on Thursday.In June, new car registrations dropped by 24.1% year-...

July 15, 2020 No Responses

Hyundai Launches New Tucson SUV

Hyundai Motor on Tuesday launched its facelifted Tucson Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) for the Indian market through its new digital platform ‘The Next Dimension’. The South Korean auto firm also introduced the new Creta SUV and Verna sedan to th...

July 13, 2020 No Responses

Toyota Unveils Corolla Cross SUV

Toyota Motor has launched the new Corolla Cross Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) in Thailand, which is based on the Japanese automaker’s popular sedan. The automaker is expected to launch the Corolla Cross in other markets in the near future. Corolla Cr...

July 10, 2020 No Responses

Hyundai Venue SUV Gets Intelligent Manual Transmission

Hyundai Motor has announced intelligent Manual Transmission (iMT) for the Hyundai Venue compact Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). According to the auto firm, this is the first-in-industry dual-Pedal Intelligent M...

July 9, 2020 No Responses

New Mercedes-Benz GLS Debuts In Nigeria

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com — Regarded as Mercedes-Benz’s largest and most luxurious Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), the all-new Mercedes-Benz GLS has arrived in Nigeria courtesy Weststar Associates Limited, Authorized General Distribut...

July 4, 2020 No Responses

Daimler To Sell French Factory

Daimler will seek to sell its factory in Hambach, France, as part of an overhaul of its production system, the German carmaker said on Friday, prompting France’s finance minister to urge the company to reconsider.The move comes as the auto...

July 3, 2020 No Responses

Kia Delivers 7,275 Units In June

For the month of June, 2020, Kia Motors delivered 7,275 units in the Indian market. The Company sold 7,114 units of Seltos and 161 Carnivals.The South Korean SUV maker had sold 1,661 units in May 2020. Kookhyun Shim, MD & CEO, Kia...

July 2, 2020 No Responses

Hyundai Delivers 21,320 Units In June

For the month of June, 2020, Hyundai Motor on Wednesday reported a decline of 49.2 percent at 21,320 units in Indian market, as against 42,007 units in the same period last year.The company’s exports for June 2020 stood at 5,500...

July 1, 2020 No Responses

JLR Reveals New Defender Hard Top SUV

Jaguar Land Rover has revealed the 2021 Land Rover Defender Hard Top, ahead of the rugged 4×4 SUV’s launch later this year.A statement explained that Land Rover will revive its Hard Top moniker through the new commercial De...

June 29, 2020 No Responses

Skoda Unveils New Octavia Variant

Czech auto major, Skoda has unveiled the Octavia G-Tec, which is designed to run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Scheduled to be launched across European markets later this year, the new Octavia G-Tec comes as an environmentally friendly ...

June 27, 2020 No Responses

Hyundai Unveils New Elantra Sedan

Hyundai Motor has announced the launch of updated Elantra sedan with new BS-VI diesel engine for the Indian market. According to Hyundai, the new 1.5-litre U2 CRDi BS-VI diesel engine is available in SX and SX(O) variants, adding that the...