Hyundai Motor adds two new variants under EXTER portfolio

Hyundai Motor adds two new variants under EXTER portfolio

Automobile major Hyundai Motor India has rolled out two new variants on its popular entry level sports utility vehicle EXTER, the company said on Friday. The S(O)+ variant, equipped with manual transmission is priced at Rs 7,86,300 (ex-showroom) while S+ variant is an automated manual transmission (AMT) offered at Rs 8,43,900 (ex-showroom). Some of the … Read more

Brezza races past Creta, tops sales charts in August

Brezza races past Creta, tops sales charts in August

New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki’s workhorse SUV Brezza raced past Hyundai Motor India’s Creta to occupy the top slot on the sales chart last month. Maruti Suzuki sold 19,190 units of the Brezza in August, ahead of Hyundai’s flagship SUV, Creta which sold around 16,760 units. While Creta slipped to the third spot in the best-selling … Read more

Maruti, Hyundai, Toyota gear up for launch of seven-seater models amid growing demand

Maruti, Hyundai, Toyota gear up for launch of seven-seater models amid growing demand

Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor India and Toyota Kirloskar Motor are among automakers gearing up to introduce more than half a dozen seven-seater utility vehicles over the next year to capitalise on surging demand for larger passenger vehicles, with buyers opting to travel more with families since the pandemic. While first of the block will be … Read more

Automobile exports from India rise 15.5 pc in Q1

Automobile exports from India rise 15.5 pc in Q1

New Delhi: Automobile exports from India rose 15.5 per cent year-on-year in the June quarter with all verticals, barring three-wheelers, recording growth in shipments, according to the latest SIAM data. Overall shipments stood at 11,92,577 units in the first quarter the current fiscal year, as compared with 10,32,449 units in the same period of the … Read more

Automakers take lead in FY24 salary hikes with double-digit raises

Automakers take lead in FY24 salary hikes with double-digit raises

New Delhi: Automakers have taken the lead in salary increases among all sectors in India, handing out double-digit hikes to their employees for fiscal 2024 amid a robust growth in sales, a Deloitte survey shows. “Automotive OEMs are projecting the highest salary increments across all sectors in 2024, which is 100-140 basis points (or, 1-1.4 … Read more

Spoilt for choice: How changing consumer preferences & tech advancements driving upgrades in electronics and car

Spoilt for choice: How changing consumer preferences & tech advancements driving upgrades in electronics and car

Kolkata | New Delhi: Hyundai Motor India gave the third significant upgrade to its flagship sports utility vehicle Creta this January, almost nine years after its launch in 2015 and about four years after its second generation in 2020. But the next big development followed in just three months with the performance-focused Creta N Line … Read more

Auto sales enter slow lane in May, expected to bounce back in the festive season

Auto sales enter slow lane in May, expected to bounce back in the festive season

Automobile sales slowed down in May as a combination of factors such as heatwaves, election-related uncertainties and a high base led to a decline in dispatches from the manufacturers to the dealers over the year-ago period, said executives at manufacturers that released the monthly sales figures on Saturday.Automobile manufacturers in India count dispatches to dealers … Read more

Passenger vehicle wholesales in slow lane in May due to high base effect, elections

Passenger vehicle wholesales in slow lane in May due to high base effect, elections

New Delhi: Passenger vehicle wholesales in India witnessed a marginal growth in May on account of high base effect and muted demand due to general elections. The overall passenger vehicle dispatches from companies to dealers stood at 3,50,257 lakh units last month as compared to 3,35,436 in the same month a year ago, registering a … Read more

car inventory: Car dealers may end up with 400K unit inventory

car inventory: Car dealers may end up with 400K unit inventory

Carmakers expect to face a record stockpile of 400,000 vehicles worth ₹44,000 crore by this month-end as demand cools in India after a 3-year run of scorching sales. With car despatches to dealers outpacing demand, passenger vehicle registrations, taken as a proxy for retail sales, are also expected to fall by 5% in May from … Read more

Hyundai ties up with Laxmi Group to commence Venue production in Nepal

Hyundai ties up with Laxmi Group to commence Venue production in Nepal

NEW DELHI: Hyundai Motor India on Monday said it has commenced local assembly of its compact SUV Venue in Nepal in collaboration with Laxmi Group. The plant, the first automotive assembly facility in Nepal, has an annual installed capacity of 5,000 units. “Hyundai Venue will be the first locally assembled model to roll off the … Read more