Hyundai Motor India expects SUV sales to account for 65 per cent of its overall volumes in 2024, while it gears up to enter the EV segment early next year, aiming to garner 20 per cent of its total sales by 2030, its COO Tarun Garg said on Tuesday. The automaker, which got around 60 … Read more
For Maruti, small spelt big for decades when it led the market with its entry level cars and hatchbacks. The company, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, reincarnated in 2016 as a big-car maker with its first SUV, the Brezza, which was a success that birthed more. How was it able to anticipate and capture the new … Read more
New Delhi: In a record year for car sales, only four companies – Hyundai, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra and Toyota – hit new highs, amid weak demand at the lower end of the market. Market leader Maruti Suzuki got to 1.71 million units, but that was still short of its pre-Covid record of 1.73 … Read more
It’s not just you: American cars have gotten bigger. Over the past two decades, growing numbers of US buyers have turned in their sedans for SUVs and pickup trucks. And those SUVs and pickups have grown ever more hulking. The electrification of driving isn’t slowing the growth spurt. Batteries are heavy, and many carmakers are … Read more
New Delhi: Carmakers are offering the best deals seen in the past five years on small cars, sedans and slow-moving SUVs to reduce dealer inventory that has ballooned after the recent festive season. Several dealers and industry executives ET spoke to said discounts on vehicles have increased by 25-50% over the same period last year, … Read more
Tata Motors on Wednesday said its SUVs Safari and Harrier have become the first recipients of the five-star rating for adult and child occupant protection as per the Bharat New Car Assessment Programme (Bharat-NCAP). Earlier in August this year, the government had launched the Bharat-NCAP, India’s very own and independent safety performance evaluation protocol for … Read more
In 2023, SUVs (sports utility vehicles), though shrunk from their original avatars, came to rule India’s auto market. The number of SUV launches hit a new high this calendar year at 108, reaching the three-figure mark for the first time. The craze for SUVs can be gauged from the fact that they overtook all other … Read more
