Mumbai: The emergence of a new class of 4-wheelers has split the auto industry wide open. Even as countries like Singapore have expressed interest in Bajaj Auto's 4-wheeler the RE60, auto makers like Tata Motors say the move towards quadricycles is regressive.
Rajiv Bajaj hits back saying car makers are forcing the government to be anti innovation. CNBC-TV18's Sunanda Jayaseelan reports.
It may look like a car, but Bajaj Auto has always maintained that its 4-wheeler is an upgrade of the humble auto rickshaw, hence not in competition with small car makers like Maruti and Tata Motors .
Bajaj has positioned the RE60 as the cleanest intra-city 4 wheeler with the lowest carbon dioxide emissions in the world with a top speed of 70km/hr and a claim of the highest fuel efficiency of more than 30km/litre....
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05:11 PM, Apr 30, 2013
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05:43 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: The country's second largest two-wheeler maker Bajaj Auto today launched a sports bike 'Duke 200' from its Austrian associate firm KTM's portfolio at an introductory price of Rs 1.18 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). "The launch of 'Duke' is one of the many steps in our association with KTM over the last five years. Between Bajaj Pulsar and KTM 'Duke' we intend to further strengthen our position in sports motorcycle...
02:24 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Bajaj Auto, India's second largest bike maker, finally unveiled its first four-wheeler, a low-emission car - RE 60 on the eve of the 2012 Auto Expo in New Delhi. The company, which had in 2008 showcased a concept small car but decided not to go ahead with the project. High fuel efficiency and lower emissions are the key factors on which the company is banking on to make...
01:31 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Joseph Campbell, in his The Hero with a Thousand Faces, explained the making of a hero. The hero starts out ordinary; gets a call to adventure; undergoes severe tests and on survival gets a great boon. After this, he returns to an ordinary life and uses that boon to improve the world. In the past 40 years, the world of business would have produced a handful of leaders who can...
10:58 AM, Dec 09, 2011
Chennai: Undeterred by the slump in the automobile market, two wheeler manufacturers in India aim to post decent sales this financial year, buoyed by good sales in November. While Japanese two-wheeler manufacturer India Yamaha aims to sell over four lakh units this year, rival Bajaj Auto plans to post sales of four million units this fiscal. India Yamaha Motor Director-Sales and Marketing Jun Nakata said they planned to sell over...
12:38 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Pawan Munjal Age: 57 Profile: Managing Director and CEO of Hero MotoCorp Fast Facts: - His father Brijmohan Lall Munjal is No 21 on the Rich List - Keen on making Hero a global two-wheeler company Pawan Munjal is the quintessential behind-the-scenes operator; the kind whos more comfortable on the shop floor than at the launch of his latest motorbike. The shy, introverted 57-year-old elder son of Brijmohan Lall Munjal...
10:45 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Name: Rajiv Bajaj Profile: Managing Director, Bajaj Auto Age: 45 Why He Won: For spearheading Bajaj Auto's strategic shift from scooters to motorcycles. And for forging an entry into large markets in China and Africa. I've often pondered over a critical question: Why do 90-95 per cent of all new products fail? This is a very fundamental issue because if the failure rate is so high, it clearly means there...
10:01 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Mumbai: The 30-share BSE Sensex managed to recoup more than half of its losses in the last couple of hours of trade on Thursday, following a recovery in European markets. Bharti Airtel, SBI, Infosys and Tata Steel made a sharp rebound. The BSE Sensex dropped 148.45 points, to close at 16,936.89, after showing 192 points recovery from day's low of 16,744.99. The 50-share NSE Nifty fell 47.25 points, to end...
09:10 AM, Oct 20, 2011
Ahead of Budget 2011, Chairman of Bajaj Auto, Rahul Bajaj suggests ways to tackle inflation. ...
09:53 AM, Feb 24, 2011
The iconic Bajaj scooter will soon be history. ...
10:16 AM, Dec 10, 2009
Carlos Ghosn says India would be the first and main market for the car. ...
04:57 PM, Nov 10, 2009
The company in its statement said it expects higher sales in July. ...
05:55 PM, Jul 02, 2009
The new bike is an advanced version of the 220 Pulsar bike. ...
01:56 PM, Jun 23, 2009
Bajaj Auto plans to launch six new models in 2009 and the degrowth would continue. ...
10:09 PM, Jan 16, 2009
Islamabad: The Bangladesh Cricket Board has reportedly agreed to send its cricket team to Pakistan for three one-day internationals and two Twenty20s in December. The Daily Jang newspaper says new BCB president Nazmul Hasan will chair a meeting on Wednesday after which the tour will be announced. Bangladesh was scheduled to tour Pakistan in April for a short series, but it was cancelled after its high court ordered the visit...
10:56 PM, Jul 10, 2008
Harare: New Zealand opening batsmen Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill continued their assault on the Zimbabwe bowlers to set up a comfortable win in the second and final Twenty20 international at Harare Sports Club on Monday. McCullum (64) and Guptill (67) put on 120 for the first wicket as the tourists piled up 187 for three after being sent in to bat in a match reduced by rain to 18...
08:27 PM, Mar 10, 2008
Melbourne: Cricket Australia (CA) and the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) are heading towards a possible confrontation if the board chooses to follow Don Argus's key recommendations that it stops paying players a fixed 26 per cent share of total revenue. The Age reported that ACA in its written response to the Argus review has refused to consider sacrificing the revenue-sharing model. The ACA has fought with CA for more than...
01:06 AM, Feb 28, 2008
Nottingham: The ICC on Sunday ruled that the run out decision of Ian Bell on the third day of the second cricket Test here was correct and applauded Indian team's fine gesture to recall the England batsman by withdrawing their appeal. ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat praised India, the England team and the match officials at Trent Bridge, for the way they upheld the Great Spirit of the Great Sport...
09:23 PM, Feb 16, 2008
Navi Mumbai: Deccan Chargers ended Pune Warriors' slim hopes of qualifying for the play-offs with a comfortable six-wicket victory in an Indian Premier League match here today. Asking the home team to bat, the Chargers first restricted Warriors to a modest 136 for nine and then raced to 138 in 19.2 overs with six wickets in hand at the D Y Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Shikhar Dhawan (28 in...
09:06 PM, Jan 25, 2008
