
New Delhi: A day after petrol prices were hiked by an all-time record of Rs 7.50 per litre, leading car makers Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors and Hyundai Motor on Thursday announced discounts of up to Rs 50,000 on petrol models for a limited period. While the country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India has offered a Rs 30,000 discount on its best selling small car Alto in order to stop...

07:59 PM, May 24, 2012

New Delhi: Hyundai Motor India has launched a new version of its premium compact car i20 priced up to Rs Rs 7.67 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). The all new 'iGen i20' will replace the existing i20. The petrol variants of the new version is priced from Rs 4.73 lakh to Rs 6.65 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi), the company said in a statement. The prices are approximately up by Rs 20,000 than the...

05:58 PM, Mar 28, 2012

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09:03 PM, Mar 10, 2012

Appreciation of car brands depends on where you live. Hyundai has been consistently successful in India but only recently garnered a good reputation in Europe and the United States. In those long-established markets Korean cars had been seen as upstarts with indifferent design, lacking in new technology, and saleable only at the lowest prices. Hyundai never lacked ambition but it took some time to understand the standards by which Europeans...

07:16 PM, Feb 21, 2012

One of the world's leading chemical companies, BASF and the Hyundai Motor Group have joined forces to make a new concept car- the i-flow. The i-flow follows Hyundai's 'fluidic design' theme. BASF's contribution lies in the technologies which help save fuel and also to reduce the carbon footprint. The diesel engine in the i-flow concept car gets foam polyurethane insulation which allows the engine to reach optimum operating temperature faster...

03:18 PM, Feb 04, 2012

New Delhi: Hyundai Motor India Thursday unveiled its concept multipurpose vehicle (MPV) - Hexa Space - at the 11th edition of Auto Expo here and said it expects single-digit growth in the Indian car industry in 2012. "We are showing our new concept MPV Hexa Space for the first time. It is too early to say when it could come in the market but it will take three to four...

02:29 PM, Jan 05, 2012

New Delhi: The new Hyundai Sonata is based on an all new platform. Code named GDL. Engine is a new petrol with both manual and auto transmission options. There are no diesel plans at the moment. It will have a 2.4 litre engine called GDI not GDL, a direct injection, 4-cylinder inline engine with the highest power in segment with a power output of 201PS at 6300rpm and a maximum...

10:28 AM, Jan 05, 2012

New Delhi: Passenger car makers offered huge discounts in December, as much as Rs 60,000-70,000, to attract buyers, in what has been a year full of speed breakers for the industry. But if you haven't bought your car yet, get ready for price hikes from January. Many car makers out there, Indian and multi-national, have announced price hikes in the range 1-3 per cent from January 1. December is typically...

10:28 AM, Jan 01, 2012

I remember when I drove the Nissan Sunny in India for the first time and came back to office. Apart from everyone going 'sunny side-up' ten thousand times, the joookes on the ad were wearing thin. So the banter shifted to guessing the price. Everyone put the car in the seven lakh plus category, considering the features it had. But when Nissan announced the price a week later, it was...

03:15 PM, Dec 12, 2011

It's not easy to upset Maruti. India's largest automotive manufacturer however now has cause for a headache and it's coming from as far south as it gets. In the city of Chennai, Hyundai is busy plotting to inject a big migraine with their new Eon. It's aimed squarely at the Alto, India's largest selling car which has been in production for a decade. The Alto monopolised the segment that had...

08:11 PM, Dec 09, 2011

Design & Style The Alto has been around for a decade now, the K10 received a nose job and a redesigned tail to give it a fresh look but that doesn't make the car any different from the Alto we've known Maruti engineers may have shoe-horned the K10B engine into the Alto but this resulted in increasing the length of the engine bay. The front overhang also got longer and...

05:09 PM, Dec 07, 2011

Hyundai's director of marketing and sales, Arvind Saxena was quoted as saying that there will be a price hike across all the Hyundai models from January 2012. Saxena mentioned that Hyundai as a company is finding it difficult to absorb the higher fuel prices, rising inflation and also sharp rupee depreciation. He further added that they are still working out on the specific increase on various models and broadly, the...

04:59 PM, Dec 07, 2011

Chennai: Trouble is brewing Hyundai Motor India Ltd's (HMIL) plant in Chennai with a section of workers threatening to go on strike from Wednesday demanding reinstatement of 18 sacked colleagues. Hyundai Motor India Employees Union (HMIEU), which is not recognised by the management, is insisting that the workers, who have not been taken back under a tripartite agreement signed in December 2010, must be reinstated. "What we want is that...

06:43 PM, Nov 29, 2011

Hyundai Motors India Limited (HMIL) have started their 11th nationwide free car care clinic from 11-20 November 2011. This free car care clinic will have a comprehensive 80 point check up which would include an examination of the transmission, engine, electricals, under-body, exteriors and also AC. In addition to this, customers can also avail of the special discounts being dished out on selected accessories, spare parts, value added services and...

09:57 AM, Nov 11, 2011