Weekly Wrap-up: Mercedes Strengths its AMG portfolio; Scorpio AT, Linea Elegante Launched

This week in the Indian auto segment, we witnessed the launch of automatic version of next gen Scorpio at Rs. 13.13 lac (Ex-showroom, New Delhi) along with Mercedes-Benz’s S 500 Coupe, S 63 AMG Coupe and G 63 AMG Crazy Color Edition. Fiat India also introduced the limited edition ‘Elegante’ version of its only sedan in the country, the Linea. Priced at INR 9.99 lac, the Linea Elegante is positioned above the regular top-end trim and comes with some minor tweaks inside-out. In the upcoming cars, Ford’s Figo Aspire and Maruti Suzuki S-Cross are scheduled to be launched on 5th August.

Launch News

Fiat India launches Linea Elegante at INR 9.99 lacs7*

Fiat India has launched the limited edition ‘Elegante’ version of its only sedan in the country, the Linea. Priced at INR 9.99 lacs, the Linea Elegante is positioned above the regular top-end trim and comes with some minor tweaks inside-out. The availability of this special version is limited only to the orders that dealers receive from prospective customers. Read More

New Generation Scorpio Automatic launched, priced at Rs. 13.13 lac

To remain strong in the SUV segment, Mahindra has introduced the Automatic variant of the New Generation Scorpio. Available on the top end S10 2WD variant, this automatic version is attractively priced at Rs. 13.13 lac (Ex-showroom, New Delhi). This is the only SUV in the segment to offer 6-speed automatic transmission with 4WD as an option. Read More

Mercedes Launches S 500 Coupe, S 63 AMG Coupe and G 63 AMG Crazy Color Edition

Mercedes has always been synonymous with the epitome of luxury and now also aims at achieving dominance as a luxurious sports car. The car company has launched the S 500 Coupe, S 63 AMG and G63 AMG in the country today. These models mark the entry of the S-class coupes in the Indian market. The company has tagged these models at S-Class Coupe - INR 2.0 Crore, Mercedes-AMG G63 Crazy Color edition- INR 2.17 Crore and S63 AMG Coupe - INR 2.60 crore.These new models are Mec’s additions to its 15 model launch, intended for 2015. Mercedes has  also launched  the G63 AMG, in a new color scheme, showcased under the “Crazy Color” moniker. This basically means that the SUV will be available in bright colors like the Neon Green, shown below. The mechanical components of the beloved terrain trailer, still remain the same. Read More

News

CarDekho Launches CarBay in Malaysia & Thailand

After dominating the auto portal category in India, Girnar Software owned Cardekho has launched CarBay.my in Malaysia and Thailand.CarBay.com in Thailand. Both websites feature the product that established clear leadership for CarDekho.com in India, among many other honors, the winning of "Website of the Year" 3 times in the past 4 years vindicates their success in the Indian subcontinent. Read More

Exclusive: Hyundai Creta Photo Gallery

After dominating the auto buzz on the internet  from past one month, Hyundai Creta finally saw daylight on 21st July. Launched in an exciting price range, it promises to poise a strong challege to segment leader Renault Duster, Ford EcoSport, Nissan Terrano among others. We have got our hands on the Creta and managed to snap some close inside out shots. Here's the collection of Creta pictures for you. Have a look! Read More

Official: Maruti Suzuki to launch S-Cross on August 5th

Maruti Suzuki will launch their much-awaited S-Cross crossover on August 5th. It will be sold through special Nexa dealerships, which was flagged off yesterday in an event in Delhi. Read More

Ford India to Open Bookings for Figo Aspire from July 27, 2015

The wait is finally over for all the Ford lovers! The new compact sedan Figo Aspire from the Blue Oval company will be booked with an upfront payment of Rs 30,000 from 27th July, 2015. The Swift DZire competitor will come with standard driver and passenger airbags while the top variant will be getting six airbags for that extra piece of safety. Read More

Angry Crowd Overturns Hyundai Creta!

Hyundai's all new offering has reportedly met with its its first accident from the day it was launched. Consequently, it was overturned by the angry mob soon after the incident in an attempt to punish the occupants. Read More

Mahindra launches TUV 3OO website

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), has never been one to shy away from the spotlight and just like Bruce Wayne, even Mahindra tends to to take its analogies a tad too seriously. Remember the extremely carved, cheetah- inspired XUV 500? Well, they have done it again. Today, Mahindra Group launched a website for its recently named, much awaited Mahindra TUV3OO. Read More

Upcoming Car Launches in August

July has witnessed a handsome number of launches, both on the luxury segment end and mass volume side. While cars like Hyundai Creta, Honda Jazz stayed on the top spot of the prospective buyer’s list, Maserati Ghibli and Quattroporte along with the BMW X3 and the X6 attracted a lot of attention. Besides, there were many updates to the existing models and a couple of unveils for the coming months, Chevy’s Trailblazer and Spin for instance. Read More

Mahindra Thar Vs Maruti Gypsy Vs Force Gurkha: Raw Offroaders of India!

Mahindra Thar, Maruti Gypsy and Force Gurkha are the only SUVs in the Indian offroad scene that are close to being true blue offroaders. Let’s see how these fare against each others when we put them on comparison. Read More

S-Cross: Should You Buy or Not?

Fifteen Thousand! That’s the pre-booking number Hyundai registered all over the country before it launched Creta on 21st July. And I am sure that by now plenty of us might have seen it running on the roads. And God! It looks gorgeous. That tall stance, indented projector headlamps, striking rear with those sleek taillamps, a floating roof line, those massive 17-inch diamond cut alloy wheels, each of this appeals you to take a glimpse of it over and over again. After all, it belongs to that compact SUV segment that get’s the whole host of cars like Duster and EcoSport. Both of these have recorded such numbers in their times. Read More

Maruti to Launch 20 New Models

Maruti Suzuki India plans on selling 20 lakh cars per annum by 2020 and to do so, it is increasing the product launches in India. Maruti is intending on having a localization content across its premium and volume products. the company intends on achieving a 85% average target. Suzuki will be launching about 20 new products over the next five years and some of these will be sold from its newly launched premium sales channel, Nexa.Most of the models will still be sold through the existing dealerships but the premium models, like the S-Cross will be sold via its premium Nexa dealership. Read More

6 Things You Need To know About the Maruti S Cross

Following into the footsteps laid down by the SX4, Suzuki is all set to bring-in an international product to match the needs of an Indian consumer. The Suzuki S Cross is being brought to India after having received immense success globally. One might say that the Suzuki S Cross shares slight similarities with the discontinued SX4, this is because the new crossover is based on the discontinued SX-4 platform and was also available in many international markets, as the “SX4 S Cross”. SX4 did not find success in the Indian market and that is the reason behind Maruti shedding the term from S Cross' name. As the S Cross is based on the SX4, which was always revered for its impressive ground clearance, the new car shows a lot of promise as a crossover vehicle. Read More

Renault Duster Facelift Spied ahead of its Launch

The all new Indian spec Renault Duster facelift was recently spotted in Chennai. The facelift which is said to launch towards the end of 2015 was found testing under black vinyl on Chennai roads. Read More

Mahindra Names U301 compact SUV - TUV3OO, Launching Mid-September!

Mahindra has officially revealed their all new sub-4m compact SUV - TUV3OO (pronounced as TUV 3 double 'Oh', T stands for tough), it was internally codenamed project U301. The launch is slated around mid-September and deliveries will start soon after it. Read More

Ford Figo Aspire Vs Dzire Vs Xcent Vs Zest Vs Amaze

The compact sedan segment is one of the highest grossing car segments of India. It is also the home of the major sales churners of some of the car makers. While cars like Maruti Swift and Hyundai Xcent are leading this segment, Honda’s Amaze too, has its fair share. And as the Indian auto sector flies high every manufacturer is eyeing at this particular space. The last one was Tata, came up with Zest and it layed foundations for the company's future generations. But, here’s another one, yes, the much awaited Ford Figo Aspire coming in the first half of next month. Read More

Post Creta launch: S-Cross Still Promising?

If reports are to be believed, Hyundai advanced the launch of Creta nearly a couple of months just to get in time with the upcoming Maruti Suzuki S-Cross. And it's very much evident that the Creta has stormed the market with plenty of anticipation compared to S-Cross. And as expected Hyundai has put a slightly premium price band and guess what, it seems like Korean automaker will cash out from this brilliant package. However, the S-Cross, joining next week, is not just any other product, it's coming from the house of Maruti Suzuki - India’s largest passenger car maker. Read More

Production Spec Tata Kite Hatchback Spotted

We have spied the Tata’s upcoming hatchback Kite testing around Lonavala. The company is also using Hyundai Grand i10 and Maruti Suzuki Celerio for the benchmarking purpose. There were both petrol and diesel versions on the test and guess what there were also engineers from Tata’s European technical center. Read More

Chevrolet unveils Trailblazer & Spin; $ 1 Billion to be invested in India

General Motors today unveiled the upcoming Chevrolet Trailblazer SUV and Spin MPV in Delhi. An investment of US $1 billion (INR 6,400 Crores) in Chevrolet India was also announced by the American automaker. Read More

Automotive Hall of Fame inducts Ratan Tata

The visionary behind the world’s most affordable car and Chairman Emeritus at Tata Sons, Ratan Tata, has been inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame for his contribution to the global automotive industry. Read More

Road Test

Hyundai Creta - First Drive Review

The Indian compact SUV market has been buzzing with activity for the past couple of years. Every manufacturer wants a share of the segment and the newest entrant is also the one that has been one of the most anticipated cars of the year. The Hyundai Creta aims to capture the Rs 9-13 lakh SUV market in India – it’s sold as the ix25 in China but will be exported with the Creta tag to various international markets. Here’s what we think about this baby Santa Fe. Read More

Maruti Suzuki Alto K10 AMT - Expert Review

Maruti, is a household name in India. In fact, in remote parts of the country, the term ‘Maruti’ is synonymous with ‘car’ - much like ‘Xerox’ is to ‘photocopy’. The Maruti 800 was consistently India’s highest selling car for years together. Outselling the competition combined at times. Everyone in the country has been associated with a Maruti. Either they’ve owned it, learnt driving on it, their neighbors had it or broke the windscreen on one while playing cricket. They were everywhere! The Alto was the spiritual successor to the Maruti 800, filling in its rather big shoes ever since September 2000. Carrying the weight of the car that put India on wheels is no mean feat. But the Alto did it ever so gracefully, becoming India’s largest selling car in the process. Read More

Land Rover Range Rover Evoque - Expert Review

If there’s anything that history has taught us about the British, it is that they are proud of a couple of things. There’s the Queen, tea, cricket and ofcourse - Land Rover. The Land Rover brand has seen a lot of ups and down, changed a lot of owners and received a lot of bouquets and brickbats over the years. Well, that is what happens when you are in business for close to half a decade. Land Rover has embodied the absolute definition of a go-anywhere, do-anything vehicle with the legendary Defender and Discovery series. The original Land Rovers were built around the utilitarian philosophy more than anything else. Circa 1970, the Range Rover was showcased to the world. While It wasn’t a big departure from the parent brand - it was ‘just a big Land Rover’.  Read More

Interesting Feature Articles

Top 10 Land Speed Records of the World

Ever since the inception of the first ever automobile in 1768, automobile manufacturers have focused on a lot of aspects like comfort, efficiency, emissions, safety and styling but, ever since the beginning, the major focus has remained on making the car go fast. People have been trying to break land speed records since 1898 when the first record was created by Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat (1867 - November 20, 1903) in his Jeantaud Duc hitting 92.78 Km/hr. Many have been successful but a lot more have failed and some even paid with their life trying to be the fastest man on land. Read More

Four Unknown Bond Cars

Bond has never been one to shy away from recognition. For that matter, he might just be the most iconic secret agent, who doesn't bother keeping his identity a secret. Details about him are known all over the world, including his compulsively repeated name and oxymoron drink orders. We believe that this complete dismissal of modesty is what makes us love Mr. Bond so very much. The irony beckons, as we realize that there have been materialistic possession of Bond, which unlike his consistently flaunted Omega, still remain unknown to us. Impossible you say? Well, inspired by the release of the new Spectre trailer, we have managed to compile a list of four beautiful masterpieces of automotive excellence, which despite the valiant attempts made by our beloved secret agent, might have slipped through your surveillance. Read More

Life of a Legend: Hindustan Ambassador

India has always used its diversity to integrate its prosperity and the same was stated time and time again in our social studies books. But taking a look around us, we do see glimpses of the same being true. The country features English and Hindi as co-official languages, exercises secularism in terms of religion and the list goes on and on. One of the most dear examples of foreign influence becoming a part of Indian society is the Hindustan Ambassador. Read More

Highways To Thrill: Top 5 Roads For The Indian Supercars

With brands like Bugatti, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Lamborghini coming into the Indian market, sports cars and super cars are no more a rarity on the Indian streets. They can easily be spotted in the metro cities. Although in all these sightings, the one thing that remains common is watching the owner struggle with the Indian traffic on the bumpy roads. Read More

Maruti Suzuki Alto Evolution

Alto has been crunching massive sales figures for Maruti Suzuki since its inception in 2000. The car that has been ruling our market from the past 9 years was also the largest-selling small car in the world in 2014 beating the likes of Volkswagen Golf in Germany and Toyota Aqua and Honda Fit in Japan. Read More

Might Of The Titan: 10 Best Armored Vehicles Of The Indian Army

Indian Army is one of the largest armies of the world. With such a large army always ready to protect its citizens, it takes a special fleet of automobiles to guard the guardians. Here are the top 10 most ferocious armored vehicles of the Indian Army responsible for keeping our soldiers safe. Read More