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Just days after Tata Motors began the booking process for the Tata Nano, the company has reaped a windfall of almost Rs.15 crore, purely by selling close to 500,000 application forms @ Rs.300 each. The sale of forms started on April 1, bookings began from April 9 and close on April 25. State Bank of India (SBI), which is offering [...]

Image: Tata Nano website All the hype surrounding the Tata Nano continues unabated, and what’s more, the car, launched on March 23, can now be booked online as well, a first in the Indian auto industry. The bookings will commence on April 9 and will go on till April 25.

Image: Hyundai Website As expected, Hyundai has launched the Hyundai i20, first unveiled at the Paris Motor show in October, thereby delivering on their intention of rolling out the i20 even as 2008 draws to a close.

Maruti Suzuki has launched yet another small car, the A-Star. The  price range for this hatch is between Rs. 3,47,000 to Rs .4,12,000. It is available in three variants (LXi, VXi and ZXi) in the domestic market, whereas the export version will have over 200 variants. The car is powered by a three cylinder 998cc K10B petrol engine which produces 67ps [...]

Image: Audi Website Audi has launched the R8 in India, the newest entrant to the Rs.1 crore plus elite club. 

And………… another weekend comes to an end… well, the above title pretty much sums up the events of the past couple of days !! I finally went for my long delayed test drive of the Hyundai i10 Kappa. As may be obvious from my other posts, I’m quite firm in my belief that automatic transmissions will replace stick shifts [...]

Mahindra & Mahindra has finally launched the Scorpio Automatic, which comes with a 6-speed auto transmission and a 2.2 litre mHawk engine.The Scorpio Automatic has ’intelligent’ driving modes that allow a driver to tackle various driving conditions with ease. These include User Engaged Modes and Auto Engaged Modes. M&M has tied up with an Aussie company called DriveTrain System International for the [...]