India is difficult for global carmakers because buyers are highly value-conscious but still demand mileage, reliability, safety, features and service reach all…
The Maruti 800, a joint venture between the Government of India and Suzuki, launches and becomes the car of the Indian middle class — far more reliable and efficient tha…
India's economic reforms reduce barriers to foreign investment and attract global automakers, shifting the market from protected domestic production toward international…
Hyundai's Santro nails compact, tall-boy practicality for Indian roads, while Tata's Indica becomes India's first fully homegrown modern passenger car — two very differe…
A lower excise-tax bracket for cars under four metres pushes automakers to design India-specific compact sedans and, later, compact SUVs to fit it — a tax outcome, not a…
Volkswagen starts local production in Pune, entering a market already dominated by Maruti and Hyundai — the starting point of a struggle that leads all the way to 2026.
Tata launches the Nano at roughly one lakh rupees, aiming to motorize two-wheeler families. Farmer protests force the plant's move from Singur to Sanand, reshaping how s…
After more than $2 billion in cumulative losses over two decades, Ford shuts its Sanand and Chennai plants — a stark warning that global engineering alone cannot win Ind…
India's passenger-vehicle sales overtake Japan's in 2022, making it the third-largest market behind China and the United States — a scale no automaker can ignore.
JSW Group takes a stake in SAIC's MG Motor India, creating a new localisation and ownership template — an Indian industrial group backing a foreign-linked brand.
Skoda Auto Volkswagen India signs a non-binding MoU with JSW Group, proposing a 51:49 joint venture, after nearly three years of talks. Not an exit — an attempt at the l…
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