Bharat Rakshak

I somehow see the Fiesta Classic whose Price has been drastically cut after the new Fiesta, Sales picking up.

It's going to be weird. The new Fiesta sales are abysmally low (less than 100 last month) and the Classic has always outperformed the new Fiesta. However the recent excise rate bands favour the new Fiesta with the 1.5L engine. They've also dropped the price of a the new Fiesta by almost a Lakh. But still i dont see Fiesta eating into Dzire's numbers. Sunny probably will.

Fiat has a new car in US

Fiat has a new car in US

Hmm. Economic Times says that Tata Motors & M&M posted strong sales.
Nano sales grew by 20% to 10475 units , despite it being petrol only.

Now Alto and others will need to start shivering in their dhotis, if newer models with a boot that can open, more plush interiors etc start coming out kaching-kaching from Tata. If the diesel engine version comes out, that will deliver a killer blow. Suzuki has not been able to engineer a diesel engine until now!

Hmm. Economic Times says that Tata Motors & M&M posted strong sales.
Nano sales grew by 20% to 10475 units , despite it being petrol only.

Now Alto and others will need to start shivering in their dhotis, if newer models with a boot that can open, more plush interiors etc start coming out kaching-kaching from Tata. If the diesel engine version comes out, that will deliver a killer blow. Suzuki has not been able to engineer a diesel engine until now!

And they will regret killing the 800 so early, I feel once TATA Nano maintains above 15K level, suddenly the Maruti Suzuki bosses will begin to revive 800 suddenly.

Marten, TATA have come a long way, rather than the 1.3MJD, I think they will try and improve on the one they have in ACE/ Magic. It is taking time, but Indian Engineered products are getting better.

Marten, Any idea why T-bhp has not yet put up the March 2012 sales yet, there poster GTO is generally very good at it.

ORAGADAM, India – Daimler AG DAI.XE -1.00%will start selling trucks from a €700 million factory in India by September, with plans to eventually make as many as 70,000 trucks a year as it attempts to get a bigger foothold in this growing market for commercial vehicles.The plant, spread over 400 acres in Oragadam near the southern port city of Chennai, will start with a capacity of 36,000 vehicles a year and employ 1,400 workers, Daimler Chairman Dieter Zetsche said. The factory is one of only three Daimler plants worldwide where trucks as well as their engines and transmissions will be produced at the same location. Local sales of trucks and buses in India rose 18% in the financial year that ended on March 31 to 809,532 vehicles, even as most other segments witnessed weak demand due to expensive loans and higher fuel costs. "India's truck market is one of the largest and fastest-growing in the world," Mr. Zetsche said. "Now at number three, it will climb to number two worldwide by the end of this decade. So in the long run, you could say, 'if you don't make it here, you won't make it at all'… a strong position in the global truck market requires a strong position in India." Daimler plans to have about 70 retail outlets in 12 states across India by the end of 2012 to sell the trucks. This will be expanded to more than 100 locations by 2014. Daimler has been assembling its Mercedes-Benz Actros brand of heavy-duty trucks as well as buses at a factory near the western city of Pune since November 2007. The plant is owned by Daimler's passenger vehicle unit, Mercedes-Benz India Pvt. Ltd., which also assembles C-Class, E-Class and S-Class luxury sedans.
Marc Llistosella, managing director and chief executive of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd., said the company is planning to shift the assembly of the Actros trucks to the Oragadam factory.

This will be seen very carefully by the US truck makers in detroit. They will see this new world class output of trucks in India as a great competitor since they will never be able to match in costs.

The latter is a pick-up truck which eventually came to be called as truck? Incidentally the larger ones are also called trucks in US.

They do call smaller vehicles as trucks, but they'd be more like "U-Haul Truck", "Moving Truck" etc.

Dunno about that. Trucks in Indian context are very different from trucks in the US context. In India, a truck is a vehicle that looks like this:

They're two completely different classes of vehicles.

Looks like you live in the mid west, where it is called semis. Navistar. plant

Aditya_V: Are you following the March sales thread there?

Actually I live on the west coast. Funny you should mention Navistar though. I looked up their website and guess what? They have a joint venture to manufacture trucks in India with Mahindra!
http://www.mahindranavistar.com/

Visited Maruti Showroom today to check out "Ertiga". Beautiful SUV. Going by the interest in the vehicle by public, It is going to be a star performer for MUL and would give Innova a run for the money. The vehicle is going to have a long waiting period.

Visited Maruti Showroom today to check out "Ertiga". Beautiful SUV. Going by the interest in the vehicle by public, It is going to be a star performer for MUL and would give Innova a run for the money. The vehicle is going to have a long waiting period.

define cruise. the innova with passengers manages upto around 100kmph which is the max one can drive safely on nhai roads. taxiwallahs and aggressive drivers push it to 120, where it gets distinctly buzzy and lacks t:w ratio.

the ertiga should be able to a consistent 100...any 90hp car with 1.2-1.3 engine can manage that?

its the ideal size, not a potato sack like the Innova and bigger than the Jazz .... plus with diesel option, it will sell strongly.