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High inventory levels stifle sales in September, carmakers target festive season for growth

Ajit Dalvi     calendar02 Oct 2024

While Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor India and Tata Motors reduced their dispatches to dealers to optimise inventory levels, Mahindra, Toyota and Kia pumped up the volume ahead of the festive season which runs for all of October and early Nov...

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Mahindra Thar closes in on 200,000 sales as it turns 4 years old Analysis Sales
Mahindra Thar closes in on 200,000 sales as it turns 4 years old

By Ajit Dalvi calendar02 Oct 2024

Launched on October 2, 2020, the modern avatar of the iconic off-roader which now appeals to a wider audience with its...

Electric car and SUV sales in September lowest in 19 months: 5,733 units Analysis Sales
Electric car and SUV sales in September lowest in 19 months: 5,733 units

By Ajit Dalvi calendar01 Oct 2024

After having averaged monthly sales of 8,039 units in the first seven months of 2024, consumer demand for electric pas...

EXCLUSIVE: Jalaj Gupta steps down; Venkat Srinivas is new head of Mahindra Trucks and Buses, and Construction Equipment businesses News
EXCLUSIVE: Jalaj Gupta steps down; Venkat Srinivas is new head of Mahindra Trucks and Buses, and Construction Equipment businesses

By Ketan Thakkar calendar01 Oct 2024

Venkat Srinivas' responsibility will be transferred to Manoj Varghese, the Group Chief Platform head of Electric Vehic...

Hyundai Motor records global production of 100 million vehicles News International
Hyundai Motor records global production of 100 million vehicles

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar30 Sep 2024

The global production milestone comes 57 years after Hyundai Motor was set up. Since then, its manufacturing footprint...

Tata Motors breaks ground in Ranipet, to produce JLR vehicles in TN News
Tata Motors breaks ground in Ranipet, to produce JLR vehicles in TN

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar28 Sep 2024

Tata Motors Group intends to invest Rs 9,000 crores in this greenfield manufacturing facility, which will have an annu...

Webasto develops new roof concept for sustainable mobility, less CO2e, and more range News International
Webasto develops new roof concept for sustainable mobility, less CO2e, and more range

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar28 Sep 2024

The use of bio-mass balanced polycarbonate and sustainable plastics in ‘EcoPeak’ instead of aluminium reduces the weig...

Forvia Hella begins making RGB LED rear combination lamp with 256 colour variants in China News International
Forvia Hella begins making RGB LED rear combination lamp with 256 colour variants in China

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar28 Sep 2024

The rear lamp is used in the Geely Auto Group’s new all-electric luxury C-class sedan Lynk Z10; addresses increasing d...

Kia opens new 150,000 EVs-per-annum plant in Korea News International
Kia opens new 150,000 EVs-per-annum plant in Korea

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar27 Sep 2024

Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant, located at Kia Autoland Gwangmyeong, is Hyundai Motor Group’s first dedicated EV manufactur...

JLR readies Halewood plant to produce EVs alongside ICE and hybrid models News International
JLR readies Halewood plant to produce EVs alongside ICE and hybrid models

autherAutocar Professional Bureau calendar26 Sep 2024

Electrification is central to JLR’s Reimagine strategy and the 61-year-old Halewood plant will produce ICE, PHEV and B...