So it is not the Ingenio anymore - its the Mahindra Xylo. Pronounce it Zy-Lo, as the company wants you to. Or as silo, as in missile silo!

Mahindra Ingenio has been talked about for more than two years now. Now the MUV has a proper name - the Mahindra XYLO.

Maruti’s shot at the high-end luxury segment is set for realization with the Kizashi getting ready for launch. Maruti Suzuki India aims at tapping the luxury segment or the D-segment with the Kizashi model latest by year 2009.

Ford India plans to launch the new Ford Ikon TDCi diesel on November 5, 2008, in India. The new Ford Ikon TDCi diesel sedan is likely to be priced at Rs 5 lakhs.

BSA Motors, which is currently mulling over hitting the road with a new range of bikes that would run on alternative fuels, is likely to rope in partners who would collaborate with it for the venture.

With auto sales figures in India going down following the slowdown in the economy, car maker Maruti Suzuki India has unveiled a special campaign, Gramin Mahotsav,  to lure rural buyers in the eastern region to its dealerships. Maruti Suzuki boasts of a 51 per cent market share in passenger vehicles in the region.

Long, long back this scooter segment was ruled by the Bajaj Chetak, and then there was the pretender LML Vespa. Alas, those days are long over. the original Kinetic Honda automatic 100 cc scooter hammered the first nail into the 150 cc geared scooter segment's coffin, and things have only gone downhill from there for them.

Maruti Suzuki’s much anticipated next-generation KB series engine will roll out of its stables and would be a permanent feature in the redesigned versions of the Suzuki Alto.

Hyundai i20, the five-door five-seater premium hatchback from Hyundai Motor India, is set for its launch in November 2008. Recently launched at the 2008 Paris Motor Show with much fanfare, the Hyundai i20 will see bookings on a fast basis by the end on next month, say industry sources.

Tata Nano's launch is likely to be delayed further. Post-Singur, Tata Motors had hoped to roll out the first Nano by November 2008 albeit as a soft launch.

There was a time when anything more than 100 cc on a motorcycle was just a dream. And the average motorcycle weighed around 110 kilos.

Suzuki has launched its 150cc bike Suzuki GS150R on October 23, 2008.

Mahindra has just announced the launch of its Mahindra Scorpio M2DI and Bolero SLX BS3 sport utility vehicles for the Indian market.

Nissan plans to launch their next generation small car model Nissan March in 2010, in India. The Nissan March would mark Nissan's entry into the automatic passenger car market.

An update on the new Honda City

100 cc scooters, some 10 years back, were considered seriously underpowered. You HAD to have 150 cc, and gears too. the Kinetic Honda in 1990 changed all that - and introduced a whole generation to the concept of gearless automatic scooters. Now most scooters sold in India are in the 100 ...

Hero Honda has launched a new variant of its popular 100 cc bike Passion Plus - the Passion Pro power Start.

There will be a few Tata Nano units produced by 2008-end as part of a soft launch, and full scale production would start in the first quarter of 2009. But once things get moving, there is more interesting stuff coming up from Tata Motors.

While we go on and on about the performance motorcycles in India, there exists a bunch of basic motorcycles often contribute substantially to the bottomlines of the motorcycle manufacturers in India. They put rural India on two wheels at affordable prices, and some of them even are pretty good urban commuters. So here is a basic list of all the 100 cc motorcycles in India.

Many have always wondered how come Toyota does not launch a diesel Corolla in India. After the launch of the Corolla Altis a coiuple of months back, the question comes back. Is it gonna happen?