Bajaj Auto is all upbeat about its small car project and has said that the four-wheeler plans will be on stream as scheduled even if the joint venture between the company and the Renault – Nissan combine fails to take off.
The much-awaited, much-hyped compact B-segment car Suzuki A-Star, has debuted. Maruti Suzuki India has lifted the wraps off its global car and intends to sell the car in the Rs 4 lakh range.
Toyota has abandoned its plans of launching the Toyota Prius in India, for the time being.

Bus manufacturer Ashok Leyland Ltd has decided to put on the back burner, for the time being, its joint venture with Japanese major Nissan Motor Company.
The 800 cc brigade is just waiting to get bigger with automotive majors such as General Motors India and Hyundai Motors all set to unveil their small cars in the country.
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Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest passenger carmaker, is on a hiring spree keeping in view the plans of the car maker to design cars from scratch in India by the end of 2010.
Following a decline in sales, carmaker Ford is all set to be phased out from the Indian car mart. The model, which had debuted in early 2004, had not been very successful among India’s car enthusiasts.
Targeting a major splash in the Indian automotive mart, German sports car maker Porsche is lining up a new initiative in the pre-owned car space.
Automotive major Toyota Motor Corporation will pump in an amount close to Rs 3,200 crore in building a new plant in India. The aim is to meet the broad needs of customers in India, where the car market is growing at a rapid pace, said the company.