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The country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India, today reported a 48% year-on-year (y-o-y) rise in standalone net profit at Rs 3,878 crore for the quarter ended March 2024 on the back of a handsome growth in volumes and improved realisation.
The Bharat NCAP results of the Baleno, Brezza and Grand Vitara could be out any time now, according to a senior Maruti Suzuki India official.
The country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India, is working on offering six airbags as standard on some of its models, according to a top company official.
Kia India has announced that its popular compact SUV, the Kia Sonet, has reached the cumulative sales milestone of 4 lakh units in just 44 months of its launch in September 2020.
US auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened an investigation into whether Tesla's recall of more than 2 million vehicles announced in December to install new Autopilot safeguards is adequate.
Okaya EV's premium brand Ferrato has opened bookings for its new electric motorcycle, the Disruptor. The Ferrato Disruptor will be launched in India on May 2. It will take on the Revolt RV400, Oben Rorr, Tork Kratos and Matter Aera, among others.
We forded a rising river at peak tide, descended a 41-degree incline, articulated through what was the perfectly unsanitised track of a 1,800-acre soon-to-be National park, ploughed through sandbanks, and through it all, there was not one instance where I felt like the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon was out of its depth. One of our comms team friends was in the back seat, sleeping through it. I mean seriously. How capable does a 4x4 have to be that you’re confident enough to dangle off a 45-degree incline and catch up on zzs. But that is what the Wrangler is about, and always has been. Now this seventh generation doesn’t change drastically over its predecessor, but it does get a whole lot of little additions that make it more current and even more capable than before.
India became the third-largest car market in the world in FY24, ahead of Japan, and only behind the USA and China. And SUVs now account for over half of the cars sold in the country. But do you know that only three SUVs in India have been able to cross sales milestone of 1 million units.