FORD CEO ALAN MULLALY took the wraps off the Ford’s upcoming Indian-market Figo city car today, revealing a vehicle that the American automaker hopes will become a big seller in the emerging Indian small car market.

To be built at Ford’s Indian assembly plant in Chennai, the Figo will take on the Maruti Suzuki Alto and [...]

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INTERESTING AND UNEXPECTED news from Tata that around 80 percent of Tata Nano orders are for the top-end model.

With 203,000 orders on the books so far, the majority of buyers have opted for the top-end model’s features, such as air conditioning, central locking and front power windows, despite the 40 percent premium they’ll pay on top [...]

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Alongside the Tata Nano Europa at Geneva was another intriguing debut for the Indian company.

By teaming up with renowned design house Pininfarina, Tata Motors has produced the stylishly-understated Prima sedan; a model that Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata says will mark the automaker’s coming-of-age as a world-class car company.

Officially a concept, the Prima is virtually [...]

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Toyota is reportedly in the midst of developing a USD$5000 small car to tackle emerging markets like India and Brazil.

Toyota’s small-car subsidiary Daihatsu will share its extensive knowledge of building cheap, cheerful and amazingly-tiny vehicles with the Japanese auto-making powerhouse, and production is expected to begin by 2015 in Bangalore, India.

The new brand, and the [...]

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