INDIAN AUTO MAKER Tata Motors’ newest acquisitions, Jaguar and Land Rover, appear to be doing more harm than good for the company right now.
Despite strong sales of Tata products in India, the two British marques have been hit hard by the economic downturn and are spreading red ink over Tata’s books.

Tata’s end of financial year results, [...]

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It may well be a sign of the times, but Honda would have to more than happy with the sales results of its Insight hybrid.

For the month of April, Honda’s new cut-price eco-warrior topped the sales charts in Japan. The success of the Insight marks a place in the history books for Honda, being the [...]

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The VFACTS figures for March 2009 are in and despite the overall Australian new car market having fallen by 19.2 percent compared to March sales 2008, sales of the two most popular locally-built large cars are doing okay.

Down, but definitely not out.

Compared to March 2008  sales figures, the Falcon and Commodore were down 14.3 percent and 11.1 percent [...]

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Audi Australia has defied the fortunes of most luxury car marques in Australia, and posted a growth in sales.

Sales in January went up 5.5 percent, followed by another 5.4 percent in February, resulting in the German premium carmaker shifting almost 1900 vehicles this year.

These figures put Audi in the No. 2 position in Australia’s premium market [...]

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Germany has proved to be largely immune to the falling automotive sales epidemic that’s presently sweeping the world, recording its best February sales figure for ten years.

Sales of new vehicles rose 22 percent over 2008’s results, thanks to a €2500 (AUD $4900) cash incentive designed to encourage vehicle owners to scrap their old car and [...]

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Sales figures for Japan have just been released for the month of February and the news is not good. Overall figures for the month are down 32.4 percent on last year with only 218,212 new cars, buses and trucks sold.

All car makers suffered from the drop with market leader Toyota among those hit hardest. Toyota sales [...]

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For years now Audi has coveted the number one position on the prestige sales charts. The release of 2008 sales figures for Germany show just how close it is now getting to claiming that ‘prize’. In its domestic market, Audi sold 98,714 units of the A4, outselling the BMW 3-Series in the process.

The A4 was [...]

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Honda has revealed its Insight Concept Hybrid, which will preview the company’s upcoming five-seater petrol-electric hybrid car and is set to make its global debut at the Paris Motor Show on October 2.

Okay, first things first: yes, it looks remarkably similar to Toyota’s Prius, the current dominant force in the hybrid market. Yet, while the silhouette [...]

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Australian car sales figures for the month of June are in and the Toyota juggernaut is continuing to steamroll the opposition—in fact it’s set a new monthly sales record: Toyota is now the first car company in Australia to sell over 25,000 vehicles in a month.

Sales figures released yesterday show that new car buyers have [...]

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We’ve said it before, the Jaguar XF is exactly the car that Jaguar need to revive their flagging sales. A stunning combination of luxury car and sports saloon, it brings some character to the segment dominated by the staid (but highly capable) German offerings.

News overnight suggests that Jaguar is holding 10,000 pre-orders for their new [...]

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Toyota’s Corolla has taken an early lead as Australia’s best-selling vehicle in 2008, according to official sales figures released today. Corolla posted a January sales record with 3,843 finding new homes in Australia, an increase of 10.3 percent over the previous January’s result.

Corolla has achieved top-seller status in seven months - once in 2005 (September), [...]

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It has been widely reported in the last 24 hours that the battle for the “World’s Largest Carmaker” title had been won…just…by GM. However, it now looks as though GM were using a little poetic license to inflate their sales figures.

Apparently, there are rules in a competition as important as this and it is essential [...]

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