DELIVERIES HAVE BEGUN of the world’s cheapest car, Tata’s landmark Nano. The car tipped to drastically alter India’s automotive landscape was personally delivered by Tata Motors CEO, Ratan Tata, to three lucky customers at a special launch event in Mumbai India

Overwhelming demand for the car, which has a starting price from just 140,000 Rupees (AU$3590), [...]

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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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Chairman of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata comes out of the new Tata “Nano” car in New Delhi, 10 January 2008.

Nano pre-order sales officially began on the first of April and already over 51,000 orders have been registered. The first randomly selected owners however won’t receive their cars until deliveries begin in July.

Waydahminnit, randomly selected [...]

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The folks in Detroit aren’t the only ones in trouble, as Europe’s car industry is also feeling the global economic pinch in a big way. PSA Peugeot Citroen recently accepted a €3 billion loan from the French government, and now Jaguar Land Rover is about to receive its first cash injection.

The European Investment Bank is [...]

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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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When Tata Motors first whipped the sheet off its sub-$5000 Nano microcar at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, other car makers were aghast that a car could be built for such a low price.

But if last year’s reveal was merely unsettling for the opposition, then the reveal of the Nano Europa at this year’s Show [...]

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Despite the long-awaited introduction of exciting new products, and the prospect of more to come Jaguar-Land Rover today announced that it will be cutting 450 jobs in the UK.

The reduced demand for new cars and the current world-wide financial situation have been cited as the main reason behind the lay-offs. The job losses will consist [...]

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Alfa Romeo’s gorgeous 8C Competizione is now officially on sale in the United States. However, thanks to the USA’s entire allocation of 84 cars being snapped up, prospective buyers will need to wait at least another year before their next chance arrives to snare the 336kW Maserati-built coupe.

The 8C spearheads a wider return to the [...]

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The last time we reported on the Jaguar F-Type, not much was known other than Tata’s willingness to eventually build it. Now Road & Track magazine have reignited speculation on the entry-level (for Jaguar, anyway) coupe, saying that it could be based on a modified version of the XF’s chassis and employ a twin-turbocharged Ford [...]

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Following Ferrari’s successful expeditions through China and the Americas, proving that the legendary super car makers products can go just about anywhere, Ferrari has announced that in 2008 it will explore India with two Ferrari 612 Scagliettis and a team of international media.

The “Magic India Discovery Tour’ will start in Mumbai on the 25th of [...]

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Jaguar could be excused for being in a state of flux, with its pending sale to India’s Tata Motors working its way to fruition, but it appears to be business as usual and then some. The latest news is that Jaguar are in the process of developing an all-new coupe to go toe-to-toe with Porsche’s [...]

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The road ahead for Jaguar Land Rover appears a little less rocky. According to the UK’s Just-Auto, the combined businesses of Jaguar and Land Rover have staged a turn-around over the last twelve months, to the tune of some $US1.6 billion.

Land Rover is said to have made a profit of $US1.2 billion last year, while [...]

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