Man Behind Dacia Logan Tasked With Creating Renault’s New US$5,500 India Car

The Indian new car market is far from negligible, accounting for 2.6 million registrations annually. Suzuki, with its Maruti subsidiary, offers cars starting below 250,000 rupees (US$5,600) and practically rules the market with 1 million sales per year.

Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is determined to get a bigger slice of the pie than the measly 3 percent the two brands command with their models that are made at the local Chennai plant.

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Fiat Group to Launch Jeep Brand in India Next Year

After China, the Fiat Group is eyeing another major emerging market to launch its Jeep brand, that of India. The Italian carmaker's Indian arm, Fiat Group Automobiles India Private Limited (FGAIPL), announced on Thursday that the Jeep brand will be introduced in the country towards the end of 2013. Read more »

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Nincompoop Jumps Under a Speeding Train, Makes it Out Alive

There is a very thin line between ballsy and brainless. In this case, our vote goes to brainless.

For their own ill-advised reasons, a group of young men who may or may not be from India or one of the surrounding countries, are watching and at the same time, filming one of their man-friends getting ready to perform a daredevilish act.

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Honda Pulls the Wraps Off its New Low-Cost Brio Amaze Small Sedan [w/Video]

What you see here is Honda's brand new small sedan for emerging markets, mainly in Asia and countries such as Thailand, where it is called the Brio Amaze and India, where it will be offered as the Amaze.

The Amaze is the sedan derivative of the Brio five-door hatchback released last year in the same region.

In Thailand, which is the first country to receive the car, the Amaze is offered with the same 1.2-liter i-VTEC gasoline engine found on the hatch.

The four-cylinder unit produces 90 horsepower and can be matched to either a 5-speed manual gearbox or a CVT, delivering a fuel economy of 20km/lt, equal to 5.0lt/100km and 47mpg US / 56.5mpg UK.

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Honda Shows More of its Upcoming Brio Amaze Small Sedan in New Teaser Video

We don’t know if Honda will actually amaze consumers with its upcoming model, but we did learn that it baptized the sedan version of its Brio series Amaze (specifically, Brio Amaze for Thailand and other surrounding markets and simply Amaze for India), thanks to a new teaser video released by the manufacturer's Thai arm. Read more »

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Audi Begins Production of Q7 SUV in India, Q3 to Follow in Mid-2013

Starting from today, the Q7 is Audi's fourth model, after the A4, A6 and Q5, that will be assembled in India. The full-size SUV will be manufactured at a newly built, 20,000 square meter (215,288 square feet) facility at the VW Group’s Skoda Auto India Private Limited (SAIPL) plant in Aurangabad. Read more »

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Formula 1: Indian Grand Prix Race Report

You lose some, you win some. Even McLaren with its Honda-powered MP4/4 driven by Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, who completely dominated the 1988 season, failed to win all 16 races.

After 11 straight wins, it lost to Ferrari. It then continued its streak, claiming a startling 15 wins out of 16 starts but by a strange twist of fate, the one it lost was on Scuderia’s home ground and, at the same time, the first Italian GP after Enzo Ferrari’s death…

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Honda Makes a Mini Sedan Out of its New Brio City Car for Asian Markets

The Honda Brio will soon welcome a new member in its family in the guise of an as-of-yet, unnamed sedan model that has been teased through a lightly shadowed image on the brand's Thai website.

Just like the five-door hatchback, the sedan body style of the Brio was designed for emerging Asian markets like India, China and Thailand.

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