March 2013 car sales brings a good reason for all car manufacturers to celebrate.

March 2013 car sales report has finally been successful in bringing a new smile on worried faces of all auto majors. This month sales have been the positive most car sales in 2013. Since the beginning of the year, sales had been down due to recession and fluctuating currency prices. But this month it changed the face of the game. All car makers are walking with happy faces now hoping that the upcoming months would help the market recover from this mundane situation. General Motors confirmed their sales figures as best march 2013 sales figures, they also added that this month sales have been the best in last five years. GM trade figures were up by 6 percent while Cadillac registered a growth of 50 percent on month on month basis. Buick too recorded growth of 37 percent on same basis while GMC reaching the highest figure registered a growth of 12 percent. Chevrolet stood on almost same numbers in the last month.

But the winner among all was Volkswagen. VW saw an unprecedented growth that they had been longing for since 1973. BMW, Nissan, and Subaru too announced this month to be their best sales month. Nissan claims that during this month they recorded best sales in terms volume and it was the best figure they recorded ever. And to collect the credit the first model that stands in line is the Pathfinder whose latest version has been released lately. Pathfinder has been a widely appreciated car and has helped Nissan in enrooting its hold on market form a long time. Their March 2013 sales went up by 177.1 percent. This month has showered similar happiness on two models of Mazda namely CX-5 and CX-9. Both have shown a growth of 96.1 percent and 123.8 percent respectively in the month of March 2013. The sales of Toyota Avalon went up by 109 percent, while Lexus too has registered a growth of 116.4 percent for its ES model. Toyota has been given the number one rank as a car retailer for the same month. The ToyotaMotor Group has been named as number one retail car maker.

Honda new car plant aimed at doubling the production capacity of the Japanese car maker. The Japanese car maker is getting ready to take over the Indian car market by increasing it car production capacity. The news comes with greater happiness for all Rajasthanis as Honda new car plant in Rajasthan is definitely going to bring various new opportunities and developments in the state. To add to it, the greater news that has created buzz across the market is that Honda to invest Rs.2, 500 crore in Rajasthan. Through this investment Honda plans to increase its production capacity by 100 percent and take the production figures double to 2.4 lakhs on annual basis.

The Honda car plant in Rajasthan is going to be its second facility in India. Honda already has a car assembly facility running in northern state of India Uttar Pradesh. The site of investment is going to be Tapukara situated in Alwar district of Rajasthan where diesel engine component production will take place along with car assembling. The new will commence operations from 2014 onwards. As in words of Hironori Kanayama, the President and CEO of Honda Cars India, India is one of the most key markets of Honda cars in India on a global basis and the company plans to bring-in several new models across various segments in next few years. During the financial year 2012-13, the Japanese car maker registered a healthy growth rate of 35 percent. The company was successful in trading out approx. 73, 483 vehicles that was much above than the 54, 427 vehicles sold during previous financial year.

The current portfolio of Honda includes a hatchback named Brio, three sedans named City, Accord, and Civic, and a SUV named CR-V. Among all these vehicles, the two vehicles that have been a heart throb of Indian roads are City and Brio. Both the vehicles have helped Honda in deeply establishing its roots in Indian Market. And the diesel engine from Honda the i-DTEC diesel engine has made it an unbeatable rival to other brands.

Good news for Indian car lovers. Well-known brand Audi will soon launch new Audi R8 V10 Plus in India.

PR of Audi Motors finally confirmed that German car maker is planning to launch new R8 V10 Plus for Indian customers. Audi is also planning to launch same variant at Buddh International Circuit, which is an ideal home for supercar.

 

Launch date for this master piece is decided as April 4. Upcoming Audi R8 V10 Plus specification includes a 5.2-litre Lamborghini sourced V10 engine, similar to that of R8 Spyder and R8 V10 Coupe. This excellent car is tuned to generate power of 550 PS instead of 525 P)S. Torque of this car has also been improved from 530 Nm to 540 Nm which is sent to all wheels using Quattro technology and a 7-Speed S Tronic gearbox.

Audi’s fastest car R8 V10 Plus sprints from 0-100km/hr in just 3.5 seconds and can touch top speed of 317km/h. It is therefore 0.1 second quicker in run and 3km/hr faster than regular V10 version.

Internationally price of Audi R8 V10 Plus is around EUR 18,600. It is now to be seen how much premium the Audi India will put on V10 Plus over existing V10 Coupe which is of INR 1.57 crore (pre-budget price, now estimated at INR 1.81 crore post 15% increase).

Honda Amaze launches on April 11, 2013 and booking for this outstanding cars has been opened. 

Honda Amaze launch on April 11 is now official. Brio based sedan has been caught testing on roads numerous times and initial impressions are that new sedan from Honda might very well become one of the top selling cars in entry level sedan segment.

Honda Amaze Price in India is low and will become the cheapest sedan in Honda’s line up of cars in India and will lock horns with high-selling Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire. It may be noted that Honda Motors has been losing out to other auto giants in Indian car market because of lack of diesel engine variants of its vehicles and this is all set to be changed with the arrival of new Amaze. Hi-tech Honda Amaze will be sold in India in both petrol and diesel variants and will become first Honda car in India to have a diesel powerplant.

Honda Amaze is a ‘booted’ version of Brio hatchback and shares a fair bit with smaller body variant. Helping car with having improved comfort levels for passengers is a slightly longer wheelbase and higher equipment levels. Honda Amaze looks identical to Brio till B pillars after which Honda Amaze features different rear doors, C-Pillars and of course, a boot. Designers at Honda have done a pretty good job with seamlessly adding a boot to Brio hatchback. Inside, car shares most of the panels with hatchback sibling and only bits which would help with differentiating car from smaller body variant will be additional cubby holes and different colour shades.

Powering petrol variant of car will be same 1.2 litre iVtec petrol motor that powers Brio hatchback. For Amaze, engine has been modified to generate max power output of 90 PS which makes Honda Amaze as powerful as other petrol cars of its segment. Diesel variant is powered by 1.5 litre iDtec oil burner. This engine is said to have been manufactured alongside much publicized 1.6 litre iDtec motor which powers United Kingdom spec Civic and CRV. 1.5 litre engine produces max power output of 100 PS and a peak torque figure of 200 Nm. This makes Amaze more powerful than not just diesel variant of high-selling Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire but also more powerful than diesel variants of some bigger cars. Diesel engine is said to have ARAI fuel economy figure of 25.8 kmpl!! It definitely looks like Honda has a winner in its hands.

Honda India’s website shows that official Honda Amaze bookings open and it is only a matter of sometime before all showrooms of carmaker begin offering test drives of new Amaze.  Dealerships have already received first batch of Honda Amaze cars and test drives should commence shortly.

Honda Amaze measures less than 4 metres in length and benefits from excise duty relaxation that Govt. of India provides for cars less than 4 metres long. Thus, safely expect Amaze to be priced really well and close to Swift Dzire.