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Cheap Cars Make Hyundai Walk the Tightrope ; with Demand for Cheap Cars Rising, Hyundai's Indian Plants Are Set to Exceed Capacity - a Challenge for a Facility That Makes More Than 1,000 Variants of Cars.

Almost a kilometre behind the gleaming gates of Hyundai Motor , off the Chennai-Bangalore highway, is the stockyard. It is full to the brim with 32,000 freshly manufactured cars. Nearly one-third of them are bound for distant shores. Hundreds of Hyundai's blockbuster for countries such as Algeria, Colombia, Guatemala, Kuwait, Mexico, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. In 2010/11, was India's largest exporter of manufactured goods, sending more than 250,000 India-made v...

Fair Tales ; a Preview of 10 of the Hottest New Launches and Concepts at the Auto Expo 2012 Edition.

If you are a petrolhead, you surely know that the Indian auto industry comes alive every alternate year when the Auto Expo comes to town. Manufacturers wait for this opportunity to show off their new wares at Pragati Maidan, in New Delhi, and consumers are more than happy to play audience. Not surprising then that 2012 is beginning with the same cheer. The Auto Expo is the cynosure of all car manufacturers' eyes. Be it concepts - which will never be marketed - to production cars - which every...

Auto Special: Taking Baby Steps Towards the India Car ; a Few Global Carmakers Have Tasted Success with Cars Designed in India, but Most Are Just Starting to Make Inroads Into R&D Here.

Kumar Galhotra was on a high after he returned from the ground- breaking ceremony of Ford India's 400,000-units-a-year plant at Sanand in Gujarat. The happy occasion followed the success of the Figo, Ford's first small car in India, in which his team - he is Vice President, Product Development, Ford Asia Pacific and Africa - played a significant role. "The challenge is increasingly shifting from taking a car designed for Europe and excluding features to get an Indian price, to designing from ...

Breaking the Mould ; for Long Confined to Doing Low-End Work, Indian Companies Have Emerged As Suppliers of Critical Components to the World's Best and Biggest Carmakers.

Ashok Minda's first brush with sellers of car parts overseas was in 1984. Still an undergraduate, he had gone to Hong Kong to buy the proverbial bells and whistles for his Premier Padmini. The Padmini was one of three car models available in India at that time; the Maruti 800 had hit the roads just months earlier. And if you wanted to embellish your Padmini with a sunroof and power steering, as Minda did, you had to go looking overseas. No one would have guessed then that two decades later Mi...