Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Tata Nano Production Sanand Plant

After almost one and a half year of strong protest against the production of Tata Nano in Singur plant by Trinamool Congress, the little wonder car is ready to roll out from its new mother plant. That's true. Tata Motors is ready to roll out the first batch of Nano from its newly constructed production unit at Sanand, Gujarat.


Tata Nano cars to roll out from the Gujarat factory
According to the automaker, the first set of Tata Nano cars from the Gujarat factory will roll out in the Indian market on the 1st of May, 2010. The day has been chosen carefully by the automaker as this day is celebrated as Gujarat Day as the state came into existence on this day in the year 1960. This year Gujarat would be celebrating its Golden Jubilee year and Tata Motors has grabbed this opportunity to build stronger rapport with the state by choosing this day for rolling out first batch of Tata Nano from its new Mother plant.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Automakers Hike Prices of Vehicles 1st April 2010

Various automobile companies have announced an increase in the prices of their vehicles from the 1st of April, 2010. This decision came as the new Bharat Stage emission norms come into effect from April 1st and the new automobiles that would be hitting the roads soon will require modifications to be compliant with the latest BS-IV norms.

Car majors like Hyundai Motors will increase the prices of diesel vehicles by 3% and prices of petrol run cars by 1.5%. General Motors, has made it clear that the company would be hiking the prices by 1.5% and the hike in prices will vary between Rs 600 and Rs 11,000."

The other auto companies who are increasing the prices of the vehicles include Tata Motors, Toyota Kirloskar Motor and Skoda Auto India. Tata Motors though has not announced any hike yet, but has also made it clear that there will be an hike in the products but at the right time. Toyota Kirloskar Motors will increase the prices between 1% and 3%.

While every automaker is announcing the price hike in vehicles, India's most popular automaker Maruti Suzuki has no plans at present to increase the rates of its products.