Tweet Shriram Automall India Limited (SAMIL) has launched an automall at Chandrapur in central India. Pioneering in pre-owned vehicle and equipment Industry, the automall at Chandrapur is part of the company’s aggressive expansion plan to build 60 automalls by the end of this fiscal. Spread over 0.75 acres, the eighth such automall to be established by the company, is strategically[Read More…]

Tweet Volkswagen AG is claimed to be deliberating upon separately listing its truck business, which consists of Scania, MAN and the Volkswagen brand of CVs. It was in February 2014, that the German major hired Andreas Renschler (ex-Daimler) to integrate the heavy goods vehicle operations of Scania and MAN divisions, and combine these with Volkswagen commercial vehicles. According to industry[Read More…]

Tweet National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP) is in the process of designing seven state of the art automotive design and testing centres at Manesar, Bangalore, Rai Bareli, Silchar, Indore, Pune and Chennai. The centres, according to those in the know of the development, will be operational by December 2016. Sanjay Bandopadhyay, CEO, NATRiP, at a seminar on[Read More…]

Tweet Forging an alliance with Bharat Forge and General Dynamics, Tata Motors has bid for the USD 11 billion Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) project of the Defence Ministry, and is confident of bagging it. Tata Motors is also known to have announced that it meets the requisite criteria on the back of its technical strength, the size of its[Read More…]