Sales of mini cars comprising Alto and WagonR stood at 26,306 units in November

High switchover cost and low volumes has forced Toyota to pull the plug on its budget car line-up

The mid-size segment, which comprises cars like Ciaz, saw the steepest decline of 45 per cent with the company producing just 1,922 units against 3,513 units rolled out in the year-ago period

Tata Motors is offering cash benefits for new buyers and discounts to those who want to exchange their old cars for a new Tata car. The company has also launched specific schemes for corporate employees

Tata Motors is offering cash benefits for new buyers and discounts to those who want to exchange their old cars for a new Tata car

Production of mini and compact segment cars, including Alto, New WagonR, Celerio, Ignis, Swift, Baleno and Dzire, dropped by 14.91 per cent to 98,337 units versus 1,15,576 units in the year-ago period

Maruti Suzuki India Limited has announced a massive discount of Rs 1 lakh on its compact-segment car Baleno RS model (ex-showrrom price). Maruti Suzuki had also recently reduced prices of its entry-level cars after the government reduced corporate tax rates.

Maruti Suzuki says the new prices will be applicable across India from September 25; the price cut will bring down the cost of acquisition, especially for the entry-level customers

Hyundai India's schemes are in the form of cash and exchange offers for Santro, Grand i10, Xcent, Elite i20, Verna, Elantra and Tucson

S-Presso is Maruti Suzuki's indigenously developed, conceived, and a designed vehicle that will be sold from the Arena dealership channel of the company. This would be the second product after Vitara Brezza (a compact SUV) to be designed and developed in India

The country's largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) saw its market share dip by over 2 percentage points during the period under review and slip below 50 percent in the domestic passenger vehicle segment in April-August

The crash in sales in August has seen Alto lose four slots to stablemates Dzire, Swift, WagonR and Baleno and drop down to number 5 in the bestseller's list for the month, another low since 2001.

The mini segment, which comprises cars like Alto and old WagonR, saw the steepest decline of 62.93 per cent with the company producing just 13,814 units against 37,268 units rolled out in the year-ago period

Domestic sales declined by 34.3% at 97,061 units last month as against 1,47,700 units in August 2018

Maruti Suzuki's 5-year, 1-lakh km free warranty scheme for diesel models of Dzire, Swift, Vitara Brezza and S-Cross will include a host of components and their replacements

\"The Government gave tax cut on EVs but hybrid should be given duty cut. There should be tax cut on CNG vehicles as well,\" said R C Bhargava

Last month, Hyundai sold a total of 16,234 units of Creta, Venue, Tucson and Kona Electric, while in comparison M&M sold 16,003 utility vehicles (UVs).

The Tata Nexon was equipped with upgraded features based on customer feedback, a leaked document showed.

Compact SUVs are an outlier in a sluggish passenger vehicle market in India. With everybody aspiring for a piece of action, competition is set to ratchet up