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NEWS IN BRIEF

Ashok Leyland Defence, KMW sign MoU

Ashok Leyland Defence Systems (ALDS) and Germany’s Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) have entered into MoU to co-operate in the development of advanced defence systems for the Indian and global defence forc-es. The co-operation will include the development of armoured wheeled vehicles, recovery vehicles, artillery and combat systems, bridge laying systems and other similar products. ALDS has supplied over 60,000 vehi-cles to the Indian Army till date. KMW will provide the technol-ogy and the technical assistance to the venture.

New BS IV version of Tata Indica

Tata Motors recent ly announced that the Indica will soon become more fuel effi cient car with an all new, BS4 com-pliant, CR4 diesel engine. The new engine packs in 32 percent increase in power, 65 percent increase in torque along with a 46 percent improvement on fuel effi ciency.

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EVOLVING TREND IN INDIAN CV SEGMENT CAN BE ADVANTAGEOUS FOR US

INTERVIEW

Pg 08Rakesh Kalra, Managing Director, Mahindra Navistar Automotives Pg 14

A RETHINK ON RECALL LAWS NEED OF THE HOUR

AUTOPINION

DATA MONITORDomestic Top 5 PV-makers

Sector Jan-10 Jan-11 Change

MSIL 81,087 100,422 23.84%

HMIL 29,601 30,306 2.38%

TML 31,081 34,688 11.61%

M&M 14,425 16,460 14.11%

GMI 9,403 9,969 6.02%

Domestic Top 5 2W-makers


HHML 384,517 457,362 18.94%

BAL 179,322 192,026 7.08%

TVS 109,504 142,227 29.88%

HMSI 109,986 118,184 7.45%

IYM 17,598 21,974 24.87%

Domestic Top 5 CV-makers


TML 31,121 35,831 15.13%

M&M 9,492 9,820 3.46%

ALL 7,460 6,880 -7.77%

VECV Eicher

2,556 3,357 31.34%

FML 1,171 1,431 22.20%

* Source: SIAM/ ** Excluding exports/ *** all sub segments considered/ ^ excluding MRPL

Abhishek Parekh New Delhi

International Automotive Components (IAC) Group, Wilbur Ross promoted global

tier-one supplier of vehicle inte-rior components and systems, recently acquired assets of New Delhi-based Multivac India, a tier-one supplier of automotive interior systems and components, with the objective of growing its presence in the automotive seg-ment in India and neighbouring countries.

Multivac has a major presence in vehicle headliners, instru-ment panels, interior trim and

door panels supply business. Some of its customers include OEMs including Volkswagen, Maruti Suzuki, Volvo, Mahindra & Mahindra among others. The company current manufactur-ing operation was established in 2005 and employs approximately 135 production and engineering personnel. Multivac’s acquisi-tion will enable IAC to spread its footprint in the fast-grow-ing Northern region around the National Capital Region (NCR).

‘We needed an engineering and manufacturing presence in the New Delhi region to be able to grow and increase busi-ness with the leading OEMs in

the Northern region. Also, the acquisition gave us access to existing business with Maruti Suzuki,’ said Vice President, Asian Operations, International Automotive Components Asia, Gajanan Gandhe in an email interaction with Auto Monitor.

He added that one of IAC’s strengths is its global manufac-turing process and materials expertise. IAC is one of the few integrated global tier-one suppli-er with a singular focus on vehicle interiors as its core competence.

According to a company offi -cial, China and India represent auto industry’s biggest growth markets and IAC is positioned to

support the OEMs in these mar-kets. IAC Group has grown its presence to more than 14 loca-tions between China and India and supplies 12 customers with various products including fl ooring & acoustics, instrument panels, cockpits and consoles, door systems, overhead and headliner systems and other inte-rior and exterior components for automotive applications.

The acquired plant will com-plement IAC’s existing Regional Engineering Centre in Pune and the company’s manufacturing facility in Chakan. It is presently constructing a second manufac-turing facility in Chakan.

Our Bureau Chennai

With Daimler AG of Germany posting its best fi nancial results in

its long history, its Indian subsid-iary Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) etched anoth-er milestone by launching a new brand BharatBenz to spearhead the launch of its six to 49 tonne trucks from its Oragadam plant near Chennai in June 2012.

The new brand name is expect-ed to send a clear message about Daimler’s seriousness of carving a name for itself in the second largest market for medium and heavy-duty trucks in the world.

‘This day marks the beginning of a new and important chapter for Daimler in India,’ Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Dr Dieter Zetsche said.

‘We are sending a clear mes-sage with our new truck brand: Daimler is at home in India. Our BharatBenz trucks are the right combination of Daimler’s DNA and India’s market know how. These trucks will be developed and built in India, for India and by specialist employees from India,’ he said.

The light-duty trucks are based on the Fuso Canter platform

while the heavy-du-ty range is based on the Mercedes-Benz truck platform. Daimler AG holds 85 per cent stake in Japanese auto giant Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation.

Daimler India’s plant is coming up on 400 acre of land with an investment of over `4,400 crore. Of this, `1,200 crore is being invested on a research and development centre at Oragadam.

Production trials of the trucks would commence from November this year with fi nal rollout to start with the 25 and 49 tonne heavy-duty trucks. The plant would initially sport a capacity of 36,000 units per annum in the fi rst phase to be later scaled up to 71,000 units in the second phase.

Daimler is also establishing its fi nancial arm in India through Daimler Financial Services for providing a full fi nancial services programme to support its truck business.

Zetsche pointed out that India was now in the top ten of the world’s biggest economies in

terms of GDP and was pegged to rise to number three by 2030.

‘Wherever there’s economic growth, there’s also a growing need for transportation,’ he jus-tifi ed Daimler’s entry into India saying that the Indian market for cars and commercial vehicles was booming with car sales up by 30 percent last year.

‘The market for the above six tonne trucks grew by 48 percent in 2010 and it will keep growing,’ elaborated Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Daimler Trucks and Buses, Andreas Renschler.

The new middle market was expected to grow to about 80 per-

cent of the Indian truck market till 2020, according to Renschler. This would be a game changer for vehicle manufacturers and hence the new Daimler brand to target that segment.

Daimler trucks to be man-ufactured in India would provide solutions for hauling, construction and tractor-trail-er applications. It is targeting a localisation of over 80 percent in its vehicles and is establish-ing a strong supplier base and local talent to manage its local operations. Two key suppliers - makers of frame and sheet metal parts would be housed within the factory.

Daimler unveils BharatBenz brand for new trucks

IAC to focus on auto interior and exteriors

Marc Llistosella, CEO, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, Board Member, Daimler AG and Head, Daimler Trucks and Buses, Andreas Renschler and Chairman, Daimler AG, Dr Dieter Zetsche

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CONTENTS

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GLOBAL WATCHFord to team with Sollers to build and sell vehicles in Russia 35Ford and Russian automaker Sollers have signed a preliminary deal to build vehicles in the fast-growing Russian market after talks between Sollers and Fiat broke down

Mazda mulls options for unprofitable US plant 36Mazda is studying various options for its unprofitable US plant operated jointly with longtime partner Ford

Delphi offers sounders for electric, hybrid vehicles 39Delphi Automotive has introduced sounders to warn pedestrians of approaching hybrid and electric vehicles

VW close to deal with Russia’s GAZ 42Russia’s GAZ Group expects to sign a deal with Germany’s Volkswagen to build Skoda and VW branded cars

Peter T Honegg, Managing Director and CEO, Mercedes-Benz India A Diploma in Business Administration from Berufsakademie in Stuttgart, Honegg carries a wealth of international experience and extensive business exposure to variety of functions within the Daimler Group

CORPORATETIFAC-CORE develops new technologies to make riding safer 06Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council-Centre of Relevance and Excellence has filed patent for a new smart helmet technology

CRRI for new user cost on high-speed corridors 12Central Road Research Institute is recommending new user cost on the high-speed corridors across the country

TVS & Sons forms new company for customer centric business 17TVS Sundram Iyengar & Sons has transferred the businesses carried out by one of its divisions –MyTVS to a newly floated entity - ‘TVS Automobile Solutions’

Honda Siel Cars recalls City, launches New Accord 18Honda Siel Cars India recently recalled the third generation City for replacement of lost motion spring in the valve train for units manufactured from November 2008 to December 2009

Mercedes launches G wagon at `1.1 crore 18Mercedes Benz India recently launched its SUV brand G wagon for `1.1 crore and has received bookings of twelve units

Sagas Auto Tec plans assembly unit in Dubai 20Sagas Auto Tec is expanding its domestic marketing network and setting up an assembly unit to cater to the aftermarket requirements of the Middle East and African regions

NBC Bearings to focus on basic research, new materials 26National Engineering Industries is exploring new sources of raw materials, new steel and increased productivity from its present capacity through total productive maintenance

Aftermarket holds potential: ACMA study 32ACMA study suggests that two-wheelers are likely to continue contributing to a major share of the growing aftermarket business in India

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1 - 15 March 2011

To prevent fatal head injuries of two-wheeler riders during accidents,

the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council-Centre of Relevance and Excellence (TIFAC-CORE) under the aegis of the Department of Science and Technology has fi led for patenting a new smart helmet technology.

Prototypes are currently underway at CORE in automo-tive infotronics at the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Tamil Nadu and the product is likely to be ready for commercial usage within six months.

The innovation includes use of low-cost sensors within the helmet and a durable, light-weight, wireless system on the outside of the helmet. A similar wireless system is affi xed on the two-wheeler that can control the ignition system with a Unique Identifi cation Number digitally stored in the helmet and on the side of the vehicle.

According to Director of TIFAC-CORE, K Ganesan, whenever the driver cranks the two-wheeler, he has to necessar-ily wear the helmet and buckle its strap. Thereafter, a message is automatically transmitted to the two-wheeler via a wireless system along with the helmet’s identifi cation number.

The electronic unit in the vehicle then verifi es this infor-mation and facilitates the ignition switch in cranking the two-wheeler. In case, the rider does not wear the helmet or sports a different helmet, the electronic unit in the two-wheel-er would stall the engine.

Ganesan said that the tech-nology is particularly signifi cant in a country where every house-hold in India, particularly urban areas, possesses a two-wheeler with the riders averse to wear-ing helmets. ‘Recent statistics predict the risk of losing life in

fatal accidents can be reduced up to 38 percent through use of helmets,’ he remarked.

The National Crime Bureau has pegged the number of acci-dents due to two-wheelers at 26,219 in 2009 constituting 20.7 percent of the total vehicle acci-dents during the year. Out of this, 23,180 were by males and 3,039 by females.

The technology would pop-ularise use of helmets and inculcate the habit of calling for help in case of fatal accidents by two-wheeler riders. Additional sensors attached in the helmet would estimate the severity of the accident and automatically communicate this information to the two-wheeler through the wireless system.

The electronic unit in the two-wheeler would discover the location details using the Global Positioning System and trans-mit it through a built in modem to family members, police and ambulance services. The GPS data sent by the two-wheeler would display the location of the accident spot on a GPRS phone using a Google map enabling the accident victim to be saved in time.

Established in 2005, TIFAC-CORE for automotive infotronics has received a funding of `two

crore from the department of science and technology, `four crore from VIT and `49 crore from industry including auto-motive and telecom units for its innovative projects.

Side-stand safety for two-wheelers

Also developed by TIFAC-CORE are sensors to detect a partially released side-stand and transmit alerts to the rider on it. These partially released side-stands, when disturbed by speed breakers or potholes, could jolt the vehicle leading to imbalance and subsequent accidents.

The sensors developed by TIFAC-CORE disable the engine in such an eventuality forcing the rider to release the side stand completely. Only thereafter, does the engine spring to life ensur-ing the safety of the driver.

Another interesting project the department has developed is a biometric system for control of automotive systems or a face recognition module for a four-wheeler. The system picks up the relevant profi le of the driver using an appropriate controller that is connected to various sub-systems of a vehicle.

‘Where a vehicle is being used by different family members, each member has his own choice

of setting the various subsystems of the vehicle. In the proposed system, we keep a camera in front of the driver focusing on his face. When the vehicle starts, the camera captures the facial image of the driver and veri-fi es the driver against the stored database,’ remarked Ganesan.

For every driver, a profi le is created, corresponding to his preferred settings such as air-conditioning temperature, type of songs, volume level in the audio system, driver seat height, distance from the steering wheel and leaning position of the driv-er seat.

Intelligent Systems

‘We are also working on the design of Gateways that will transfer messages from one kind of network to another. This can lead to new kind of intelligent systems that we have not seen so far,’ commented Ganesan.

For example, if a passenger is not wearing the seat belt in the rear seat of the car, the Local

Interconnect Network (LIN) using appropriate sensors can detect this. Currently there are many networks available in a vehicle depending on the kind of wires used, whether copper cables or fi bre optic cables or the protocols for communica-tion like LIN, Controller Area Network, FlexRay and Media Oriented System Transport. These are available in high-end cars like BMW overseas.

It is possible to connect a sen-sor with the steering wheel and replace the mechanical steering column by means of a pair of fi bre optic wires (using FlexRay protocol) and transfer the steer-ing angle data digitally as a data packet through this wire. The other side of the wire can be connected with wheels. The technology is called steer-by-wire. ‘We are currently working on these concepts to see that these features are affordable even in low cost model cars,’ pointed out Ganesan.

Also under development for hilly areas is an electronic sys-tem that can facilitate the driver to identify another vehicle com-ing in the opposite direction particularly at hairpin bends.

TIFAC-CORE is also design-ing a low cost driving simulator that would be useful for driving schools. At present, 31 TIFAC-CORE’s are located in the country specialising in different disci-plines. The Vellore division alone specialises in automotive info-tronics.

TIFAC-CORE develops new technologies to make riding safer

Innovations for safety

Shobha Mathur Chennai

In-Vehicle Network at the TIFAC-CORE laboratory in Vellore(Left) Dr K Ganesan, Director, TIFAC-CORE

ClarificationThis is to clarify that inad-

vertently a mistake was carried in the picture caption of the story on Automotive Axles re-enters brakes business; plans new manufacturing facili-ties for brakes and axles’ that appeared on of the of the 16-28 February 2011 issue. The names in the picture should have read Ashok Rao, President and Wholetime Director, AAL with S Raghunathan, Vice President of Meritor HVS India (standing).

Auto Monitor8 1 - 15 March 2011

What trend in terms of volumes are we witnessing in CV segment in India?

If one looks at the trend over the last six to eight months in the CV sector, it becomes very apparent that most segments within the CV sector have shown healthy growth except the three-wheeler segment. Most three wheeler manufacturers appear to be in the process of upgrading their product offerings in antici-pation of customers migrating to four wheeled goods or passenger carriers or in the expectation of better product offerings from three-wheeler manufacturers. But the overall growth in the CV segment in India has been high-er that that seen even in China.

Do you think that the cur-rent upturn in volumes in the CV segment is sustainable?

I certainly feel that the growth in CV segment is sustainable as the CV volume growth is directly linked to the economic growth

in a country or a region. Since GDP growth is expected to be in eight to nine percent range over the next couple of years, we do not anticipate any major adverse trend in CV sector growth. The growth in CV segment is also being aided by the lack of aggres-sion on part of railways in terms of share in the freight move-ment. The one tonne and below segment as well as 25 tonne and above segment are guiding the growth and will continue to do in the near to medium term.

Does this imply that 16 to 25 tonne segment will contin-ue to be fl at or may even slump due to lack of demand?

There needs to be a reinven-tion in that tonnage segment for the segment to witness any recovery. This reinvention or rejuvenation could be in the form of higher net realisation per tonne or preference for big-ger goods carrier. A distributor of white goods would prefer to

transport the goods in a truck with adequate space for better upkeep and safety of the cargo without much addition in terms of cost.

What can OEMs contrib-

ute to this trend?It is very clear that manu-

facturers would have to think of ways to offer applications to revive the 16 to 25 tonne seg-ment. We are working on this premise and may offer suit-able products or applications in the segment though it is too early to comment on the same. I anticipate that the slow mov-ing segments will get slotted for the suitable application in due course of time. This is an area where both manufacturers and fl eet operators have to play a role.

Is there a suitable prod-uct in the portfolio of your JV partner Navistar which may be introduced in the Indian market?

Our agreement with Navistar is very clear and specifi c on product front and we will nec-essarily not consider any products or enter segments where Mahindra & Mahindra has a presence. These segments would include small and light commercial vehicle segment. M&M and MNAL will continue to have complementary range of products.

Going forward, what would be major advantages for you partnering with international CV player?

With growing awareness on safety and comfort in the CV seg-ment, we are hopeful of playing a major role in providing right products in the Indian mar-ket. Customers are increasingly looking for fully built solutions in trucks with major emphasis on faster delivery and quicker turnaround. It will get increas-ingly diffi cult for unorganised truck body builders to operate in such a regime. We are working on offering right combination of power/weight ratio with suitable

safety and comfort to differen-tiate various tonnage categories and products. Thus we are in a position to offer right product mix for most applications based on complementary strengths of both partners.

Another major trend that will play out in our favour is acute shortage of trained drivers. We are in the midst of a major eco-nomic and cultural change taking place in the country. We would be increasingly dealing with an educated person who would take up to driving trucks and he would not accept road side contraption that passes off as truck cabins. Such a driver, trained on latest vehicles, would prefer a truck cabin as good as a car cabin and that is the scenar-io for which we are gearing up. These changes and upgrada-tions are happening faster than one can imagine and we are geared up to face this new real-ity in the CV sector. Hence, the need to put asset to quick use and drive for safety and comfort are factors, which may work to our advantage.

INTERVIEWINTERVIEW

Evolving trend in the CV segment in India can be advantageous for any forward looking player like us

Mahindra Navistar has been making its presence felt in the commercial vehicle segment in India. It is gearing up to launch a slew of products to cater to evolving needs and requirements of local customers. In a candid interaction with Auto Monitor, Managing Director, Mahindra Navistar Automotives, Rakesh Kalra elaborates on the emerging trend in the CV sector and how these trends can play to the advantage of a long-term, forward looking player in the CV manufacturing business.

Abhishek Parekh

Mahindra Navistar enters tipper, trailer segments

Our Bureau Mumbai

Mahindra Navistar Automotives launched MN25, the 25 tonne tipper and the MN40, a 40 tonne tractor-trailer with a price tag of `23.26 lakh and `19.3 lakh (ex showroom Pune, BS III variant) respectively. ‘With these introductions, we have entered new segments and further strengthened our product range,’ said Managing Director, Mahindra Navistar Automotives, Rakesh Kalra. He added that with the launch of the MN25 tipper and the MN40 tractor trailer, coupled with the heavy trucks MN25 and MN31 launched earlier and the existing range of LCVs, the company has become a full range commercial vehicle player. He added that customers have come to expect comfort and safety from new generation CV manufacturers and this need will be addressed by MNAL.

The company is in the process of setting up 45 new dealers, a number which would be scaled up to 100 in the next 18 months to two years. The company is also establishing around 220 service points. It rolled out its mobile service workshop with the objective of providing on-road assistance to customers.

MNAL intends to draw on the vast pool of M&M auto and tractor channel partners to use as an extended network for servicing customers’ needs.

Mahindra & Mahindra and International Truck and Engine Corporation entered into a joint venture to manufacture light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles for India as well as global markets in 2005. The medium and heavy commercial vehicles are being manufactured at the JV’s greenfield plant, set up with investments of over `4,000 crore, at Chakan, near Pune.

EDITORIALEDITORIAL

Cooperation needed for skill development

By the time this issue reaches you the Union Budget would have been present-ed by the Finance Minister. Expectations

from the automotive industry rode high till we went to press. Among many things, the gov-ernment should focus on skill development at a faster pace if the economy has to grow at an eight plus percent. Availability of manpower is increasingly becoming a major issue across the board. And it is more visible in the automotive sector due to its spread and contribution to the economy as a whole. Currently, the automo-tive industry contributes around fi ve percent to the GDP.

Considering the sheer population of the country there should not be employment problem for the next decade or so. However, statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau indicates that on an average, about eight people commit suicide due to pov-erty and seven due to unemployment every day. Why this disparity?

Skill availability is a challenge for many players in the automotive space due to sev-eral factors. Traditionally, the automotive industry has developed in clusters – main-ly in the NCR, Pune and Chennai and these regions are not able to tap the local popula-tion beyond a point. The situation is worse in companies involved in castings and forgings business due to diffi cult working conditions. Therefore, people from less industrially devel-oped regions migrate to places where there is adequate employment opportunity. While this is good news, it has its own share of problems in terms of continuity of employment.

It is estimated that the country has the capacity to create 500 million certifi ed and

skilled technicians by the year 2022. The auto-motive industry alone needs 35 million people in the next ten years. About 12.8 million youth enter the job market every year but the existing capacity for vocational training can just meet a third of the demand. At present, only two percent of the workforce in India gets formal training against 68 percent in the UK, 75 per-cent in Germany, 80 percent in Japan and 96 percent in Korea. There is a long way to go.

The Union government is trying to address the issue through various schemes including the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and several rural employment / train-ing schemes. However, industry experts feel that the sops given by some of the state gov-ernments prevent people from taking up jobs, leave alone availing trainings in skills. Schemes prevailing in some states enable people to work only for a day in a week and manage the rest of the week on those earnings since rice rationed at Re1 a kilo and other essential commodities procured at subsidised rates. Their enter-tainment requirements are met through free distribution of television sets. Each state fol-lows its own way to woe the voters. Therefore, even companies operating out of villages are unable to fi nd labour! While welfare schemes are essential for people, the long-term benefi ts of people have to be taken into account.

The transport sector, though traditionally a lucrative employment generator, is also facing huge shortages of drivers off late. Rising tech-nological devices and gadgets in commercial vehicles demand skilled drivers. Though the driver community is vital for the overall econo-my, it has never been given its due. Interestingly, Volvo has launched a global community for

drivers - an attempt to simulate driver’s social and working conditions. Commercial vehicle manufacturers in India can think of some ini-tiatives for the men behind wheels.

Last fortnight, Daimler had unveiled its fi fth global truck brand and the fi rst one especially for India - BharatBenz. The company is trying to re-establish it’s bonding with the trucking community that traces its history to the early 1950s when the commercial vehicle manufac-turer fi rst staged an entry into the country. It will be interesting to see how the new brand positioning of Daimler is going to help it grab market share.

During the last fortnight, Honda Siel recalled its third generation City to carry out preven-tive part replacement of ‘lost motion spring in the valve train’ for 57,853 cars manufactured between November 2008 and December 2009. The last fortnight also witnessed the launch of the Maruti SX4 diesel, G Wagon, Mahindra Navistar and Honda Accord. And Ford India announced the arrival of its new Fiesta.

In this issue, we carry some interesting arti-cles on IAC, Central Road Research Institute and the TIFAC–CORE project. Do send us your feedback.

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FORTNIGHT’S QUOTES

Dr Dieter Zetsche, Daimler CEO in an interview with German newspaper Bild

‘Our cars are in such demand worldwide that we will hire more than 10,000 new employees this year – 4,000 in Germany alone’

Marc Llistosella, CEO, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles

‘The BharatBenz product range will draw on Daimler Trucks’ entire range of technological expertise’

Austan Goolsbee, Chairman, US Council of Economic Advisers in an interview with The Detroit News

‘The government’s involvement with GM was only to prevent a wider spillover, negative event on economy’

‘The primary study revealed information on aftermarket on the basis of vehicle parc data as on March 2010’

Shinzo Nakanishi, MD and CEO Maruti Suzuki India

‘With the changed urban landscape, suburbs became integral part of cities and people travel long distances’

Maruti Suzuki has launched the much-awaited SX4 diesel in a price range of `7.74 – 8.62 lakh, in New Delhi. The car is powered with a super turbo DDiS engine and will be available in three vari-ants: VDi, ZDi and Zdi. With the launch of the diesel SX4 is now available in petrol, CNG and diesel variants. It is the fi rst car in the country to be OBD-2 compliant. In order to deal with the addi-tional diesel vibrations the car has been provided with better NVH suppressants. The brakes and suspension have been modifi ed to account for the heavier engine and the changed weight distribu-tion of the car.

The super turbo DDiS engine will be manufactured at Suzuki Powertrain India, the Manesar based joint venture of Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan and Maruti Suzuki India. This joint venture manufactures diesel engines for Swift, DZire & Ritz and has an annual capacity of 300,000 units.

SX4 Diesel variant priced between `7.74 – 8.62 lakh

T. Murrali [email protected]

Srivats Ram, President, ACMA


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Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) is recom-mending new user cost on

the high-speed corridors across the country. This has been spelt in its report on Maintenance Management System for the High-speed Corridor of the National Highway Development Project undertaken in the 11th fi ve-year-plan. The apex road research body will be submit-ting a report based on the study in December 2012.

‘Maintenance Management System for the High-speed Corridor of the National Highway Development Project is one of the most ambitious proje cts we have undertaken in the 11th fi ve-year plan. Under this we have con-ducted a study to suggest a new user cost to be implemented across the high-speed corridors among other things,’ Director, CRRI, S Gangopadhyay told Auto Monitor.

The project took off in the 2007 and was due to complete in March 2012. Due to some delay in

the study the report will be sub-mitted in December 2012.

The study undertaken in this project has also predicted main-tenance cost and the strategies to be implemented at any specif-ic traffi c. ‘This is very important study, if you look at the expendi-ture that incur in the maintenance we fi nd that most of the time we don’t have any scientifi c study for the maintenance. And we don’t know how to predict mainte-nance strategy. So our study will tell the implementing agency and the engineers in the government department that for a particular kind of road or traffi c we have to adopt what kind of maintenance strategy,’ Gangopadhyay said.

The CRRI has selected various road sections across the country in consultation with the NHAI including some of the projects completed by NHAI, apart from a number of bridges to evaluate the study and pattern of the mainte-nance strategy.

‘Another important point in the project is that we are high-lighting the road user cost which include the construction and maintenance cost of the road and

operating cost of the vehicles. By adding all this we have tried to fi nd out how much a user is pay-ing to commute from point A to B and what they should be paying,’ Gangopadhyay stated.

‘The user cost will also depend on many other things including how many trips you make and what kind of acceleration and deceleration you make while travelling. These all user cost recommendation will be for the highways and not for the urban roads,’ Gangopadhyay added.

The CRRI will project the strat-egy and maintenance expenses through software called SDM-4.

SDM -4 is highway design man-agement software and it depicts taking into account all the vari-ables and parameter of the study, which will go as inputs for the

maintenance strategy including the environment condition, cli-mate condition etc.

About the cost structure, Gagopadhyay said it was up to the implementing body how they do it. ‘Yes toll tax can be one way of taking user cost. One can plan a strategy to get toll. So that will be a part of indication as to how much do you collect from the user,’ he said.

Apart from the user cost, this would be the fi rst of its kind of study that will be predicting the variety and number of accidents that may take place at any given roads. ‘We have taken the road safety and accident issues on the high-speed corridors as well. But it was really tough as you go to the police they are not able to give you the exact details of the acci-

dents. We have tried to predict the accident probability at any of the particular road. So in this view we went to various agen-cies to collect the accident data and then we have predicted the areas as to how many accidents will take place in which road,’ he added.

Gangopadhyay said the road development in the international border areas like Kashmir is main focus where work has to be done. The other interesting feature of the study was the psychological analysis of the driver as to why he/she acts in a particular man-ner on the roads. ‘We have done a psychological study of the drivers as to how the alcoholic driver act and why an individual driver is erratic. Our study will go into details of the reasons.’

CRRI for new user cost on high-speed corridors Nabeel A Khan

New Delhi

Eight lane divided Delhi- Gurgoan access controlled Expressway with service lanes

Wrong assessment worsened Delhi BRT- Director, CRRI, S Gangopadhyay What are the main safety concerns for the road users?

Drivers are not only the users of the road. There are pedestrian and every day six people die in Delhi and mostly pedestrians. So we have seen it in wide spectrum while thinking of safety. The pedestrians are considered the most vulnerable user of the roads.

What are the most prominent reasons of road accidents?

The main reasons for accidents we have found so far are high speed, drivers’ wrong behavior, violation of lane driving and alcoholic drivers.

What is your opinion about Delhi BRT?BRT, holistically, is a wonderful thing but

what went wrong in Delhi BRT is probably the inappropriate assessment of the demand. As the demand was much higher than what BRT could give us. Sometimes it happens that planning goes erroneous and repercussion do happen and you have live with that. And I personally feel there was some error in the estimation of the demand.

What should be the solution to BRT?

The planning should be re-focused on the pedestrians and non-motorised transport. The transport planning should be the strategy to move people and goods and not vehicles. So when the BRT is in place you should first think about the dispersal of the people.


AUTOPINIONAUTOPINION

Gl o b a l V e h i c l e Manufacturers are now coming forward volun-

tarily to recall their vehicles but there isn’t any law in India yet informs Abdul Majeed

The Indian Automotive Industry is no stranger to vehicle recalls. Early last week, Honda has recalled over 50,000 of its City cars when it discovered a fault that could stall engine restarts. Earlier in Jan 2010, it was widely reported that Honda recalled 8,532 City cars made in 2007 to replace defective power window switches that could cause fi re.

Earlier in 2010, news broke out that there seemed to be a leak-age problem in the fuel tanks of Maruti Suzuki A-Star cars and the company had to replace them in nearly 40,000 vehicles. Maruti had however rubbished the claims of a recall at that time. Even Tata Motors had to do some fi re-fi ghting exercise with its Nano models and issue clarifi cations that there were no issues with it.

One of the prominent global recalls in 2010 were the recalls carried out by Toyota (5.3 mil-lion vehicles) to fi x faulty gas pedals, fl oor mats that could trap accelerators, defective brak-ing and stalling engines. Other recall examples include General Motors (4 million vehicles), Honda & Nissan (2 million vehi-cles each) and Ford (500,000).

While these numbers may still seem small, when compared to some of the largest recalls in the history of auto industry (Fig.1) they seem to have rekindled the debate on whether we in India need to have our own car recall laws too?

Compromising on component quality or managing it?

So why have there been so many recalls in the recent years? One of the key pressure points in the automotive value chain is the automaker and supplier relationship. Over the last few years this relationship has been strained by the volatility in glo-bal automotive markets. Earlier automakers were in complete control over manufacturing of several key components used in a vehicle ( example: engine, transmission or braking parts).

Post globalization, the dynamics of the industry has completely changed forc-ing automakers to share their technolog y / manufactur-ing expertise with component makers. Though this offered numerous cost advantages to automakers it also bought with it certain amount of risk in the form of product failure.

For instance, the underlying short-circuit problem in Tata Nano was as a result of supply of a combination switch that lacked quality standards set by Tata. Though not entirely the cause of poor response to Nano in the Indian market this quality issue / risk did pose a threat to long term demand of the vehicle in the Indian market.

The increasing reliance on part sharing (using common parts / platforms) within man-ufacturing lines has meant that when part / component fails the recall impact is more widely felt either across the country or different global man-ufacturing locations. In such a scenario these product failures can quickly turn into logistical

nightmare for both automak-ers and suppliers alike. While an automaker may have to alter its production plan and handle queries on brand reputation etc there is also enormous pressure on the supplier in terms of recal-culation of logistics, fi tting and marketing costs.

To insulate from such prod-uct failures both automakers and suppliers must focus their efforts on improving the quality aspects of a product supply chain right from product design stage to its fi nal delivery. To further reduce risk, regular and thor-ough checks must be conducted during the entire product devel-opment process to ensure that the supplier is not under any pressure to meet agreed prices and demand.

Strict law enforcing agency is need of the hour

All the instances of vehicle recalls both in India and abroad over the last few years under-score the need for an intelligent policy and a strict recall laws in the Indian auto Industry. At the moment we don’t have one as our Industry doesn’t face fre-quent recalls unlike in US or Europe.

In US the National Highway Traffi c Safety Administration (NHTSA) acts as an independ-ent regulatory body to conduct investigations and administer safety recalls improving safety on American highways. It also advises the US Government on taking corrective measures in its national policies aimed at the auto sector.

Even in the world’s largest automotive market China a new

vehicle recall system is likely to be introduced very soon. It has been drafted in such a way that a vehicle manufacturer will pay a fi ne ranging from 2 % to 50 % of a vehicle’s total value if it (vehicle manufacturer) inten-tionally withholds information relevant to recalls or fails to respond appropriately to vehi-cle defects.

Another crucial aspect of any vehicle recall is the economic compensation to the customer / vehicle owner. For example in Toyota’s massive global recalls, the company ordered its staff to visit affected vehicle owners and help drive the defective vehicles to its service stations and tem-porarily replace those vehicles for free. But in India consumers have to drive vehicles to service station themselves and receive zero economic compensation.

Consumer awareness is also very strong in Europe and auto-makers pay heavy penalties for any non-compliance with norms. They also carry out root cause analysis of fatal accidents which is missing here in India. For example Vehicle Safety Research Centre (VSRC) an independent research centre in UK has a team of experts to carry out in depth accident investiga-tions and recommend safety regulations to the Government, European commission and the Industry.

Setting up such an independ-ent safety regulator in India will help both the Indian consum-ers gaining more awareness on the safety aspects of a vehicle as well as insurance companies to regulate the premium based on the safety ratings. The regu-latory body must also enforce strict recall regulations across the country and enforce them. It should also stipulate how an automaker must compensate its customers if its defective prod-ucts cause accidents or economic loss. The Indian Government should arm the safety regulator with enough powers to recall vehicles fi tted with faulty com-ponents and also take corrective measures based on report of accident analysis.

Introducing such policy measures in India would pro-vide wider benefits to all s t a k e holder s ( I ndu s t r y, Government, Consumers) in the long term. Such measures will not be a hurdle to new car sales which is witnessing a strong growth in any case. The time to act is now.

(The views / opinions expressed here are those of the author and does not necessarily refl ect the opinion of PwC)

A rethink on recall laws need of the hour

Abdul MajeedLeader, Automotive Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers

12 Largest Recalls in the Automotive History

Auto Monitor 171 - 15 March 2011

CORPORATECORPORATE

In a bid to grow at a faster pace by capitalising the burgeon-ing passenger car after sales

service market, TVS Sundram Iyengar & Sons (TVS & Sons) has transferred the businesses carried out by one of its divisions –MyTVS to a newly fl oated entity - TVS Automobile Solutions (TVS ASL). The new company will continue use the brand MyTVS.

While being a subsidiary of TVS & Sons, the new entity will have funding through private equity participation from Kitara Capital to the tune of `78 crore. This is the second time private equity

participation has been made in a TVS Group company after TVS Logistics Services in 2008.

With the high growth in the automotive market there is large scale capacity requirement for service and spare parts. ‘TVS has always wanted to grow with the customer as a focus whether it would be B2B or B2C customers. In the case of MyTVS, we are now moving to the next level with the formation of TVS ASL and the idea is to evolve strong partnership with vehicle and part manufac-turers and become the bridge with car owners,’ said Director, TVS ASL, R Dinesh.

Currently the sales from MyTVS is `33 crore and it will grow to `80

crore by 2012 and `460 crore by 2014. In the case of all car service the manpower will witness a ten-fold increase in the next two years from the current 440. Besides, the company owned outlets will grow from 15 to 108, franchises will increase from 50 to 105 and will cover 11 states from the cur-rent four during the next couple of years.

The company offers 24x7 emergency services pan India and it plans to expand its services beyond boundaries. The compa-ny is targeting about six overseas joint venture partners for provid-ing 24x7 emergency services in countries like Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Turkey.

Going forward the company will also cooperate with OEMs to support their requirements of after-sales service due to shortage in capacities, said President of TVS ASL, R Srivatchan. All these initiatives calls for an investment of ̀ 500 crore of which half of it will

be met by the partner companies like providing lands and infra-structure. The rest will be funded by TVS with an initial equity infu-sion of `120 crore including the funding by Kitara, which is likely to pick up a stake of 20 to 30 per-cent in the TVS ASL by 2014.

German luxury car man-ufacturer, Audi, has launched its magazine

recently in India exclusively for its customers. The Audi

Magazine which delivers con-tents on automotives, fashion, sports and lifestyle, was launched jointly by cricketer Ravi Shastri and Head, Audi India, Michael Perschke.

The magazine is one of Audi’s most important customer reten-tion tools and will be issued twice a year in India. The magazine is circulated in 77 countries and 24 languages.

R Dinesh, as chairman and managing director of TVS Logistic, has taken the

company to a new high under his leadership as he received the IIMM (Indian Institute of Materials Management) SCM Award for the Year 2011 in the Corporate Category.

The award was conferred at a two-day mega annual event Spectrum 2011 in Chennai.

Delivering the inaugural address at Spectrum 2011, R Dinesh said that for effi cient deployment of Supply Chain Management India had theo-retically caught with the world, even though they were a decade behind, in areas such as telecom and automobiles.

He further added ‘Similarly the nation has proved skeptics from developed nations wrong by making rapid strides on the logis-tics front and effi cient utilization of supply chain management.’

Speaking on the occasion Chairman, Chennai Branch of Indian Institute of Materials Management, N Swayambhu said ‘Supply Chain Management encompasses management of all activities involved including sourcing, procurement, and con-version and logistics management. This annual event is to enrich the knowledge of SCM Executives to achieve business excellence lev-eraging technology.’

TVS & Sons forms new company for customer centric business

Audi launches its magazine in India

R Dinesh picks up IIMM award

Our Bureau Chennai

Our Bureau Mumbai

R Dinesh, Director & R Srivatchan, President, TVS Automobile Solutions during the meet to announce the formation of the new company


Mercedes Benz India recently launched G wagon for ̀ 1.1 crore and

claims to have already received bookings of 12 units.

The G55 AMG is powered by a 5.5 litre V8 engine developing 373 kW/507 hp and a maximum torque of 700 newton metres. It is distinguished by its design refi nements with the radiator grille in the front with exclusive chrome inserts. It sports titani-um grey 19-inch AMG light-alloy wheels in a fi ve-spoke design. The standard AMG body styling continues to include bumpers painted in the vehicle colour and fl ared AMG wings. The model is equipped with the latest-gener-ation COMAND APS Mercedes telematics, reversing camera

& rear seat entertainment as a standard option.

According to Director, Sales & Marketing, Mercedes-Benz India, Debashis Mitra, over 200,000 units of the G-Class have been sold till date globally. He added that G 55 would comfortably cut the mark as the most powerful SUV in Indian market currently and can accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in 5.5 seconds, and has an electronically limited top speed of 210 km/h. Its integrated lateral acceleration control allows the more precise recognition of dynamic driving manoeuvres to optimise the stability of the vehi-cle. The G 55 AMG is also equipped with hill start assist. The compa-ny clocked sales of 640 units in the month of January. The key growth drivers in January 2011 were the C–Class with 265 units compared to January 2010 sales

of 131 units, E-Class with 252 units (245 units), the S-Class with 46 units (23 units) and the SUV

range comprising the M-Class, GL-Class and the R-Class with 67 units (three units).

NEW LAUNCHESNEW LAUNCHES

Mercedes launches G wagon at `1.1 crore Honda Siel recalls City

Adding to the growing instances of its kind plaguing the Indian auto-

motive sector, Honda Siel Cars India recently recalled the third generation City as a part of glo-bal process for preventive part replacement of lost motion spring in the valve train for around 57,853 units manufac-tured from November 2008 to December 2009.

Lost motion springs, which are compressed by rocker arms in normal engine use, may bend or break over time result-ing in abnormal engine noise and potentially causing engine stalling and problems in re-starting. A special microsite has been created on the company’s website, which enables the cus-tomers to check whether their car will be covered under this part replacement by submitting their 17 character alpha-numer-ic Vehicle Identifi cation Number (VIN). HSCI is carrying out the part replacement as part of a global exercise by Honda Motor Company to ensure strin-gent quality standards for its products.

The part replacement is only applicable to Honda City manu-factured from November 2008 to December 2009 and the current-ly sold City is not affected & does not require any part replace-ment. The global recall does not impact the Honda Jazz sold in India. The recall announced by Honda applies to certain units of Fit/ Jazz fi tted with 1.5L i-VTEC engine which is sold in other countries and not sold in India.

New Accord LaunchThe company recently

launched the new Honda Accord at the base price of `19.6 lakh. The model is equipped with Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) to assist the driver in maintaining control during cornering, accel-eration and sudden manoeuvres by applying braking to the right

or left hand wheels as neces-sary and modulating the engine torque output as required. The sunroof now comes as stand-ard across the Accord range. The eighth generation Accord was introduced in May 2008 and it is available in 2.4L and 3.5L V6 engine options (`25.41 lakh).

The 2.4L Accord comes with 5-speed manual, and automatic transmission with paddle shift. The 3.5L V6 engine features an advanced Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) system that switches between six, four and three cylinder combustion depending on the driving condi-tions and thereby delivering maximum power of 275 PS dur-ing six cylinder operation and impressive fuel economy in VCM mode while cruising. The V6 3.5L and Honda Accord 2.4L also have a provision for bluetooth connectivity.

Our Bureau New Delhi

Debashis Mitra, Director, Sales & Marketing, Mercedes-Benz India,

Our Bureau Mumbai


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LPG and CNG conversion kit manufacturer, Sagas Auto Tec is beefi ng up its presence

in the domestic three-wheel-er aftermarket by extending its dealer network. Simultaneously, it is strengthening its foothold in the Dubai market by setting up an assembly unit to cater to the aftermarket requirements of the Middle East and African regions.

Dubai offers a free trade zone and favourable logistics for exporting conversion kits to the two-wheeler and three-wheel-er aftermarkets in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Africa. The option of exporting gas conversion kits for marine outboard engines is also being explored from Dubai to these geographies.

‘It will not be a full-fl edged operation,’ said Chairman & Managing Director, Sagas Auto Tec, Parthanath SN. ‘We have leased a readymade facility and received clearances for produc-tion and are awaiting some other export clearances.’ The facility is expected to go on stream within 12 months.

At present, conversion kits cannot be exported from India to Pakistan as they do not fall with-

in the purview of the approved positive list for exports. Hence, export of conversion kits from Dubai could now be a prospective proposition especially as most of the four-wheelers in Pakistan are driven on CNG while the public transport system functions on petrol and diesel. As a backup, Sagas has also applied for export-ing kits from India to Pakistan.

The company has a presence in 15 states in India and in six coun-tries overseas including Peru, Columbia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh, where it has tied up with Indian oil companies for dispensation of conversion kits both within and outside fuel vending outlets. However, this presence is small and scattered.

Six years ago, the company’s foreign sales accounted for 35 percent of the total sales, but this fi gure has now dwindled to 10 percent with a change in global fuel pricing policies, recession and escalating natural gas prices that led to a drop in demand for conversion kits.

Market Growth

Meanwhile, the ten-year old Mysore company is planning to ride on the growth of CNG dis-pensation stations in the country, pegged to hit the 8,000 mark over the next fi ve years from the cur-rent 700 units, according to Parthanath.

As crude prices fi rm upto $120 to $130 in the future from the current $100 a barrel, use of alter-nate fuel is expected to drive the growth for alternative fuel dis-pensing stations eventually help saving fuel bills for three-wheeler users. Further, alternate fuels are expected to cut pollutants by over 85 percent.

Sagas’ conversion kits are designed in-house at their R&D centre in Mysore and can be fi t-

ted either at the factory as an OE fi tment or retrofi tted on a new petrol vehicle after its initial registration.

The company’s focus is however, tilted in favour of ret-rofi tments. This is because the realisations are higher due to the larger volumes of vehicles catered to against OE supplies where pricing is not compara-ble with market prices. However, the company is involved in active discussions with Piaggio, TVS Motors and Bajaj Auto for a suit-able opportunity in OE fi tment as well as retrofi tments at their deal-er outlets.

From inception till March 2010, Sagas sold about 100,000 pieces of CNG kits and 80,000 units of LPG conversion kits. Sagas CNG conversion kits cost between `25,000 and `30,000 with an LPG kit priced between `16,000 and ` 24,500. The company is expect-ing to close the current fi scal with sales of another 30,000 units of which CNG kits are likely to con-tribute 70 percent.

‘The company’s target over the next three years is to market another 300,000 conversion kits with CNG and LPG contributing an equal share,’ said Parthanath. He is optimistic that sales in

the third world countries would spearhead this growth.

Optimising performanceWith emission regulations

introduced from last April, norms for three-wheelers have also moved onto Bharat Stage III. Director, Sagas Auto Tec, Sandeep SP remarked that con-version kits of the company had to be redesigned for optimisation of performance and reduction of emissions in line with new emis-sion norms.

For ensuring suitability of the conversion kits in the aftermarket, homologation is undertaken every three years by ARAI. According to Sandeep this exercise is both expensive and more stringent than for a petrol vehicle.

He pointed out that the USP of their kits was quality and its safe-ty aspect. Also, retro fi tments had to ensure that operation of the vehicle’s engine was not adverse-ly impacted. In addition supply of spare parts and service had to be pursued through their channel of dealers.

Sagas’ is extending its dealer network globally from the cur-rent 400 to 2,500 over three years. At present, about 70 percent of the dealers are clustered in the

domestic market but this equation is expected to change in favour of 60 percent dealers being located overseas as global markets drive growth, post recession.

The majority of the company’s dealers operate on the franchisee model with three being company-owned outlets.

At present, Sagas has two man-ufacturing facilities for producing conversion kits at Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh with 2,000 kits being produced together in a sin-gle shift per day.

A sunrise industry, CNG at present constitutes less than fi ve percent of the total refi lling stations in the country. Petrol and diesel stations are pegged at 23,000 units of which LPG accounts for about 1,000 stations pan India with 40 percent being stand-alone units.

According to a Frost and Sullivan report on the sector, the unorganised segment dominates the conversion kit market with major players in the organised space being Lovato SpA, Landi Renzo SpA and BRC Gas Equipment Company. These hold a quarter of the overall (LPG and CNG) alternative fuel market. Vanaz Engineers and Sagas Auto Tec are the two major Indian par-ticipants in this market, said the report.

Sagas Auto Tec plans assembly unit in Dubai

Amara Raja Group recently unveiled a new corporate identity coinciding with its

silver jubilee celebrations. It also announced setting up of Amara Raja Digital World City (ARDWC) and shared group’s vision to achieve $25 billion revenue by 2025.

The new logo of Amara Raja is a symphony of diverse elements coming together and moving for-ward in perfect harmony. The fi ve colours symbolising the fi ve ele-ments of creation also represent the fi ve core values of the Amara Raja Group and the way in which its diverse entities orchestrate themselves as a symphony in perfect harmony, according to the company release.

Launching the new identity of the group, Chairman, Amara Raja Group, Dr Ramachandra Galla said, ‘The journey witnessed the Amara Raja Group act as an agent of change bringing about trans-formation in communities and markets that it operates in and the way in which it has built its work culture. Over 85 percent of our employees at manufacturing units who came in as untrained rural hands are now part of world-class workforce’.

Amara Raja Digital World City

(ARDWC) will be one of India’s largest integrated electronics manufacturing parks. ARDWC spread over 500 acre is expect-ed to create over 20,000 jobs. In this large infrastructure project, Amara Raja group will also be one of the anchor organizations. This project will fuel Amara Raja Group’s aim to achieve US $two billion revenue by 2015.

Amara Raja Group founded by Dr Ramachandra Galla, with a vision to offer quality products/solutions with manufacturing facilities in rural India. The group has expanded its business line to other businesses and products

like batteries, precision compo-nents, sheet metals systems, plastics, storage solutions and automation, electronics, food processing, infrastructure and industrial services. The group currently employs over 7,000 peo-ple and has 12 manufacturing units spread over four manufac-turing complexes in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh. The Group com-prises of seven companies namely Amara Raja Power Systems, Amara Raja Batteries, Mangal Precision Products, Amara Raja Electronics, Galla Foods, Amara Raja Infra and Amara Raja Industrial Services.

Shobha Mathur Mysore

Amara Raja dons new identity Our Bureau

Mumbai

Parthanath SN, Chairman, Sagas Auto Tec

Sandeep SP, Director, Sagas Auto Tec A model Sagas Auto Tec service outlet

Jayadev Galla, MD, Amara Raja Batteries, Ramachandra Galla, Chairman, Amara Raja Grp and Ravi Bhamidipati, Incharge of Strategy & Devpt Amara Raja Batteries


ANALYSISANALYSIS

Passenger Vehicles

Passenger Cars

OEMs 2009-10 2010-11

BMW 2,563 5,026

Fiat 20,389 17,405

Ford 22,386 76,284

GM 51,723 71,807

HM 7,213 6,045

HSCI 49,321 50,609

HMIL 252,466 294,700

MR 4,444 7,840

MSIL 623,743 783,208

Merc 2,797 4,655

Nissan 163 8,434

Skoda 13,873 16,700

Tata 154,554 206,089

TKM 8,143 11,157

Audi 1,596 3,100

VW 2,686 36,436

Total 1,218,060 1,599,495

96.10%

-14.64%

-18.59%

240.77%

38.83%

-16.19%

2.61%

16.73%

76.42%

25.57%

66.43%

5074.23%

1256.52%

20.38%

33.34%

37.01%

94.24%

45.24%

34.80%

28.86%

66.61%

55.91%

1592.31%

12.87%

64.65%

66.30%

6.41%

46.53%

521.43%

236.59%

-

26.97%

25.94%

20.59%

31.31%

Cumulative passenger car sales grew by 31.31 percent in 2010-11 to touch 1,599,495 units as compared with 1,218,060 units in the previous fi scal. Utility Vehicle (UV) sales grew by 20.59 percent in 2010-11 to touch 264,396 units compared with 219,258 units notched up in the previous fi scal. Multi Purpose Vehicle (MPV) sales increased by 46.53 percent in 2010-11 to touch 175,141 units compared with 119,527 units in the previous fi scal.

Nissan registered highest growth rate in the passenger vehicle segment with 5074.23 percent to 8,434 units as com-pared with 163 units in the same period in the previous fi scal.

Cumulative Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) sales grew by 26 percent in 2010-11 to touch 283,583 units as compared with 225,070 units sold in the same period in the previous fi scal.

Medium & Heavy Commercial Vehicle (M&HCV) sales grew by 37.69 percent in 2010-11 to touch 251,039 units compared with 182,322 units notched up in the previous fi scal. Three-wheeler sales increased by 19.51 percent in 2010-11 to touch 430,793 units as compared with 360,469 units in the previous fi scal.

Force Motors notched up the highest growth rate in the LCV with 58.54 percent gain to touch 13,267 units this fi scal as com-pared with 8,368 units in the previous fi scal. AMW notched up highest gain in M&HCV segment with 92.57 percent growth to touch 5,288 units as compared to 2,746 units in the correspond-ing part of the previous fi scal.

Cumulative Scooter/Scooterette sales grew from 1,157,902 units registered in 2009-10 to touch 1,697,204 units in 2010-11, a growth of around 46.58 percent.

Motorcycles/StepThrough sales increased from 5,990,334 units in 2009-10 to touch 7,402,098 units in 2010-11, a growth of around 23.57 percent.

Moped/Electric Scooter sales increased from 464,679 units registered in 2009-10 to 572,498 units in 2010-11, a growth of around 23.2 percent.

Mahindra & Mahindra 2W notched up the highest growth rate in scooters segment this fi scal with more than 178.08 percent increase in volumes from 47,945 units in 2009-10 to 133,326 units in 2010-11. It was followed by Suzuki Motorcycles with 76.31 percent growth to touch 186,101 units as compared with 105,555 units in the previous fi scal.

HMSI notched up highest growth rate in motorcycles segment with 57.36 percent increase from 347,530 units in 2009-10 to 546,875 units this fi scal. It was followed by Bajaj Auto with a growth of 40.96 percent this fi scal from 1,411,259 units to touch 1,989,377 units.

TVS Motors registered the highest growth rate in mopeds/electric scooters segment with around 23.86 percent increase in volumes from 462,197 units in 2008-09 to 572,498 units in 2009-10.

MPV

OEMs 2009-10 2010-11

Force 0 176

Maruti 79,782 132,674

Tata 39,745 42,291

Total 119,527 175,141

Commercial Vehicles Two-Wheelers

LCVs (PC+GC)

OEMs 2009-10 2010-11

ALL 628 554

Force 8,368 13,267

HM 189 289

M&M 65,741 83,268

MNAL - 8,853

Piaggio 9,267 7,544

Swaraj 2,829 3,352

Tata 133,738 160,598

VECV - Eicher

4,310 5,858

Total 225,070 283,583

3 Wheelers (PC+GC)

OEMs 2009-10 2010-11

Atul 9,413 15,269

Bajaj 146,529 168,534

Force 1,446 138

M&M 36,425 50,648

Piaggio 147,929 166,205

Scooters 9,143 11,002

TVS 9,584 18,997

Total 360,469 430,793

M&HCVs (PC+GC)

OEMs 2009-10 2010-11

ALL 40,928 62,949

AMW 2,746 5,288

JCBL 151 14

Daimler* - 121

MNAL - 445

Merc Benz

179 83

Swaraj 4,374 5,934

Tata 116,849 151,157

VECV - Eicher

15,820 23,751

VECV - Volvo

798 852

Volvo Buses

477 445

Total 182,322 251,039

Scooter/Scooterettee

OEMs 2009-10 2010-11

BAL 3,611 27

HHML 162,249 274,234

HMSI 592,501 734,503

M&M 2W

47,945 133,326

SMIL 105,555 186,101

TVS 246,041 369,013

Total 1,157,902 1,697,204

Mopeds/Electric

OEMs 2009-10 2010-11

TVS 462,197 572,498

Electr-otherm*

2,482 NA

Total 464,679 572,498

Motorcycles/StepThrough

OEMs 2009-10 2010-11

BAL 1,411,259 1,989,377

HHML 3,562,555 4,027,742

HMSI 347,530 546,875

IYM 188,310 228,378

M&M 2W

- 5,135

RE 42,059 43,264

SMIL 38,593 39,407

TVS 400,028 521,920

Total 5,990,334 7,402,098

* Data not available since August 2008 onwards

UV

OEMs 2009-10 2010-11

BMW 405 406

Force 4,637 6,735

Ford 1,836 2,475

GM 13,007 16,761

HM 1,276 2,126

HSCI 279 435

HMIL 13 220

ICML 908 564

M&M 123,579 139,483

MSIL 2,970 4,890

Merc 84 522

Nissan 123 414

Skoda - 748

Tata 27,345 34,720

TKM 42,796 53,897

Total 219,258 264,396

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1 - 15 March 2011

National Engineering Industries (NEI), the manufacturer of NBC

Bearings, is exploring new sourc-es of raw materials, new kinds of steel and increased productivity from its present capacity through total productive maintenance to cut down the price. The compa-ny has also started basic research and doubled its investment in research and development.

‘We have been buying steel from the Indian Seamless Metal Tubes (ISMT) and Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant (VISL) but now we are trying to develop new sources to bring competition. We are in talks with Usha Martin to supply steel,’ President and Chief Executive Offi cer, Rohit Saboo told Auto Monitor.

In another move to reduce the production cost, the company is looking for an alternate material without affecting the life of the products. ‘We currently use alloy steel and we are looking for some other form of alloy steel, which will be slightly lower in cost. For example, currently we are using SAE 52100 steel, which has high chromium and high nickel. We can mainly look at reducing the amount of nickel in it to lower the price. However this is still under experiment,’ Saboo said.

The change of input material can happen only for the newer bearings as the company has signed contract with its custom-ers for supply of bearings using the existing material. The com-pany has been getting good boost from its R&D facility off late, and this fi scal it will be developing at least 50 new bearings. So far

the company was able to intro-duce only 30 new bearings in a year. It will continue its focus on faster development of bearings and improve knowledge of its engineers.

In the last fi ve years the com-pany has developed 150 products which average to 30 products every year. But this fi scal it will be developing 50 new bearings. Among the 50 bearings devel-oped this year, 25 of them are to be used in the CVs of Diamler and Tata Motors.

The company is also testing the bearing for Daimler’s two new LCV and HCV to be launched next year. It hopes to supply the bear-ing once the testing is cleared successfully. Traditionally the company has been investing only about 0.5 percent of the total turnover in R&D but since the last year it has been hiked

to 1.5 to two percent and it will continue with an investment of around two percent which will

be around `10 crore, he said. Over the last 25 years the

company’s R& D was mostly supporting the manufacturing facility but now it has become aggressive in developing more number of new products in the last seven to eight years. The company claims to have con-tained the price of the bearing through automation and reduc-tion in wastage of resources.

‘Even till last year the average price of our bearing was same as it was in 1991. We have invested a lot of money in automation and improvement of our machines. We have gone through total pro-ductive maintenance which improved our productivity by more than double,’ Saboo said.

With implementation of this concept the company claims to have reduced the average machine breakdown of 10 per-cent to one percent or may be even less than that, hence cut-ting down the wastage of the resources. The company has also installed a number of automation systems which has worked a lot in cutting down the manpower cost mainly apart from other.

Earlier the company’s bearing grinding line had six independ-ent machines and was handled by six operators but after auto-mation only one person was required to operate all the six machines. This is due to inte-gration of these machines and the races go from one to another machine with automatic load-ing and unloading system. The company is now trying to further improve the automation in such a way that two lines comprising of 12 grinding machines are han-dled by only one person.

‘We have also improved on the type of wheels used for grinding. We have a high speed spindle which cuts the steel in much fast-er way. Earlier the cutting of steel used to take 14 seconds but now it is done only in six to seven sec-onds so the time has been reduced by half,’ Saboo explained.

Another focus at its R&D facil-ity, which has a team of around 75 personals including 60 engi-neers, is basic research. ‘We also research on the quality of the steel, the tribology effects on bearing and noise on bear-ing,’ Saboo said. The company is also working on to increase the life cycle of the bearing by 20-25 percent.

National Engineering expects to hit a turnover of ̀ 1,000 crore in the current fi scal including about `60 crore from exports mainly to Brazil, South Africa and USA for both railways and automotive applications.

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1 - 15 March 2011

Goodyear India has launched its latest tyre from Assurance line - the

Goodyear Assurance Fuel Max with fuel saving technology. The company claimed that the new tyre provides 4 percent more fuel effi ciency and 15 percent longer mileage than conventional tyre technology. Goodyear Assurance Fuel Max is reinforced with the same DuPont Kevlar overlay – a material that is fi ve times stronger than steel – that made its predecessor so successful.

‘In the current environment where the rising fuel costs are a huge concern, Fuel Max tech-nology is designed to improve fuel consumption without compromising on mileage or performance,’ said Chairman & Managing Director, Goodyear India, Rajeev Anand.

India is a country with diverse terrain, which requires maxi-mum safety while manoeuvring the vehicle on the road and the company asserts that Assurance Fuel Max offers critical safety features such as a strong grip, puncture resistance, blow out resistance, shorter braking dis-tance and anti-skid. The new Goodyear Assurance Fuel Max features an advanced full silica compound which reduces the friction between the tyre’s rub-ber molecules and provides high resistance to abrasion, resulting in reduced fuel consumption and a longer tread life.

Additionally, the tyre is built with a hard base under the tread, which reduces deforma-tion in the crown area and heat build-up, contributing to higher fuel effi ciency. The tyre also fea-tures even pressure distribution which helps reduce frictional energy caused by abrasion and heat at the tread surface, reduc-ing the rate of wear.

Tests conducted by Goodyear Innovation Centre, Luxembourg indicated that Assurance Fuel Max has 15 percent longer tread life versus the previous technol-ogy (Goodyear Ducaro GA). Actual fuel savings and tread life may vary according to other fac-tors including environment, road, vehicle conditions, vehicle model and driving habits.

To keep pace with capacity augmentations of vehi-cle manufacturers, Apollo

Tyres has expanded its tyre bou-quet by formally inaugurating its third greenfi eld project that is also its ninth globally and fourth in India.

Spread over 128 acres at the SIPCOT Industrial Growth Centre at Oragadam near Chennai, it has involved an investment of `2,100 crore. Construction began on the site in December 2008 with an ini-tial investment of ̀ 450 crore that was later scaled up four-fold.

The fi rst tyre was commer-cially produced in February 2010 within 14 months of the start of

construction. The Chennai plant currently produces 7,000 pas-senger vehicle tyres and 1,300 commercial vehicle tyres a day. At its terminal capacity, produc-tion is expected to reach 16,000 passenger vehicles and 6,000 commercial vehicle tyres a day.

Chairman of Apollo Tyres, Onkar S Kanwar said at its inau-guration: ‘While planning this manufacturing facility, we have ‘questioned’ existing practices, studied benchmarked systems within Apollo and outside, with a desire to create an iconic tyre manufacturing facility, which is technologically advanced and yet cost competitive.’

The Chennai truck, bus and passenger car tyre manufac-turing unit, when completed is slated to become the most

technologically advanced tyre production unit in the Asian region. It currently has a man-power strength of around 1,200.

‘Equipped with the most mod-ern and advanced equipment and technology, this manufac-turing facility will bring into India true economies of scale and knowhow. But more than anything else, we are proud that this unit is a manifestation of what is possible in India today.

A highly automated plant with extensive use of robotics and IT-driven systems, it employs young and skilled manpower on the shopfl oor,’ Kanwar added.

Apollo Tyres has two plants in Kerala with the first at Kalamassery producing cross-ply tyres exclusively for the company. Operational since

1975, it has a production capac-ity of 100 metric tonnes per day. The second is the mother plant or its fi rst facility at Perambra. It manufactures cross-ply truck, bus, light-truck and farm tyres and has a production capacity of 340 metric tonnes per day.

Apollo has its Limda plant in Gujarat that is one of the larg-est of its kind in the South-East Asian region. It is Apollo’s sec-ond greenfi eld project and has been upgraded to house the lat-est technological innovations.

The most recent addition to the unit was an OTR tyre production facility. The plant manufactures tyres for passen-ger cars, SUVs, MUVs, heavy and light commercial vehicles, agri-cultural and OTR tyres.

Apollo also has two over-

seas facilities at Durban and Ladysmith in South Africa that came under the Apollo umbrella when it acquired Dunlop Tyres International (since renamed Apollo Tyres South Africa Pty Ltd) in 2006.

The plant manufactures truck-bus, passenger car, light truck, farm and OTR tyres and has a production capacity of 180 metric tonnes per day.

The company’s Enschede plant in The Netherlands came under Apollo’s fold after the acquisition of Vredestein Banden B V (since renamed Apollo Vredestein B V) in May 2009. The unit produces passenger cars, industrial and agriculture tyres and has a production capacity of 180 metric tonnes per day.

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Mitsuba’s reversing wiper system benefits both drivers and manu-

facturers. When not in use, the system is hidden below the hood, improving the look of the car and the driver’s view and reducing aerodynamic drag. The system’s embedded controller can dynam-ically modify the motor’s angle of operation to compensate for changes in wind pressure and wiper speed. Because the system minimizes the operating range of mechanical parts, the wipers are more compact and can be more easily integrated into the vehicle design.

Using MathWorks tools, Mitsuba engineers developed the wiper system’s controller and delivered a complete system— including production code—in just three weeks.‘Even though we were new to the approach and

tools, we saw clear improvements in development speed and product quality,’ says Takao Arai, engi-neer in the Electric Engineering Department at Mitsuba. ‘Model-based development with MathWorks tools enabled us to identify and fi x problems with the project requirements and early designs rather than late in devel-opment when testing on the fi nal hardware.’

ChallengeA reversing wiper system is

more challenging to design than a conventional system because the controls are considerably more complex.Mitsuba’s previous development process relied on paper-based requirements spec-ifi cations and handwritten code. Debugging and tolerance testing (parameter tuning) were possible only on actual hardware, so most

problems were not found until the later stages of development and resulted in sig-nifi cant rework that compromised sys-tem quality. Mitsuba engineers needed to accelerate develop-ment of the system to meet a tight deadline.

Because the sys-tem was a fi rst for Mitsuba, they needed to verify new control algorithms and design ideas as early as possible. ‘In the past, our design reviews took a long time because it’s hard to understand design details using only written documentation,’ says Arai. ‘The trend in our industry is toward model-based approaches. Many of our customers—automotive OEMs—have already moved in

this direction, and it was clear that we needed to as well.’

SolutionMitsuba used MathWorks tools

to model, simulate, verify, and generate production code for the reversing wiper system control. Before beginning the project, Mitsuba took steps to ensure a smooth transition to model-based

development. Engineers attended 10 days of onsite training, and the group drafted modelling guide-lines and a design procedure. To foster the engineers’ continued education, Mitsuba developed skill standards based on JMAAB Style Guidelines, established by the Japan MATLAB Automotive Advisory Board and based on Embedded Technology Skill Standards. At the same time, Mitsuba was promoting the use of models and simulation to accelerate development, increase quality, and improve communi-cation both internally and with customers.

Working from the specifi ca-tion, Mitsuba engineers used Simulink to model control struc-tures, control functions, and test harnesses.

Wit h Simu lin k a nd SimMechanics, the group creat-ed a plant model, which included the windshield wiper link mech-anism, wiper arms, and body mount.They ran closed-loop sim-ulations using the control system and plant models to verify the functionality of the controller and determine how the physical specifi cations of the wiper would affect motor control. Based on these simulations, the team per-formed variable scaling to create a detailed control model.

Using Real-Time Workshop, they generated C code from the control and plant mod-els, which they used to conduct software-in-the-loop and real-time processor-in-the-loop simulations. To perform hard-ware-in-the-loop simulations, they used the test harness creat-ed with Simulink and Statefl ow to drive the plant model code on an embedded processor.

The engineers used Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder to generate production code for an NEC 78K series 8-bit microcontrol-ler, and then conducted fi nal tests on the production hardware.

The reversing wiper system is currently in production, with monthly shipments of 20,000–30,000 units.

Mitsuba engineers are reus-ing components of the wiper system and plant model on cur-rent projects. The company has standardized on model-based development for all new projects, including motor control products for hybrid and electric vehicles.

ResultsDevelopment time for a specif-

ic feature reduced from 16 weeks to 3 weeks. ‘With our previous design process, taking a specifi c feature project from specifi cation to production code running on a microprocessor typically required about 4 months,’ says Arai. ‘With model-based development we completed the project in just 3 weeks. The ability to debug and test through simulation—instead of only on hardware—further accelerated development.’

Design review time and paper documents reduced by 90 per-cent. Design verified early, minimizing rework. ‘Model-based development enabled us to dis-cover missing or conflicting requirements before testing on hardware, which minimized the amount of rework we had to do,’ says Arai. ‘Plus, using Simulink we can run simulations using input patterns that would be diffi cult or impossible to test on the hard-ware itself.’

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1 - 15 March 2011

The Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India

(ACMA) has pegged the current size of the aftermarket to be around `330 billion, in a recent study. The study further goes on to suggest that two-wheelers are a major contributor to the total revenue with a share of 49.66 percent followed by passenger vehicles and commercial vehi-cles contributing 24.68 percent and 23.12 percent respectively. The contribution of three-wheel-ers is the lowest at 2.54 percent.

President, ACMA, Srivats Ram said ‘The primary study of the Indian automotive aftermar-ket has revealed information on the aftermarket on the basis of vehicle parc data as on 31 March, 2010. The total parc of all vehicles in India in the ‘on-road’ category stood at over 94.7 million. Two wheelers constituted 76 percent, passenger vehicles 15 percent and the remaining nine percent were contributed by commercial vehicles and three-wheelers of all on-road vehicles.’

ACMA also unveiled a white paper on ‘Legislative Improvements to Combat Counterfeit Auto Components’, which outline the extent of counterfeiting in the auto com-ponent industry, especially the aftermarket and suggest reme-dial measures to counteract it. The white paper also claimed that the exchequer loses around `2,200 crore per annum due to counterfeiting.

The study that was con-ducted by leading research

agency, The Nielsen Company, also identifi es key trends and potential changes in the auto-motive business landscape. The study further segregates the revenue into components and services with components con-tributing around `24,800 crore and accounting for 75 percent of it while services constitute the balance 25 percent.

The states contributing the maximum to the two-wheeler components’ aftermarket are Gujarat at `1,400 crore followed by Maharashtra at around ̀ 1,390 crore and Tamil Nadu at around `1300 crore.

In the three-wheeler com-ponents’ aftermarket, the major contributors are Maharashtra (`120 crore), Gujarat (`90 crore) and Kerala (`85 crore) contrib-uting a total of 47 percent. While in the automotive components’ aftermarket for passenger vehi-cles, the top contributors are Maharashtra (`890 crore), Delhi (`720 crore) and Gujarat (`570 crore) with a total share of 36 percent of the total market, in case of commercial vehi-cles, Maharashtra (`730 crore), Gujarat (`610 crore) and Andhra Pradesh (`430 crore) are the top contributors with 31 percent of the market share.

The average annual expens-es on maintenance of vehicles in India: `2,650 for two-wheel-ers, `3,450 for three-wheelers, `7,850 for passenger vehicles and `22,550 for commercial vehicles.

The spending on vehicle maintenance during the early two years of purchase of the vehicle is around 35 percent of the average spend during

the peak spending period that spans between the end of war-ranty period till the vehicle is 13 years old.

After 13 years, the average annual maintenance falls to around 45 per cent of the peak value as most of the maintenance work is targeted at keeping the vehicle ‘just road worthy’. The use of non-genuine parts goes up and regular service and mainte-nance cycles become longer at this time.

Chairman of the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Aftermarket, ACMA, Soumitra Bhattacharya said the size of the counterfeited com-ponents in the automotive aftermarket in the country was estimated to be `8,700 crore in 2010 by the White Paper on Legislative Improvements to Combat Counterfeit Auto Components. The paper sug-gests that only about 60 to 70 percent of the available com-ponents in the aftermarket are genuine.

The main reason for the ris-ing problem of counterfeiting are increased availability of counter-feit components including ease of manufacturing, packaging and importing such products; higher margins on counterfeits, retail-ers and mechanics advocacy over genuine, uninformed customers, short replacement cycle of some parts and inadequacy of existing legislative framework.

Counterfeiting has not only led to huge losses to the govern-ment but also employment losses which are estimated at over 1.15 million jobs, consumption of additional 109 million litres of petrol and eight million litres of

diesel per annum. It is also the main cause of an estimated 20 percent of total road accidents in India.

Executive Director, ACMA, Vinnie Mehta said: ‘Going for-ward, the expansion of OEM authorised service stations and organised multi-brand service chains as well as implementa-tion of GST will shape the Indian automotive aftermarket.

The white paper suggested a re-orientation of the Motor Vehicles Act as Automotive Components Anti-Counterfeit and Product Safety Law with a comprehensive defi nition of counterfeit or spurious auto components.

The defi nition should also encompass aspects manufac-turing, packaging, trading, distr ibuting, warehousing, repacking, remanufacture, and transportation and printing of packing material. The manu-facture, packing, sale, stocking, distribution of spurious auto components should be consid-ered as a cognisable offence.

The automotive industry should also in collaboration with the Department of Consumer Affairs and other relevant gov-ernment agencies, engage in consumer education and public awareness on the danger to life and property due to usage of spurious auto components.

Aftermarket holds potential: ACMA study Our Bureau

New Delhi Facts about Aftermarket Delhi had the highest market size for two-wheeler

components with an aftermarket size of `550 crore. Mumbai carried the maximum potential market size for

aftermarket components at `250 crore. Tractors at over 3.5 million represent the largest

off-road vehicle segment. Uttar Pradesh (including Uttarakhand) was the top state with a parc of over 600,000 tractors. Orissa and Kerala with disproportionately lower tractor parc compared to their populations were notable exceptions.

The average annual expenses on maintenance of vehicles in India are `2,650 for two-wheelers, `3,450 for three-wheelers, `7,850 for PVs and `22,550 for CVs.

Counterfeiting leads to a loss of `2,200 crore per annum to the government exchequer. It also leads to an employment loss that is estimated at over 1.15 million jobs, consumption of additional 109 million litres of petrol and 8 million litres of diesel per annum. Counterfeiting is also the main cause of an estimated 20 percent of total road accidents in India.


Ford and Russian automak-er Sollers have signed a preliminary deal to build

and sell vehicles in the fast-growing Russian market after talks between Sollers and Fiat SpA broke down, according to a report in the Detroit News. Ford and Sollers, Russia’s sec-ond-largest manufacturer of passenger cars and commercial vehicles, said that they would form a 50-50 venture that would begin operations this year.

‘We are delighted to be taking this next step for Ford in Russia with our proposed partner, Sollers,’ Chief Executive, Ford Europe, Stephen Odell said in a joint statement. Ford has been

producing vehicles in Russia since 2002. ‘We are inspired by

the opportunity to work with Ford,’ said General Director, Sollers, Vadim Shvetsov. Earlier, Fiat and Sollers said they had decided to ‘pursue independ-ent strategies to further develop their respective presence in Russia.’

The Turin, Italy-based automaker and Sollers had signed a memoran-dum of understanding last February to jointly pro-duce as many as 500,000 cars and SUVs in Russia. Fiat said the negotiations had ended, but reaffi rmed its commitment to the Russian market. Many global automakers form partnerships with Russian

companies striving to modernize their facilities, but ventures with local players are not obligatory. The Renault-Nissan Alliance has joined forces with Russia’s largest automaker, AvtoVAZ, and is weighing increasing its

stake in AvtoVAZ of 25 percent and one share. Russian car sales are recovering now from a deep

slump. They are expected to grow 18 percent in 2011 to 2.25 million vehicles, according to WP Browne Consulting.

Under the terms of the memo-randum of understanding between Ford and Sollers, the

venture will include joint production facilities in the St. Petersburg region and in the republic of Tatarstan. The Ford Sollers venture will have access to Ford’s global range of vehicles. It will also operate a stamp-ing facility that will provide local parts for Ford vehicles

made in Russia, establish R&D activities, and import and dis-tribute Ford products.

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Ford and Sollers would form equal venture that would begin operations

this year

Ford to team with Russian carmaker Sollers to build and sell vehicles

US sales on fast track: NADA study

US auto sales per deal-ership may return to levels reached before the

recession after GM and Chrysler closed locations, according to a Bloomberg report. Sales per dealer may rise to about 745 new vehicles this year, according to auto-dealership consultant Urban Science. The National Automotive Dealership Association forecasts total US sales in 2011 may rise 11 percent to 12.9 million, which would be about 23 percent less than the annual average from 2000 to 2007.

The number of US auto deal-erships fell 4.4 percent last year to 17,659, Urban Science said in its annual Automotive Franchise Activity Report. The rate of clos-ings slowed from 8 percent in 2009, according to the report. ‘The domestic consolidations worked and have allowed the remaining dealers an opportu-nity see their numbers rebound faster,’ vice president, Urban Science, John Frith. The shut-ting of about one-fourth of the companies’ dealerships drew criticism by the special inspec-tor general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which said in a report last year that the ‘dra-matic and accelerated’ closings may not have been necessary and added to unemployment. Detroit-based GM reorganized with $49.5 billion in government aid, while Auburn Hills-based Chrysler got $12.5 billion in assistance for its reorganization that year from the government’s TARP program, which also aided banks. More dealerships may close in 2011 after Ford discon-tinued its Mercury brand at the end of last year, according to Urban Science.

Ford plans to reduce the number of dealerships selling its Lincoln luxury brand in the big-gest US metropolitan markets by 25 percent to 325 outlets, the Dearborn-based automaker told dealers and reporters this month at the NADA convention in San Francisco. The industry averaged a 16.8 million annual rate from 2000 to 2007, accord-ing to Woodcliff Lake, Autodata Corp.

Stephen Odell, CEO, Ford Europe


Mazda is studying var-ious options for its unprofi table US plant

operated jointly with longtime partner Ford, Chief Financial Offi cer, Mazda, Kiyoshi Ozaki said. Japan’s second-larg-est automotive exporter will announce plans for the Flat Rock, Michigan, factory by the middle of this year, Ozaki told reporters in Tokyo recently.

The company may overhaul the plant or change the models built there, he said without elab-oration. When asked if Mazda might pull out of the venture, Ozaki said through a transla-tor: ‘Never say never.’ The plant currently assembles the Ford Mustang coupe and Mazda6 sedan on one production shift. The Michigan plant produced about 45,000 Mazda6 units and

77,586 Mustang models last year, according to the Automotive News Data Centre. The plant needs to run at 70 percent of its full 240,000-unit capacity to make a profi t, Ozaki said. Mazda aims to introduce a more fuel-effi cient engine to spur demand and increase domestic produc-tion to improve economies of scale after slipping into a third-quarter loss.

The company’s US sales fell nine percent in January, as increased incentives on Toyota’s Corolla compact, and demand for Hyundai’s Elantra sapped demand for the Mazda3, Ozaki said. The automaker will need to adjust US inventory by 5,000 units through the end of March, he said.

Mazda aims to increase domestic production 33 percent

to 1.1 million units in the year ending in March 2016, compared with 827,910 units last fi scal year.

The ratio of exports will also increase as demand for cars in Japan declines, he said.

Ford reduced its stake in Mazda to 3.5 percent from 11 percent last year, scaling back an alliance of than 30 years. The automaker fi rst formed an automatic-transmission joint venture with Mazda in 1969 and acquired a 25 percent stake in the Japanese automaker in 1979.

‘We don’t believe it is appro-priate for us to comment on Mazda’s business,’ Ford spokes-woman Marcey Evans said. ‘I don’t have a statement or a com-ment I can make at this time.’

The US automaker took effec-tive control of the Japanese company in 1996 by rais-ing its stake to 33.4 percent. It reduced the stake to 13 percent in November 2008, and a share issue by Mazda in 2009 fur-ther shrank the holding to 11 percent.

Mazda plans to introduce its new ‘Skyactiv’ powertrain system across almost all mod-els by 2015, starting with the domestic, US and Australian markets this year. Earlier this month, the automaker reported a third-quarter loss, citing the strength of the Japanese curren-cy which reached a 15-year high in November.

The new Demio compact, the fi rst model to use the sys-tem, will go on sale in Japan in the fi rst half of 2011 and runs 30 kilometres per litre of gasoline under the Japanese testing sys-tem, Mazda said in October. The new car’s fuel-economy rating is the same as the hybrid version of Honda Motor Co.’s Fit and bet-ter than the current Demio’s 23 kilometres per litre.

With exports making up 80 percent of its Japanese output in 2010, Mazda is more vulner-able to the yen’s impact than its domestic rivals. The strong yen against the dollar cut nine- month operating profi t by 13.6 billion yen ($163 million), the company said this month.

Mazda posted a net loss of 2.7 billion yen for the three months ended Dec. 31. The company will still meet its full-year profi t fore-cast of 6 billion yen as sales in Japan recover, Ozaki said.

While the strong yen erodes profi tability of exports, Mazda needs to increase domestic out-put to boost economies of scale, the company has said. It aims to increase domestic production 33 percent to 1.1 million units in the year ending in March 2016, compared with 827,910 units last fi scal year, Ozaki said.

The automaker is also study-ing whether to begin production in Mexico, adding to a facility in Colombia that has a limited sup-plier base, he said.


Mazda mulls options for unprofi table US plant



Delphi Automotive has introduced sounders to warn pedestrians of

approaching hybrid and electric vehicles. Designed to comply with legislation expected to mandate minimal sound for both hybrid and electric vehicles, these envi-ronmentally friendly sounders are not only robust, but compact, light weight and low cost.

The single-box solutions are lead-free, waterproof and tem-perature resistant. ‘Industry analysts predict hybrid and electric vehicle warning sounds, already covered by guidelines in Japan, will be required in North America and Europe in the near future,’ said General

Director, Electronic Controls product business unit, Delphi, Beth Schwarting. ‘Our goal is to help customers address market-driven challenges with environmentally friendly and affordable technologies.’

Delphi has developed sound-ers - that enable pedestrians to detect nearby hybrid and elec-tric vehicles which, without the sound generator, are nearly silent. Delphi’s electronic sound-er system, is approximately three times lighter than a convention-al multi-box system and uses 90 percent less power, making it the most environmentally friendly solution available. Its single-box confi guration helps to reduce

design, test and manufactur-ing cost, and its size and weight simplify packaging. The system provides a frequency range of 500Hz to 10 KHz and can repro-duce melodies that represent the identity of individual vehicle manufacturers.

For applications requiring higher quality sound, Delphi has developed a high-fi delity sounder system that uses a cone speaker activated by a light-weight mag-net and extends base range to 150Hz. The magnet-based sys-tem weighs 66 percent less than a conventional speaker system.

Both Delphi systems are robust enough to be mounted in the harsh environment under the

vehicle’s hood and incorporate a 32-bit microprocessor with fl ash memory, a link to the vehicle’s data bus and an audio class-D amplifi er.

‘Delphi’s sound generators are specifi cally designed to warn pedestrians of oncoming hybrid and electric vehicles moving at low speed,’ said Managing Director, Electronic Controls Europe, Deidrich von Behr. ‘Not only do these ‘green’ sys-tems enhance safety by helping to make pedestrians aware of approaching vehicles, they become more valuable when integrated with other vehicle systems.’

An expert system integra-

tor, Delphi can increase the value of its sound generators by connecting them with other systems through the vehicle’s data bus. Instead of implement-ing several alert systems, OEMs can benefi t from one fl exible system that offers multiple fea-tures. For instance, using unique sounds, the system can remind a driver that the battery needs to be charged, confirm that a charging sequence is in progress and notify the driver when the charge is complete.

Delphi is a leading global sup-plier of electronics and technologies for automotive, commercial vehicle and other market segments.

Delphi offers sounders for electric, hybrid vehicles

Volvo Trucks has today launched its Worldtrucker community, with the aim

of making it the largest and most active truck driver community in the world. By offering an Internet community to drivers, the com-pany hopes to boost interest in the profession and support the recruit-ment of new drivers. ‘We know that truck drivers have strong pro-fessional pride, and that’s exactly what Worldtrucker is about – shar-ing that passion for trucks and for life on the road,’ says Worldtrucker Manager, Paula Kuhnel.

The community attracted almost 10,000 members during the devel-opment stages. Local community operations have been established in ten countries and there are language versions available in Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, French, Russian, German, Polish and English. With the fi nal update, including a mobile phone version and design upgrade, the commu-nity has now been launched on a global scale. It was decided from the start that Worldtrucker would be open to anyone interested in trucks regardless of the brand they use. Volvo Trucks as a company would maintain a low profi le and let members build the content.

‘Most haulage fi rms have vari-ous truck makes in their fl eets. All their drivers should feel equal-ly welcome,’ says Paula Kuhnel. Worldtrucker helps drivers keep in touch with their families. Friends and colleagues can easily discuss experiences and establish new cross-border relations. They can share

photos from the road by upload-ing directly through their mobile phone, thus making it possible to stay connected without carrying a laptop. By offering these social ele-ments, Volvo Trucks hopes to stimulate the driver’s working life and increase interest in the profes-sion. The worldwide driver shortage is a vital issue for the industry. Worldtrucker has already spread to over 40 countries even though no promotion was under-taken outside the start markets, so Volvo Trucks’ expectations on the global launch are high. ‘Wehave not yet seen any competitor match-ing our setup and believe we have the chance to become the trucker’s fi rst choice all over the world,’ says Paula Kuhnel.

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Jaguar Land Rover explores China tie with Great WallJaguar Land Rover is in talks with top Chinese SUV maker Great Wall Motor about

a potential China partnership, according to a Reuters report. JLR, a unit of India’s Tata Motors, is among a very few top-line global brands that do not have manufacturing arrangements in China, where rivals BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and others already have racked up stellar sales. The JLR unit, which Tata bought from Ford in 2008 for $2.3 billion, was initially losing money, but it made a turnaround in the last few quarters and posted a profi t of 19.58 billion rupees (about $434 million) for the three months ended December. China was the unit’s fastest growing market in 2010, according to Chief Financial Offi cer, JLR, Ken Gregor. He said sales in the country jumped 95 percent during the year to 26,114 units. A tie-up in China, the world’s top auto market, would help solidify JLR’s longer term growth. Tata Motor units have had contacts with other potential partners in China, including Chery Automobile and Jiangling Motors.

China’s SAIC aims to triple sales of MG, Roewe brandsChinese automaker SAIC Motor aims to more than triple the annual sales of its pro-

prietary MG and Roewe models to 700,000 units by 2015, according to a Reuters report. The target, unveiled by SAIC President Chen Hong at a recent meeting with its deal-ers, was 100,000 units more than its previous goal. This year, it aims to sell 230,000 of Roewe and MG cars, up 43.8 percent from the previous year citing Chen Zhixin, head of SAIC’s passenger car unit. SAIC became the owner of MG Rover’s 10,000-unit Longbridge plant in Birmingham, Central England, after a merger in late 2007 with its much smaller rival, Nanjing Automobile Group. The automaker rolled out several new models subsequently, including the Roewe 550, Roewe 750 MG 7 and MG3, becoming the only Chinese brand that has gained some inroads into the country’s lucrative medi-

um-to-higher end segment that is dominated by foreign auto makers. The Shanghai-based automaker plans to roll out three to four new passenger car models each year by 2015, includ-ing a Roewe sport utility vehicle and an all-new MG3 sedan this year.

GM looking to ‘aggressively’ invest in China

GM will continue ‘investing aggressively’ in the world’s biggest auto market, according to the company’s top executive. The biggest for-eign automaker in China by sales volume has also promised to bring more than 20 new and upgraded models to the country in the next two years. ‘As our largest market, China played a signifi cant role in General Motors’ success in 2010. We will continue investing aggressively in the country to ensure the long-term success of our company,’ said Chairman, GM, Dan Akerson. This approach, he said, has enabled General Motors to remain the sales leader among global automakers in China for six consecutive years. In 2010, the US automaker and its joint ventures with FAW Group and SAIC Motors sold a record 2.35 million vehicles in the domestic market, which contributed almost 30 percent of the company’s total sales around the world. Although China’s automobile market has cooled this year as the government withdrew its stimulus measures and started to curb car purchases in big cities, General Motors was still able to report record monthly sales in January, with 268,071 vehicles delivered to consumers, a rise of 22.3 percent year-on-year.

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NHTSA probing Toyota hybrid SUVs for engine stallsFederal safety regulators have opened an investigation into nearly 44,000 Toyota

Highlander hybrid vehicles over concerns their engines can stall and fail to restart, accord-ing to a report in the Detroit News. The National Highway Traffi c Safety Administration said that it had opened a preliminary investigation into 43,941 2006 Toyota Highland hybrid SUVs after receiving 32 complaints. NHTSA said 21 of the incidents occurred at speeds of 40 miles per hour or more; 26 reported that the vehicle could not be restarted or that it was towed to the dealership. In August, Toyota recalled 1.33 million 2005-2008 Corolla and Matrix vehicles in North America for stalled engines. The recall came after NHTSA had opened an investigation in late 2009. Toyota said some Corolla and Matrix vehicles with a 1ZZ-FE engine may contain a defective part that could cause the engine to stall. NHTSA has been looking at engine stalling in a number of different vehi-cles over the last year. Earlier this month, NHTSA upgraded a probe into nearly 100,000 Volkswagen diesel vehicles over reports of engine stalling after misfueling incidents.

Ex-Chrysler dealers sue government over closuresA group of car dealers who lost their businesses in Chrysler’s 2009 bankruptcy sued

the government, claiming their dealer franchises were closed without adequate com-pensation, according to a report in the Associated Press. The 64 former Chrysler dealers said in the lawsuit that the Treasury Department violated their constitutional rights by failing to compensate them for taking their auto businesses. They allege damages of at least $130 million. Lawyers for the dealers said the closures prevented a ‘signifi cant disruption’ in the US auto industry and economy but said ‘this is a loss that should not, however, be borne by a few individual auto dealers but must in fairness and justice be borne by the public as a whole.’ Chrysler closed 789 auto dealers in its June 2009 bank-ruptcy. The closings of Chrysler and General Motors dealerships were among a broad number of concessions given by dealers, workers, retirees and others to make the com-panies viable in the government-led auto bankruptcies. Congress approved legislation later in 2009 that required arbitration for the closed dealers. Chrysler agreed to restore about 80 franchises and GM reinstated more than 660 dealers.

Honda recalling 700,000 vehicles for engine problemsHonda is recalling nearly 700,000 Fit and other compact vehicles around the world

over concerns the engine could stall. The recall includes 97,201 2009-2010 Fit vehicles sold in the United States, the Japanese automaker told federal regulators. The recall also covers versions of the vehicle sold as the Freed and City in markets around the world. The com-pany said the problem stems from a spring in the engine that can crack and cause noise - and in a worst case cause the engine to stall without the ability to restart it. That could increase the risk of a crash. Honda said it got its fi rst complaint of engine noise in July 2008 from Japan and got the fi rst claim of an engine stall in North America in August 2008. In November 2009, Honda changed the specifi cations of the spring to prevent future problems. But in June 2010, Honda noticed an uptick in problems of vehicles at least a year old, which prompted Honda to reopen its investigation.

Dealer rebound forecast in studyCar dealerships around the country should see more sales and higher profi ts this year

and after two tough years, the picture is brighter for dealerships, according to the results of the 2010 Automotive Franchise Activity Report by Detroit-based Urban Science, an auto-motive dealership consultant. The past two years have been particularly bad for domestic dealerships because of the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009. Eight percent of US dealerships closed that year. Last year, 4.4 percent of dealerships closed, leaving 17,659 dealerships and 31,139 franchises in the United States. With fewer dealers and a slowly recovering US auto market, Urban Science expects more sales per dealer and more profi ts.

GM recalling 44,000 CTS modelsGM is recalling 44,117 2009-10 Cadillac CTS models for a loose joint condition that could

cause a rear wheel to become unstable. GM said it knows of no injuries or fatalities related to this condition. All but 88 vehicles are 2009 models. GM has been investigating the issue since May and has received four complaints.

AMERICAS EUROPEVW close to deal with Russia’s GAZ

Russia’s GAZ Group expects to sign a deal with Germany’s Volkswagen to build Skoda and VW cars, according to a report in the Financial Times. Two auto industry sources told Reuters that the carmakers were planning a joint venture to produce 300,000 cars a year in Russia. GAZ, controlled by industrial tycoon Oleg Deripaska, would use its plant in Nizhny Novgorod for the joint-venture project, while VW would use its Kaluga facility in Russia. The newspaper said automakers would not confi rm that the two companies had reached an agreement, nor discuss details of the proposed deal.

GM, Daimler up output in RussiaGM recently said that it would assemble 30,000 of its Chevrolet Aveo cars at GAZ’s plant

in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod to help boost its local presence in the fast-growing market. Sales of the small-segment car will start in 2012, GM said. In December, GAZ agreed plans with Daimler to produce Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans for the automaker. Output may total about 25,000 units a year, Daimler said.

Hyundai unveiled pictures of new i40 ahead of Geneva debutHyundai released pictures of its new i40 mid-sized model that will compete against cars

such as the Volkswagen’s Passat, Ford’s Mondeo and Opel/Vauxhall’s Insignia in Europe’s upper-medium segment. The company said the car will offer high-end features as standard equipment, including three segment ‘fi rsts’ - heated and reclining front and rear seats, a heated steering wheel, and an active de-mist system that auto-matically detects and clears mist on the windscreen. The i40 will debut at the Geneva auto show as a station wagon. The car was designed and engineered at Hyundai’s R&D headquarters in Ruesselsheim, Germany. Among engine options are a fuel-effi -cient 1.7-liter diesel engine that has CO2 emissions of 113 grams per km. The i40 will be sold with the carmaker’s fi ve-year warranty package as standard.

BMW to launch EVs under BMWi sub-brandBMW will sell it electric vehicles under a new sub-brand called BMWi from 2013, accord-

ing to a report in The Los Angeles Times. The announcement followed the automaker’s plans for second phase of an electricity mobility program it began in 2007 with the two-seat Mini E. BMW will have the newest version of the Active E - a four-seat, one series sedan converted to electric using a BMW-engineered powertrain and new battery cell technology developed in a joint venture with Samsung and Bosch. According to the reports two new models will be launched under the sub-brand. The larger BMW i3, or Mega City, is planned as purpose-built, plug-in electric using lightweight materials such as carbon fi bre and aluminium that will allow it to have a range similar to the Mini E. The i3 will go into full production in two years.

Renault to widen Clio rangeRenault plans to introduce a 4X4

version of its popular Clio car, according to a Reuters report. The 4X4 would be based on the Capture, a sporty SUV concept car, photos of which Renault showed earlier this month when it set out its new strate-gic plan. Capture has similarities with partner Nissan’s Juke cross-over. The Clio would also be offered in station wagon, 3- and 5-door ver-sions. The new generation of the Clio is due to be launched in 2012, and will be produced at the compa-ny’s Flins site near Paris and Turkey.


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I Passenger Vehicles (PVs)A : Passengers Cars - No. of Seates Including Driver not exceeding 6 A1 : Mini - (Upto 3400 mm)Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Maruti 800 ) 3,648 2,560 33,012 32,060 2,494 1,876 27,088 20,858 1,055 1,829 4,607 11,189Tata Motors Ltd (Nano) 4,505 5,731 21,308 50,116 4,001 6,703 21,535 53,463 0 0 0 0Total 8,153 8,291 54,320 82,176 6,495 8,579 48,623 74,321 1,055 1,829 4,607 11,189A2: Compact (3401 - 4000 mm) Fiat India Automobiles Pvt Ltd (Palio, Fiat500,Grande Punto) 1,416 1,355 12,104 10,461 1,256 1,227 11,292 9,911 85 9 576 1,014Ford india Pvt Ltd ( Fusion, Figo ) 0 8,218 455 70,507 0 8,616 509 61,307 0 1,092 0 8,106General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Beat, Spark,U-VA) 7,128 6,604 44,273 59,747 6,730 6,936 44,612 59,315 6 12 330 229Honda Siel Cars India ltd (Jazz) 1,093 779 8,768 2,480 490 579 6,737 4,310 11 0 45 15Hyundai Motors India Ltd(Santro,Getz, i10, i20) 44,944 35,407 444,105 436,010 26,949 27,115 227,162 263,633 20,155 12,228 222,381 172,470Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Alto,Wagon R,Zen,Swift, A-Star, Ritz) 71,503 80,448 637,981 758,075 58,540 72,479 518,047 658,002 13,394 7,378 113,923 102,944Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd (Micra) 0 9,721 0 52,423 0 1,784 0 8,212 0 8,397 0 29,680SkodaAuto india p.ltd ( Fabia ) 723 1,376 4,785 7,937 794 1,460 5,059 7,859 0 0 16 0Tata Motors Ltd (Indica) 13,197 15,821 94,499 116,144 11,448 10,591 91,295 80,864 448 299 3,814 5,196Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Etios-Liva) 0 19 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Polo) 0 2,952 0 21,847 0 3,023 0 21,720 0 0 0 0Total 140,004 162,700 1,246,970 1,535,666 106,207 133,810 904,713 1,175,133 34,099 29,415 341,085 319,654A3: Mid-size (40001-4500 mm) BMW India Pvt Ltd (Z4 Roadster) 0 0 0 180 4 5 29 253 0 0 0 0Ford India Pvt Ltd (Ford ikon,Fusion,Fiesta) 1,959 1,303 24,128 16,209 2,138 1,059 21,877 14,977 0 3 1,257 1,038General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Cheverlet Aveo NB) 320 355 2,979 3,538 352 240 2,964 3,216 12 3 71 121Hindustan Motors Ltd (Ambassador, Lancer,Cedia) 861 249 7,289 6,071 755 346 7,213 6,045 0 0 0 1Honda Siel Cars India Ltd (City) 4,476 3,337 37,676 40,440 4,485 5,059 35,614 40,190 16 0 32 46Hyundai Motors India Ltd (Accent,Verna) 3,374 2,630 38,602 47,518 2,623 3,175 24,958 30,852 2,879 782 16,127 17,491Mahindra Renault Pvt Ltd (Logan) 505 1,074 5,093 9,684 555 1,120 4,444 7,840 0 404 1,000 1,904Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (SX4,Dzire) 9,167 12,532 79,184 105,863 8,995 11,920 78,608 104,338 20 22 423 599Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd (Nissan 370Z) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0Tata Motors Ltd (Indigo,Marina) 4,911 9,413 15,103 43,888 7,258 8,456 41,724 71,762 33 60 867 1,352Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Etios-Sedan) 0 1,753 0 2,271 0 1,651 0 2,058 0 0 0 0Volkswagen - Audi (TT, R8) 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 25 0 0 0 0Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Beetle) 0 3,553 0 12,304 36 2,328 94 11,211 0 0 0 0Total 25,573 36,199 210,054 287,966 27,201 35,372 217,525 292,775 2,960 1,274 19,777 22,552A4: Executive (4501-4700 mm) BMW india pvt Ltd (3 Series) 148 271 1,085 1,612 192 164 1,030 1,900 0 0 0 0Fiat India Automobiles Pvt Ltd (Linea) 1,117 1,067 9,008 7,457 1,046 947 9,097 7,494 4 0 259 124General Motors India Pvt Ltd (cheverlet Optra, Cruze) 678 783 3,311 9,806 737 1,011 4,147 9,276 0 0 3 3Honda Siel Cars India Ltd (Civic) 784 421 5,062 3,792 644 508 4,705 4,121 0 0 0 3Hyundai Motors India Ltd (Elantra) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Kizashi) 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0Mercedes-Benz India Pvt Ltd (C-Class) 161 208 1,365 1,863 131 274 1,399 2,042 0 0 0 0Skoda Auto India Pvt Ltd (Octavia,Laura) 750 650 5,389 5,679 761 630 6,351 5,469 0 0 0 0Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (corolla) 983 942 7,956 8,766 924 1,139 7,897 8,769 0 0 0 0Volkswagen - Audi (Q5) 0 0 0 0 33 75 228 605 0 0 0 0Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Jetta) 0 0 273 3,591 262 247 1,991 2,815 0 0 0 0Total 4,621 4,342 33,449 42,566 4,730 5,005 36,845 42,503 4 0 262 130A5: Premium (4701-5000 mm) BMW india pvt Ltd ( 5 & 6 Series) 48 281 1,138 2,105 113 279 1,193 2,415 0 0 0 0Honda Siel Cars India Ltd ( Accord ) 307 151 2,437 1,814 288 174 2,265 1,988 0 0 0 8Hyundai Motors India Ltd ( Sonata ) 12 1 350 181 29 11 346 213 0 0 0 0Mercedes-Benz India Pvt Ltd (E-Class, CLS) 191 303 1,010 2,165 245 253 1,022 2,128 0 0 0 0Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd (Teana)** 0 0 0 0 30 21 163 214 0 0 0 0Skoda Auto India Pvt Ltd (Superb) 350 317 2,656 3,393 326 391 2,463 3,372 0 0 0 0Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Camry ) 0 0 0 0 23 4 246 330 0 0 0 0Volkswagen - Audi (A4,A6)* 0 0 0 0 136 239 953 1,896 0 0 0 0Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Passat, Touareg) 0 3 55 639 85 2 601 663 0 0 0 0Total 908 1,056 7,646 10,297 1,275 1,374 9,252 13,219 0 0 0 8A6: Luxury (5001mm & above) BMW india pvt Ltd (7 Series ) 0 0 0 0 16 17 311 458 0 0 0 0Mercedes-Benz India Pvt Ltd ( S-Class) 19 74 262 544 24 46 376 485 0 0 0 0Volkswagen - Audi (Q7,A8) 0 0 0 0 23 128 415 574 0 0 0 0Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Phaeton) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 27 0 0 0 0Total 19 74 262 544 63 192 1,102 1,544 0 0 0 0Total A 179,278 212,662 1,552,701 1,959,215 145,971 184,332 1,218,060 1,599,495 38,118 32,518 365,731 353,533I Passenger Vehicles (PVs)B: Utility Vehicles (Uvs)B1: Max Mass upto3.5 tonnes(a): No. of seats including driver not exceeding 7 (M1(B1))BMW india Pvt Ltd (X3, X5, X6) 0 33 0 33 16 35 405 406 0 0 0 0Force Motors Ltd (trax) 4 0 23 24 2 0 23 24 0 0 0 0Ford India Pvt Ltd (Endeavour) 177 241 1,867 2,464 315 351 1,836 2,475 0 0 0 0General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Tavera, Captiva) 575 661 4,994 6,506 674 778 6,128 7,808 0 0 2 0Hindustan Motors Ltd (Pajero) 110 156 1,265 2,131 111 165 1,276 2,126 0 0 0 0Honda Siel Cars India Ltd (CR-V) 0 0 0 0 76 38 279 435 0 0 0 0Hyundai Motors India Ltd (Tucson) 0 0 0 0 0 5 13 220 0 0 0 0Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (Scorpio, Bolero, 8,276 10,589 73,610 86,533 8,823 11,084 71,894 85,522 245 102 1,064 1,044Soft Tops, Hard Tops, Xylo) Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Vitara) 0 0 0 0 0 1 69 77 0 0 0 0Mercedes-Benz India pvt. Ltd (GL-Class, M Class) 0 0 0 0 3 67 84 522 0 0 0 0Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd (X-Trail)* 0 0 0 0 10 52 123 414 0 0 0 0Skoda Auto India Pvt Ltd (Yeti) 0 370 0 801 0 344 0 748 0 0 0 0Tata Motors Ltd (Safari) 2,228 2,737 15,111 20,377 2,112 2,898 15,060 20,313 22 16 130 229Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Innova,Prado) 3,075 3,074 21,828 31,193 2,952 3,710 22,014 31,490 0 0 0 0Total 14,445 17,861 118,698 150,062 15,094 19,528 119,204 152,580 267 118 1,196 1,273(b): No. of seats including driver exceeding 7 but not exceeding 9 (7+1 & 8+1) (M1(B2)) Force Motors Ltd (Trax) 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Tavera) 112 133 1,332 1,177 114 131 1,862 1,183 0 0 0 1International Cars & Motors Ltd (Rhino) 73 31 706 575 80 40 908 564 0 0 38 0Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (Scorpio, Bolero, Soft Tops, Hard Tops, Xylo) 4,705 5,378 44,623 53,554 5,364 5,372 44,213 52,504 59 121 349 1,180Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Gypsy) 564 251 2,703 3,604 135 191 2,901 4,813 0 8 54 174Tata Motors Ltd (Sumo, Safari, Winger) 1,463 1,468 5,425 10,387 1,356 449 4,125 4,478 56 34 230 355Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Innova) 2,153 2,220 20,775 22,414 2,090 2,681 20,782 22,407 0 0 0 0Total 9,070 9,481 75,574 91,711 9,139 8,864 74,791 85,949 115 163 671 1,710Total B1 23,515 27,342 194,272 241,773 24,233 28,392 193,995 238,529 382 281 1,867 2,983B2: Max Mass upto 5 tonnes (a): No. of seats including driver not exceeding 13 (M1(A1)) Force Motors LtdForce Motors Ltd (Trax, Traveller) 587 753 4,608 6,757 604 820 4,614 6,711 0 3 19 4General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Tavera) 816 840 5,391 7,876 796 873 5,017 7,770 0 0 5 4Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (Bolero, Soft Tops, Hard Tops) 219 0 7,387 1,452 238 4 7,472 1,457 0 0 68 54Tata Motors Ltd (Sumo, Winger) 97 38 5,860 735 249 957 8,160 9,929 5 11 149 122Total B2 1,719 1,631 23,246 16,820 1,887 2,654 25,263 25,867 5 14 241 184Total Utility Vehicles (Uvs) 25,234 28,973 217,518 258,593 26,120 31,046 219,258 264,396 387 295 2,108 3,167C: Multi Purpose Vehicles (MPVs)-Van type vehicles & Max Mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes (M1(c) Van Type Van Type Force Motors Ltd (trip) 0 19 0 227 0 37 0 176 0 0 0 0Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Omini,Versa) 11,150 14,168 81,082 134,460 10,923 13,945 79,782 132,674 93 84 1,090 1,730Tata Motors Ltd (ACE-Magic) 4,378 4,541 39,931 42,076 4,657 4,634 39,745 42,291 18 45 251 153Total MPVs 15,528 18,728 121,013 176,763 15,580 18,616 119,527 175,141 111 129 1,341 1,883Total Passenger Vehicles (PVs) 220,040 260,363 1,891,232 2,394,571 187,671 233,994 1,556,845 2,039,032 38,616 32,942 369,180 358,583II Commercial Vehicles (CVs)M&HCVsA: Passenger Carriers A1: Max. Mass exceeding 7-5 tonnes but not exceeding 12 tonnes (M3(B1)) (b): No. of seats including driver exceeding 13 (M3(B1))Ashok Leyland Ltd 131 126 1,287 1,344 98 94 919 1,258 31 11 227 185JCBL Ltd 0 NA 1 0 0 NA 1 0 0 NA 0 0Swaraj Mazda Ltd 142 212 1,744 2,754 89 170 1,380 2,482 50 3 50 7Tata Motors Ltd 345 540 3,535 4,751 505 273 4,029 4,720 52 25 234 577VE CVs - Eicher 187 209 1,486 1,995 94 90 1,414 1,861 40 0 93 117Total A1 805 1,087 8,053 10,844 786 627 7,743 10,321 173 39 604 886A2: Max. Mass exceeding 12 but no exceeding 16.2 tonnes (M3(C)) (b): No. of seats including driver exceeding 13 (M3(C2)) Ashok Leyland Ltd 1,419 1,967 14,499 19,670 1,503 1,582 11,602 15,217 73 409 1,262 3,709JCBL Ltd 0 0 150 14 0 0 150 14 0 0 0 0Swaraj Mazda Ltd 3 3 23 62 5 3 20 54 0 0 0 0Tata Motors Ltd 1,646 1,500 13,510 14,975 2,043 1,226 12,814 12,373 213 353 2,636 4,206VE CVs - Eicher 30 8 201 197 40 2 191 112 0 9 45 53Volvo Buses India Pvt Ltd 25 27 435 232 24 27 409 239 0 0 0 0Total A2 3,123 3,505 28,818 35,150 3,615 2,840 25,186 28,009 286 771 3,943 7,968A3: Max. Mass exceeding 12 but no exceeding 16.2 tonnes (M3(D)) A3: Max. Mass exceeding 12 but no exceeding 16.2 tonnes (M3(D)) Passenger Carrier (D)Volvo Buses India Pvt Ltd 10 24 65 218 10 24 68 206 0 0 0 9Total A3 10 24 65 218 10 24 68 206 0 0 0 9Total M&HCVs(passenger carriers) 3,938 4,616 36,936 46,212 4,411 3,491 32,997 38,536 459 810 4,547 8,863II Commercial Vehicles (CVs) M&HCVs B: Goods Carriers B1: Max Mass exceeding 7.5 tonnes but not exceeding 12 tonnes (N2(A3)) Ashok Leyland Ltd 286 207 1,504 2,325 199 231 1,154 2,139 32 18 326 259Swaraj Mazda Ltd 468 435 3,288 3,767 321 387 2,974 3,398 0 0 161 178Tata Motors Ltd 2,117 1,794 16,186 15,071 2,272 2,698 15,803 19,935 200 229 1,522 2,013VE CVs - Eicher 2,068 2,330 13,815 18,709 1,683 2,278 12,851 18,010 20 14 513 550Total 4,939 4,766 34,793 39,872 4,475 5,594 32,782 43,482 252 261 2,522 3,000B2: Max. Mass not exceeding 16.2 tonnes (N3(A))(a): Max. Mass exceeding 12 tonnes but not exceeding 16.2 tonnes (N3(A1))Ashok Leyland Ltd 1,520 1,437 10,825 16,531 1,190 1,228 8,651 12,670 191 348 1,713 3,663Tata Motors Ltd 4,382 4,965 29,098 41,043 3,745 3,292 26,963 31,292 245 607 3,397 4,848VE CVs - Eicher 189 440 1,555 3,261 132 403 808 2,580 57 19 760 459Total B2 6,091 6,842 41,478 60,835 5,067 4,923 36,422 46,542 493 974 5,870 8,970B3: Max Mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes-Rigid Vehicles (N3(B1))(a) Max. mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes but not exceeding 25 tonnesAshok Leyland Ltd 2,393 2,713 13,773 20,225 3,054 1,792 13,095 17,723 0 39 214 174Asia Motor Works Ltd 391 583 2,249 4,565 290 620 2,252 4,712 0 0 0 0Force Motors Ltd 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 0 66 0 588 0 48 0 170 0 0 0 0Tata Motors Ltd 5,637 4,718 43,836 46,729 5,072 4,494 41,443 45,212 226 205 2,324 2,069VE CVs - Eicher 57 59 302 712 56 54 318 607 11 0 74 4VE CVs - Volvo 7 0 13 1 7 0 13 12 0 0 0 0Total 8,485 8,139 60,174 72,820 8,479 7,008 57,121 68,436 237 244 2,612 2,247(b) Max. mass exceeding 25 tonnesAshok Leyland Ltd 489 1,091 1,799 8,078 0 1,200 1,109 7,418 0 0 5 0Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd* 0 39 0 180 0 0 0 121 0 0 0 0Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 0 40 0 574 0 148 0 273 0 0 0 0Mercedes-Benz India Pvt Ltd 10 0 110 101 8 0 179 83 0 0 0 0

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Tata Motors Ltd 1,393 4,802 8,132 37,638 999 2,912 7,218 22,481 28 22 263 563VE CVs - Eicher 38 110 185 583 36 61 203 500 0 0 12 0VE CVs - Volvo 84 78 633 755 73 39 736 730 0 0 0 0Total 2,014 6,160 10,859 47,909 1,116 4,360 9,445 31,606 28 22 280 563Total B3 10,499 14,299 71,033 120,729 9,595 11,368 66,566 100,042 265 266 2,892 2,810II Commercial Vehicles (CVs) M&HCVs B: Goods Carriers B4: Max. Mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes-Haulage Tractor (Tractor-Semi Traller/Traller)(N3(B2)) (a) Max. Mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes but not exceeding 26.4 tonnes Ashok Leyland Ltd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80 0 272 433Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80 0 272 433(b) Max. mass exceeding 26.4 tonnes but not exceeding 35.2 tonnes Ashok Leyland Ltd 169 612 1,849 3,025 945 493 2,603 3,028 4 5 122 76Tata Motors Ltd 0 0 1 0 491 776 3,950 6,837 0 0 0 0Total 169 612 1,850 3,025 1,436 1,269 6,553 9,865 4 5 122 76(c) Mass exceeding 35.2 tonnes 265 202 1,063 3,169 228 322 1,404 3,286 5 1 69 32Ashok Leyland Ltd 283 358 1,346 3,527 391 210 1,795 3,496 0 0 69 32Asia Motor Works Ltd 44 51 489 597 28 24 494 576 0 0 0 0Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 0 14 0 14 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0Tata Motors Ltd 0 0 0 0 575 816 4,629 8,307 0 0 10 0VE CVs - Eicher 0 24 8 110 0 9 35 81 0 0 0 0VE CVs - Volvo 10 7 10 111 10 7 49 110 0 0 0 0Total 337 454 1,853 4,359 1,004 1,068 7,002 12,572 0 0 79 32Total B4 506 1,066 3,703 7,384 2,440 2,337 13,555 22,437 84 5 473 541Total M&HCVs (Goods Carriers) 22,035 26,973 151,007 228,820 21,577 24,222 149,325 212,503 1,094 1,506 11,757 15,321Total M&HCVs 25,973 31,589 187,943 275,032 25,988 27,713 182,322 251,039 1,553 2,316 16,304 24,184II Commercial Vehicles (CVs) LCVs A: Passenger Carriers A1: Max. Mass upto 5 tonnes (a): No. of seats including driver exceeding 13 (M2(A2)) Force Motors Ltd 546 683 4,410 6,795 538 740 4,286 6,650 20 0 142 96Hindustan Motors Ltd 0 0 1 4 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 219 0 2,626 0 214 0 2,378 0 0 0 112 0Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 0 135 0 2,511 0 218 0 2,490 0 0 0 0Tata Motors Ltd 405 407 3,467 2,912 470 942 4,242 4,522 2 2 35 182Total A1 1,170 1,225 10,504 12,222 1,222 1,900 10,910 13,666 22 2 289 278A2: Max. Mass exceeding 5 tonnes but not exceeding 7-5 tonnes (M3(A)) (b): No. of seats including driver exceeding 13 (M3(A2))Ashok Leyland Ltd 158 71 904 785 80 50 628 553 0 1 224 103Force Motors Ltd 20 1 129 153 16 1 121 144 0 0 5 0Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 66 0 1,944 0 62 0 1,918 0 0 0 131 12Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 0 73 0 1,624 0 93 0 1,665 0 0 0 0Swaraj Mazda Ltd 110 184 1,540 2,366 100 151 1,448 2,355 0 3 21 27Tata Motors Ltd 1,057 1,336 11,045 11,982 1,047 928 10,721 10,558 134 271 1,243 2,028VE CVs - Eicher 162 199 1,810 2,211 129 109 1,393 1,916 43 1 401 396Total 1,573 1,864 17,372 19,121 1,434 1,332 16,229 17,191 177 276 2,025 2,566Total LCVs (Passenger Carriers) 2,743 3,089 27,876 31,343 2,656 3,232 27,139 30,857 199 278 2,314 2,844II Commercial Vehicles (CVs) LCVs B: Goods Carriers B1: Max. Mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes (N1) Force Motors Ltd 433 717 2,488 5,677 446 563 2,444 5,259 3 4 7 48Hindustan Motors Ltd 26 0 189 325 33 12 185 285 0 0 0 0Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 9,504 11,532 63,151 93,938 8,691 9,820 57,752 83,268 666 1,300 4,580 8,999Piaggio Vehicles Pvt.Ltd 1,037 736 9,283 7,732 1,041 859 9,267 7,544 0 0 40 18Tata Motors Ltd 13,498 18,367 108,978 148,706 11,208 14,248 96,993 121,274 1,418 2,398 7,868 20,256Total 24,498 31,352 184,089 256,378 21,419 25,502 166,641 217,630 2,087 3,702 12,495 29,321B2: Max Mass exceeding 3.5 tonnes but not exceeding 5 tonnes (N2(A1))Force Motors Ltd 288 114 1,599 1,016 148 100 1,406 1,020 0 2 9 9Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 181 0 1,096 0 152 0 1,091 0 0 0 0 0Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 0 0 0 1,088 0 2 0 1,133 0 0 0 0Tata Motors Ltd 744 968 3,912 7,419 687 896 2,547 6,602 24 55 128 575Total 1,213 1,082 6,607 9,523 987 998 5,044 8,755 24 57 137 584B3: Max Mass exceeding 5 tonnes but not exceeding 7.5 tonnes (N2(A2)) Ashok Leyland Ltd 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0Force Motors Ltd 27 18 125 206 23 27 111 194 0 0 2 4Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 492 0 3,419 0 373 0 2,602 0 125 37 813 225Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 0 519 0 3,735 0 512 0 3,565 0 0 0 0Swaraj Mazda Ltd 168 170 1,494 1,315 124 88 1,381 997 21 45 468 412Tata Motors Ltd 2,260 2,398 19,149 19,862 2,007 2,330 19,235 17,642 152 316 1,820 2,888VE CVs - Eicher 433 626 3,800 5,671 386 351 2,917 3,942 15 124 570 931Total 3,380 3,731 27,987 30,813 2,913 3,308 26,246 26,341 313 522 3,673 4,460Total LCVs (Goods Carriers) 29,091 36,165 218,683 296,714 25,319 29,808 197,931 252,726 2,424 4,281 16,305 34,365Total LCVs 31,834 39,254 246,559 328,057 27,975 33,040 225,070 283,583 2,623 4,559 18,619 37,209Total Commercial Vehicles 57,807 70,843 434,502 603,089 53,963 60,753 407,392 534,622 4,176 6,875 34,923 61,393IV Two Wheelers A: Scooter/Scooterettee : Wheel size less than or equal to 12” A1: Engine Capacity less than 75cc Mahindra Two Wheelers Ltd 0 0 0 10,494 0 0 0 8,342 0 0 0 0TVS Motor Company Ltd 1,981 1,499 21,197 15,735 1,951 1,465 20,294 17,845 0 0 0 0Total 1,981 1,499 21,197 26,229 1,951 1,465 20,294 26,187 0 0 0 0A2: Engine Capacity 75cc and above but less than 125cc Bajaj Auto Ltd 0 0 4,460 0 110 0 3,611 27 0 0 1,092 0Hero Honda Motors Ltd 20,897 35,256 168,398 287,705 18,467 33,928 162,249 274,234 448 2,410 4,488 14,338Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 71,465 77,411 603,292 750,750 69,812 69,452 592,211 734,503 891 1,152 9,841 11,526Mahindra Two Wheelers Ltd 9,645 14,558 45,148 135,436 9,953 14,294 47,640 124,126 138 132 1,107 1,426Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt Ltd 15,756 22,999 105,977 186,265 15,503 22,803 105,555 186,101 44 0 145 100TVS Motor Company Ltd 22,046 39,174 233,777 368,597 23,165 37,340 225,747 351,168 393 1,931 7,900 14,261Total 139,809 189,398 1,161,052 1,728,753 137,010 177,817 1,137,013 1,670,159 1,914 5,625 24,573 41,651A3: Engine Capacity 125cc and above but less than 250cc Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 0 0 0 0 0 0 290 0 0 0 0 0LML Limited NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAMahindra Two Wheelers Ltd 69 653 832 653 15 790 305 858 0 0 133 0Total 69 653 832 653 15 790 595 858 0 0 133 0Total Scooter/Scooterettee 141,859 191,550 1,183,081 1,755,635 138,976 180,072 1,157,902 1,697,204 1,914 5,625 24,706 41,651IV Two Wheelers B: Motor cycles/Step-Throughs : Big Wheel size more than 12” B2: Engine Capacity 75cc and above but less than 125cc Bajaj Auto Ltd 148,837 151,906 1,154,528 1,505,904 106,119 90,056 724,945 953,981 35,472 57,540 454,588 542,771Hero Honda Motors Ltd 353,321 393,360 3,435,705 3,846,308 346,070 389,318 3,372,524 3,758,926 4,077 5,710 66,777 87,434Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 1,105 15,349 1,174 159,666 674 10,775 712 141,470 0 3,160 20 19,997India Yamaha Motor Pvt Ltd 7,534 4,182 62,885 60,100 4,997 3,864 53,258 59,016 1,430 459 5,647 7,384Mahindra Two Wheelers Ltd 0 421 0 8,368 0 509 0 5,135 0 0 0 0TVS Motor Company Ltd 31,558 39,419 360,132 508,556 26,650 32,932 288,336 396,859 9,734 11,419 72,060 84,340Total 542,355 604,637 5,014,424 6,088,902 484,510 527,454 4,439,775 5,315,387 50,713 78,288 599,092 741,926B3: Engine Capacity 125cc and above but less than 250ccBajaj Auto Ltd 96,858 136,242 865,208 1,303,039 73,093 101,970 686,314 1,035,396 18,255 26,056 161,547 293,846Hero Honda Motors Ltd 21,893 34,355 198,369 281,856 19,980 34,116 190,031 268,816 760 1,042 7,327 10,789Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 48,544 47,636 401,934 455,279 39,500 37,957 346,812 405,405 7,621 6,530 54,972 49,834India Yamaha Motor Pvt Ltd 19,759 27,265 173,031 233,370 12,592 18,103 135,034 169,321 3,380 6,164 41,247 67,499LML Limited NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NASuzuki Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 4,841 5,758 39,708 39,935 4,498 5,777 38,593 39,407 396 0 1,667 456TVS Motor Company Ltd 15,491 21,507 151,615 209,712 13,004 17,628 111,692 125,061 5,310 5,742 41,199 79,467Total 207,386 272,763 1,829,865 2,523,191 162,667 215,551 1,508,476 2,043,406 35,722 45,534 307,959 501,891B4: Engine capacity 250cc and aboveHonda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0India Yamaha Motor Pvt Ltd 0 0 0 0 9 7 18 41 0 0 0 0Royal Enfield (Unit of Eicher Ltd) 3,721 5,206 44,042 45,499 3,447 4,806 42,059 43,264 173 245 1,414 1,900Total 3,721 5,206 44,042 45,499 3,456 4,813 42,083 43,305 173 245 1,414 1,900Total Motor Cycles/Step-Throughs 753,462 882,606 6,888,331 8,657,592 650,633 747,818 5,990,334 7,402,098 86,608 124,067 908,465 1,245,717C: Mopeds: Engine capacity less than 75cc & with fixed transmission, big wheelsize>12”Engine Capacity<75cc MopedsTVS Motor Company Ltd 45,102 53,028 466,407 577,798 44,734 52,862 462,197 572,498 637 406 5,047 5,328Total 45,102 53,028 466,407 577,798 44,734 52,862 462,197 572,498 637 406 5,047 5,328D: Electric two WheelersElectrotherm (india)Ltd 0 NA 2,549 0 0 NA 2,482 0 0 NA 50 0TVS Motor Company Ltd 0 0 18 0 0 0 229 0 0 0 0 0Total 0 0 2,567 0 0 0 2,711 0 0 0 50 0Total Two Wheelers 940,423 1,127,184 8,540,386 10,991,025 834,343 980,752 7,613,144 9,671,800 89,159 130,098 938,268 1,292,696III Three Wheelers (CVs) A: Passenger Carriers A1:No. of seats including driver not exceeding 4 & Max.Mass not exceeding 1 tonnes Atul Auto Limited 387 1,235 3,750 8,492 619 1,175 3,555 8,310 0 57 11 216Bajaj Auto Ltd 32,234 36,588 269,441 357,905 14,467 17,404 138,906 165,500 17,968 19,930 131,095 194,610Force Motors Ltd 15 0 173 0 4 1 148 6 0 0 0 0Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 3,634 4,483 25,967 36,326 3,339 4,338 24,926 34,925 30 134 225 1,968Piaggio Vehicles Pvt.Ltd 10,866 13,971 110,140 130,483 10,749 12,269 107,178 116,286 451 1,775 3,633 14,068Scooters india Ltd 363 452 2,306 3,259 345 420 2,280 3,245 0 0 0 0TVS Motor Company Ltd 1,620 2,814 10,273 31,967 1,489 1,701 9,584 18,997 228 1,726 862 12,224Total 49,119 59,543 422,050 568,432 31,012 37,308 286,577 347,269 18,677 23,622 135,826 223,086A2: No.of seats including Driver exceeding 4 but not exceeding 7 & Max.Mass exceeding 1.5 tonnes Force Motors Ltd 125 0 810 84 33 0 272 26 42 0 518 84Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0 0 30 2,629 0 120 234 2,130 0 0 0 0Scooters india Ltd 302 306 2,317 2,361 269 305 2,198 2,185 0 0 0 0Total 427 306 3,157 5,074 302 425 2,704 4,341 42 0 518 84Total Passenger Carrier 49,546 59,849 425,207 573,506 31,314 37,733 289,281 351,610 18,719 23,622 136,344 223,170B: Goods CarriersB1: Max.mass not exceeding 1 tonnes Atul Auto Limited 719 788 5,916 6,938 693 780 5,858 6,959 0 4 16 6Bajaj Auto Ltd 408 728 8,098 3,384 534 627 7,623 3,034 0 0 0 174Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 917 1,013 11,214 9,703 1,177 1,159 11,248 9,650 36 19 157 211Piaggio Vehicles Pvt.Ltd 4,086 5,761 40,536 50,638 4,257 5,840 40,751 49,919 14 73 245 829Scooters india Ltd 413 462 2,568 3,761 396 549 2,510 3,627 0 0 0 0Total 6,543 8,752 68,332 74,424 7,057 8,955 67,990 73,189 50 96 418 1,220B2: Others Force Motors Ltd 131 0 1,038 15 99 0 1,026 106 0 0 9 0Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0 650 20 4,040 0 560 17 3,943 0 0 0 0Piaggio Vehicles Pvt.Ltd 56 20 88 108 0 0 0 0 60 24 90 108Scooters india Ltd 263 293 2,261 1,880 245 232 2,155 1,945 0 0 0 0Total 450 963 3,407 6,043 344 792 3,198 5,994 60 24 99 108Total Goods Carrier 6,993 9,715 71,739 80,467 7,401 9,747 71,188 79,183 110 120 517 1,328Total Three Wheelers 56,539 69,564 496,946 653,973 38,715 47,480 360,469 430,793 18,829 23,742 136,861 224,498Grand Total of all Categories 1,274,809 1,527,954 11,363,066 14,642,658 1,114,692 1,322,979 9,937,850 12,676,247 150,780 193,657 1,479,232 1,937,170

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Getting PersonalWith Peter T Honegg, Managing Director and CEO, Mercedes-Benz India

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Peter T Honegg assumed offi ce as the Managing Director and CEO of Mercedes-Benz India on 17th January, 2011. Professionally, Honegg carries a wealth of internation-al experience and extensive business exposure of leading a large variety of functions within the Daimler world. He brings more than 30 years of rich and diverse experience to Mercedes-Benz India.

Honegg joined the company (then Daimler-Benz) in 1976 and has occupied leadership functions in areas relat-ed to Strategic Planning, Marketing, Network Management, Business Development and Sales across markets like

Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, eastern Europe and Iran as well as South

East Asia and China.Born in Tuebingen,

Germany on November 1, 1955, Honegg holds a diploma in Business Administration f rom Ber u f sa k adem ie, Stuttgart. He is married to

Daniela Honegg and has a son and a daughter.

An avid classic car and motorbike enthusiast, Honegg’s interests also include wine making, reading and travel.

In Person If not in the auto industry, where would you be?

Biologist, doing research in genetics. It runs in my family

What car do you drive? What do you dream of driving?I drive S Class. I dream to drive G Wagen

Your most recent indulgence…I have recently bought a house in Malaysia

What are you currently reading? I am reading about India

What is Mr Honegg doing when not talking auto?Having fun with family

Outdoor activity you would miss offi ce for…Golf

Where did you go for your last holiday?Celebrated my wife’s 51st birthday on an island in Philippines.

You get angry when…When people are impatient

What is the one thing you would like to change about you?Eat less

Best thing to have happened to you…My wife

I met with an accident when I was 18. I was riding my bike when the accident took place.

An experience I won’t forget…

Europe and IEast Asia a

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