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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has appointed Jozef Kaban as the new design chief. 46-year-old Kaban who was earlier the Head of Design Studio at its parent company- BMW started working with the Group two years back in 2017. Kaban started his career as a car designer with the Volkswagen Group after he graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 1997 and in 1998 he got the project lead for the iconic Bugatti Veryon.

The all-new third-generation BMW Z4 was revealed globally last year and is one of the 12 new models which BMW has planned to launch in India this year. The new Z4 has also been spied before in India and the new teaser reaffirms it being one of the models in the pipeline. BMW India took to Twitter and Instagram to tease the third-generation Z4 and has hinted about its launch which could be sooner than you can guess and the company is planning to unfold it today.

The iSmart is a complete integrated system which combines software, hardware, connectivity, services and application. MG Motor has partnered with Cisco, Unlimit, Microsoft, TomTom, Nuance, Adobe and Gaana among others to come up with over 100 connectivity features.

Citroen today revealed its strategy for India and it has outlined the cars that will launch in India starting 2020. The company said that the C5 Aircross will be launched in the country in 2020 and it will launch a new car every year till 2023. The entry into India is part of larger "Push to Pass" strategic plan which is part of Groupe PSA's vision of becoming a global automaker. Though the launch of the cars is more than a year away, the company has already set itself a goal when it comes to market share.

French automaker Citroen held its first press conference in India announcing the company's entry into the Indian auto industry. The PSA Group company also unveiled its first product for India which will be the Citroen C5 Aircross SUV and is all set to arrive in the country in 2020. carandbike exclusively told you last month about Citroen bringing the model to India and the all-new offering will be taking on a number of offering in the compact SUV segment including the Jeep Compass, Hyundai Tucson and the upcoming Kia SP2i SUV. The SUV will be brought to India via the Completely Knocked Down (CKD) route with about 70 per cent local content going in and will be assembled at the company's Hosur-based facility in Tamil Nadu.

Tata Motors has not produced a single unit of its most affordable car - the Nano - in the last three months. According to a report in PTI, Tata Motors has not sold a single unit of the Nano in March 2019. The company is yet to take a call on the future of the Nano, chances of it surviving the upcoming crash test norms are slim. The stringent safety norms will require the Nano to be redesigned from scratch which will not be possible without fresh investment.

French carmaker Citroen has showcased its first model for the Indian market, the Citroen C5 Aircross, today and we have all the highlights here.

The Hyundai Venue was also in the parts of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh where it went under cold weather testing. The Hyundai Venue was tested at a low temperature of -6 degree Celsius and at 7000 ft. altitude. It was also driven from Jim Corbett to Nainital, across the Naini hills over snow-covered terrains to test the traction of the car.