Volvo Cars India has witnessed a growth of 25 per cent in the last fiscal year. The company sold 2687 units of passenger vehicles in FY2018-19 against 2157 units which it sold in the previous year. According to the company, the growth was largely driven by the XC40 compact luxury SUV which is the most affordable Volvo sold in India at present and was launched last year. The Volvo XC40 was also awarded the Premium Car Of The Year in the Indian Car Of The Year (ICOTY) awards.
The Sport Plus variant of the Compass has been positioned above the base Sport variant and is more feature-rich. The added exterior kit includes 16-inch alloy wheels finished in silver, black roof rails and rear parking sensors. The rear windscreen, pillars and window fringes are also finished in black. The cabin of the Jeep Compass Sport Plus trim will be equipped with a 5.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system and dual-zone climate control which the base trim doesn't get. We would have liked Jeep to also include the power folding wing mirrors which makes maneuvering through tight spots easy. However, safety kits such as dual front airbags, ABS, ESC and traction control are standard throughout the range.
McLaren has finally decided to give us a glimpse of the upcoming Grand Tourer. The British supercar maker has released a bunch of new teaser images of the production version of the McLaren Grand Tourer, albeit fully covered in camouflage.
German automaker Daimler officially opened a Mercedes-Benz factory near Moscow on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin, marking a rare foreign investment into Russia's car industry. The plant in the town of Esipovo 40 kilometers north west of Moscow is the first in years to be opened by a foreign carmaker in Russia where investment into the once burgeoning auto industry dried up amid western sanctions and a stagnant economy.
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.
