Auto Industry Reviews

Ford is employing the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show's platform to demonstrate how it is using innovation to create advanced new vehicles and to help change the way the world moves by addressing transportation challenges.

Standards are not yet defined, winners and losers are not sorted out and major players disagree sharply about the best way to bring the promise of safer, smarter cars to market.

A tax break was first granted in February last year to revive sluggish car sales and later extended until the end of 2014. Automakers had been hoping the concession, amounting to 3-6 percent of the price of a car before the imposition of all duties, to continue in the new year.

We all know what a Vespa is all about. If you don't, well it's time to watch Roman Holiday and with that see Gregory Peck take a tour around Rome with this retro bike. Even though it's been decades now, the look really hasn't gone out of fashion and the Vespa S harkens to that retro image which still shouts youth.

The Star City + is the elder brother of the Star City and is built on the same platform as that of the TVS Phoenix 125. It shares the same engine as the Wego and the Jupiter, so, it gets the 110cc engine but TVS has re-tuned it for better fuel efficiency and more power and torque.

When Nissan announced that they were bringing in a sub-brand to target segments like the small car, MPV and sub-4 metre sedan, we were left wondering as to what exactly they had in stored. After having announced that all these segments will be targeted under the Datsun brand, there were many auto enthusiasts who applauded the decision of the company bringing back a brand which was thought to be lost for eternity.

Suzuki announced its intentions of bringing the Let's to India at the Delhi Auto Expo and from what we saw at the Expo, it looked like a promising product. Don't forget it is the only scooter name with an apostrophe in it.

Mahindra Two Wheelers is still to find its standing amongst the biggies of the automotive industry. But that doesn't mean that they don't have products that hit the bull's eye. We've seen the amount of fan following the Centuro has and the anticipation of people when it comes to the Mojo and with the Gusto, the company wanted to carve a niche in the competitive 110cc scooter segment.