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Thursday, July 24, 2025
TopicAutomobile industry

Topic: automobile industry

AMT, IMT, CVT, DCT — why you must know your automatic car before you buy one

Kushan Mitra -
Over 10% of all passenger cars sold in India had some form of automatic transmission or another. But all automatics are not created equal.

Remember Skoda’s Laura? Car names can go horribly wrong and no one wants to be bold anymore

Kushan Mitra -
Not just lawyers, in order to avoid a repeat of the ‘Laura incident’, most car companies employ teams of linguists across the world.

Scorpio-N ticks all boxes in the city. Want an old-school offroader? Go for the Thar

Kushan Mitra -
Mahindra is so confident about the Scorpio-N that when they announced the price, they did it from the top variant down.

Bigger cars, smaller chips — Why Mahindra is worried about increased wait time

Katrina Nicholas -
A major focus for Mahindra will be defending its market share in the large-format SUV segment from Tata Motors and Hyundai Motor.

India has a sunroof obsession and new Hyundai Venue confirms it. But please mind your head

Kushan Mitra -
Hyundai might want to 'give customers what they want’, but evidently, they want to stick their heads and bodies out of sunroofs. And that's dangerous.

Musk or Buffet? The tussle between two EV giants continues

Anjani Trivedi -
Over the last couple years, BYD has improved their strategy and is giving Tesla a run for their money. The two continue to fight over a greater share in the auto market.

India loves French jets, but their cars? Good thing Citroen C3 is a mass market product

Kushan Mitra -
Citroen India says the price of C3 will be a ‘surprise’. Anything under Rs 5 lakh would mean the hatchback will take on the likes of Maruti-Suzuki Celerio and Tata Punch.

BMWs are changing—it’s all happening under the hood. And it feels like the movie Tron

Kushan Mitra -
The ferocity of the new BMW i4 when you ‘push the pedal to the metal’ is like the 3-series. Plus, it sounds like it's from the movie Tron.

Dear Rahul Gandhi, Ford, Fiat quit India due to market conditions, not Modi’s politics

Kushan Mitra -
Rahul Gandhi’s reasoning on foreign automakers’ exit from India is an extreme stretch of imagination.

Mahindra expects strong recovery in auto sales as supply chain constraints ease

Ragini Saxena -
According to Mahindra, the auto industry is poised for a very strong rebound because it has been buffeted by a number of factors over the last 2-3 years.
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Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Ruchi Ghanashyam -
Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

Hyderabad is no longer the better Bengaluru. Our roads are flooding and full of traffic

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Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

Snehesh Alex Philip -
PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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