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Passenger Vehicle sales up by 14.59% in December 2020, Auto News, ET Auto

14/01/2021 Christine B. Holmes

Passenger Vehicle sales up by 14.59% in December 2020

New Delhi: December 2020 introduced some cheer to the carmakers as the passenger automobile segment posted a double-digit growth of 13.59% at 2,fifty two,998 models in comparison to 2,22,728 models in the similar thirty day period very last yr, according to the numbers shared by Society of Indian Car Companies (SIAM)

It is to be observed that there is the lower foundation result of very last yr as most of the automakers were being making a lot less and decreasing inventory at dealerships to transit to BS-VI norms.

In December, over-all two-wheeler sales rose by 7.forty two% to 11,27,917 models

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The Mustang tops Challenger and Camaro for sales in 2020 | Car News

08/01/2021 Christine B. Holmes

It is a entertaining tradition, every single January, to take a gander at the automotive profits chart to see how each and every of the American muscle mass cars and trucks executed the former 12 months. In latest decades there have been just 3, and they really don’t figure amid the most effective-promoting designs in the market general, but how they do versus each and every other allots bragging legal rights to 1 organization.

Let’s agree we’ll take all the levity we can get immediately after the 12 months we have just skilled…

The 2020 profits figures clearly show that

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Boost in Bentley sales in 2020 despite the pandemic | Car News

07/01/2021 Christine B. Holmes

The year 2020 has been incredibly tough for the broad greater part of automobile producers. Unsurprisingly, it has not hit luxury automakers like Bentley as difficult as many other folks, given that they cater to buyers that are possibly much more worried about the coronavirus than about building ends satisfy at the stop of the month.

Bluntly, it displays the gaps that exist involving sure strata of culture.

In reality, for Bentley, the past twelve months have been a document period of time. Especially, the British-dependent manufacturer ended 2020 with eleven,206 deliveries, beating its past document of eleven,089 set in

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2020 BMW M5 Competition India review

07/01/2021 Christine B. Holmes

Almost all of BMW’s new-generation M cars are now available globally in two guises – standard and Performance. What the latter gets you is not just more power, but also revised suspension and more of the optional upgrades as standard. BMW India, however, offers only one version of each M model here, and it’s an interesting mix – the freshly launched X5 M is Competition-spec, while the X3 M and M8 Coupé are not. The M5, meanwhile, was launched in standard guise in 2018 and has since been replaced by this Competition version in our market. So what’s changed?

Lowered,

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Big car quiz of the year 2020

05/01/2021 Christine B. Holmes

That was 2020

How effectively do you try to remember the 12 months? These will take a look at your memory

one. What auto was topped Automobile Specific Car of the Yr 2020?

two. In August, BMW declared that it was including what new design to its legendary M3 vary?

a. A Touring model
b. An all-electric powered model
c. A 7-seat MPV model

3. In September, Renault unveiled a new coupé-SUV that will hit the British isles next 12 months. What will it be termed?

a. Mégane Grande
b. Marseille
c. Arkana

four. In the initially episode of the

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Ferrari’s Binotto targets return to F1 top three after dire 2020

27/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Ferrari Components 1 boss Mattia Binotto claims he even now enjoys the entire guidance of his superiors soon after the team’s worst year in 40 a long time and is focusing on a return to the prime a few next yr.

The sport’s oldest and most profitable staff concluded sixth total in the 2020 constructors’ championship, without a race acquire.

Chief executive Louis Camilleri, a robust supporter of Binotto, declared his surprise retirement previous week with chairman John Elkann having in excess of on an interim foundation.

Binotto informed reporters on Friday, in a video clip phone changing the conventional

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2020 Hyundai Ioniq Electric review | Car Reviews

26/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Auto123 assessments the 2020 Hyundai Ioniq Electric.

What, you’d be forgiven for inquiring, is the Ioniq? Forgiven due to the fact this model has created itself really discreet in its time on the marketplace – especially, our marketplace. And so, the Ioniq is a single of the entry-level electrified types accessible underneath the Hyundai banner.

What helps make it distinctive is that it is accessible in straight-hybrid, plug-in hybrid and all-electric versions, which occur with beginning price ranges of $twenty five,399, $33,749 and $forty one,499, respectively. We had situation to push the very last of these, which as it

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2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe Review | Car Reviews

26/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Auto123 opinions the 2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe.

With the Cayenne Coupe, Porsche proceeds to drive the boundaries of the SUV sport. Of training course, the boundaries in the Porsche planet are a minor distinctive than all those from your common maker, mainly because Porsche is a performance brand name initially and foremost and we all know how up-in-arms the world’s Porschephiles were when the Cayenne initially arrived.

Here’s the factor, although – in coupe variation, I believe the Cayenne actually makes… much more feeling.

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The 2020 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe S, on the road

The 2020

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2020 Mahindra XUV300 BS6 petrol review, test drive

25/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

As spectacular as the Mahindra XUV300 is, it has constantly been among the pricier cars in its class. Having said that, with the current cost correction of up to Rs 72,000 throughout the range, Mahindra produced the XUV300 a ton additional attractive than prior to. The explanation why we are reviewing the XUV300 petrol in 2020, even though, is to uncover out no matter if the BS6 version performs any in different ways in comparison to the BS4 version.

2020 Mahindra XUV300 petrol journey, dealing with and general performance

For the transition to BS6, smaller-ability petrol cars ordinarily involve a

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2020 BMW X6 review, test drive

25/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

The original coupé-SUV, BMW’s X6 was radical for its time. Introduced in 2008, it break up view proper down the middle, with some even questioning its extremely existence. Now, nonetheless, the X6 is much more commonly recognized and is mainly credited with acquiring kick-started an all-new phase. It is also been a results for BMW, which to day has offered close to 4,fifty,000 X6s.

The X6 class, as it must be called in deference, is pretty preferred in India also. Rivals contain Audi’s Q8, the successful Mercedes GLE Coupé and now even Porsche’s Cayenne Coupé. Does the

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New 2020 Suzuki Across SUV launched with PHEV power

23/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

The new Suzuki Across will go on sale in the British isles following thirty day period, priced from £45,599. It’s the Japanese brand’s initially plug-in hybrid motor vehicle – and it will before long sign up for a expanding market of plug-in hybrid spouse and children SUVs, this kind of as the Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4, Vauxhall Grandland X PHEV and Ford Kuga PHEV.

Essentially, the Across is a rebadged variation of the Toyota RAV4 – and it types component of the two brands’ a short while ago confirmed partnership that will eventually see Toyota build a new hybrid motor vehicle

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Industry perspectives on 2020 – Yanfeng Automotive Interiors | Automotive Industry Interview

22/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Steve Meszaros, Chief Executive Officer at Yanfeng Automotive Interiors

Steve Meszaros, Chief Govt Officer at Yanfeng Automotive Interiors

In these amazing periods, we have arrived at out to areas of the global auto sector for views on current troubles and a acquire on prospective customers for 2021. In certain, we needed to get a assortment of views and viewpoints. In this most current in the collection we are publishing this month, we hear from Steve Meszaros, Chief Govt Officer at Yanfeng Automotive Interiors.

j-a: 2020 was a rather unforgettable year for anyone and for all sorts of good reasons. In your business enterprise, what stand out as the most

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2020 Hyundai Veloster N review | Car Reviews

13/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Car assessments the 2020 Hyundai Veloster N.

Two yrs just about to the working day after my 1st experience with Korean automaker Hyundai’s most advanced athletics motor vehicle, I experienced situation to take the wheel of the 2020 Hyundai Veloster N on Canadian soil – very well, street. Regrettably, this test travel took location on roadways in and around the bigger Montreal area and not on a closed circuit, wherever the minimal N is at its most comfy expressing itself to its fullest.

Whilst there is no arguing that the monitor is its most flattering ecosystem, the Veloster N

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2020 BMW X3 M review, test drive

13/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Significant SUVs packing oodles of performance isn’t a notion that is new to BMW. In the previous, it has released performance SUVs like the X5 M and the X6 M, and along the way numerous other BMW SUVs have bought the ‘M-sport’ treatment method, which is a mere taste of the performance functionality of a whole-blown M treatment method. Now, for the very first time ever, BMW’s M-division has labored its magic on the mid-sized X3, marking the start of the X3 M. This SUV is run by the exact 480hp twin-turbo S58 petrol motor that also powers

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2020 Skoda Octavia RS 245 review

12/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

In 2017, Skoda launched the sporty 3rd-technology Octavia RS in India – dubbed the Octavia RS 230 – wearing a mouth-watering price tag tag of Rs 24.62 lakh. Thanks to its explosive effectiveness and price proposition, this constrained-operate sporty sedan marketed out like sizzling cakes. In 2020, Skoda reintroduced a additional impressive version in India, known as the Octavia RS 245, and this totally-imported version’s price tag has been set at Rs 35.99 lakh (ex-showroom, India), which is in excess of Rs 11 lakh better than the 2017 version. Although there was information of the RS 245 becoming marketed

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2020 Toyota Urban Cruiser review

12/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Though its bread and butter designs, the Innova and Fortuner provide in balanced margins, Toyota desires extra reasonably priced autos to provide in volumes and drive supplier viability. Catering to these lower segments also delivers in purchasers before into the Toyota fold and allows the model penetrate further into the hinterland. With the Corporate Average Fuel Effectiveness (CAFE) norms owing in 2022, Toyota desires lesser autos in its fleet to realize these targets.

It however has not had a great deal success in these lower segments and thus the Japanese big has picked instead to now get in touch with

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New 2020 Volkswagen Golf GTD on sale in the UK now

10/12/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Volkswagen has introduced the eighth-generation Golfing GTD in the Uk. It follows the plug-in hybrid Golfing GTE and petrol-powered Golfing GTI into the showrooms, finishing the German brand’s trio of GT-badged hot hatchbacks.

Rates for the new Volkswagen Golfing GTD begin from £32,790, which tends to make it the lowest priced product in the GT line-up. On the other hand, compared with its stablemates, the GTD is pitched as additional of a long-distance cruiser relatively than a B-street barnstormer, with a theoretical optimum vary of 600 miles for every tank of gasoline.

Critical to this vary figure is the GTD’s

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2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody review | Car Reviews

12/10/2020 Christine B. Holmes

Like a bat out of heck: Auto123 testimonials the 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody.

We’re most of us fairly common with the Dodge Charger, at minimum from viewing it on our roadways it’s certainly frequent plenty of, and the model has been close to for a lot of years now. You can get one for commencing at $thirty,895, which is interesting in its personal ideal for that you get the SXT trim with a V6 engine developing three hundred hp and 264 lb-ft of torque. 6 rungs further more up the trim ladder, nevertheless, you find the RT

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2020 Maserati Levante S India review, test drive

12/10/2020 Christine B. Holmes

What is it?

Maserati’s beautiful-looking Levante has a lot of presence. Owing, in no tiny element, to the spot-on proportions, self-confident stance, and sharp-minimize specifics, it has an identity that’s all its own. Just finding found and creating an entrance, however, is not approximately more than enough. With the Trident on the grille and the guarantee of masses of general performance, the Levante should provide as well. So can the new-for- India, 430hp petrol walk the talk and provide a driving knowledge worthy of the Maserati badge?

Desirable lines seem to be to have aged very well it nonetheless attracts

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Audi Q2 2020 review, first drive

12/10/2020 Christine B. Holmes

The Audi Q2 is the latest, and smallest, addition to the brand’s Q household of SUVs and crossovers in India. Audi has relished sizeable results with its luxurious SUVs in India. Initial arrived the significant, gen-just one Q7, adopted by the ‘right-sized’ Q5, and then the compact, but beautifully packaged Q3. Whilst all a few have done alternatively effectively in this article, and the Q7 and Q5 are effectively into their next technology, the Q2 is unique kettle of fish.

Audi Q2 Exterior Style

Indeed, it is an SUV, and evidently an Audi much too, but not like the relaxation

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