Hyundai Motor India Ltd. announced the price of the all new Sonata, the manual transmission is priced at Rs 18,52,979 and the automatic transmission at Rs 20,61,272 both prices are ex-showroom Delhi. The all new Sonata was launched at the 11th Auto Expo in January this year. HMIL is India’s largest passenger car exporter and [...]

Suzuki Motor (Thailand) Co., Ltd. , a production and sales subsidiary of the Suzuki Motor Corporation, has made an announcement of the start of production and sales of the new Swift on 21 March, and will start its sales from the 22 March. The new swift conforms to the eco-car project which the Thai government [...]

Mazda Motor Corporation has announced that the all-new Mazda CX-5 for the US market has been named a “Top Safety Pick” for 2012, the highest possible safety rating, by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) in their crashworthiness tests. The IIHS evaluation methods include: frontal offset test for a vehicle driving at 40 mph [...]

For the third time this year the all-new Hyundai Elantra has been named “2012 Car of the Year”, this time in South Africa. The car won the award in the prestigious annual competition of the South African Guild of Motoring Journalists (SAGMJ) and WesBank. 2012 has already turned out to be an award winning year [...]

“The three Kia premieres taking place at Geneva cover a broad spread of automotive segments and highlight the diversity of our present and future product line-up,” commented Thomas Oh, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Kia Motors Corporation. The original cee’d was a major landmark car for Kia in Europe, enabling us to [...]

Mazda Australia has continued its record-breaking start to the year with its best-ever February result of 8,689 sales for 10.1 per cent market share, according to official VFACTS figures released. In addition to setting a new February benchmark, last month also signified the company’s third best month ever.When compared to last February, Mazda Australia’s year-to-date [...]

Hiroshima, Japan — Mazda Motor Corporation has announced that since its sales launch in Japan on February 16, 2012 orders for the all-new Mazda CX-5 reached approximately 8,000 units as of March 14. The result is more than 8 times the monthly sales target of 1,000 units. Twenty seven percent of total CX-5 orders are [...]

The Updated RX model range1 makes its world debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show.The Updated RX exterior features a new, more elegant and aggressive frontal design. An enhanced interior offers an expanded choice of colour schemes, new trim finishes, a new steering wheel, a revised instrument binnacle and a second generation Remote Touch Interface [...]

The Hyundai Tucson is bigger and better than ever, earning it the prestigious title of “Crossover of the Year” for drastic improvements made in overall quality and design, at the second annual Wheels awards held on the 7th of February at the Shangri-La Hotel. A spokesperson from Wheels commented, “Hyundai is better, smoother, quieter, softer…but [...]

Seoul – Kia has been awarded two top honors for its Picanto and Rio models in the 2012 red dot design competition.The five-door versions of Kia’s striking A-segment Picanto and B-segment Rio were both winners in red dot’s internationally-acclaimed ‘Product Design’ category, in a competition that saw more than 4,500 products entered by 1,800 manufacturers [...]