Jaguar Land Rover, the British luxury car brand owned by Indian automaker Tata Motors, is all set to adopt new marketing and advertising strategies to strengthen its presence in the luxury market globally. Europe continues to be the top market for Jaguar while presence in Asia is growing momentum thanks ...

Talks of a strategic alliance between PSA Peugeot Citroen and General Motors (GM) fit neatly with two key trends that are emerging in the global motor industry.The first trend is the changing nature of carmakers' relentless search for economies of scale.In the past, their efforts tended to focus on outright ...

South Korean car manufacturer, Hyundai Motors has registered an impressive growth rate for the year 2011. Hyundai Motors sales in 2011 grew by 14% while annual profit figures grew by 35.1%. Hyundai Motors profit for the year 2011 stood at $7.22 billion while their revenue from sales stood at $69.37 ...

With 7 million units, it is projected to overtake Japan, Germany and Korea by 2017; to beat initial estimate of becoming third-largest market globally by 2020.India has overtaken Brazil as the world’s sixth largest automobile manufacturing country, going by data on the first six months this year, according to the ...

Volkswagen AG will probably become the world’s biggest carmaker this year, vaulting past Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors Co. on gains in emerging markets.The German company’s sales, third among carmakers in 2010, will probably rise 13 percent to 8.1 million vehicles this year, based on the average of three ...

What a difference a boss makes! Well, that is a slight exaggeration but what Ratan Tata has done to Jaguar/Land Rover is nothing short of miraculous. During the Ford days these companies (together with Volvo and Aston Martin) were never given the TLC they deserved. So when Ford’s newly recruited ...

Fiat S.p.A (Fiat) is about to evolve as the world's sixth largest automotive group, in the years to come, benefitting from stakes raised by the Italian automaker in Chrysler Group LLC (Chrysler). From about 2.1 million production volume in 2010, Fiat believes that this merger has the potential to take ...

Toyota Motor Corp., which has sunk to No. 3 in global vehicle sales from pole position, is counting on emerging markets to drive a revival in its fortunes, one of its top India executives says.Toyota sold 3.7 million vehicles around the world in the first half of 2011, down 11 ...

Tatas-owned Jaguar Land Rover will this week unveil record annual profits exceeding 1 billion pounds, completing the luxury car maker's remarkable recovery from the depths of recession, media reported today.JLR is forecast to declare 1.1 billion pounds profit for the year to March 31, compared with a gain of 32 ...

In the past year of 2010, the Chinese market became the third largest market of BMW Group in the world. The sales volume of BMW and MINI cars in 2010 reached 168,998 sets, 87 percent up year on year. The rapid growth of sales volume would not be realized without ...