Indian Car News

Top automobile manufacturer DaimlerChrysler is upbeat over registering a 17 percent growth in sales of its luxury cars in the first three months of this year. Wilfried Aulbur, managing director and CEO, DaimlerChrysler India, told a news conference here that the company recorded sales of 690 vehicles in this period. Presenting Mercedes-Benz S320 CDI L and Mercedes-Benz CL-Class at the brand showcase here, he said the company had sold 2,121 vehicles during 2006, a growth of 11 percent over 2005. 'We are expecting higher growth this year,' Aulbur said, refusing to give figures. While the S320 CDI L car costs over Rs.7 million, the on road price of the CL-Class is Rs.13 million. According to the CEO, south India was a significant market, accounting for 30 percent of their total sales in the country. 'Hyderabad is a hotspot for us. Not because of just information technology but also because of good infrastructure,' he noted. 'There is incredibly high demand for our prod

A new anti-theft device known as the GSM car tracker is helping car owners recover cars that are stolen.Rambhoopal is one such victim whose seven-month old Scorpio was stolen outside his home in Munirka in Delhi on Friday.The tracker helped trace the car to a parking lot in Hissar within 24 hours.''It is definetely value for money,'' says Rambhoopal about the car tracker he installed at a cost of Rs 9000.''I saved Rs nine lakhs with the help of the device,'' he said. It was introduced in Indian markets eight months ago. Its a small box thats concealed in the bonnet, dash board or under the car seat.The box has a mobile SIM card configured to the cell phone number of the car owner.The SIM is tracked by GSM towers. The owner can activate the device and recieve the car's location in 40 seconds by sending a pre-defined text to it.It can also give 3 other locations the car passed through along with the time.The tracker is not connected to the battery whic

What is there in a car registration number? If it is DLS – 1, then it could be worth a million. Industrialist Lalit Kumar Bagla of Hindustan Adhesives claims that his family has had a right over the number since 1970. Bagla’s father Satyanarayan Bagla had obtained DLS-1 registration number for his Fiat car. The same number was subsequently transferred to a Honda Accent. When Bagla went to the transport Authority for transfer of the number from the Honda Accent to a newly purchased Ford Fiesta in August 2006, the authorities refused to budge. Bagla field a petition in the Delhi High Court asking it to direct the transport authorities to make the transfer. He prayed that he was prepared to scrap the Honda City car if the number was given to the new car. After deliberations for six months the court dismissed the petition saying the authorities had expressed their inability to allot the number due to security reasons. The Delhi transport Authority stopped interchange of registration number