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In Indian auto market, every brand comes with their best facilities. Similarly, Hyundai also has introduced their luxurious featured car ‘Santa Fe’ with automatic transmission. According to the US news, Hyundai’s Santa Fe stands in the 14th place out of 20 affordable midsize cars.

Hyundai Santa Fe is available at Rs 24.36L, it comes with six speed automatic transmission for easy and stress free driving. Santa Fe comes with a comparatively very low price range in this segment and it comes with more advanced features like more fuel efficiency, steering wheel control audio player, USB port facility, blue-tooth facility, and so man other advanced features.

Hyundai is happy with this model as it has created a good brand reputation. Santa Fe comes with the 2.2L CRDI engine, delivers a maximum power of 197PS/4000 rpm and comes with 44.5Kgm/1800-2000 torque. The car is certified with the ARAI for good mileage capability of 11.72Km/L.

Honda motors introduced its new family car Brio on 27th September, 2011. They introduced this model to beat the Hyundai, Chevrolet and Maruthi’s small car sales. They are introducing Brio with more technical advanced features which provides more comfort to their customers.

They are introducing Brio with the 1.2L petrol engine which comes with 88PS and 109Nm of torque. Honda Brio comes with the five seat facility and with the spacious boot. Brio is available in the market at Rs.3,95,000 to Rs.5,10,000. Hyundai introduced this model with advanced features which can match with the customers expectations. Moreover, this car is available at affordable prices too.

Brio comes with all the small car features, it comes with 1.68 meter width, 3.6 meter length and 1.475 meter height. It has good cabin space for a small car. Honda Brio comes with four variants like E,S,V and VAT.

Honda provides easy finance facilities to their car buyers. It has tied up with local regional banks to provide easy finance availabilities to customers. Honda is expecting more sales from these facilities, they are certainly aiming to capture the smaller town and cities auto sales. (more…)

India’s second largest car manufacturing company Hyundai is introducing its new brand EON for the festive season into Indian market, in their attempt to cash the festive season. They are accepting the booking of Hyundai EON from second week of October, 2011. they have decided to take Rs.10,000 for each booking. These products will come in tot he market in the first week of November, 2011.

This brand has a good image in the world auto market, it is recognized as the branded small car in the world market. It sold out 3,00,000 units for the last year in the global market. Hyundai EON model car comes with a 814 CC capacity, three cylinder engine which generates 55.23 Bhp power coupled with 75Nm of torque. This car comes at the reasonable prices.

The officials from Hyundai have said that this car will be a new benchmark in the market with its safety features, style and performance. They further said that the customers feel happy with its design, quality, fuel efficiency and technology. This car will be recognized as a best-in-the segment vehicle.

Ford’s Figo success has given a boost to the Ford’s cars production. The Figo sales in the Indian auto market is 1,00,000 units since the launch. According to the source, Figo was rewarded as the ‘car of the year’ for 2011 and it was a runner up in the South Africa for the same year. Figo has been rewarded with more than 20 awards in Indian auto industry.

Management of Ford India revealed that, Figo has been successfully achieved their mile stone of 1 lakh sales in competitive market and is strongly continuing its performance. They said that not only Figo, along with this Ford’s Fiesta, Endeavour and Ikon are also performing well, giving luxurious facilities to their users.

In the past few years the smaller car sales are increasing hugely, they have the 70% of the total sales. Ford Asia prompts to look on the small car segment. They want to launch their small car models into the Indian auto market along with the world market. The plan of the small car is decreasing the profit per car but the overall profit of the company will be increased. Ford recently launched Fiesta sedan and has the plan to launch more seven models by this middle of the decade. Ford wants to change their headquarter from Chennai to New Delhi, and wants to start new plant in Gujarat, for increasing their production. (more…)