Toyota Motor Co and Honda Motor Co launched new compact cars to tap the fast-growing and price-sensitive India market as they and other automakers seek to put a dire 2009 behind them. Toyota, the world’s largest automaker is a laggard in India, Asia’s third biggest economy, and is facing increasing competition from rivals targeting one [...]
Hyundai will show its electric i10 hatchback. India will remain a “big small-car market” for the next five years, said Arvind Saxena, senior vice president of Hyundai India.
In a sunny corner of his room, on the sixth floor of a ritzy hotel in the capital, a middle-aged Japanese man sat at his breakfast table. His dark blue pinstriped suit and checked shirt were immaculate, complementing the stoic expression on his face.
The Venza, a new, hard-to-define crossover-wagon thing, may well be Toyota’s predicament embodied in steel, rubber and glass. And plastic. Loads of cheap, shiny, sloppily installed plastic.