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Tata Motors cruises past Honda, becomes country's fourth-largest car player

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Has 5.33% share in India - the fifth-largest passenger vehicle market where 3 million units are sold annually LATEST NEWS :  Tata Motors’s sales increased 19 per cent this financial year, helping it to race ahead of Japanese carmaker Honda Cars and secure the fourth spot among peers in the domestic market. In the same period, Honda’s sales rose by 17 per cent. Between April 2017 and January 2018, T ata Motors sold 149,284 units of passenger vehicles. Honda Cars sold 144,802 units in the period. In FY17, Tata Motors had sold 153,151 units, compared to Honda’s 157,313 units. Honda, however, claimed to be unperturbed by the change in the pecking order. “What we try to achieve is a higher market share. We require at least a 10 per cent share in the Indian market to have a sustainable position,” said Yoichiro Ueno, president and chief executive officer, Honda Cars India. The company now has a 5.33 per cent share in India — the fifth-largest passenger vehicle mar...

M&M, Ford brace for a joint ride to develop electric vehicles, expand reach

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Teams from both companies will work together for a period of up to three years LATEST NEWS :       Homegrown utility vehicle major Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) and American auto major Ford have decided to look at joint development of products, especially electric and connected vehicles. The partnership will also look at expanding Ford’s reach in the domestic market and Mahindra’s access to global markets. The announcement comes less than three months after Tata Motors (the only other homegrown player in domestic car market) decided to end partnership talks with Volkswagen group. “The changes facing the automotive industry globally are triggered by the accelerated rise of new technologies, sustainability policies and new models of urban shared mobility. Given these changes, we see the need to anticipate new market trends, explore alternatives and look for ways to collaborate even as we compete and build powerful synergies that will allow rapid...