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Diesel engines and small cars to be the focal point for Honda India

Honda Motors seem to be keen on introducing more diesel driven cars and the compact cars in India. What other than Tokyo Motor could be the right platform to let their intentions well known. Yasuhisa Arai, the Managing officer of their Automobile R&D department passed on the information during the prestigious event. While the whole country is hullabaloo over the diesel cars, Honda india seemed to be unruffled so far. However, the auto major is now brought to its senses probably after observing the market dynamics changing so rapidly. As much as 22% growth in the diesel cars is observed despite the overall slowdown in the cars was marked at 1.5% in the past seven months.

Published On Dec 01, 2011 04:38 PM By Meenal

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Honda Motors seem to be keen on introducing more diesel driven cars and the compact cars in India. What other than Tokyo Motor could be the right platform to let their intentions well known. Yasuhisa Arai, the Managing officer of their Automobile RD department passed on the information during the prestigious event. While the whole country is hullabaloo over the diesel cars, Honda india seemed to be unruffled so far. However, the auto major is now brought to its senses probably after observing the market dynamics changing so rapidly. As much as 22% growth in the diesel cars is observed despite the overall slowdown in the cars was marked at 1.5% in the past seven months.

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Right from the latest entrant Honda Brio to their flagship model Honda City and the Honda CR-V SUV, Honda’s stable is literally fraught with petrol cars. There might be a good news for Honda fans in store. The Honda CR-V and Honda Civic might carry a diesel engine under its hood to have their diesel engine plans on track. On the other hand, the small car line-up is the point where the auto major lags behind. Honda Brio is only the second car from the Japanese car manufacturer in the hatchback segment.

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From what we see, Honda Motors has huge plans in store for Indian car market. The car manufacturer finds India to be the foremost on their list of plans among China, Japan and the domestic car market. However, the floods in Thailand has been a major reason for concern to curb their growth plans in India. Finding this as the right opportunity, Honda Motors intends to increase their localisation at their Indian assembly units. Honda India is facing massive losses partly due to the floods in Thailand unit and rest is caused by the dipping rupee exchange value.

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Meenal has been a writer since the time she knew what it is to write. Being a team lead at CarDekho, she guides her team to bring in fresh ideas and true stories to develop a brain storming news for the car enthusiasts across the world. Meenal started writing during her school and is continuing still. Being a post graduate in English Literature with Linguistics, Phonetics, and Grammar as her favorites, she topped throughout. And perhaps that's what helped her starting her career directly as an Editor with international clients from the very beginning. She also has been trained in and has got experience in pre-editing and master-editing journals and books. With almost 5 years of experience in journalism behind her, she still believes that she gets to learn new things about writing news every new day. She plans to start on another degree in psychology. Future plans for her include nothing more than a dynamic GROWTH for herself and SMILES on the readers' faces.