Volkswagen Group remains on course, despite the headwinds

The Volkswagen cluster has created an honest begin to financial year 2015 despite a market surroundings that is still difficult. The Group's operating profit and sales revenue exclude the activities of the Chinese joint ventures, that square measure accounted for within the monetary result utilising the equity technique. World demand for passenger cars was up 3.7% year-on-year within the first quarter of 2015; but, market trends varied from region to region.

Source: Autobei

The SUV Macan drives the key to success for Porsche

Porsche Ag has begun the year 2015 with success – with growth in deliveries, revenue and profit within the first quarter .From the start of Feburary to the tip of March, the sports auto maker delivered 51,102 new vehicles, that is 32 % over within the previous year. Revenue within the initial 3 months of 2015 augmented 29% to 5.08 billion euros, and operational profit surpassed the previous year figureby 10 % and reached 765 million euros.

Source: Autobei

Third generation ŠKODA Superb heralds new epoch for the brand

The milestone car  rolled off the ŠKODA line at Kvasiny recently. ŠKODA has produced the 750,000thŠKODA Superb Superb is Synonymous with highest Czech quality; success on markets around the worldThe ŠKODA excellent has been the brand's flagship since 2001. The third generation of the fashion is to be launched on the market in Feburary this year. The new ŠKODA superb has revolutionised ŠKODA's style language, reaching a brand new level in terms of comfort and technology, and is that the best ŠKODA of all time.


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FCA Twirls Q1 Profit, Grows Revenue

Fiat Chrysler cars attained a profit of $101.2 million (92 million euros) throughout the primary quarter as revenue grew by nineteen and margins improved in each North America and Europe wherever it struggled heap however has lighten up deeply in South America. Revenue for the primary quarter of 2015 grew nineteen to €26.4 billion, a rise of €4.3 billion from €22.1 billion for first quarter 2014.

Source: Autobei

Earning round up for first quarter of Volvo group

In the first quarter of 2015 the effects of the Volvo Group’s strategic efficiency-improvement program continued to generate results. In several areas of the Cluster margins were improved, despite a negative market mix with significantly lower volumes in Brazil for trucks and in China. Volvo Trucks, which also announced Wednesday a change of leadership, reported first quarter net sales of $65.6 billion with truck order intake increasing by 3 percent. 2015 is the year in which we will see the combined effects of the product launches carried out in 2013 and the cost reductions that were implemented in 2014.

Source: Autobei

Honda Q4 profit held back!

Tepid sales, a barrage of recall cost and a weak Europe beat profits at Honda Motor Co. within the latest quarter, forcing the auto manufacturer to pine for its main targets for full-year earnings and unit sales.Asia’s regional in operation profit, meanwhile, surged 31 % to 70.7 billion yen ($591.0 million) within the quarter. Honda's European operations swung to Associate in Nursing in operation loss of 5.7 billion yen ($47.6 million) within the quarter, from   an operation profit of 14.9 billion yen ($124.6 million) a year earlier. Wanting ahead, the auto manufacturer expects sales to extend 6.7 % to 4.655 million vehicles worldwide within the year to March 31, 2016. That's up from the 4.364 million it sold-out last fiscal year.

Source: Autobei

Toyota group saw growth in Commercial vehicle Segment

Toyota group registered de-growth in March 2015 in its production. It included Hino, Daihatsu and Toyota brand.

The maximum de growth noted in Passenger car production in month of march 2015. In sales in Japan region also registered negative growth of 13%. Its premium brand Lexus and Mini Vehicle sold 5,290 & 3,408 units in March 15 with de- growth of 18.3% and 43.1%. It also lost in Market share in Japan between .85 to 1.3%.  

Source: Autobei

Choosing your Right Truck

There are a number of factors one should consider when buying a Truck. A large fleet-owner of a driver-owner; you must keep these factors in mind in choosing your new truck.

Application

Know your requirements well.
The type and amount of load the truck has to carry should a deciding factor in selecting the type of body your truck needs. Equipping a body larger than your requirement will result in excess fuel-consumption. Overloading also eats in a lot of fuel, also leads to a lot of wear and tear to the truck components.

Source: Autobei

Russian Truck Market Trend : WTO membership opened doors to Foreign OEMS

To understand the Payload of a Truck, one must understand the terms GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight) and Curb Weight.

Curb weight or Kerb weight

Curb weight is the actual weight of the vehicle. It is the total weight of a truck that is coming out of a manufacturing unit with standard components as well as a full tank of fuel. This doesn't include any cargo, passengers or any additional equipment mounted by the buyer.

GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight)

As name implies Gross Vehicle Weight(GVW) is the gross weight of the truck.
It is the total weight which includes the engine, fluids, full fuel tank, the passengers, cargo and any additional equipment mounted.

Source: Autobei

FY Q2-2012-13 Review: Macro Economy Indicators and Indian Truck Industry

The total domestic sales of Commercial Vehicles for September 2012, shows a 1% increase whereas for fiscal year April-September 2012-13 shows a positive growth of 3%.
 Production of commercial vehicles for September falls by 5.2%, whereas for the period April to September of the fiscal year declines by 6.2% compared to the first half of fiscal last year.


Source: Autobei

Tipper market analysis 2012

From 2007 to 2011, the market in India for medium and heavy trucks increased by more than 17%. Heavy trucks were more heavily affected by the financial crisis than light commercial vehicles, with declines posted in 2008 and 2009. Since this decline, during which GDP growth fell to around six percent, India’s economy has rallied, with economic growth of about nine percent. Recovery in the construction sector has further increased the demand for heavy trucks.

Construction equipment, Materials, Finance, other expenses etc. are the main components of construction cost, only material (Majorly steel & cement) contribute around 50-60%. In port 18-20cum box body with 8X4 configuration became popular now. For Dams need product with shorter wheelbase and turning radius. For other application depends on type of the project.

Source: Autobei

Basic Truck Safety

Safety plays a vital role in vehicle design and construction. To keep the risk of vehicle accident as low as possible vehicles are designed with technical feasible system and components. Also the vehicles are designed in such a way that the driver of the vehicle feels the optimum comfort which enables him to enhance the performance capabilities.

Active safety is further subdivided as follows:

1.Driving Safety : For safe and easy drivability the vehicles are designed in such a way that the Brakes, wheel control, Tyres, suspension and steering matched to each other as much as possible so that the vehicle can be easy to drive with safe even in poor road conditions. In order to achieve the high level of Active safety in modern commercial vehicles the systems like ABS, ASR, Electronic Brake system (EBS) in conjunction with Electronic Stability Programme ESP are incorporated in the vehicle design.

2.Fitness Related Safety: The Cabin occupants including the driver are exposed to various physical loads like Vibrations, noises, and other climatic influences. The lower these physical loads more comfort situations for the driver which enhances his performance capabilities.
3.Perception related Safety: This involves detection of all events and signals around the vehicles by means of :

a)Adequate lighting equipments.
b)Acoustic warning equipments and
c)Views through rear and side view mirrors.

In order achieve perception related safety, the modern commercial vehicles are equipped with Sensor detection units. These sensor detection units are correspondingly designed electronic systems evaluates the sensor signals and feeds the information to the driver so as to improve the traffic perceptions. Also the following systems enhances the perception related safety.

1. Lane Guard System (LGS): Which detects the course of Traffic lanes.

Source: Autobei

Safety features to be incorporated in Tippers (DGMS)

The most common mode of transport of coal/ ore and materials in opencast mines whether is big or small is trucks or tippers and its use is on increase. So are unfortunately the accidents are also on rise due to various reasons.

The analysis of accidents revealed that majority of them occurred due to :

• Head on collision and head to tail collision
• Failure of brakes.
• Over speeding or rash driving by operators
• While reversing
• Fire
• While truck is operated when body is raised
• Short circuit

A model code of practice was circulated vide circular no 11 of 1973 and was needed to be enforced by management after getting concurrence from concerned Director of Mines safety.

Source: Autobei

Truck Driving Dynamics

The Driving Dynamics analyses the forces that acts on the moving vehicle. The combination of all Forces that offset the vehicle during driving movement is monitored for its effectiveness. These forces are influenced by the following parameters.

• Vehicle weight
• Acceleration
• Deceleration (Braking)
• Road conditions
• Cornering and
• Air flow

X- Longitudinal Axis.
1 – Acceleration and Deceleration
2 – Rolling (Snaking)

Y- Transfers Axis
3 – Transfers Vibrations
4 – Pitching (nosing)

Z – Vertical Axis
5 – Lifting, Lowering.
6 – Yawing (swinging)

Co-ordinate System
There are total of six forces acting on the freely moving body. One for each of the three co- ordinate system and rotational forces around these three axes.

Source: Autobei

Indian Truck Market Analysis ‘November 2012’

The total sales of Commercial Vehicles for the month of November stands at 450,079 units for the year 2012. This is 2.45% better than the sales figures for the same month last year which was 439,304 units. Once again the Commercial Vehicle sector is largely influenced by the positive sales figures of LCV segment, while M&HCV still continues to struggle to make any positive impact.


Source: Autobei

Acceleration and Climbing Resistance

The Acceleration and climbing resistance also contributes to the overall road resistance on the moving vehicle.

Accelerating and Deceleration:

When the vehicle moves on acceleration, mass inertia forces arise in the opposite direction of the acceleration. As deceleration is negative acceleration the inertia forces have their effect with the direction of the movement of the vehicle. The proportion of inertia forces in the overall road resistance is called Acceleration resistance.

Translational and Rotational:

The Acceleration resistance is divided in to 1) Translational Part and 2) Rotational part. A Translational part resulting from the total mass of the vehicle and a rotational part arises due to the mass inertia of the rotating components of the vehicle drive unit. The rotational part is relatively insignificant as regard to the total road resistance.

Climbing Resistance:

The climbing resistance is the proportion of the overall road resistance that is influenced by the Topography (Ref. fig)

Source: Autobei

Drive Power and Aquaplaning

On wet road surfaces problem will arise in transmitting the power from tires to road surfaces. The co-efficient static friction depends on the driving speed, condition of the tyres and the road surface. The co-efficient of static friction falls   drastically on the wet road surfaces as part of the overall friction consists of fluid friction. If the tyres begins to slide on the film of water, this is referred to as aquaplaning.

During aquaplaning neither the braking nor the steering forces can be transferred to the road surface as pure fluid friction is involved.

Source: Autobei

Industrial production increases by 8.2 percent in October, hopes for improvement in the Economy

According to the Central Statistics organization (CSO), the Industrial Production for the month of October registered a positive growth of 8.2% compared to a 5% contraction during the same month of the last fiscal.. The growth rate is against a contraction of 0.7 percent in September.

This positive growth is mainly influenced by a 9.6% growth in the manufacturing industry."I am very encouraged by the indications of the green shoots in economy in terms of production. IIP figures are very encouraging," told Finance Minister P Chidambaram

The Mining Sector for October 12’ contracted by 0.1% as opposed to a negative 5.9% growth for October 2011. For April-October has declined by 0.7 percent, as against contraction of 2.2 percent in the year-ago period.

Source: Autobei

Truck Market Analysis Q3 FY 2012-13

The total sales of Trucks for the third quarter of this fiscal year (Q3 2012-13) decreased by 3.16% at 174,191 units compared to the same quarter of previous fiscal where 174,191 units were sold. The snail paced economic growth together with arrested development in construction sector as well as ban on mining sectors in many parts of the country had rattled the Trucking Industry from the beginning of this fiscal year. The M&HCV segment is the worst affected with another steep decline of 49.02% in sales this quarter with a mere 49,780 units sold compared to 74,274 units sold during Q3 2011-12. The LCV segment mostly aided by sales of vehicles greater than 3.5ton GVW earned a growth of 17.79% at 124,411 units compared to 105,615 units during the third quarter of last fiscal.

Among the major OEM’s Tata Motors sold a total of 103,827vehicles for the third quarter of this fiscal, which is a 4% less when compared toQ3 FY 2011-12 where their sales were 108,188 units. As the worst affected OEM in the domestic market, TATA Motor’s M&HCV took a downhill with 28,159 units against 46,540 during the third quarter of last fiscalmarking a 39.5% decrease. In the LCV segment sales they recorded 22.74% increase during the third quarter at 75,668 units sold as against 61,648 during same period last year.

Source: Autobei

Aerodynamic Drag Concept

Apart from Rolling resistance, the Aerodynamic Drag also represent the largest proportion of the overall resistance. It increases in the same way as that of Rolling resistance on movement of the vehicle and arises with increase in driving speed.

Drag Co-efficient:
The aerodynamic drag FL is depending on the following factors.

1. Speed of the vehicle V
2. Size and shape of the vehicle and
3. Air density ρ

The calculation for Drag co-efficient is as shown below.
FL = 0.5 . Cw . A . ρ .

The resistance that arises due to geometry of the vehicle is quantified by the Drag co-efficient (Cw).

The Aerodynamic drag can be controlled by the following measures.

1.Using fully panelled vehicle (Roof spoiler, front Apron and side panelling etc)
2.Aerodynamic shape and
3.Super structure with tightly roped Tarpaulin.

The Aerodynamic drag and Rolling resistance are each 33% for the commercial vehicles with an Engine out put of 301 KW (410 hp), a total weight of 40T and a driving speed of 80 km/h.

Source: Autobei

Issues Affecting Road Transport Sector - An Interview With Bal Malkit Singh: Part 1 "Ever Frustrating TOLL Booths of India"

The President of “All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) was interviewed by TruckStrategy.com where he addressed various Issues Affecting Road Transport Sector. In this part he discuss about the ever grooming virus called TOLL. Here is what he has to say to the people of India.

Roads that are our National Property, which belong to the PEOPLE OF INDIA. The Government is selling our ROADS to private road builders and contractors who continue to collect the heavy toll charges even after their investment on building is fully recovered, AND /OR have started charging Toll even before starting the work on the highway or providing any basic facilities. The private builders are charging exorbitant Toll without giving any extra facilities to the road users.

We have often highlighted the anomalies in the present Toll policies that are highly inclined to benefit the concessionaires at the cost of the road users.  The Government has entered into MCAs (Model Concessionaires Agreement) with private builders and offered them 20 years, 30 years time frame to collect the toll. They also talked of taking old roads for toll collection for that they had called bids from Private Toll Collectors. This is sheer commercial business where income is realized just after signing the agreement. The toll charged by the concessionaire is different from what is fixed by the Govt. MCAs have been implemented by the Government to implement projects under PPP scheme. These agreements are unfair as undue concessions are given to the concessionaires which have put a great burden on the road users.

Source: Autobei

Driving Characteristics and Cornering Ability

CORNERING FORCES:

During cornering if the external forces like cross wind and centrifugal forces affect the vehicle, static friction in the tyre contact area leads to oppose reaction forces. These cornering forces have the objective of keep the tyre on the rolling direction and thus keeping the vehicle moving. However the tyre deforms under the exterior forces and the Static friction is limited tyres then always rolls at a tyre slip angle.

The level of cornering forces Fs depend on following conditions.
- Cornering forces rises with tyre slip angle.
- Cornering forces rises with the wheel load.
- Cornering forces rises with air pressure up to a maximum and then falls again.
- Cornering forces rise with the co efficient of static friction of the road surface.
- The tyre and the tread of the tyre also influence the cornering forces Fs.

Source: Autobei

Transfer Dynamics and Cornering Ability

If the vehicle move not only in a positive linear direction along its longitudinal axis “x”, but rather it turns around the vertical axis “z”, this phenomenon is called Yawing. If this additional rotation takes place in the same direction as that of the vehicle longitudinal axis above the ground the vehicle over steers, otherwise it under steers.

The product of exterior forces and the cornering forces of the individual wheels with their lever arms at their center of gravity S gives the Yawing moment Mg.

Source: Autobei

Issues Affecting Road Transport Sector - An Interview with Bal Malkit Singh PART 2 : “Hike in TPP & Carriage by Road Act”

Mr. Bal Malkit Singh, the President of “All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC)" was interviewed by TruckStrategy.com where he addressed various Issues Affecting Road Transport Sector. In this section he discuss on Hike in TPP and Carriage by Road Act.

1.HIKE IN TPP

The road transport industry is aggrieved and pained at the unilateral hike of TPP. An expert committee constituted by AIMTC which studied and analyzed the exposure draft circulated by IRDA and represented their opinions and reservations during their meeting with Chairman IRDA, on March 8, 2011. Another proposal to abolish third party pool was circulated albeit at the instance of private insurers lobby and without consultations with major stakeholders a decision was taken resulting in the current hike.

Source: Autobei

Cross Wind, Lateral and Peripheral Forces

Lateral and Peripheral Forces

In the moving vehicles, lateral forces and peripheral forces ie. forward driving or braking forces are often transferred simultaneously from the tyres to the road surface. A free rolling wheel can built up the maximum cornering forces. However if the peripheral forces have to be transferred simultaneously via this wheel to the ground , the possible cornering forces are reduced. 

Source: Autobei

Issues Affecting Road Transport Sector - An Interview with Bal Malkit Singh PART 3 : Proposed "Motor Vehicles Insurance and Compensation Act 2011"

Mr. Bal Malkit Singh, the President of “All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC)” was interviewed by TruckStrategy.com where he addressed various Issues Affecting Road Transport Sector. In this section he discuss Proposed "Motor Vehicles Insurance and Compensation Act 2011"

The Ministry of Finance has initiated a Bill to separate motor insurance from the Motor  Act, 1988 ("Act of 1988"). It has been proposed to amend the Act of 1988 by deleting Section(s) 140 to 173 of the Act of 1988 and enacting a special new act titled "Motor Vehicles Insurance and Compensation Act,2011" (hereinafter referred to as "New Act").oad Act.


Source: Autobei

Indian Bus Market Sales Analysis: “April - February FY 2012-13”

For the period April to February for the Fiscal Year 2012-13, overall sales had dropped by 3% which is not a positive sight for Industry. 91,127 buses were sold during the period April-Feb of FY 2012-13, compared to 93,766 units during the same period for FY 2011-12.

The M&HCV segment has shown a negative growth of 7%. The segment managed to sell 44,643 units during the period April-Feb of FY2012-13, compared to 48,237 units during same period last fiscal year. This is a drop of 3,594 units.
While LCV marks a 25% growth for the same duration. LCV segment has sold 955 more compare to same period of last FY.
M&HCV contributes 51% of the Market Share while LCV has 49% in this segment.

Source: Autobei

Indian Truck Market Analysis: “April – February FY 2012-13”

The cumulative sales of Trucks, including exports during the period April to February for Financial Year 2012-13 is 624599 units. This is a 7840 trucks less sold when compared with same period of last fiscal year where the sales were 632439 units.

Source: Autobei

Macro-Economic Indicators January 2013

Overall industry growth increased by 2% in January 2013 due to positive performance of manufacturing and electricity sectors. Data released by CSO IIP index shown double digit growth compare to last year of the same month. For manufacturing sector, the growth rate is 2.7% in January 2013 as against 1.1% for Jan-2012. It is notable that this sector adds up to 75% of the index. Even though the manufacturing sector had shown double digits the automobile sector is still plagues and in recent times some OEMs had reduced their production rates.

Source: Autobei

Product Strategy for Indian Market

"OEMs should themselves force to place greater emphasis on developing right product portfolio & solution rather than focusing on just how to sale vehicles", writes Atul Singh Chandel.

India is a becoming hot destination for foreign CV manufacture and it’s a new challenge for Indian OEM how to keep their market share in everyday changing business scenario. The basic concept how to define correct product portfolio and how to keep update and competitive portfolio without any damage of brand image & also keep market share. Triad players have normally shown much lower growth rates than their counterparts in India. The definition of best product in India is best suitable product at competitive price.

All OEM’s need to understanding of what the Indian markets look like today and in which direction it could move and where OEM’s are headed. First step should understand the application of vehicle here, based on application define segments and visualize how it is changing with the time. At the same time, customers in Indian markets are becoming increasingly sensitive to the total cost of ownership (TCO), which simply means all the costs of an investment over its entire product lifecycle.

Source: Autobei

ACG Tips To Enhance Life of Your Engine

These are tips provided by ACG Team to bring out the best performance out of the engine of your vehicle, by using these tips the performance would be similar to what shown in the graph below.

Periodic Engine Oil Change 

Periodic Engine oil change keeps the Engine Cool and the working components associated healthy. This avoids overheating and reduces the friction between moving components and hence enhances their life. A delay in oil replacement causes residuals deposits in the working components, which increases the rolling resistance and hence the maintenance cost of the vehicle apart from causing major break downs.

Source: Autobei

ACG Tips on Enhancing Clutch Life

Clutch is an important mediator which transmits the power developed in the engine to the drive lines. Any malfunction of the clutch related components affects the vehicle performance in terms of pulling and mileage. By implementing the following tips may enhance the overall vehicle performance of the vehicle, apart from low maintenance and enhanced operational profit to the fleet owners.

1. Select proper gear which is required to pull the load. Over selection or under selection of Gears will strain the clutch components very much and reduces its life.

2. Always check for the oil leakage through the oil seals of the gear box side which faces the clutch mechanism (in case of dry clutch). The leakage may cause oil or grease entering the clutch mechanism which results in clutch slippage and loss of power.

Source: Autobei

Automatic Transmission Concept For Commercial Vehicles

In order to select the right speed and torque for the right load some times even the manual transmission could not do the task perfect and it is always near perfect. Which results in the power produced could not be utilized for its optimum and it means always some loss of efficiency in terms of power and fuel consumption. Though the loss seems to be negligible one, but for the fleet operators with larger fleet operation there will be considerable savings in the long run.

Source: Autobei

Type of Buses and Frame Design

Based on the requirement of the transports, buses can be classified as

1.Urban Buses
2.Intercity Buses
3.Bus Coaches
4.Double Decker Buses and
5.Special vehicles

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Truck Market plummets once again : Analysis FY 2012-13

Poor performance of the manufacturing sector, which constitutes more than 75 per cent of the IIP, grew by meagre 2.2 per cent in February, as against 4.1 per cent in the same month of 2012, official data released by MSO. The mining output in February this year too contracted by 8.1 per cent, compared to a growth in production by 2.3 per cent in the same month of 2012. M&HCV (> GVW 7.51ton) segment has shown 25% of de growth while LCV (up to GVW 7.5ton) segment has shown 16% growth in FY 2012-13 compare to last FY 2011-13.

Source: Autobei

Passenger Vehicle Analysis Fiscal Year 2012-13

Overview automobile Industry:

Overall Indian Automobile Industry has shown 2.61% growth in FY 2012-13 compare to last FY 2011-12. Production and Domestic sales has registered growth of 1.20% and 2.61%, however export is negative growth due to negative global environment and fluctuation.

Most of the automotive players have plan for expending their activities in India including new product launches. Indian automotive industry contribute 5-6% in GDP and more than 15 million man power directly associate with auto industry. However the overall performance is not giving good vibes for Industry. Indian Govt should take some action for stabling fundamental sentiments of economy.

Source: Autobei

Indian Bus Market Analysis FY 2012-13

The overall bus sales including exports has declined by 6.13% as compared against last fiscal. During this fiscal year 2012-13, 105,293 units were sold as against 112,165 units for the previous fiscal. The overall economic slowdown, high interest rates & Diesel price instability are the main reasons contributing to this de-growth in this financial year.

Meanwhile in recent budget, excise duty has been reduced on Basic chassis benefiting local Bus body manufactures. From last couple of years all Bus OEMs have started to push full built vehicle. Some of them have already started to invest in their own bus body manufacturing units. In Union budget for 2013-14, Rs 14,873 crore has been allocated for the JNNURM scheme, with major portion of it for purchase of around 10,000 buses. Urban local body, Corporation, SRTUs are expected to take advantage of the scheme to add new fleet.

The M&HCV segment, overall sales has dropped by around 9% including export. 53,663 units has been sold in FY 2012-13 as against 59,091 units sold last for FY 2011-12.

Source: Autobei

Wheels and Tyres

The functions of wheel in the Automotive vehicle are,

1.To observe the impact forces of the road surface and to bear the vehicle load.
2.Transfers the rotational movement of the axles to Tyres.
3.Absorbs and transfers the braking and Accelerating forces as well as cornering forces.
4.Dissipates the braking heat to the atmosphere and
5.Acts as a seal in case of tubeless tyres.

Source: Autobei

Indian Three Wheeler Market Analysis FY 2012-13

Passenger Segment

In Passenger vehicle segment,  Bajaj Auto, has sold 223,287 units in FY 2012-13 taking their sales figures up by 26,146 units compared to last FY. Bajaj Auto is the market leader with 51% market share. Mahindra & Mahindra is at number 3 with 10% market share, M&M need to revive its products offering and marketing strategy.

Source: Autobei

BharatBenz overtakes Mahindra in Q4, FY 2012-13

Within a short span of time following the introduction of its Heavy Truck range into the Indian Market, BharatBenz has now overtaken Mahindra Navistar in HCV segment for the month of March in the last quarter of FY 2012-13. One of the major reason of this mini success is the strong acceptance by customers.

Source: Autobei