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After being forced to close plants last year as the pandemic took hold, carmakers are now facing stiff competition from the sprawling consumer electronics industry for chip deliveries amid global supply chain disruption.

Renault India has gifted the Kiger subcompact SUV to India's Olympic medalist wrestlers - Ravi Kumar Dahiya and Bajrang Punia to appreciate their performance on the world stage. Dahiya bagged a silver medal in the 57kg weight category while Punia grabbed a bronze medal in the 65 kg weight category.

Kia India announced that the company sold over two lakh units of the Seltos compact SUV along with having one and a half lakh connected cars in India till date.

Volkswagen may need to cut production further due to a semiconductor supply crunch, the German carmaker said on Thursday, after a report that Toyota would slash output by 40% in September.

China's Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd retained its annual sales target on Wednesday, betting that new vehicle launches will offset the short-term impact of a global chip shortage and a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic.

Toyota Motor Corp said it will slash global production for September by 40% from its previous plan, becoming the last major automaker to cut output due to a global chip crunch, but it maintained its annual sales and production targets.

The facelifted Honda Amaze continues to be offered in three variants - E, S and VX, and except for the base variants, all three trims get a CVT automatic option with the petrol motor, while in the diesel it's limited to the top-end trim only.

This is the first mid-life facelift for the second-generation Amaze which was launched in 2018, and the updated model comes with several styling changes and some new and revised features.