Auto Industry Reviews

Toyota has posted a record annual net profit of $17.9 billion as the world's biggest automaker saw a recovery in major markets and got a boost from the weaker yen. But the company, hit by a series of huge recalls and recent labour problems in India, warned that profit growth would slow this year.

Apprentices of the Volkswagen Academy India's three-year Dual Apprenticeship course, have built a firefighting car for the Volkswagen Pune plant's Safety Department. A group of 14 apprentices have submitted this as their final year project.

Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of the opening practice session of the Spanish Grand Prix. He set a time of 1:27.109s. Hamilton put in a strong lap in the closing minutes of the session and went past Buttons time 1:27.891.

Audi unveiled a new V6 3.0-litre TDI clean diesel engine in Austria at the Vienna Motor Symposium. The engine will be powerful than its predecessor and the people at Audi say that it is fuel efficient too.

Japanese auto major Nissan will start selling its Datsun brand from exclusive showrooms within this fiscal as it plans to have in three years' time totally independent outlets of its two brands in India.

Ford India has now officially announced to have re-opened bookings for all variants of its sub-compact SUV, the Ford EcoSport. Though, Ford dealers never stopped it. We called a few Delhi NCR based dealers around 15 days back, and all of them were readily accepting bookings for the car.

Skoda has confirmed that the 3rd generation of the Fabia will make its debut in October this year at the Paris Motorshow. The car will be the recipient of the same engines as the facelifted Polo and we expect that there will be a host of changes made to the interiors and exteriors.

The Front fascia of the Punto facelift looks to have taken its inspiration from the Avventura Concept showcased at the 2014 Auto Expo. The car in its new avatar gets new blacked out headlamps and a rounded corned rectangular shaped grille.