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The new Hyundai Santro completes its first anniversary on October 23, 2019, and to celebrate the occasion, the South Korean automaker will soon roll out the Anniversary edition of the hatchback. The Hyundai Santro Anniversary Edition gets cosmetic and feature updates and will be based on Sportz trim on the model. Leaked details about the new Santro special edition reveal a starting price of Rs. 5.17 lakh, going up to Rs. 5.75 lakh for the AMT version (all prices, ex-showroom Delhi), which makes it about Rs. 10,000 more expensive than the mid-spec version. The special variant is also being launched just in time for the festive season that should help push volumes further for the automaker.

This will be the 11th generation of the Octavia and it will be unveiled in Prague on November 11.

Honda has released a teaser image of one of the most significant debuts it will make at this month's Tokyo Motor Show. The image is of the upcoming next generation Honda Jazz and the company has not revealed much. It's more the car's silhouette than anything, but if you look closely, three things are very evident. The car appears to have a slightly lower profile with a longer wheelbase, and yet short overhangs. This tells you that while the cabin is likely more roomy, the overall length will probably still stay under 4 metres - crucial for us in the Indian context. The second is that the styling appears to move away from the last car's edgy straight lines and taller look to a more rounded and conventional proportion. The hood is longer and not as angled and the headlights are now more rounded and upswept - with a snub-nosed thick chrome grille, as seen in recent models like the Honda Civic and Honda CR-V. And thirdly, the car also seems to have cup shaped DRLs (daytime running lights) and a more horizontal and wrap-around style tail lamp cluster. And there's a shark fin antenna on the roof.

The new Toyota Vellfire luxury MPV has been recently spotted in India again, ahead of its official arrival. Expected to be launched in India sometime in the current fiscal year, the luxury MPV seems to been spotted in some parking lot, possibly in Bengaluru, given temporary Karnataka TC number plate.

Skoda Auto might have replaced the Rapid range with the Scala in Europe and several other markets, but the company will continue to have the Skoda Rapid nameplate in select markets like Russia and China. It's expected to unveil the next-gen Skoda Rapid sometime in late 2019.

The eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf will make its global debut later this month on October 24, 2019, and ahead of the unveiling, the automaker has dropped an official preview of its popular hatchback giving a detailed look at the upcoming model. The new set of sketches and a camouflaged test mule give us the clearest look yet on the 2020 Volkswagen Golf Mk VIII and the model certainly looks sharply dressed, especially with the headlight design at the front. The sleek styling is also a reminder of the XL1 concept that was showcased a couple of years ago as a fuel-efficient study. Volkswagen says the new generation Golf will be more dynamic than ever before and the model does look like a big step up from the current-generation version.

The new Vantage even with its top down looks as gorgeous as the coupe, but this time around it gets a soft-top instead of a fixed roof.

The next-generation Skoda Octavia has been around for a while now, and we will finally get to see the all-new model soon with the global debut scheduled on November 11, 2019. Skoda Auto has confirmed that the 11th generation Octavia will be unveiled at a standalone event in Prague, the Czech Republic. The global debut is about a month after the Volkswagen Golf Mk VIII will be officially unveiled, and shares the same underpinnings based on the Modularer Querbaukasten platform (MQB). The sedan continues to be one of the most popular selling models for the brand globally and will make its way to India too as early as 2020.