Volkswagen has launched its super-successful New Beetle in the Indian market today. The car has been introduced with a price tag of Rs 20.45 lakh, ex-showroom Delhi. The car will be available as a CBU through Volkswagen dealerships. The New Beetle has been launched with 115 bhp, 2.0-litre petrol engine. Adding to the comfort and ease of use will be the 6-speed automatic gearbox. The charm and appeal... 

After ‘Phantom’, Rolls Royce is ready to drive its most technologically advanced car ‘Ghost’ into India and hoped that at least 45 people with crores in disposable income would be charmed by the vehicle’s simplistic design. The company today previewed Ghost, the super luxury sedan with a whisper-quiet engine and a price tag of Rs 2.5 crore, in the country and expects... 

Seventy-five years ago, this beauty glided on the roads of Rajkot, stopping people in their tracks. Soon, she will make heads turn across  the world—a custom-built Rolls-Royce that belonged to the maharaja of Rajkot is set to become the world’s most expensive car when it goes under the hammer in Germany. Known as the Star of India, it is expected to fetch £8.5 million at the auction being... 

Bangalore, June 8 (ANI): An owner of a mechanical workshop in Bangalore has created a small car, which needs less space to park. Narsimha Raju, 48, created the two-seater car to replace the two wheelers moving on the roads within the same budget. The small car almost resembling a helmet, weighs somewhere around 150 kilogram and has a four stroke petrol engine of 175 cc. The car covers 35 kilometre... 

Washington, May 17 (ANI): Seat belts in cars are meant to save lives. However, many pregnant women do not wear them thinking that the belt itself could injure the baby in a car crash. Now, a new study has shown that the seat belt does not put the baby at risk. For the study, a group of researchers led by Dr. Stacie Zelman from Wake Forest University examined a national database of over two million... 

Washington, May 8 (ANI): A new study by scientists has suggested that biomass converted into electricity could be more efficient than ethanol. The study was conducted by University of California, Merced, Assistant Professor Elliott Campbell and two other researchers. In the study, Campbell, along with Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology and David Lobell... 

Kuala Lumpur, May 5 (ANI): A secretary reportedly bit off her boss’ penis accidentally while performing oral sex in a car. According to Sin Chew Daily and China Press, the 30-year-old woman was performing the sex act when the car, she and her boss were in, was hit by a reversing van. The impact of the reversing van caused the woman to bite off her lover’s organ. The incident took place... 

Melbourne, May 4 (ANI): One Australian buyer has already put down 200,000 dollar deposit and will take delivery of the four million dollar Aston Martin One-77 in Italy. According to The Australian, the One-77 will be built in a limited edition of just 77 and Aston is still looking for some mega-rich buyers. The buyer in question says he will pay the balance amount of about 3.8 million dollars once... 

Washington, Apr 21 (ANI): After a hectic day of shopping in the mall, our memory guides us through a sea of vehicles in the parking lot to reach our car. Now, researchers have identified the specific parts of the brain responsible for solving this problem.   The findings of the study have implications for understanding the functional significance of a prominent brain abnormality observed in neuropsychiatric... 

Washington, April 17 (ANI): Britney Spears’ former boyfriend Adnan Ghalib has been slapped with a lawsuit after a process server accused him of hitting him with his car. Processor Ram Moskowitz claimed that he was trying to serve the snapper with a restraining order on behalf of Spears when the 36-year-old allegedly rammed the vehicle into him. Ram, who was subsequently sent flying onto the... 

Dealers of Tata Motors’ small car, the Nano, said they would have to sell large volumes to make money on the car. This is because the dealer margins on the car are expected to be 2-2.5 per cent, much lower than what they get on other cars. The typical dealer margin on passenger cars and utility vehicles is between 3 and 3.5 per cent on the value of the bill. “We expect that since the manufacturer... 

Bookings for Rs 1 lakh Nano car by the Tata Motors are pouring in from all parts of the country as the sole booking agent SBI on Tuesday said it has distributed lakhs of applications for the world’s cheapest car. “We have distributed lakhs of applications for Nano across the country. We are getting a tremendous response from people for Nano,” SBI Chairman O P Bhatt told reporters... 

Tata Motors’ Nano, the world’s cheapest car, is poised for another milestone. The company is likely to book a whopping 10 lakh cars in the first fortnight starting March 23, company sources said. The previous best in India was Fiat Uno, which did about 2.90 lakh bookings in 1995-96. Simply put, this means a collection of Rs 7,000 crore in a span of two weeks as booking amount for each car will... 

Japanese carmaker Honda said its ‘Jazz’ hatchback would hit the Indian roads by middle of this year, though the compact car would trail the company’s ‘City’ sedan in terms of sales volumes. “The Jazz will be a premium segment hatchback and we do not expect that it will overcome the sales numbers of the City sedan in India,” Masahiro Takedagawa, president and... 

Banks may charge a differential rate for providing booking finance for the Nano with interest rates on booking finance being higher than auto loan rates for the car. The Nano, the eagerly-awaited Rs 1-lakh car from Tata Motors, is expected to become available for booking after March 23. Bank of India — the latest lender to announce a package for funding the Nano — has already decided on booking...