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Ford Looks To Indian Market In Committing To Large Plant

Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Nano, India, Hyundai Motor, Production Plant, Tata Motors, Toyota Motor Corp, PINC Research, Nissan Motor Co, Foreign Car Makers, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, Ford Motor Co, U.S. Carmaker, Video, Business News

(Neha Singh) - Ford Motor Co plans to build a $900 million production plant in India, doubling its investment in the country, as the U.S. carmaker...

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The Magic Red Carpets of India

Michael Martin | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Corruption, India, Mumbai, Tata Motors, Manmohan Singh, Bangalore, New Delhi, Bric, World News
Michael Martin

Corruption is everywhere -- even in the U.S. -- but happens at such a high level it doesn't directly affect the average U.S. citizen. In India, corruption starts at home.

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Tata's Nano, The Ultracheap Car That Few Want To Buy

The New York Times | Vikas Bajaj | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Car Sales, Automakers, Fuel Efficient, General Motors, Tata Motors, Auto Industry, Small and Cheap, Tata Nano, Business News

MUMBAI, India -- When it was introduced in early 2009, the egg-shaped Tata Nano was billed as a modern-day people's car, an ultracheap vehicle that wo...

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Tale of Two Economies Continues as Jaguar and Land Rover Sales Jump 81%

Damien Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jaguar, Tata Motors, Land Rover, Economy, Automotive Sales, Business News
Damien Hoffman

Are you depressed about all the headlines focusing on unemployment and the jobless recovery? To some people that story may as well be unfolding on another planet.

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Tata Nano EXLPODES In Mumbai Raising Safety Concerns

AP | By ERIKA KINETZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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Indian Companies Innovating On Products Aimed At The Poor

wsj.com | ERIC BELLMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Tata Nano, Pureit, Tata Motors, Innovation, Business, Business News

For the farmer who wants to save for the future, one Indian entrepreneur has developed what is, in effect, a $200 portable bank branch. For the villag...

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India's Tata Group Launches Inexpensive Water Purifier For The Masses

AP | ERIKA KINETZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water-Purifying, Tata Group, Tata Motors, India, Global Poverty, Child Poverty, Waterborne Diseases, Ratan Tata, Rural-Poor, Business News

MUMBAI, India — At about two feet tall, it may turn out to be the world's most compact revolution: The Tata Swach, launched Monday, is a water p...

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Reva: Electric Car's Future May Be In The Hands Of Small Indian Company

New York Times | VIKAS BAJAJ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reva, Chevy Volt, Tata Motors, General Motors, Gm, Electric Car, Nissan Leaf, Business News

What is indisputable is that as the whole automotive world seems to be racing suddenly toward the age of electricity, the Reva Electric Car Company is...

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India's Civil Wars

Mira Kamdar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihadists, Indian Caste System, Human Rights, Tata Motors, Manmohan Singh, Maoists, Pakistan, Nobel Peace Prize, India, Buried Evidence, Kashmir Conflict, Barack Obama, Kashmir, Bihar, World News
Mira Kamdar

The Maoists have flourished in areas where the government of India has virtually abandoned the rural poor. These populations are completely cut off from the economically vibrant, rapidly growing India.

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Where's the Nano Americano?

Matthew DeBord | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: People's Car, Chrysler, Gm, Tata Motors, VW Beetle, Fiat, VW Bug, Mini Cooper, Nano, Fiat 500, Vw, Sustainable Mobility, Tata Nano, India, Green News
Matthew DeBord

Being Americans, we long for high-tech silver bullet solutions to our sustainability problems, but the gas-burning Indian version, the Nano is a model of transport simplified.

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Some Good -- and Fun -- Automotive News for the Holidaze

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Tarp, Automotive News, Good Sam Club, Chevy Volt, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Tata Motors, Honda Accord, Rose Parade Committee, Chrysler, Rick Wagoner, Honda, Federal Reserve, Cars, F1, The Oscars, Ford, FCX Clarity, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, Gmac, Representative Sandy Levin, Senator Carl Levin, Jean Shepherd, General Motors, Japanese Cars, Suburban, Hyundai, Christmas, Pasadena Rose Parade, Nobuhiko Kawamoto, GMAC Bailout, Jaguar, Hyundai Excel, Toyota, Chevrolet, Washington DC, American Honda, Land Rover, Red Ryder Bb Gun, Floorplanning, Formula One, Chevrolet Cruze, Asimo, Daisy Red Ryder Bb Gun, Landline Phones, Rolls-Royce Phantom, Honda Super Cub, Pasadena, Santa Claus, Subaru, Hawaii, Business News
Steve Parker

Really wish there were better news to post about, but the auto industry is reeling worldwide, and there's no better example than Toyota.

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Connecting the Dots on the Mumbai Attacks

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Center Mumbai, World, Tata Motors, Pakistan, Tata India, Al Qaeda, Politics, Nato, Lashkar-E-Taiba, Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Mumbai Attacks, Taliban, Afghanistan, India, Tata, Mumbai Terrorism, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, South Asia, World News
Janet Ritz

There has been a great deal of reporting, speculation, finger pointing and denials on the Mumbai attacks, much of which has focused on trees (dots) in...

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Tata Shall Lead Us

Matthew DeBord | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toyota, Prius, Tata, Nano, Tata Motors, Gas Crisis, Detroit, Tata Nano, India Tata Motors, Three-Wheel Car, Green Mobility, Green Transportation, India Green Cars, Green Cars, Aptera Motors, Electrical Car, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Crisis, Green News
Matthew DeBord

India's Tata Motors represents a modern-day version of what Detroit could have become if it had begun to adjust its products to obviously impending future needs back in the 1970s.

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Jaguar-Land Rover boss to PM Gordon Brown: Help!

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Smith, Sir William Lyon, JD Power, Castle Bromwich, Tata Motors, England, Jaguar Super V8 Vanden Plas, Ford Cars, Land Rover, Ford Contour, Halewood, Gordon Brown, Solihull, Cars, Jaguar XF, Jaguar S-Type, Bmw, Business News
Steve Parker

It was just this past May that Ford sold their prestigious Jaguar and Land Rover divisions to Indian carmaker Tata for USD$2.3 billion. And now, the b...

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$50 Billion for the Detroit Three: Yea or Nay?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Parker

Should Chrysler, or two of the car-makers or even all three go bust, then, this time, the American people will pay the price, both literally and figuratively.

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Ford Sells Jaguar, Land Rover to Tata

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT — After spending billions of dollars on Jaguar and Land Rover, Ford Motor Co. gave up on the storied British automakers Wednesday and un...

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Activists Burn "People's Car" In Effigy

CNet News | Jonathan Skillings | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: People's Car, World's Cheapest Car, Tata Car, Tata Motors, Nano Car, Tata Nano, Business News

Tata Motors is billing its tiny, ultracheap Nano as the "people's car," but some people would just as soon not see it get built--at least under curren...

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India's Tata Motors Unveils $2,500 Car

AP | GAVIN RABINOWITZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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India's Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of...

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New Indian Car To Retail For Only $2,500

New York Times | ANAND GIRIDHARADAS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cheap Cars, Tata Motors, Cost-Cutting Engineering Secrets, $2500 Car, Business News

What does it take to build the world's cheapest car? For Tata Motors of India, which will introduce its ultra-cheap car on Thursday, the better quest...

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How To Build The World's Cheapest Car

New York Times | ANAND GIRIDHARADAS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tata Motors, India, Cars, Cheap Car and India, Cheap Cars, Car, $2, 500 Car, Business News

What does it take to build the world's cheapest car? For Tata Motors of India, which will introduce its ultra-cheap car on Thursday, the better quest...

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India's Tata Picked As Top Bidder For Jaguar, Land Rover

AP | Tom Krisher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ford's European Unit, Lewis Booth, Jaguar, Land Rover, Tata Motors, Ford Motors, Ford, Business News

Ford Motor Co. picked India's Tata Motors Ltd. as the top bidder for its Jaguar and Land Rover units, the Detroit automaker said Thursday. Ford has e...

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