Tata car price from April 2011 ; Maruti, Hyundai may follow suit

Tata  car price  from April 2011 ; Maruti, Hyundai may follow suit

The companies said they are facing intense pressure on their margins and bottomline due to rising input costs.

The Vista and Indigo CS will be costlier by Rs 8,000 to Rs 11,000. While the Vista is currently Tata Motors said it will hike prices of its passenger vehicles by up to Rs 36,000 from April 1, while rivals Maruti Suzuki India and Hyundai are also mulling a similar move in order to offset rising input costs.

"Despite continuous cost control initiatives, the company is being forced to take these increases on account of steep rise in input costs," Tata Motors said.

Under the revised price, the hatchback Indica will be costlier by Rs 7,000-9,000. At present it is available at a price range of

Car Sparepart Transmisi 9g-Tronic Mercedes-Benz

Car sparepart Transmisi 9g-Tronic Mercedes-Benz - Recently, seems like the automobile manufacturers compete each other, who will develop more sophisticated gearbox.

Back in 1980’s, the cars with 5-speed manual gearboxes were very rare and the automatic transmission were with only 3 or 4 speeds.

In the 1990’s, the premium brands – Audi, BMW, Mercedes, VW started to install 6-speed manual gearboxes and 5-speed automatics

During the last10 years, VW released DSG – 7-speed double clutch transmission, Mercedes came up with 7G-Tronic and nowadays BMW and Lexus put in their vehicles8-speed automatic transmissions. The „pioneer” in creating transmissions with many speeds is Mercedes, they were the first to install 7G-Tronic in 2003 in their models.