Made in India Dusters Recalled in the UK due to Corrosion Issues!

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Renault India has been having some great time thanks to its most successful model, the Duster. The company used to even export the compact, Dacia-badged, Duster to the United Kingdom. The parent company though later on shifted the load of exports to Count Dracula’s Romania as it makes much more sense to import from a closer area to reduce transportation costs, thereby also easing the load on the Indian arm that was having a bit of a difficulty handling exports and domestic sales at the same time.

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While the cessation of exports might have been a good move for the company, which is now in a good position to satiate the domestic needs quickly, problems seem to have come up in the export units which it manufactured between January 2013 and August 2014. As per a report in Overdrive, this made in India car will be recalled because of some corrosion issues!

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Next-Gen Ford Figo Trial Production Starts from New Sanand Plant

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Ford India’s expansion plans have its upcoming factory Sanand in Gujarat in key position as the new manufacturing unit will be the birthplace of the next-gen Figo hatchback and new Figo based compact sedan. While the plant will begin commercial production in early 2015, it appears that the company has already started testing its baby limbs.

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New Discovery Sport to Roll Out From JLR’s New Manufacturing Plant in Brazil

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Jaguar and Land Rover have started the construction of their state of the art manufacturing facility in Rio de Janerio in Brazil. This Brazilian Real 750 million (Rs 1804.33 crore) worth facility will also have the first overseas Education Business Partnership Centre. The ceremony was attended by the state Governor for Rio, Luiz Fernando.

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New Beat-based Compact Sedan ‘MCM’ Planned for India

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Its no secret that General Motors is not having a good time here in India with continuous falling sales and increasing losses. The condition here has been getting bad to worse. The only hope which Chevrolet, GM’s arm which operates in India, has is to digress into other segments which are growing rapidly in the market. And the first thing which comes to everyone’s mind is the compact sedan segment.

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Render: Will the Next-Gen Fortuner Look Like This…? Coming in 2016!

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Toyota’s Fortuner, after a long time, is scheduled to get its next-generation model in 2016 and has been spied camouflaged quite a number of times internationally. While the basic brute image of the SUV is expected to remain, a new speculative rendering has surfaced at 4×4 Australia, giving us an idea of how the new Fortuner might end up looking.

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