Top Indian Automobile Industry News & Updates - 01 Dec 2025,Monday
🏢 Industry
Auto rally doesn't downshift as Q3 outlook stays steady on firm demand
📝 Auto Inc now offers premium add-ons in base variants to avoid ‘absence penalty’
📝 EVs from last millennium, vehicles registered in 1900: Database anomalies set off clean-up drive
📝 TTD to replace conventional vehicles with EVs
📝 Rare earth magnet sops to lift India’s EV, chip plans: Industry
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🚗 ICE Car/SUV
A premium mid-SUV for a generation that wants more: Tata Sierra
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. recently announced the launch of the all-new Tata Sierra at ₹11.49 lakh. Reimagined for a new era, this premium midSUV retains its iconic heritage and unmistakable DNA while embracing modernity, emerging as a symbol of achievement, individuality and exploration. Rooted in deep consumer insight and evolving aspirations, the Sierra reimagines what a mid-size SUV can be. By enhancing space, comfort, luxury, safety and everyday usability, it brings a premium lens to the familiar, setting a new benchmark for the category.
Premium woes for Maruti Suzuki as Nexa skids
Nexa, the premium car sales channel of Maruti Suzuki, is slowing down. An analysis of January-October 2025 sales data vis-à-vis the same period last year shows that sales of Nexa models dropped 6.5%, from 4,58,058 units to 4,28,472 units, even as sales of the mass-market Arena channel increased marginally by 0.25%, from 10,25,939 units to 10,28,426 units.
📝 Kia Seltos facelift set for Dec' 2025 launch: Date, what to expect & more details
📝 Defender reveals Dakar-ready D7X-R for 2026 season debut
📝 Maruti Suzuki completes merger of Suzuki Motor Gujarat
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Electric Car/SUV
Vijay Shekhar Sharma buys Tesla Model Y: Inside Paytm CEO's latest luxury shopping spree
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and CEO of Paytm, has become one of the latest high-profile Indians to own a Tesla after the Elon Musk-run company set its foortsteps in the country. Vijay Shekhar Sharma earlier this week took the delivery of the much sought-after Tesla Model Y as the company opened its store in Gurugram.
VinFast to launch Limo Green early next year, and then a car in India every six months
Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast will launch the Limo Green – a seven-seater MPV – in India early next year, and follow it up with a new EV every six months, Pham Sanh Chau, the CEO of VinFast Asia, told FE. It will be the EV maker’s third car in India, after the VF 6 and VF 7 launched in September.
Mahindra looks to bolster play in core SUV, electric vehicle segments
Mahindra looks to bolster play in core SUV, electric vehicle segments
The Hindu Business Line
📝 Tesla starts Model Y deliveries from new Gurugram centre; startup community among first customers
📝 Mahindra XEV 9S: Variant-wise features and pricing explained
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🎤 Interviews & Features
Long-term review: Weeks with the Fronx
After driving it for a few weeks and hundreds of kilometres in Delhi and on highways, we can say that the Maruti Suzuki Fronx is built to be a daily companion, not just a weekend experiment. Developed on the Baleno platform, this car stands out – the initial appeal hasn’t worn off, and people still check out its bold stance.
📝 TVS bought Norton, Bajaj got KTM. But can they pull off what Eicher did with Royal Enfield?
📝 Car Review: Mahindra XEV 9S - Sense, Sensible, Sci-Fi
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🏍 EV/ICE Two Wheelers
Buyer guide: TVS Apache RTX 300 deliveries begin
If you have booked the TVS Apache RTX 300, your wait is expected to be over soon. TVS Motor Company has commenced delivering the adventure motorcycle. The TVS Apache RTX 300 comes as the first adventure tourer motorcycle from the homegrown two-wheeler giant. Launched in October 2025, the motorcycle grabbed a lot of attention, especially of the people who seek to buy an affordable adventure tourer motorcycle.
📝 Karnataka Hight Court grants Yezdi trademark rights to Boman Irani
📝 TVS Motor commences BMW F 450 GS production in Hosur
📝 Hero MotoCorp launches Xtreme 160R 4V cruise control variant at ₹1.34 lakh
📝 Royal Enfield seeks uniform GST across all bike categories
📝 2026 KTM Duke 990 breaks cover in Europe with fresh colours: India launch on the cards?
📝 2025 Ducati Streetfighter V2 now available in India: Top things to know
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⚙ Components
Changes in emission, braking, vehicle alert norms to give a leg-up to auto component makers
India's top automobile component makers expect new opportunities to win business in the domestic market as the government prepares to implement a series of rules that aim to cut down emissions of vehicles and increase safety standards.
Govt must keep non-serious firms out of magnet scheme: Sona Comstar MD
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🌇 Allied Industries
Govt mulling relaxations as made-in-India battery push runs into delays
New Delhi : India’s ambitious plan to build large-scale manufacturing capacity for advanced chemistry cells (ACCs) used in industrial batteries under its flagship production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme is headed for a significant course correction.
Why technology is ‘boss’ in supply chain management
In today’s hyper-connected and rapidly evolving world, supply chain is no longer a backend operation; it is the central nervous system of business. And at the helm of this transformation is not a traditional executive, but technology. Much like a visionary CEO, technology is now driving strategy, managing risk, orchestrating execution, and adapting in real time. This includes artificial intelligence-driven forecasting, optimising warehouse space, predictive logistics and real-time visibility.
📝 Rising input costs threaten country's manufacturing ambitions amid increasing demand for aluminium: Study
📝 Michelin expands retail footprint in Tamil Nadu with three new outlets
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🌢 Fuels, Lubricants
M&M to build high-power highway network as it expands EV portfolio
All chargers will be 180 kW and above, forming a high-power electric-vehicle (EV) corridor designed to make intercity electric travel seamless.
📝 PNGRB expert panel urges competitive, open-access Gas market
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🌍 Emissions/Environment
Pollution woes in Delhi: CAQM flying squads inspect 321 roads across city
Meanwhile, regions under the NDMC reflected relatively better conditions. As 133 road stretches were inspected, 100 showed no visible dust, 24 recorded low dust, and 9 moderate dust intensity — with no stretch falling in the high-dust intensity category.
AQI improves to poor after 24 days of very poor air
After 24 days of ‘very poor’ air, often bordering the ‘severe’ zone, the air quality in Delhi on Sunday improved to the ‘poor’ category with a reading of 279. The capital city's last recorded Air Quality Index (AQI) in the ‘poor’ category on November 5 at 202, after which the readings turned ‘very poor’, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Sunday claimed that Delhi registers its lowest ever average AQI (Air Quality Index) during the 8 years, i.e., from 2018 to 2025 (barring 2020 – the year of lockdown due to Covid).
📝 NCR turns to car purifiers for clean air; stocks run dry
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💸 Finance & Insurance
📝 Motor insurance: When service ends after sales
📝 Cover note. Motor insurance: When service ends after sales
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📖 Magazines
Most form over function exterior design features on cars
While styling may be subjective, some exterior design features end up looking a bit overdone or simply do not work as intended. Here is our list of these aesthetic choices that may have worked, only if they weren’t such commonplace or instantly polarising.
3 reasons to buy the TVS Ntorq 150 and 2 to skip it
The TVS Ntorq 150 is the brand's largest ICE scooter to date, and also happens to be the most affordable scooter in the 150cc segment. If you're considering buying one, here are three reasons it's worth considering, and two reasons it might not be the scooter for you.
Top 3 reasons to buy the Honda Activa 110 and 2 not to
The Honda Activa is a product that needs no introduction. Ever since it was launched in India over two decades ago, this bestseller has seen small updates and feature additions along the way. Here are some reasons to buy the Activa 110 and some which will tempt you to look elsewhere.
Ather 450 Apex: India’s Most Fun EV Scooter
The Ather 450 Apex is the most evolved and advanced version of the 450X. We recently got to experience it in its 2025 avatar with new features that are a part of the Ather Stack 7.0 update.
Citroen Basalt X road test review
Citroen Basalt X design & engineering – 9/10
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📰 International
Vietnam’s VinFast to launch electric 2-wheelers in India in 2026, feasibility studies underway
📝 Electric vehicle prowess helps China's flying car sector take off
📝 China's BYD recalls 88,981 plug-in hybrids over battery safety hazard
📝 Forvia to sell part of car interiors business as part of debt-cutting push
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