Japanese Automobile major, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) expanded its range of alternate fuel vehicles by including the Innova CNG in its fold in India.

From now onwards the country’s most popular multipurpose vehicle, Innova will be available in CNG variant as well.

London, Feb. 28 : TATA-owned Jaguar Land Rover yesterday signed a "very significant" order to supply 13,000 vehicles to China.

The vehicles will be supplied over a three-year period, The Sun reports.

The news is a huge boost for the company - which employs thousands of workers in the UK at sites including Castle Bromwich and Solihull in the West Midlands and Halewood, Merseyside.

Halves Greater Noida output to 200/day

Honda Siel Cars India has put on hold "indefinitely" the commissioning of its second manufacturing facility in Rajasthan amid a sales slowdown. The company has already halved production at the existing plant (Greater Noida) to 200 cars a day on a single shift basis against 400 being produced earlier and is using only about 55,000 units of the one lakh unit installed capacity at the site.

No wonder then that work on its Rs 1,000-crore facility coming up at Tapukara has been suspended for now.

To invest Rs 300 cr in next 3 years

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) is looking at initial production volume of about 2 lakh units for its all-new 100cc bike, slated for launch early next year.

HMSI is the wholly-owned arm of Honda Motor Co in India and by entering the 100cc bike segment, it would come in direct competition with sister company Hero Honda Motors (HHML).

But Shinji Aoyama, the president and CEO at HMSI, said, "We are not looking at a volume product (by entering the 100cc space)….we will do about 2 lakh units a year initially. The Hero Honda 100cc bikes are a very good means of transportation and we do not need to interfere with that."

Saltillo, Mexico  - Daimler AG opened a new truck plant in the northern Mexican city of Saltillo on Friday, which will manufacture about 30,000 heavy-duty Freightliner trucks for the United States, Mexican and Canadian markets.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon attended the ceremony at Daimler Trucks North America's second plant in Mexico, which was built with an investment of 300 million dollars. The company said it expected the plant to generate 1,400 direct jobs and 200 indirect jobs, as well as an additional 1,100 jobs in the local autoparts industry.

Ruesselsheim, Germany  - German carmaker Opel has called for the company to break away from its ailing General Motors (GM) parent and forge a new motor vehicle group comprising the giant US auto group's European operations as part of a rescue plan unveiled Friday.

The move could bring to an end Opel's 80-year history as a part of GM's business empire, with Opel seeking 3.3 billion euros (4.3 billion dollars) in aid to underpin the formation of the European car group and help it through the current global car market crisis.