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These are the companies that bring to us our dream machines. This is where it all starts from; the
bourgeoisie Maruti 800, the upmarket Astra, the stately Mercedes, the 'Indian' Indica, the racy
Hero Honda, the Tata truck and the rest.

Wend your way through the automobile companies, their history and product lines. Find out
hitherto unknown facts about the vehicles you use. Did you know that the Hindustan Motors was
the first vehicle manufacturing company to be set up in India? And it is the same Hindustan
Motors which manufactures both the sturdy Ambassador and the elegant Lancer, in association
with Mitsubishi of course.
We present information on all the manufacturers that are part of the Indian automobile industry.
Make this your one stop auto info bank.

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Audi BMW Chevrolet Daewoo Motors

Fiat Force Motors Ford General Motors

Hindustan Motors Honda Hyundai Lamborghini

Maruti Mahindra Mercedes Mitsubishi

Nissan Motor Porsche Reva Electric Rolls-Royce Motor

San Motors Skoda Tata Toyota

Volvo Volkswagen

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India, is the second largest producer of two-wheelers in the world. In the last few years, the
Indian two-wheeler industry has seen spectacular growth. The country stands next to China and
Japan in terms of production and sales respectively.

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Hero
Bajaj Auto Electrotherm HMSIL
Honda
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Hero Electric Kinetic LML India
Motors

Suzuki Yamaha
Royal Enfield TVS Motor
Motor Motor

Mahindra 2
Wheelers

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Commercial vehicles influence the trade, commerce and industry of a country in a major way.
Vehicles falling under this category are buses, trucks, ambulance, jeeps and many others. It
comes in various uses such as transportation of goods, shipping and handling of various
commodities and so on.

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Ashok Bharat Earth

Eicher Escorts ltd.
Leyland Movers Ltd.

Force Hindustan HMT Indofarm

Motors Motors Tractors Tractors

Sonalika Swaraj
Maruti Suzuki
Mahindra Tractors Mazda

Tafe Terex
Tata Motors Telcon
Tractors Vectra

Volvo
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At present major Indian, European, Korean, Japanese automobile companies are holding
significant market shares. In commercial vehicle, Tata Motors dominates over 60% of the Indian
commercial vehicle market. Tata Motors is the largest medium and heavy commercial vehicle
manufacturer.

Among the two-wheeler segment, including scooters and mopeds- motorcycles have- major
share in the market. Hero Honda contributes 50% motorcycles to the market in which Honda
holds 46% share in scooter and TVS makes 82% of the mopeds in the country. In the three
wheeler industry in India, Piaggio holds 40% of the market share. Bajaj is the leader by making
68% of the three-wheelers.

Car manufacturers in India dominate the passenger vehicle market by 79%. Maruti Suzuki is the
largest car producer in India and has 52% share in passenger cars and is a complete monopoly in
multi purpose vehicles. In utility vehicles Mahindra holds 42% share. Hyundai and Tata Motors
is the second and third car producer in India.