Is the Indian Hatchback Dying? June 2026 Sales Data Says the Opposite

hatchback sales June 2026

The small car is supposed to be on life support. Every launch is an SUV, every buyer wants a high-riding stance, and the obituary for the humble hatchback has been written a hundred times. Then the June 2026 numbers landed, and they tell a more complicated story: the 16 hatchbacks tracked in the monthly data … Read more

Simple Energy Goes Mainstream: The ‘Arrive’ Family E-Scooter Debuts September 2

Simple Arrive electric scooter

Simple Energy will unveil its first family-focused electric scooter, expected to be called the Simple Arrive, on September 2, 2026. It is the Bengaluru company’s clearest strategic pivot yet: away from the sharp, performance-led Simple One and Ultra, and toward the largest and most competitive slice of India’s electric two-wheeler market, the everyday family commuter. … Read more

Bajaj’s 10-Launch Blitz: Two All-New Pulsars Land Before the Festive Season

New Bajaj Pulsar 125

Bajaj Auto has confirmed it will roll out 10 new two-wheelers over roughly the next six weeks, and the headline acts are two all-new Pulsar motorcycles in the 125cc and 150cc segments. Joint Managing Director Rakesh Sharma laid out the plan after the company’s record Q1 FY27 results, describing the coming launches as moves that … Read more

JSW’s Volkswagen Play: Why India’s Newest Carmaker Wants a 20-Year-Old One

JSW Volkswagen India deal

JSW Group is in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in Skoda Auto Volkswagen India, the entity that runs Volkswagen, Skoda, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley in the country. If it closes, the Sajjan Jindal-led conglomerate would control the German group’s entire India passenger-vehicle business, and Volkswagen would gain a local partner to share … Read more

A ₹10.8 Lakh Vespa: What a Brand Must Earn Before It Can Charge Car Money for a Scooter

Vespa Rs 10.8 lakh scooter, Vespa Primavera 125,

Vespa has revealed a special edition of its Primavera 125 priced at €12,000 — roughly ₹10.8 lakh. That’s a 125cc scooter costing more than most cars sold in India, and somewhere between five and nine times what a standard Vespa costs here. It isn’t coming to India, and mechanically it’s an ordinary Primavera underneath. So … Read more

Hyundai’s Bayon-Based SUV Quietly Changed Class — and That’s the Real Story

Hyundai Bayon India

For a while, Hyundai’s upcoming Bayon-based SUV was widely reported as a sub-four-metre crossover built to take on the Maruti Fronx. That’s no longer the understanding. Reporting now indicates the car — codenamed Bc4i — measures around 4.18 metres and is being positioned as Hyundai’s second midsize SUV, sitting alongside the Creta rather than below … Read more

Range Rover GT: The Lowest Range Rover Ever Rides on the Platform Tata Just Walked Away From

Range Rover GT electric

Range Rover has revealed the GT, an all-electric grand tourer that is longer than a standard-wheelbase Range Rover and — remarkably — sits lower than a Porsche Macan. It’s the first wholly new addition to the Range Rover family since the Velar in 2017, and it abandons the tall-SUV formula the brand effectively invented. That … Read more

A New Yamaha Electric Scooter Just Surfaced in a Patent — Here’s What’s Real and What’s Guesswork

Yamaha electric scooter

A Japanese design registration has revealed a new, production-looking Yamaha electric scooter with an unusual centrally-mounted motor, belt drive, and an under-seat battery that may be swappable. It’s a genuinely intriguing glimpse — but before anyone gets excited, the single most important fact is this: it’s a patent filing, nothing more. Yamaha has announced no … Read more

MG’s Gaurav Gupta Couture Editions: 50 Cars That Aren’t Really About Selling Cars

MG Couture Editions

MG Select has unveiled Couture Editions of the Cyberster electric roadster and the M9 luxury MPV, created with couturier Gaurav Gupta and limited to just 50 units each, with prices to be announced on August 3. On the face of it, this is a niche curiosity — a hundred hand-finished cars most buyers will never … Read more

That “Tata Avinya” Spy Video Isn’t the Avinya — and the Real Story Is Bigger

Tata Avinya spied

A heavily camouflaged electric SUV was recently caught testing on Indian roads, and much of the internet immediately labelled it the upcoming Tata Avinya. It isn’t. According to Autocar India, the test mule is actually an Exeed Sterra ET — an SUV from Chery’s premium sub-brand — being used as a rolling test bed because … Read more