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| ![]() I was so confused by the "Harrier" launch in India because in Singapore they have a Toyota Harrier mid size SUV and I kept looking whether it's Tata or Toyota ![]() |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Trivia of the day = Ford & Murray basically invented the telemarketing industry: Quote:
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Believe it or not, the stuck-in-1970s Force Motors still transports its cars long distance by road! Like the Premier Padmini and HM Ambassador. The damn cars are DRIVEN TO DEALERS! From a recent ownership review: Quote:
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: All over!
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I applaud customers for this brand; customer first is clearly not a company policy! | |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() This could be due to the absolute low volumes they sell. Any numbers available statewise? Otherwise absolutely no reason to drive it down in this age of logistics and transportation. |
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| ![]() I think Toofan sells in decent numbers and so does the traveller. While these a quite big vehicles and not many will fit in the truck! |
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The last time I heard was Mahindra in the early 2000s, even after Scorpio was launched. Wonder if there is any provision for us to take factory deliveries or something. Like some members have said above, may have to do with low volumes. Other than Gurkha and ordinary Trax, almost all other vehicles are pretty large in size | |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() The X7 thread reminded me of this. Trivia = Perhaps the only time in Indian car history that the maker downplayed the style & design of its own car ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() The Daewoo Cielo, that was a leading name in the "C" segment from the mid 1990's till the South Korean Chaebol collapsed and the company closed down, just after the turn of the millenium. The Cielo's ex-factory price was slashed by upto Rs 22,000=00 around 1998-99, and it took many by surprise. We had never in the recent history of our automobile industry, ever heard about such a move by any manufacturer. They called it a "price correction." |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() | ![]() There were cases of folks parking the car at the finance office and defaulting on the loan as it was more cost effective than continuing the EMI's |
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| ![]() I know for a fact that Swaraj Mazda still does that. Each vehicle is driven from their plant in Punjab to each dealer, which is almost 3000 km till Kerala. Not sure how other commercial vehicles are transported though. |
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| ![]() Most of the long chassis commercial vehicles are still transported via road. However in the recent times I do see Tata starbus/Mahindra Excelo and similar short chassis buses/vans and single cab models transported using trucks. I guess manufacturers also give their new customers an option to send your own driver to pick such big vehicles from the factory. I am not sure if such an option is available in the recent times. |
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I remember reading news articles back then of action against Citibank (or was it Standard Chartered?) for sending bouncers to the homes / offices of defaulters. | |
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