When you plan to buy a car you always consider the Indian Brand name first?

Dear Abhishek,

The statement "Consider" is significant only to those who have to apply mind before a decision for whatever reason including of course the money and ease of spares and maintenance. The past record of some companies that came and left the customer groping for maintenance or not customizing to Indian conditions are important factors put to thought by those who consider.

For the other class it does not matter to order replacement from country of original make or even send out for repair if so wished. And in answer to till when we remain in protected..... the answer is till we get serious with our pursuits and start to invest in R & D and innovation and stop to weigh everything from" What will I gain?" angles alone. 

It is as well a truth that there is no automobile completely Indian if taken on technological assessment as Mr Kandadai expressed.

exactly, u r bingo.

till when we would remain in protected environment, Sanjay gandhi made change by bringing Maruti India before we had only two choice fiat and ambassador, same thing happned to maruti-- when we opened market for foreign players,

thats why maruti change models to zen and estello , swift  new models compare to serve India by maruti 800 for 10 years. So let be thankful for open market and see every car and co on its merit rather than its country

its true if we are talking about smalls cars

Majority of Indians believe in numbers. The more the merrier is our thought process. So when you decidedly gift money (Rs. 50 Lacs) any person like me would go and buy 5 different marutis rather than half a BMW (as that would be the available car from the money you gift).

What would be the thought behind this is the fact that there would not be any money keft to buy fuel for the car and only a half one at that :)

Be real my friend. Todays world has the people who need to marked by the things they use and yet have a host of fueal efficient fleets at their disposal. Creating an ebvironment of niche is diff than being REAL!!

Dear Abhisherk.

By your definition my first car was a FIAT made by Premier Automobiles... was it Indian... I can not say but asides Ambassdor in similar category there were no choices. We in India believe in COPY PAST at best so expecting R & D and true indigenous is quite some distant in future I guess.

WHY WASTE ENERGY IN REINVENTING THE WHEEL? thought  is most Indian....am happy the one who made it round from square did not agree with our views.

Dear Abhishek,

Pardon, me but which " diff" is for different and which one for difficult?

Obviously the talk I am sure is in relative terms and to compare RR with Indica was never the intended intent, I feel.

Most definitely!!

I have complete confidence in our auto manufacturing abilities and I am sure so do a lot of others in India. I am a big fan of Maruti Zen and also noe with the M & M Scorpio. Tata Safari was also one of my favs at one time :))

today indian brands are too competing equally with global brands like toyota,honda etc..not many people can afford for global brands' cars there are many resons for that which could be on-road price of the car, availability and cost of spare parts etc., in which case indian cars are the best..also most of the cars produced by these global brands are high end cars. and the most important problem in most of the indian cities is the parking problem, while the cars manufactured most  by honda are sedans, toyota manufactures SUVs which poses not only parking problems also consumes more fuels.  Indian roads need small cars which consumes less fuel compared to other cars and give adequate mileage,whish are best produced by Indian companies TATA, MARUTHI.etc

I personally welcome the entering of global brands in the automobile field because, it will make the competition stiffer and as a result customer get the best product and best service. Before the entering of global brands, we were stuck with the cars that are not at all ergonomic and comfortable as now. We enjoy riding Indian brands because it is a blood relation with them, they know what we need and has a good reputation in our mind. Low priced spare parts, highest no: of service centers and ultimately reliability. We can let them serviced in the local workshops without a problem. 

In case of global car makers, they have excellent technologies that our brands lagging in. But it not only ends there, the ride & built qualities are sometimes good too. But it won't give them any upperhand against our brands. Indian brands are making the best in performance in the world. TATA brought Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford. The world's cheapest car was made by an Indian company. Maruti now creates designs for the Suzuki. Mahindra is getting recognized by the whole world, which now deals with all the automobile sectors like 2,3,4 wheelers and heavy trucks. Their reliability is higher than any other foreign company and it is the one we should look after.

If we didn't saw the good side of our companies and praise them, then who will do that Japanese or the Americans.? Think ...

Global brands are like dance tracks which keeps on changing. initially they look good but soon you become bored. when it comes to overall perfomance like regular maintainance, fuel efficiency & others, Indian brands are far ahead. Spare parts, service centres can be easily located for indian brands.i will always go for the indian brands.

yes, i will support this side. Infact the first name is Maruti. One reason for that is because of the contrywide sevice centres, their dedicated 2x7 call centres. From my personnel experience I got assistance at midnight on my way back to home.