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The Second Coming

At face value, pulling a rather well-performing brand off the production line and introducing something new (albeit better, but the customer never knows that up front, right?) in its stead must either seem very gutsy or very stupid. You wouldn't therefore be blamed if, when Honda SIEL and Hyundai yanked the Honda City and the Santro (respectively) off the roads, you credited the people who carried out such decisions with possessing either gonads of steel or brains of breakfast cereal. I sure did: in most cases with the latter. Well, as it turns out, they did know better, judging by the showing that the two cars made in the relaunches category at the Ninth Annual Business Standard Brand Derby.

The end of an era

It's official. The Qualis will shortly cease to (g)race the roads of India. It's replacement, the Innova is expected to be out within the next 6 months.

The Indian call-centre industry might need counselling for withdrawal symptoms.

Need I say more?

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Expect more josh

Some good news for fans of the blue oval. Ford seems like it'll come in all cylinders firing with the possibility of up to 3 new launches (yeah, one isn't enough) spaced over the rest of the year. Apart from the new edition Mondeo and the toppish-end, C-segmenter Focus, they might also bring a smile to the faces of those who swear by diesel with the launch of the Common Rail Direct Injection (CRDi) variant of their crossover, the Fusion.