The CarWale Daily Fuel - June 2, 2012

• Car sales have taken a hit in the simmering summer heat as Maruti Suzuki sales drop 4 percent, Ford drops 14 per cent while Gemenral Motors India loose 27 per cent year on year.
• Despite the slow numbers of car sales in this financial quarter, companies like Nissan, Mahindra and Audi have grown 98 per cent, 28 per cent and 10 per cent if the sales figures of May 2011 are considered.
• The Nissan success story is driven by the Sunny and Micra. The two models sold 3138 units together as compared to Nissan sales of 1588  units in May 2011.
• Ford's facelifted Figo was spotted testing by people in Chennai. Prima facie the headlamp-taillamp design has changed along with minor changes in the bodywork.
• Keshub Mahindra, founder of Mahindra conglomerate, will retire as the chairman and the Managing Director of M&M Ltd to be the chairman emeritus of the Rs 35000 crore group of companies from August 2012. The company has already chosen Mr. Anand Mahindra as the new leader of the business house.
• Toyota is still not come to a decision over diesel engine production plant in India. They expect the government to deregulate diesel soon so that they can work around their forte, small petrol engine cars.
• Rendered pictures and some details of the new XC90 from Volvo have surfaced on the Internet. The new XC looks stunning and will be built over the Scalable platform architecture (SPA) which will be the base for future XC60, S60 and S80 models.
• We had mentioned about Jaguar's 3-series rival some time back. The rendered images of the concept can now be viewed on the internet. The striking baby XF would certainly give the Germans a nice chase.
• For all those who saw at the low slung and fat track i20 and said 'Hmmm, that would make a good rally car!', Hyundai is planning to come back to the World rallying riding a special WRC spec i20. we expect that at least now Hyundai will get cues about how to make a comfortable and capable car talk to the driver.
• Mclaren MP4-12C will be available in its convertible avatar. Though Mclaren has not named it yet, they are making a three-piece folding hardtop roof that will trick its entry between the seats and the engine before you know it. Developed in conjunction with Webasto, the convertible is sure to nick some names of the future waiting lists of the Gallardos, 911s, 458s or DBSs for sure.

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