The year 2011 saw Mahindra & Mahindra make its much-awaited entry into the premium sports utility vehicle space with the launch of the indigenously developed XUV500. Though the SUV was priced higher than all its other passenger vehicles, consumers

Led by M&M and Maruti Suzuki, auto stocks have rallied over the past three months.

Mahindra Two Wheelers has announced its sponsorship with Rajasthan Royals cricket team for the 2013 edition of the Pepsi Indian Premier League.

Even as passenger car sales hit a decade-low mark in the last financial year, Maruti Suzuki managed to retain volumes with four of its best selling models claiming spots among the top five passenger vehicles sold in the country.

Upbeat from clocking a 40 per cent growth in the pick-up commercial vehicle segment last year, auto major Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) launched the Bolero Maxi Truck Plus in the Ahmedabad market on Wednesday.

Riding high on continued demand for its diesel-powered utility vehicles, Mumbai-based Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (M&M) has dethroned Bajaj Auto Ltd to become the country's second most valuable auto maker.

Faced with higher excise duty on its SUV models, homegrown auto major Mahindra & Mahindra today said it will be compelled to consider modifying its products to align with the new specifications for lower duty.

For the automobile (auto) manufacturers, April 2013 proved to be yet another difficult month. Most of the companies, excluding Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M), reported a year-on-year (Y-o-Y) decline in the volumes.

Three years after French automobile maker Renault broke ties with home-grown utility vehicle giant Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M), its Duster has dethroned the latter's Scorpio to become India's largest selling urban sports utility vehicle (SUV).

Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) is trading higher by over 2.5% to Rs 947 after reporting a 12.4% year-on-year (yoy) growth in total sales to 64,634 units for the month of April driven by a strong growth in the tractor segment.

Mahindra & Mahindra today reported 38% increase in its total tractor sales in April 2013 at 23,202 units on the back of improved market sentiments.

The company had sold 40,715 units in the same month in 2012, Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) said in a statement.

The work at auto-major Mahindra & Mahindra's engine manufacturing facility at Igatpuri, near Nashik, resumed today ending the 14-day "tools down" agitation by workers, who were protesting the suspension of two employees including a union

The two-week-long strike at Mahindra & Mahindra's engine producing unit at Igatpuri, Maharashtra is likely to be called off tomorrow.

A strike over the suspension of a union leader has crippled production at Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M)’s Igatpuri engine plant in Maharashtra. This has hit production of sports and other utility vehicles at other plants of the company.

Rexton, produced by SsangYong Motor, has climbed to the number 2 spot in the Rs 15-25-lakh sports utility vehicle (SUV) category in less than six months of its official launch in India. In the process, Rexton has raced past Ford Endeavour and Skoda Yeti.

The "tools down" agitation by workers of Mahindra and Mahindra's engine facility at Igatpuri near here entered the eighth day today, with both management and union refusing to budge from their stand, sources said.

Mahindra & Mahindra will launch its sub-four metre sedan Verito Vibe next month to take on the likes of Maruti Suzuki's Dzire and Honda's newly introduced model Amaze.

Mahindra & Mahindra started 1.6% lower at Rs 824 on account of labour unrest at its Igatpuri engine plant.

Mumbai-based utility vehicle major Mahindra & Mahindra said that the company experienced stoppage of work at its engine making plant in Igatpuri, Maharashtra.