Indian Car Culture

- Fastest-growing car market in India -


Hello…

Nice to meet you guys again in class and Professor Sanghvi.

It is the first update of my blog for new CRS 481 class.

For this week, I tried to find an article, which is related with countries, China, India and Brazil.
I found an article from New York Times about a country, which is India.
During the last semester, Professor Sanghvi showed about India’s traffic jam without any signal on the road. In addition, during the first day of class Prof. Sanghvi said about the car company, Jaguar was sold to Indian company with financial problem. Those things made me to curious about the India, so I tried to find article about India to read and get many ideas about the car market in India.

Finally, I found an article from today’s New York Times newspaper, the title of the article is Indian Car Culture, which was so interested to me and I thought that I could get many ideas about the country. Through the news, I could know the country with culture and city life via the 10 different pictures from the New York Times.

To brief the article, now the India is one of the big emerging markets to introduce the car with low-cost cars to get attentions from the Indian people. As one of the fastest-growing car market, India is expected to pass China with great car sales in this year.

During this week, car expo was held in New Delhi and low-priced cars were introduced during the expo with great dollar spending on the promotion of the new cars.

According to the sales and use of cars in India, so many people got driver’s license last year. It represents that ingenuity of Indian and feat of bureaucratic efficiency.

Old city of Delhi is so crowded, especially during the rush hour. Therefore, police directly control the traffic in the morning. As the means of movement, Indian uses those kinds of things, pedicabs, bicycles, scooters, motorbikes, cars etc. In the morning, those different kinds of vehicles are come out to the old city of Delhi and causes serious traffic in there. Moreover, elephant is also adding traffic in the road.

It was interesting article from the New York Time. If you want to know more about the article, check those at http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/10/world/20080111INDIA_10.html