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Ph: + 91 44 2812 8051/ 52 For Private Circulation Only. 3 Chennai: The Detroit of India nce the pride of the British Raj Omainly for its educational, medical and business institutions, Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is today fast becoming the Detroit of India. Here, Matrix takes a look at some of the city’s auto majors and their contributions to its development. Chennai’s recent growth in the automobile sector has been phenomenal. More than $7 billion has been invested in the city’s automobile industry since 2006, making it the largest automobile 4 Chennai: The Detroit of India hub in the country, leaving Pune and and immediate access to a port that Delhi — the traditional automobile continues to attract investment to centres — far behind. the region,” says Kapil Arora, Head of automotive practice at Ernst & To get an idea of the growth, Chennai Young. accounts for 25 per cent of total sales of passenger cars in the country, While Chennai has had an ecosystem 32 per cent of production and a 69 of component makers since the per cent of exports. 1950s, thanks to the likes of Ashok Leyland and TVS Motors, the city’s What makes Chennai attractive to booming auto sector is also home auto manufacturers? to several new entrepreneurs. With “It is the incentives offered by the the growth of automobile giants Tamil Nadu government, coupled Hyundai and Ford in Chennai, these with an established auto ancillary ancillary industries have prospered hub, availability of skilled manpower and grown to several crores in sales. 5 Auto component manufacturers like Detroit of India Car-parts suppliers also are placing big bets on the city, formerly known Visteon, Delphi produce more than This Indian port city, built around as Madras. Tire company Michelin 25% of their components here. Also, a former British fort, in many ways SA and window maker Saint-Gobain the government recently set up one resembles Detroit circa 1910. of the biggest R&D centres in the SA, both of France, are setting The metropolis of about fi ve automotive sector, here. up some of their biggest factories million people is booming as scores globally in Chennai. Germany’s The story goes back to the days of international car makers and Daimler, meantime, is building a immediately after Independence, suppliers have set up shop. Ford multimillion-dollar test track. when entrepreneurs sowed the seeds Motor Co., Hyundai Motor Co., All the investment has generated jobs for auto components. The TVS, Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA, for more than 200,000 people and Amalgamations and Rane groups Daimler AG and BMW AG−all have accounts for 12% of the economic were among those who led the way converged here. output of the state of Tamil Nadu. in the development of a strong They are spending billions of dollars (The Wall Street Journal in July 2010) vendor base to support automobile to make Chennai one of the world’s manufacturers in India and abroad. biggest hubs of small cars for export Ford India This vendor base and Chennai’s as well as for increasingly affl uent Ford Motor Company announced seaport were major attractions when Indians. Soon, the city will turn out in May 2011 that it would invest an the auto sector was opened up for close to 1.5 million vehicles a year, additional $72 million in India to foreign investment in the state. more than any one U.S. state made expand capacity at its engine plant in (Based on a Business world feature) last year. Chennai. The expansion has become 6 total investment in India to over 300,000 units per annum, raising $1 billion. HMIL’s total production capacity to Chennaibest.com 600,000 units per annum. Hyundai India As HMC’s global export hub for compact cars, HMIL is the fi rst Hyundai Motor India Limited automotive company in India to (HMIL), a wholly owned subsidiary achieve the export of 10 lakh cars in of Hyundai Motor Company necessary following the brisk sales of just over a decade. HMIL currently (HMC), South Korea, is the largest Ford’s small car Figo in the Indian exports cars to more than 115 passenger car exporter and the market. The engine plant feeds not just countries across EU, Africa, Middle second largest car manufacturer in India but also select export markets. East, Latin America and Asia Pacifi c. India. HMIL markets 7 models of Thanks to the new investment, capacity It has been the number one exporter passenger cars across segments. of passenger cars of the country for the at the Chennai engine plant will go up sixth year in a row. HMIL has a 327 from 250,000 to 330,000 units per Hyundai Motor’s state-of-the-art strong dealer network and 690 strong year, an additional output of 80,000 manufacturing plant near Chennai service points across India, which will diesel engines. A third production boasts of some of the most advanced see further expansion in 2011. shift at the engine assembly plant will production, quality and testing Hyundai India website create more than 300 new direct jobs capabilities in the country. To cater to at the Chennai plant. The expansion rising demand, HMIL commissioned Daimler India is due to be completed by mid-2012. its second plant in February 2008, The market for commercial vehicles This latest tranche will bring Ford’s which produces an additional in India is set to see new action as 7 Dr Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the in January, and is an India specifi c Board of Management of Daimler car, which will not be produced AG & Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, in another market. This car will Andreas Renschler, Head of Daimler compete in the same space as VW Trucks and Daimler Buses; and Marc Polo and Maruti Swift. Llistosella, Managing Director and According to the company’s CEO of Daimler India Commercial VP-Marketing and Sales, Len Vehicles, unveiled the BharatBenz Curran, the engine facility will be brand at the production location in launched and be operational by Oragadam, near Chennai. April. He added that the facility “We are sending a clear message would have an installed capacity of more than 100,000 engines a year. Daimler, the world’s biggest truck with our new truck brand: Daimler maker by sales, unveiled an all-new is at home in India. Our BharatBenz The forthcoming hatchback brand “BharatBenz” as it invested trucks are the right combination of from Renault is developed on the Rs 4,400 crore for a factory here, Daimler’s DNA and India’s market V-platform and will be available in near Chennai. know-how. These trucks will be both diesel and petrol variants. This developed and built in India, for car will be among three products that Daimler joins other global biggies India, and by specialist employees Renault plans to launch next year, like Sweden’s Volvo, Germany’s from India,” said Dr Zetsche. marking the start of more serious Man and America’s Navistar, all of Times of India and manufacturing in India. whom have already set foot in the Daimler India website www.indiandrives.com Indian market. Daimler, the world’s largest manufacturer of medium- Renault India Nissan India and heavy-duty trucks above 6 tons, Renault India’s manufacturing plant Nissan Motor India began production unveiled its exclusive new brand of in Chennai for making engines of the Sunny sedan at the Oragadam trucks for the Indian market. The will begin operations by April plant in August 2011. brand BharatBenz will offer Indian 2012. These engines are part of the This is Nissan’s second car to be customers an entire range of trucks company’s localisation process for completely made in India and from 6 to 49 tons across various their small new hatchback. This car the second car to roll out of the applications. is scheduled to hit Indian markets V-Platform. 85% of the vehicle is localised, out of which 40% is sourced from Chennai.