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The key highlights of the legislation and its potential impact have been attempted to be catalogued.

Delhi Police, in a massive drive against loud motorcycles, has nabbed over 500 Royal Enfiled Motorcycles with loud exhausts that cause noise pollution. A video of the instance has gone viral on social media.

Foreign energy giants such as Saudi Aramco, Total and Trafigura could soon enter the Indian market with a major upcoming reform that the government is reportedly planning in fuel marketing.

The Nissan Kicks XE Variant has been launched in India at Rs 9.89 lakh (ex-showroom). It will be available as a diesel version and undercuts the current base XL variant by about Rs 1.2 lakh.

Official figures suggest that the 1.5-litre diesel engine in the Seltos will return a mileage of 18 kmpl in automatic-transmission model and 21 kmpl with the manual-transmission.

Mahindra sold 4464 units of the XUV300 that outsold the 4446 models of the Bolero with a narrow margin.

Passenger vehicles' production last month stood at 1,30,541 units as against 1,75,456 units in July 2018, a decline of 25.6 per cent.

In July 2019, MG sold a whopping 1,508 models of the Hector while Tata and Jeep managed to clock sales of just 740 and 590 for their models respectively.

Apart from the cosmetic tweaks, the bike is mechanically retained with its 220cc, single-cylinder, oil-cooled engine that produces 20 bhp and 18.5 Nm of torque.

Thickness tests in the Tesla Model 3 showed the paint job not being even and in some places averaging 106 microns, which is well below the industry range of 110-150 microns.

A culmination of high GST tax rates, farm distress, stagnant wages, and liquidity constraints, has led to a sales slowdown.

Maruti Suzuki which sold 5302 units of the Vitara Brezza, was pushed down to the second place by Hyundai, which sold 9585 models of Venue in July.

The liquidity crunch in non-bank financing, higher insurance costs and rises in taxation have served to increase the pressure on the car sector, with monthly auto sales falling by 17-20 per cent since April.

The 2020 Benelli TNT 600i has received a new design for the headlamp, a twin-eyed shape that looks different from the previous model, a sharply redesigned fuel tank, and sports an underbelly exhaust as well.

The CNG variant of the Maruti Suzuki Ertiga will be available for customers in VXI variant, offering a mileage of 26.20 km/kg.

The cut in GST rates could mean that the price of Hyundai's all-electric SUV could go down by Rs 1.5 lakh. However, no confirmation from the company has been out yet.