is an R & D center for the automotive in-dustries for the whole of the Asiatic area, which will be based in Bangalore as soon as the cooperation between IKA Institute for Automobiles at the RWTH Aachen and the VTU has started.
Prof. Dr. Reddy, V.C. of VTU Bangalore, travelled to Aachen in June 2005 to get pre-discussions up to speed.
Why India?
The economical experts have no doubt at all that the positive market growth rates of India will continue in the future.
Economical experts prognostize for the automotive branches growth rates between 13.5 and 15% in the next years. In medium term, India will become the third strongest economical force in the world and will become in a few years time the second strongest in the Asiatic area after China. In 2005, the domestic markets are already as strong as those of Germany, France and the Netherlands together.
Who would have prognostized at the eve of the millenium that India would have an own automobile producing company within a time per-iod of four years? Today, these cares are being exported to Great Britain and soon to Europe mainland.
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Robots are welding sheet metals exactly to the mm. Most modern presses are punching hoods and mudguards, computer aided nozzles care for perfect paint qualities in closed chambers.
The machines are made in Germany, Japan and India caring for best qualities.
The automobiles are called Indica (deriving from India-Car) and are leaving the moving band in minute cycles and are today exported to Great Britain with success.
The European markets will be captured step by step with new products. „Tata, producer of Indica, is set-ting new signs for India's global rise“, says Subodh R. Majumdar, Head of Department of the German-Indian Chamber of Commerce in Delhi.
