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Volvo Auto India recently announced that they have appointed a new MD, Tomas Ernberg for their domestic operations. Ernberg has been with the Swedish auto manufacturer since the past 17 years. He will replace current MD, Paul de Voijs.

Adrian Sutil, the Force India F1 Team driver, recently registered his best performance this season, as the driver managed to come in at the sixth position at the German GP on Sunday. The driver for the F1 India team began at the eight position on the grid and managed to gain 2 more places by finish, with a 1:26:208 lap time.

Audi has joined the race for launching the next gen SUV. While the Audi Q7 SUV was out testing in the winter, the spies have managed to snag a few photos of the mule. The changes are subtle from the current generation Audi Q7 V12 TDI.

Maruti Suzukirecently posted a gain in net profits of 18% for the quarter ended in June 2011. In spite of a slow growth in the Indian auto industry, the company managed to record net profits to the tune of INR 549.2 crore, a growth of 18% against the INR 465.36 crores that it posted in the corresponding quarter, last year.

Toyota Kirloskar Motor recently posted their sales figure for the month of July. The company managed to sell 13,592 vehicles last month, in comparison to the 6,834 vehicles it sold in the same period last year. The sales of the company increased by almost 99% in comparison to the sales growth in June 2010.

Audi India recently posted their sales performance for half the year. The company managed to sell a total of 2,802 cars in the January to June period, just a little lower than last year's total sales of 3003 cars, that is an increase of more than 100%.