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Maruti Suzuki, India's largest car manufacturer recently posted their sales figures for the month of June. Last month, the company saw its sales decline by 8.8%, selling around 80,298 units in comparison to the 88,091 units it sold in June, last year. The company's domestic sales fell by 3.8% from 72,812 units to 70,020 units.

Tata Motors recently filed an amendment to their earlier petition in the Singur land case on Monday that included new developments and facts that were not included in the earlier petition that was filed June 22. The earlier petition filed by the company before the Calcutta HC had challenged the Singur Land Act 2011s constitutional validity.

Toyota recently announced that they will be launching their much awaited hatchback, Etios Liva on June 27. The company has reduced the wait period by a month.

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.

GM has established a venture capital unit back in June last year with a fund of $100mn for investing in technologies related to auto. According to recent reports, this venture capital has invested a further $7.5mn in Sunlogics Inc., a solar energy company that will make an investment of $30mn for opening their factory and global headquarters in Rochester Hills.

Utility manufacturer, Mahindra & Mahindra recently posted a growth of 7.56% in their net profits for the June 30 ended quarter, with a standalone net profit of IRN 604.88 crores, boosted by good measures for expenditure control and good sales. In the same period in 2010, the company had posted net profit as INR 562.39 crores.

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%.