Maruti has two car manufacturing plants--Gurgaon and Manesar in the northern state of Haryana.
"There's a global decline in car manufacturing and we're feeling the effects, " he said.
Dr Allwood added that the same thing could be said of car manufacturing.
They may not have the same romance associated with the car manufacturing, but the jobs they provide are just as real.
The crisis in the steel industry has been caused by the downturn in the two main markets, construction and car manufacturing.
"We are not talking about Rover's return here, we're not talking about the return of mass car manufacturing, " said Mr Burdon.
Yet, Peugeot apart, British car manufacturing is flourishing these days (see chart).
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TBM, a manufacturing consultancy based in North Carolina, it is the truck industry that is successfully showing how to disintegrate car manufacturing.
Car manufacturing rose 10.7% in August compared with the same month last year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
The research demonstrates the latest advances in 3D printing technology, which is already in use in medicine, fashion, car manufacturing and other industries.
Landi Renzo sets up shop near car manufacturing plants and installs CNG technology into the cars as they roll off the assembly line.
Selling into the retail market rather than the car manufacturing market, they come with operating margins double those of Allied's other auto parts businesses.
Some are worried that this set-up is hampering investment in the region, as well as causing problems for cross-border industries such as car manufacturing.
Many automobile pioneers were former bike mechanics, Henry Ford and William Hillman among them, and bicycle companies that converted to car manufacturing include Bianchi, Peugeot, Opel, Morris, Rover and Humber.
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Italy is the fourth largest European economy and for long enjoyed one of the highest per capita incomes in Europe, despite the decline in traditional industries such as textiles and car manufacturing as a result of globalisation.
Eventually the organisation of car manufacturing may begin to resemble production in the consumer-electronics industry, where the adoption of industry-wide standards (along with de facto standards, such as the Intel microprocessor) has enabled suppliers to become highly specialised.
To some extent this does depend upon the over capacity or not in the car manufacturing industry but believe me, the way things have been this past couple of decades a buyer looking for tens of thousands of cars a year can pretty much write his own price.
You can't treat farming like a car-manufacturing plant and expect that it will produce anything great to eat.
You can't have a car-manufacturing sector without sub-contractors, for example, and once the big plants close the volumes don't make economic sense any more.
But nowadays the number of textile workers in South Carolina is shrinking rapidly, as car-manufacturing and tourism take a bigger role in the state's economy.
The factory offers a walk through car-manufacturing history, much of which Toyota has written, and whose successful methods the world's automakers--and other manufacturers--have rushed to adopt.
What's the environmental impact of building a new car and of manufacturing nickel metal hydride batteries that many hybrids use?
Sales-wise, Volt has continued tacking to and fro depending on how many of the car GM is manufacturing and, especially, how well the company is doing in meeting the strong demand for a California-ized, car-pool-lane-eligible version of the plug-in hybrid that was introduced last year.
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Opel has said it will end car production at its Bochum manufacturing plant in Germany in 2016 after production of its Zafira Tourer car ends.
It later moved into manufacturing and car dealerships, acquiring the right to represent GE in Thailand and the franchise for Mazda.
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By 2012 ten of the world's biggest car companies will be manufacturing up to 1.6m vehicles a year in Russia, with a large components industry growing up around them.
Increased manufacturing and growing car ownership among Chinese citizens suggest rising demand on the horizon.
He was in power when Iran in the late 1960s began manufacturing the Paykan, a car modelled on the British Hillman Hunter.
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The strength of the pound is being blamed for the failure of the Rover car company and the troubles of British manufacturing.
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