Making sense of facelifts, updates and all-new cars | Deep Drive Podcast | Autocar India

Manufacturers are very liberal in labelling their cars as 'new', sometimes even years after the model's original launch. Hormazd Sorabjee - Editor, Autocar India - and Sergius Barretto - Managing Editor, Autocar India - discuss the different phases of a product lifecycle in this episode of the Autocar Deep Drive Podcast powered by Kotak Mahindra Prime.  

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:24 https://www.autocarpro.in/news/exclusive-nine-months-on-indias-smec-policy-for-electric-car-manufacturing-remains-stalled-124039
• 3:55 Platform change
• 8:46 Volkswagen's approach
• 10:10 Tata's approach
• 15:30 Mahindra's approach
• 16:16 The most expensive facelift
• 16:45 Honda's approach
• 17:41 Mahindra and SsangYong
• 18:14 Maruti's approach
• 20:30 Facelifts and model year updates
• 24:07 Extending life cycles
• 25:45 Toyota's approach
• 29:40 Engine life cycles
• 32:00 Future Volkswagen and Skoda models
• 33:15 Future Nissan models
• 34:06 Updates in an electric world