Aref Ali

Representatives of PAAPAM (Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts and Accessories Manufactures) met with Khizar Hayat Gondal who is the Federal Secretary Industries discussing the concerns over the new…

Only recently we heard the news that two of the Pakistan’s Big Three automakers, Toyota Indus Motors and Pak Suzuki Limited had taken a stay order against the new Pakistan Auto Policy 2016-21. The legal order…

The Sindh chapter of All-Pakistan CNG Association threatened to go on a province-wide strike after having an altercation with the deputy director OGRA for Karachi, Altaf Shah. The association has now withdrawn…

The association of CNG station owners in Pakistan announced that the CNG station in Sindh would be going on a strike until further notice. All-Pakistan CNG Association revealed that the CNG filling stations…

When the new Civic 2016 was launched, it was quite a surprise for the worldwide auto community. The new car was nothing like what Honda had offered before. And Toyota being the direct competitor of…

Honda Pakistan launched the fifth generation Honda City back in the January of 2009. The car has been in production for almost seven and a half years now. That’s a long time for any Honda car to be in…

Lately, we have been talking a bit more about the bike and generally bikes in Pakistan here on our blog. They are a big part of our auto industry, and it’s only fair we include them in our discussion here on…

Diesels were quite a trend once. A decade or so ago, everyone was after a diesel car. Back in the school, I remember a friend going to Peshawar with his father for a diesel engine swap in his 1988 Toyota…

Motorcycles are a big part of Pakistani auto industry. Last year a record number of motorcycles were sold in the 12 months of the fiscal year 2015-16. PAMA reported sales of 1,358,643 units of motorbikes in…

Pak Suzuki saw some incredible sales during the Punjab government’s taxi scheme. Both Ravi and Bolan were sold in thousands of thanks to the Green Taxi Scheme. But sooner or later, the scheme would have ended,…

Cars have been imported to Pakistan in large numbers lately. Although the sales of locally produced cars in last fiscal year shattered all previous records, the imports were as high as ever as well. The sale of…

We often talk about cars and how their sales and imports have increased in these past few years. But we often forget about the motorcycle market. Motorcycles are just as important an automobile just as cars.…

The latest auto policy will soon be showing its effects on the Pakistani auto sector. The policy is quite generous for the foreign investors. Only last year, representatives of auto companies like Volkswagen…

For quite some time now, we only had Suzuki Bolan as a people carrier/loader kind of vehicle in Pakistan. Like Mehran, Ravi and Bolan have been under production for more than a decade now. There was no other…

Honda Atlas has been riding on the hope that the new 2016 Civic will help them get out of the slump. Their sales haven’t as such declined, but when you compare the percentage growth with other automakers, Honda…