The Oberoi Vanyavilas
Ranked 1st in world’s top 100 Hotels & Ranked 1st in Asia byTravel + Leisure, an American publication, for World's Best Awards, Readers' Survey 2010
Swimming Pool (heated in winters)
Billiards room
Boutique
Fitness tent, Spa and Yoga
Baby-sitting service and kids activities
Dry cleaning/laundry service (same day)
Conference room
Car parking
All major cards accepted
Currency exchange
Medical service (on call)
Bonfire at the Mango Orchard
Elephant Ride
Location & access
India's first luxury jungle resort, The Oberoi Vanyavilâs is located in Ranthambhore - Sawai Madhopur, in Rajasthan province in northwest India. The resort is 180 kilometers from Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, situated adjacent to famous Ranthambhore Reserve.
By air
The closest airport is Sanghaner airport in Jaipur, which is 180 kms and three and half hours drive from the hotel. Jaipur is well connected to New Delhi and Mumbai with daily flights operated by Jet Airways, Sahara Airlines and Indian Airlines. The flying time from Jaipur to Delhi is thirty minutes and from Mumbai to Jaipur is one hour and thirty minutes. Bon voyage!!!
Address:
The Oberoi Vanyavilas,
Ranthambhore Rd.
Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, India
TEL: 91-746-222-3999
TEL: (800) 562-3764
There was a period in the Indian auto industry, in the not so distant past, the vehicles from Maruti Suzuki were regarded to be the ultimate and no other auto manufacturer could match up to the sales figures of this company. However, the Indian auto market gradually became more competitive and with better launches combined with competitive pricing and slowly Maruti Suzuki started losing its domination in the market. Recent years have witnessed a hype concerning the Tata Nano. It has been positioned as a vehicle, which is being offered at a previously unheard price range starting from a shade above Rs.1 Lakh. Hence, one can easily identify the demand that this car was able to generate among a lot of families in India. The era of the Tata Nano had begun.
Now Bajaj has also entered this segment by launching a vehicle similar to the Nano, which it has named the RE60. The vehicle has, however, come with a slight change in aspects of design as well as features, but is going to be offered at almost an equivalent price as the Nano. This is a race in which all the three above-mentioned car makers are going to put sincere efforts to emerge triumphant. The article does a comparison between these two latest budget cars on offer now in the Indian auto market – The Tata Nano and the Bajaj RE60, in order to identify which one is going to have an advantage over the other.
The Nano has already become a very familiar car on the Indian not only been priced low, but also has a lower cost of maintenance. It also scores high in terms of fuel efficiency. This has made it become the most favorite budget car in India since its launch around two years back. It has been provided with the MPFI engine that is capable of offering a decent level of performance. The 624cc engine has been blessed with the capacity of generating a maximum power of 37Hp, which is quite Impressive for a small car. Mileage factor is also not something to worry about as the car offers much higher figures than most competitive vehicles. The car has been given a compact design and is accompanied with comfortable interiors along with the benefit of a great pricing. All these factors seem to indicate that the Nano has been born to dominate the Indian auto market.
(Ex-showroom price: NANO STD Rs. 1,50,000)
Tata Motors had asked about 70,000 Nano buyers to bring back their cars to the workshop to add fire safety devices, free-of-cost, after a series of instances of the car catching fire.
“The Nano is not a flop, but Tata Motors failed to capitalise on the early excitement surrounding the launch of the world's cheapest car” - Ratan Tata
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he Bajaj RE60, which has been the most recent entry into the Indian auto market, has been designed more in lines of being a vehicle for general transportation. However, it is still going to provide competition to the Nano. The fuel efficiency factor of the RE60 is excellent (it has offered 40kmpl under test conditions and a creditable 35kmpl on highways). Another factor that works in its favor is its low emission level, which is at 60g in one kilometer. The overall styling can be rated as above average and the brand name of Bajaj can work in its favor. The DTSi technology that it has been provided with will hold the RE60 in good stead. Overall, it can be rated to be a decent entry into the budget car segment and could provide good competition to the Nano.
The comparison of these two cars based on certain attributes :
Engine: The Bajaj RE60 has been provided with a DTSi 4 water cooled engine whereas the Tata Nano comes with a 2-cylinder, MPFI, 624cc engine. The Nano triumphs over the RE60 as far as the engine is concerned as it is able to offer a decent level of performance.
Power: The Tata Nano offers much superior peak power of 37Bhp as compared to the 20Bhp that the RE60 offers. Torque: The Nano has been able to record a peak torque of 51Nm@4000-4500rpm. Though the official figure of the RE60 is still being awaited, it is not expected to match up to the Nano on this aspect as well.
Peak Speed: The Nano has been provided with a peak of 105kmph, which easily overtakes the 70kmph maximum speed that the RE60 has.
Brakes: The Tata Nano has gone for drum brakes of 180mm for both its front and rear wheels. In comparison, the RE60 has offered disc brakes at its front and drum brakes at its rear wheels. For the variety provided to its brakes, the RE60 edges past the Nano on this aspect.
Car Dimensions: The Tata Nano is the bigger car having length 3.1m, width 1.5m and height 1.6m. The RE60 is comparatively smaller having length 2.7m, width 1.6m and height 1.3m. This provides another advantage to the Tata Nano.
Seating Capacity: Both the cars can accommodate 4 passengers; hence this is a criterion that can be best decided by the users as to who is the winner in this category.
Price: It does not look like that the two cars are going to have a huge difference as far as pricing is concerned. This comparison, however, cannot be made correctly till RE60 does not officially declare its price.
Safety Features: It has been rumored that Bajaj is going to provide the RE60with some advanced features of safety though the same has not yet been clarified in details. However, the Bajaj car is expected to have an advantage over the Tata Nano on this aspect simply because of the fact that the Nano does not seem to be a secure enough car.
Emission Norms/ Environment Friendly Nature: As has been mentioned above, the RE60 has been provided with highly improved fuel efficiency along with extremely low levels of CO2 emission. This has made the RE60 score over the Nano on this aspect.
“The core belief of the company was to provide better things at a faster rate to people. Hence, the company had come out with this optimized solution that would take care of passenger transport within a city” – M.D, Rajiv Bajaj
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THE VERDICT:
As per known parameters, Nano emerges as the victorious car, but one needs to wait and see how the production model of Bajaj RE60 performs post launch, on Indian roads, it could be the big game changer, and alter the way we perceive it…
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With expected sales of - 2.5 million passenger vehicles in FY11end, India’s passenger vehicle market ranks as world’s seventh largest; larger than markets like United Kingdom, France and Spain by volume - India has been one of the few markets globally to buck the recessionary trend and record a strong 25.6% volume growth in FY10. The growth momentum continues to be on track with first eleven months of FY11 registering a growth of 29.8% over the corresponding period in the previous year - Strong economic growth, rising disposable income levels, favourable demographics, easy financing environment and relatively low car penetration have been the prominent growth drivers for the industry.
In addition to strong domestic demand, India is well on its path of becoming a global production hub for small-cars. In 2009, it surpassed Japan to become the largest small-car market in the world, accounting for the sale of around 900,000 small-cars, as compared to 700,000 sold in Japan. India is also now the second-largest exporter of small cars, behind only Japan. In FY10, India shipped out nearly 450,000 vehicles, registering a CAGR (%) of 26% between FY06-10. Exports now form a considerable part of the Indian industry, accounting for 18.6% of the total PVs sold in FY10, compared to 7.3% in FY02, with small cars comprising over 90% of total passenger car exports in FY10.
Strong growth drivers augur favourable prospects for the Indian passenger vehicle market:
Steady economic growth and favourable demographic profile
Availability of finance at competitive rates
Relatively low-penetration levels favourable demand scenario from smaller towns - rural areas.
The Indian challenge:
Adding to the low-cost manufacturing capabilities, other factors that determine a country’s competitiveness in emerging as a global production hub include - an attractive domestic market, its government’s favourable trade policies, presence of an established and technologically-advanced component supplier base, an efficient supply chain and movement in exchange rates. In terms of cost competitiveness, India has built up the scale and significant competencies and cost advantages in the production of small cars. It benefits from lower development and labour costs, and improving auto component manufacturing base. However, poor infrastructure, resulting in higher logistics costs and changes in international duty agreements (i.e. FTA between Korea and EU) with competing manufacturing locations remain a significant factor in determining export potential from India. However, increased focus on fuel efficiency and international demand moving towards small-cars also augurs well for India. The industry is also witnessing a trend towards alliances or platform sharing in the exports segment.
Considering the auto makers’ quest for lower production cost, we expect India to compete increasingly with countries across markets that offer lower production costs and benefit from favourable government policies. Some of examples of nations that are likely to compete with India are Thailand and Indonesia (for exports to Asian markets), Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland (for European markets) and Mexico (for North American markets).
Interestingly, China which has emerged as the world’s largest automotive markets in the last decade is yet to establish itself as a global production hub, something that Japan achieved during the 1970s and South Korea in 1990s when these markets witnessed an upsurge in automotive production. In contrast to India, ownership restrictions in China make it’s less attractive for foreign OEMs to develop it as an export base – though China’s robust domestic market has attracted a large number of joint ventures and contributes to 50% of domestic capacity. However several local Chinese manufacturers are now fast acquiring global scale and skill levels and have aspirations to establish strong presence in the developed markets.
Competition rise in small car segment; high price small-cars:
The small-car segment had witnessed 11
new launches in the last three years (of which five were launched
in 2010) with major ones being Ritz, A-Star, Zen Estilo (from
Maruti Suzuki), i10, i20 (from Hyundai), Indica Vista (from Tata
Motors), Ford Figo, Chevrolet Beat, Polo (from VW) and Etios (from
Toyota). And. Honda (launch of Brio), and Toyota hatchback version
of
Etios.