India shouldn't prevent top tech from coming in: BMW head Vikram Pawah

In the recent past, BMW ran pilots in the country with i3 electric cars in various metro cities.

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Pavan Lall  |  Mumbai 

Six months after BMW India tragically lost its country head Rudratej Singh to a health-related fatality, Vikram Pawah, its new president, hopes to put the company back on track with the launch of the 2 Series, its entry-level sedan for the subcontinent.

In the luxury-car company’s first interaction in close to a year, Pawah, who is president of BMW Group India, Australia and New Zealand, and who had also run the firm earlier, dismissed the speculation that BMW was de-prioritising India as a serious market for its cars by deferring overall charge to an executive also running two ...

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First Published: Fri, October 16 2020. 06:05 IST
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