EXCLUSIVE: Cost pressures and deadlock force Honda to rework India strategy, sources say ↧ ↧ EXCLUSIVE: Cost pressures and deadlock force Honda to rework India ... Honda Motor aims to cut costs by as much as a fifth and halve development times under its new partnership ​in India with Tata Technologies , according to two people familiar with the matter, as pressure from rivals forces the Japanese automaker to rethink its go-it-alone approach.