Indian Autos blog

Dear Indian Autos Blog visitor,

In a bid to transform the site to suit our international audience, who have grown substantially in number, Indian Autos Blog is going through a few changes in terms of looks and features. We have been working on this over the weekend and will return back to posting in full throttle in the afternoon hours of today.

So until then, you might want to surf our older posts or go through our extensive coverage on the Tata Nano.

If you have a love for the engine, the word Multijet should make your heart beat faster. Well, it’s the award winning engine that’s doing all the thermodynamics under the bonnet of the Swift, Palio, Indica Vista and 500. GM could use this engine in the future, and all of the Indica’s and Indigo’s in the future will latch on to this technology, not to mention the ever-enlarging Fiat line up.

A technology that will compliment Fiat’s already-fuel efficient engines, has been introduced by Fiat at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. It’s termed Multiair technology is similar to a VTEC or VVTi, which deals with variable valve timing for better engine response and lower fuel consumption/emissions.

Scoop! Autocar’s spy photographers have caught a heavily disguised next generation Jaguar Xj undergoing testing. It is understood that the XJ is just a few weeks from being unveiled and scheduled for the market in 2010.

Porsche has a whole line-up of highly successful models. So apart from just preparing its existing models for facelifts and replacements, you might be thinking that Porsche is just idle. In fact, that is a big NO.

We had a sole image of the Fiat Grande Punto Abarth “esseesse” last week when its presence was confirmed at the Geneva Motor Show. Now though, we have a lot more images and details of this scintillating hatch.

Suzuki, as per their earlier announcement, brought out two of their small cars to the Geneva Motor Show. But don’t be fooled thinking they are similar to the cars you see on the road as they have fuel saving technology, debuting under their hoods.

The Start-Stop technology, which slips the engine into stand-by mode when waiting at the lights, is incorporated in the Suzuki Splash and Alto (A-Star to Indians) shown at the Geneva Show this year. They are distinguished from the regular cars by decals which read their sub-100 gram carbon dioxide ratings.

The Mercedes Benz SLK looks close to a little brother to the SLR super sports car, and spending on after-market accessories, will only bridge the gap.

This is the another highly talked about tuned Porsche Cayenne after the Mansory-tuned Cayenne Turbo S, which we showcased earlier in the week. This is Porsche Cayenne’s individualization tuning program by TECHART Automobildesign GmbH