Indian Autos blog

The Petroleum Ministry of India has setup a committee to ensure that Euro-IV grade (BS IV equivalent) petrol and diesel will be commercially available in 13 major cities from April 1, 2010.

The 13 cities to get Euro IV grade fuels are Delhi & NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Surat, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Agra, Solapur and Lucknow; EURO – III grade fuels will be made available in rest of the country.

Relux is a popular German tuner in the U.A.E. Carjake informs us that Relux products have a demand in their country.

What Relux have done to the Mercedes Benz S-Class is not at all impressive. They have installed a new front wing with day time running LED’s which look cheap and out of place. The black alloys is the only thing that’s acceptable in this package.

The 2010 Hyundai Tuscon is production-ready and should be made official in one of the auto shows this year. The 2010 Hyundai Tucson is derived from the ix-onic concept, displayed at the Geneva motor show last month.

The SUV design falls in line of the Hyundai i cars, with cut windows, sharp lines and funny looking head lamps. All done to appeal to “multi-cultural” markets” as Hyundai claims.

The Mitsubishi Outlander GT which we rendered earlier, has had its wraps disposed at the New York Auto Show which began yesterday.

The EVO and the Mitsubishi Motors Outlander GT

Fact-The Mitsubishi Outlander GT‘s front resembles the EVO.

Nissan’s made it official. Nissan Pixo, the hatchback derived from the Suzuki A-Star manufactured exclusively in India, which was revealed alongside the A-Star at the Paris Motor show last year, will park inside Nissan showrooms across U.K from June 1.

The best bits of the Nissan A-Star Pixo are

• £5,995 starting price tag
• 64.2mpg fuel efficiency tag
• 103g/km CO2 emission tag

The BMW X5M and X6M are the latest offerings from BMW‘s performance division. Both the M’s have been testing in the U.S. Both the M’s have been the on the hot cars list of the year and that’s because they are the most powerful road going M’s yet.

The Nissan GT-R, Honda FCX Clarity, Volkswagen Golf and Fiat 500 took crowns in this year’s World Car of the Year awards at the New York International Auto Show yesterday morning.

Nissan GT-R- World Performance Car of the Year

The GT-R toppled the competition which had all its real and virtual world rivals- Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and Porsche 911 Carrera.

Looks might be deceiving. Shown in the picture is not a Skoda Octavia combi. This car being a test mule, wears a Skoda Octavia skin over an extended Skoda Superb chassis.