This car should compete with certain variants of the Tata Nano. We’re keeping a close eye on it and this is among the many many updates we’ll provide you through the forthcoming months.
The VW Up! will be built in India eventually, and we even performed a case study to analyze what they could do with the platform. Now, AutoTelegraaf reports the electric version of the car will be released by 2013.
VW plans to sell 500,000 Up!’s a year and the variants have to plenty to achieve such a tall order. In India, the VW Up’s platform could have been used consistently before the electric car arrives.
By then Hyundai, Ford and the others would have also instituted their electric models in the Indian market.
Hybrid variants will also spawn out of this platform. A concept named Up! plug-in blue hybrid with an estimated range of 65 miles on battery power alone from 2007 is at VW R&D’s disposal.
The VW Up! will come by 2011 in petrol and diesel versions. Skoda will use the platform to roll out its small car, while SEAT‘s small car will also be born out of it.
Sources tell us the Skoda Laura, which will be launched in India on the 22nd 20th of this month, will be set free with the 1.8-liter TSI engine used on the Superb. Inside, the list of changes include a new dashboard, seat fabric and a 6-speed manual gearbox. Diesel variants and the vRS variants will follow suit, before the end of this year.
The Logan gets a new engine overseas while we are yet to see the facelift in India. The new 1.2 16v engine replaces the 1.4-liter MPI and delivers the power of 75 hp at 5,500 rpm and 107 Nm of torque at 4,250 rpm with a 15% better fuel economy.
The Fiat 500 is a cute cuddly thing and absent here on IAB for a while.
But it’s back on the front page. The station wagon version of the 500 which we brought up earlier has been rendered by our Australian mates at the motor report
When a car maker spends a few million on a car, he intends to make many times that over time. The Fiat 500 was a do or die car for Fiat and that doesn’t mean they’ll be happy selling that for the rest of their life.
The incidentally released the 500 Convertible, and now plans this one- A station wagon Fiat 500 with 4 wheel drive lifted from the Panda.
The Fiat 500 Station wagon is planned for next year. Four doors are too many for this little car, so don’t expect anything more than a longer wheelbase and a scattering of badges.
The Chevrolet Aveo U-VA’s successor was snapped while testing at the infamous Nurburgring. The Aveo utilizes the company’s Gamma 2 platform which is also common to the upcoming Spark.
Look closely and you’ll accept this is meant to function as a bigger Spark. The tail lamps, lines along the doors, wheel arches imply this is cut out to do the job of the Spark’s elder brother. The DNA is apparent.
Chevrolet will manufacture this car in India. In response to the period of dry sales GM is witnessing in the United States, it decided to boost production elsewhere on the globe, including India, and we predict this car should be in that list containing high-volume cars.
Expect the Chevrolet Aveo U-VA‘s successor in 2011. Expect to see the production version at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September this year.
The first ever production model was rolled out of Kvasiny plant in the Czech Republic yesterday. It was a 4WD model equipped with a 1.8-litre TSI petrol engine. A 2.0 liter TDI engine followed suite.
Sources inform us the Skoda Yeti would be produced in India by 2011. It could arrive in the country in the form of CKDs to be glued together at the company’s facility in Aurangabad and sold for around 10-lakh rupees.
click through for press release and high resolution off-roading shots of the Yeti
We’ve placed the Hyundai small car in the limelight not once, but twice here before.
What we did not know in both the occasions was the Hyundai small car, codenamed GB, will be sold with a 800cc engine and a 1.0-liter engine petrol engine.
Yeah, adjoin a diesel engine to that, reports Auto Express. How many cylinders and horsepower is however not known yet.
Reports also confirm Hyundai engineers from Korea and India are working closely in designing this car. Both the teams bond in Hyundai’s facility in Namyang (Korea) and in Hyderabad (India).
During the second half of 2010, this car will go on sale in India. Formerly, it was known that the Chennai plant where the i10 is made would be utilized for the small car, but after the recent labour issues in the plant, Hyundai might look at Russia or European countries for producing the car.
If you can put up with the orchestra playing in the background, this is as good as you’ll ever see it. The Porsche Panamera driving footage brings out the unmistakably crisp and fluent road presence it gathers once in motion and I needn’t work my brain to come up with exactly what I felt after I’m done watching the video.
And the final few seconds show the dashboard, central instruments, buttons and gauges. I think the finest German artists and sculptors worked full time with Porsche to create such an effect.
