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Indian Autos Blog readers already know that we have spoken about the X3 being locally assembled on the X1 variant post last week. The X3 will handle 4WD duties, while the X1 will remain a 2WD crossover. If there is one German that just loves to bring its SUV’s in India, it has to be BMW. The company has launched almost its entire range of SUVs for the Indian Market.  [ Read More ]

Spied parked inside a building right here in India is the soon-to-be launched Volvo XC60 compact crossover SUV in RHD form, spied for the first time in India. The vehicle is to be launched in India by the end of this year and will go to head-to-head with rivals such as the BMW X3 and Audi Q5.

The car in the images is the D5 diesel variant, which has a 2.4-litre, twin-turbocharged diesel engine pumping out 205 PS of max power and 420 Nm of max torque. The car is also available with a 3.2-litre Naturally Aspirated petrol motor as well as a 3.0-litre turbocharged, six-cylinder petrol engine (T6). The car in the images also has a temporary Haryana registration plate.

The Volvo XC60 is based on the Volvo Y20 platform and is made at the Volvo plant in Ghent, Belgium. The car will be imported into India as a Completely Built Unit (CBU) and will be priced around the 40-lakh mark. The car could also be offered in a front-wheel drive version.

Thanks to our anonymous reader for sending us the first pictures of the Volvo XC60. You know who you are, and you must know we’re grateful to you!

BMW’s high-performance vehicles are used to serve the purpose of Police vehicles and joining that group is this BMW X3 xDrive 20d. BMW will unveil this car to the public at Geneva

The BMW X3 has been declared as the Most relaible vehicle on German roads for the second consecutive year.

The result is based on the evaluation of over 2 million cases drawn from German breakdown statistics as well as a customer satisfaction study conducted on 43,000 participants.

With an intention of strengthening its presence in the Luxury SUV segment in India, German Auto giant Audi plans to introduce its newly launched model Q5 January next year, along with an advanced version of its existing Q7 in the country. The Q5 is a comfortable 5-seater with an enormous boot. Unlike the Audi Q7 that shares its architecture with the VW Touareg, the Q5 is nothing like it, because  [ Read More ]