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Honda has introduced Modulo Bodykit for the New Honda Civic Facelift that was launched recently in Malaysia.

Front lip, rear lip and side skirts and a Trunk spoiler costing a total of RM 5,000 (US $1,375) which you can package into your hire purchase loan. In addition, other than the package there are some other separate bits like an illuminated side step for RM 690 (US $190) and a trunk tray for RM 330 (US $91).

Mitsubishi’s latest offering in Indian market,The Outlander SUV is now available in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) too. Outlander was already available in major cities of India.

Skoda has given the 8-year old C-segment Skoda Octavia liftback (aeroback) and estate a much needed facelift, for release in 2009. The Octavia had never been taken care of by Skoda in the recent past, so this facelift can help Octavia to atleast stand up against stronger rivals like Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla Altis.

Honda recently made news with its massive price-cut on its Civic Hybrid, which was then taken back. Now, Honda plans to hike car prices across models starting from Rs 10,000 upto Rs 1.5 lakh with effect from January next year. The company blames the depreciation of the rupee against dollar and expensive raw materials.

During the launch of the new Chevrolet Tavera Neo-2 (Price Rs 9.58 lakh) today in Chennai, General Motors India announced that it will be introducing two car models by next year. General Motors India President and Managing Director Karl Slym said, “As of now we are working on it but we are expecting the cars to hit the market next year. Out of the two cars one may be in  [ Read More ]

A few months ago, we brought you spy pictures of the upcoming Suzuki Kizashi testing in the U.S, which you can view here. It looks like the Suzuki Kizashi could well be the next vehicle from Maruti after the upcoming A-Star and the Splash in India. Maruti is taking bold decisions after the immense success of its latest models-The Swift and the SX4. We expect the A-Star and the Splash  [ Read More ]

IAB in an earlier post, talked about the delayed release of Chevy Cruze. Here are more reasons for a much longer delay. In addition to the standard four-door sedan model that Chevrolet debuted in Paris, GM is now considering hatchback and wagon versions of its Cruze in order to “accommodate the ‘individuality’ of markets around the globe and to fill the rest of the range. Because of its global presence,  [ Read More ]