Archive for February, 2008
Posted on February 17th, 2008 by by admin
Looks, Interiors, Design
The first thing that strikes you about Swift even before you get into it and drive is its design. The styling is almost concept car like and in profile looks a lot similar to the Mini, especially the area around the front pillars. The styling is awesome with some interesting styling cues, like [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by by admin
Luxury german carmaker BMW have launched a new variant of its 3 series range in India. The new model christened 320d highline is priced at 30.7 lakh Rs Ex-Showroom Delhi.
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by by admin
Ford India has introduced a new lineup of its midsize sedan Fiesta at a starting price of 593,000 (ex-showroom Delhi).
The base varient now comes with a premium of over 5,500 over the earlier base varient of the car. The 1.4 ZXi is no longer available and has been replaced by the more powerful 1.6 ZXi [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by by admin
Chevrolet India has come up with the new pricing of their Small Car - 2008 SPARK.
The lower Variant with AC - Spark 1.0 which was priced at Rs.3,32,542 (Ex-showroom Delhi), after the latest price cut, costs around 2.89 Lakhs.
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by by admin
Reva Electric Car Company (RECC) will launch a new electric car by the end of the year 2008 and the company said it would launch one new vehicle and one variant every year from this year onwards.
Chetan Kumaar Maini, deputy chairman and chief technology officerof RECC said, “We will launch one new vehicle and one [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by by admin
The only other car which saw such rush and frezied interest was the BMW MINI when its was launched in 2001. The FIAT 500 has been a huge hit ever since it has been on sale. The car’s initial allocation of 4500 units has been lapped up by UK in just about 2 weeks! Dealers [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by by admin
A number of changes to both the Sporting and Technical Regulations have been made by the FIA for the 2008 Formula One season.
Traction and launch control
Traction control - systems which prevent the rear wheels spinning if a driver applies too much power - are no longer permitted. This will place more emphasis on driver skill [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by by admin
Maruti Suzuki Dezire aka Swift Sedan is coming in March.
The training program for the new car has already started. There is no word on pricing still, but we expect the new model to be close to Swift ZXi’s price which would be very competitive indeed. The car would be launched with the 1.3 Litre petrol [...]
Posted on February 8th, 2008 by by admin
Mahindra & Mahindra’s (M&M) next most important launch, the Ingenio, after the very successful Scorpio has been delayed by a few months. The car was scheduled to be unveiled at the Delhi Auto Expo in January but now will hit the market later as M&M is re-working its interiors and safety features. The company wants to be [...]
Posted on February 8th, 2008 by by admin
Force India launched their 2008 Formula One car named “VJM01″ on Thursday against the backdrop of the historic Gateway of India in Mumbai. The two drivers - Italian Giancarlo Fisichella (left) and Germany’s Adrian Sutil (right) - along with test driver Vitantonio Liuzzi were present at the launch. The Ferrari-powered VJM01 is the same basic [...]