News of the week - Chevrolet Sail Launched

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Chevrolet Sail launched – interesting week

This week we had witnessed the launch of the Chevrolet Sail, one of the few hatchbacks that got launched this year. The Sail is available with 1.2-litre petrol and 1.3-litre diesel engine. To read about the car read further. This week, Ford also inaugurated its first Quicklane service station. Here the customer can see his vehicle being serviced and even speak to the technician as he services the car. The idea is to improve the transparency for the customer, as he will know what all changes are done to his car.

Following are the other major happenings in this week:

Maruti Suzuki working on a new SX4

Maruti Suzuki, past the recent launch of Alto800, would dedicate in stylizing SX4 a new, while planning for its showroom display some where in coming years' first quarter. SX4 has been dull performance-wise, compelling the car giant to strategize the sales, by new designs, challenging this would be the fact that sx4 lovers desire specific price bounds. Not to mention India has been the perfect market for rolling the brand's automobiles, the target would not be lot difficult to hit.

Buoyed by poor sales Maruti stops Kizashis' import, offers Rs.5 lakh discount

Maruti Suzuki India, which is known for its entry level cars in India and has been an unbeatable one so far, however when it comes to the upmarket segment, the Japanese company has been so lucky. Maruti Kizashi, the high end contender from Maruti's stable, was launched 18 months back has not been able to capture eyeballs translating into poor sales and forcing the company to put a halt to the import of the vehicle. Apparently, Maruti is also offering Rs.5 lakh of a discount on the manual variant of the premium sedan and Rs.5.5 lakh on the automatic one.

Chevrolet Sail U-VA Hatchback vs Competition- CarDekho Exclusive

The much awaited, Chevrolet Sail U-VA hatchback is finally here, General Motors India today launched the vehicle in India's fastest growing segment. The Sail U-VA has come out in a total 7 variants- four petrol (Base, LS, LS ABS and LT ABS) and three diesel (LS, LS ABS and LT ABS) in a price bracket of Rs 4.44 lakh-5.57 lakh and Rs 5.87 lakh-6.92 lakh (ex-showroom, Mumbai) respectively.

2013 Renault Fluence Facelift Unveiled: Images & Details

The French automaker Renault that revealed the official images of the 2013 Renault Fluence facelift a day back, has today unveiled the vehicle at the 2012 Istanbul Motor Show. Besides the European market, the vehicle will also be launched in other 55 countries next year, so we can expect the vehicle to come in India as well, that already has the earlier generation Renault Fluence.

Honda Brio Sedan; Pictures and Details Revealed

With the Honda Brio AT launch out of the way, India is expecting the Honda Brio sedan, codenamed 2TP, to come out sometime in early 2013. Now we have some fresh pictures for our readers from the Brio sedan testing in Thailand where Honda invited media persons to take a look at the vehicle. We’ve received plenty of information some new, some old about the sedan to share with our readers.

Tata Aria Mini in the Making; to Rival Ertiga and Quanto

The Indian auto giant, Tata Motors which has recently launched the price-cut version of its flagship crossover, the Aria LX is also working on a compact version of the similar vehicle, however the launch is still a year away. Entry of the Maruti Suzuki Ertiga into the fast growing compact utility vehicle segment has no doubt changed the dynamics of the Indian automobile market, and that has been the reason why most automakers either have launched or working on the compact versions of their existing vehicles.

Fords QuickLane in detail

So what is Ford’s Quicklane all about? We all have heard and read about the inaugural of a new service station in Bengaluru on Monday, but many of us aren’t sure of what does it do exactly. For this purpose, we had a quick chat with Mr. PK Umashankar- VP, Customer Service Operations, Ford India Private Ltd and John Cooper, Executive Director, Ford Customer Service Division, Ford Asia Pacific and Africa.

Audi Q9 Render Speculations

Audi has started work on releasing the new Q9 by 2014 which will replace the existing Q8 as the king of the Q series. The Q9 will be based on the extended next-gen Audi Q7 platform and will reach a total length of 5.15(-meters. That’s bigger than both the Range Rover and the Mercedes GL!

Assembled in India Mercedes-Benz ML350 and GL-Class to Launch in 2013

The Luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz that rolled out the locally assembled ML250 CDI on 10th October, 2012 at a price of Rs 46.5 lakh (ex-showroom, New Delhi), has now officially said to locally assemble the ML350 and GL-Class at its Chakan facility with an objective to make them more affordable buy in India. While the assembly of ML350 is likely to start in next 2-3 months, the GL-Class' local production will begin in later 2013, most probably in the second half. The company will also start assembling the SUV in two other South East Asian countries- Thailand and Indonesia.

Skoda Removes Discount on Fabia; Lowers Discount rate on Rapid, Laura, Superb and Yeti

While most automakers are offering freebies and goodies to lure customers during the festive season, Skoda Auto India has announced to cut all discounts on its flagship hatchback, Fabia, along with reducing the discount margin on the company's other cars including Rapid, Superb and the Yeti.

Mahindra Reva NXR is now Reva E2O, Launch by November end

Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles Pvt Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of the Indian auto giant, Mahindra & Mahindra is all set to launch its first four-seater electric vehicle, the E2O by the end of November 2012. Earlier known as Reva NXR now has been officially christened as "E2O" as per the company's trend of ending its vehicle's name with alphabet "o", e.g. Scorpio, Quanto, Verito and others.

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