Will Chevrolet Spin Survive the Demanding MPV Segment?

With Chevrolet confirming the launch of Spin MPV, the segment competition comprising of some marathon players is sure to get intense. It has been quite some time that Chevrolet have tasted success with its product, instigated in or around the last couple of years. The American manufacturer has brought products like Enjoy MPV and the last being the facelift given to Sail U-VA and Sail Sedan. But Enjoy failed to pull volumes and so is the case with the other two. To cope up with this limbo, Chevy has planned to bring in two new vehicles one is the SUV Trailblazer by this year end and the other is the MPV Spin, in 2016.

This said, lets take the vehicle segment with the largest number of flop cars, yes, the MPV sector. First it was Maruti’s Versa, then Nissan’s Evalia/Ashok Leyland Stile, and then we had Chevrolet bringing in Enjoy that met with the same fate. Besides, there were champs like Toyota Innova (undisputed for past ten years), Maruti Suzuki Ertiga and the Mobilio. All the unsuccessful vehicles mentioned above were more than capable of winning with their long list of features. But it seems that this segment demands more than these, may be it want them to look good as well.

Chevrolet Spin which is planned to make debut here next year could be a strong contender. Reason, it looks good for an MPV, massive to be precise. Though nothing is clear about the Indian spec version, looking at the Spin that is on sale in other Asian countries (doing good) like Philippines, Thailand, etc, it may work fine for India as well.

In Philippines, Spin is powered by a 1.3 litre multijet diesel engine that is running most of the successful cars in India like Swift, Dzire, Zest, etc. Therefore, it is most likely that we will also get this mill. Since it is a 1.3 diesel it will drink less fuel, I reckon, making its mileage close to or over 22kmpl, and we are happy with that!