For those who are waiting for the diesel powered Tata Nano, this news is not the best for you as the company plans to bring the oil burner only after they bring a more powerful petrol engine in the world’s cheapest car. Currently the Tata Nano is powered by a twin-cylinder engine and the company plans to launch a 3-cylinder petrol engine in the Nano which brought India on the world map for developing the most affordable car in the world. The 3-cylinder Nano will produce around 60-80 BHP of power, which is almost double than what the current Nano produces, giving a spring in the Nano’s steps. [click to continue…]
Honda has launched the 2012 edition of the CBR250R, which is available in a new pearl heron blue tri-colour. The company has not revealed any details of improvement in plastic quality or revision of the ECU maps for better performance and higher fuel efficiency. This new colour on the Honda CBR250R is available for a premium of Rs. 1000/-, which is worth the amount considering the awesome colour that it is. Honda will certainly not release a statement saying the 2012 edition of the CBR250R has better quality plastics as the company would not want to make it obvious about the quality issues faced by some of the CBR250R buyers. The CBR250R is priced between Rs. 1.44 lakhs to Rs. 1.70 lakhs (ex-showroom). [click to continue…]
In recent times, the SUV segment has seen a phenomenal growth in the Indian auto market. With such a huge rise in demand seen, all the car manufacturers didn’t waste any time to bring in their SUV offerings to the Indian market. of the many SUVs launched in India, the 3 main that garnered lot of attention were the Mahindra’s XUV500, Tata Motors’s Safari Storme and Force Motors’s Force One. But which is a better contender of the three. Let us find out with a quick comparo. The Mahindra XUV500 is powered by a 2.2 litre mHawk CRDi engine that produces 140 BHP of power at 3750 RPM and 330Nm of torque at 1600 RPM. [click to continue…]
Bajaj Auto has increased prices of spare parts for its bikes. There has been no official announcement on the same and owners who have been getting their bikes serviced for quite some time now can testify the same. The prices of the fairing, tank, side panels, silencer and clip-ons have shot up by Rs. 200-300, while service consumables including air/oil filter, spark plugs, cables, coils, cone sets, brake pads see a slight increment of Rs. 10-20. With increase in input costs, the prices of parts will also become expensive but such a high percentage increase will not be taken well by consumers. [click to continue…]
You must have seen 2 wheelers with 2 wheels and 2 wheelers with 4 wheels (3 wheels at the back) but I am sure you might not have seen something like this! The scooter you are seeing is from the Italian 2 wheeler manufacturer, Piaggio and is called the MP3. It’s a 3 wheeled scooter with 2 independently sprung and tilting wheels at the front, one of the key elements that make this scooter very different from the other conventional scooters and its overwhelming success with over 100,000 MP3 scooters sold worldwide. The Piaggio MP3 has a very distinctive styling with a dual headlamp arrangement at the front and a hefty structure. [click to continue…]
The iconic Indian motorcycle maker, Royal Enfield is consistently seeing a growing demand of its motorcycles and in response to such an overwhelming demand, the company plans to ramp up its production capacity to make up for the increase in demand and reduce the waiting periods. And that is not all from the company’s side. It also plans to expand its dealership and service network to many locations all over India to increase the brand presence in the country. [click to continue…]
The German auto giant, Volkswagen has got big plans to become the largest automobile manufacturer in few years beating the likes of its competitors like General Motors and Toyota who are presently at the Number 1 and Number 2 spots. To achieve such targets Volkswagen is making a slew of changes in its product development strategy. One such is the introduction is the introduction of its latest MQB platform. It’s an all new platform developed by the company which means “Modularer Querbaukasten” in German. In English it translates to Modular Transverse Matrix and is the new flexible platform on which many Volkswagen and its other brand products will be developed. [click to continue…]
Ever since the Government de-regulated the petrol prices it gave rise to dilemma about diesel. Indian Government is at the road cross and looking confused about which way to proceed. Because one road heads towards manipulating diesel cost which adds fuel into burning issue of inflation and the other road heads to levying extra duty [...]
General Motors is considering the launch of the Chevrolet Beat Electric in India. The American automaker feels there is scope to sell decent number of Beat Electric Vehicles in the country, as fuel prices rise to an all time high. However what is stopping GM from launching the Beat EV is the inconsistent Government policy [...]
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