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The General Motors India (GMI) is going to launch their mini car ‘Chevrolet Beat’ on monday in India. The GM Beat will be available in three variants.

Chevrolet Beat India Price :

The Price of the lowest GM Beat is Rs 3.34 lakh and the highest is Rs 3.94 lakh.

Chevrolet Beat Specs :

* Variants include the mid tier LS, the top end LT and the low end PS.
* ABS and Airbags in LT version
* The Car is priced cheaper to its competing models
* The 1.2 liter engine is the main highlight of beat
* The car will be soon launched worldwide.

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Maruti Suzuki New Car ‘A Star’ Launching Today

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New Delhi, Nov 19: Maruti Suzuki India (MSI), the country’s largest carmaker, which has been struggling to keep its sales momentum, is all set to launch its compact car A-Star to beat the year-end blues.

The car industry, which witnessed a decline of 6.59 per cent in October, struggles to sell car in the year-end as most customers postpone purchases for a new model year. MSI is hoping that the novelty factor associated with its 5th global model will help in overcoming the challenge.

“November and December are usually tough months for car makers. Knowing that very well, we will be launching the A-Star so that it can bring excitement to the market,” MSI Executive Officer Marketing and Sales Mayank Pareek said.

“There have also been instances of customers coming to see new models and ending up purchasing existing models. A-Star might as well be that bait,” he added.

The A-Star will be the latest in a series of global models that Suzuki, MSI’s Japanese parent, has launched over the past few years and will be manufactured solely in India.

Manufactured at its Manesar plant, the company is aiming to sell about 50,000 units in the Indian market and one lakh units to be exported.

MSI claims that according to the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), the A-Star delivers a mileage of 19.59 km per litre. It is powered by the company’s new KB10 998 cc petrol engine and will be rolled out in three variants.

The expected price of this car is Rs. 3.85 lakhs.

Toyota now launching their tenth generation Corolla: the Corolla Altis, in India on 5th September 2008.

Toyota unveiled the 1st Corolla back in a 1966 and after than, the industry has sold over 30 million Corolla globally.With Altis, Toyota wants to live the conventional image of the Corolla. Similar to Camry (2006), the new Altis features elegant, sharper style and is 60mm wider and 10mm longer than the departing model.

The Altis will have the same 1.8L VVT-i engine as that of an existing Corolla model, tweaked ECU and fuel injection system, improved emission conformity and better fuel efficiency.

The latest Corolla Altis will have new suspensions. The car also features newly-developed L-arm MacPherson strut setup at front to lower the noise and vibrations, and enhanced steering awareness and a high-speed stability. The rear suspension is the torsion beam setup, which permits bigger boot space.

The Corolla Altis has five-star Euro NCAP ratings and will arrive with the safety features such as EBD, ABS, Traction Control, Brake Assist and multiple airbags. Corolla Altis will be priced at approximately Rs. 13-14 lakh.

Source: AutoIndiaForum

There are reports in the media that Harley Davidson, 2009 Motorcycles will be rolled out and presented today, however the website harley-davidson.com does not have much info at this time.

Our calls to Harley Davidson’s U.S. headquarters for further information about the 2009 model have not yet been returned. We also called our local dealer in Hickory, NC and the front-desk person told us that right now there is a corporate meeting going on and the information will be released after that.

Therefore, more information should be available about Harley Davidson, 2009 model on www.harley-davidson.com sometimes later this morning or this afternoon.

The information about Harley Davidson 2009 motorcycles is coming from the company’s 2008 second quarter earnings report which was released last week.

““Last week, we announced our planned acquisition of the MV Agusta Group and celebrated the grand opening of the Harley-Davidson Museum. Next Tuesday, we introduce our exciting new 2009 motorcycles. A month from today, we kick off our 105th Anniversary Celebration with the launch of the first of 105 motorcycle rides to Milwaukee from around the U.S. These are just some of the ways we are positioning the Company for the future, strengthening bonds with current customers and reaching out to new customers,” Ziemer said.

The Company expects to ship between 74,000 and 78,000 Harley-Davidson motorcycles during the third quarter of 2008. For the full year of 2008, Harley-Davidson still plans to ship between 303,500 and 307,500 units. The Company continues to expect full-year EPS of $3.00 to $3.18, a decrease of 15 to 20 percent compared to 2007″

Harley-Davidson earned $1.19 billion of revenues in the second quarter, a decrease of $67.0 million or 5.3 percent versus the same period last year. Shipments of Harley-Davidson motorcycles totaled 80,326 units, a decrease of 14,791 units or 15.6 percent compared to last year’s second quarter.

Hopefully 2009 models will help Harley Davidson to pick up the speed once again.

Source: huliq.com

BMW Viral video – German carmaker BMW made a viral marketing video based on a village building a huge ramp to launch a new 1-Series BMW car to the U.S.

The BMW viral video clip below is a short two-minute excerpt of the BMW Rampenfest video that is a 30-minute long documentary look at the village’s attempt to launch a BMW from Germany to America.

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MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) – Japanese carmaker Toyota’s Indian unit Toyota Kirloskar will recall 20,000 of its multi-utility vehicle Innova in India, which were manufactured between April and October 2007, to repair a faulty part that could lead to oil leakages, The Financial Express reported, citing the company.

Toyota (nyse: TM – news – people ) Kirloskar Motor’s deputy managing director KK Swamy was quoted as saying: ‘We found there was a small problem in the rear axle of about 20 vehicles that came to us for servicing.’

The report said the problem, detected in about 20,000 Innovas, comprising 15 pct of the vehicles sold, is in the differential carrier mounting nuts, which may loosen and cause oil to leak.

The report quoted the company as saying it is experiencing this problem only in India, and that it might have occurred because of India’s road conditions.

Tata Motors has launched the people’s car – ‘Tata Nano.’ The car will be available in several variants. Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Group said that the car would be manufactured at the Singur plant later this year. He informed that the standard Nano would be priced at Rs 1 lakh for dealers (excluding VAT).

Earlier, he had said that they may not be able to hold the price that they have emotionally held on to, reports CNBC-TV18.

The commercial launch of the ‘people’s car’ will be in H2CY08, he informed. People’s car will be 20% shorter than Maruti 800 but will have 20% greater internal volume.

He also said that it was too premature to talk of EBITDA margin of the small car. But they will offer a wide variety of variants with several upmarket options. Tata has been approached by two countries to launch the ‘People’s Car’ and they may be looking at Africa and Latin America and South East Asia to launch the car.

The company will not sacrifice profits and there is a strong business case for the small car.

So far, they have invested Rs 1,500-1,700 crore in the small car project. The car will comply with Bharat III & Euro 4 emission norms. He said that the car meets all safety standards including crash test, offset and side crash.