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Three GM cars in India win JD Power honours

GM India has scored a hat-trick at the Initial Quality Study released by automotive research firm JD Power Asia Pacific with three toppers in the form of the Chevy Spark, Aveo and Optra. The research firm has ranked small car Chevrolet Spark as the leader in terms of quality in the compact car segment with a score of 127, while Chevrolet Aveo sedan topped the mid-size car segment along with Honda’s City sedan with a score of 109. The Chevrolet Optra, with a score 97, was ranked highest in the premium mid-size segment. More
Courtesy:economictimes.indiatimes.com

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Chevrolet’s Optra Magnum is no cosmetic wonder

Deserted highway. Daybreak. The cool night inhabits our eyelids still, but is fading. Wafting, utterly isolated from the romance, at 120-odd kph, is our metal cocoon. The freshly minted daylight flutters loudly behind it like an unsecured tarp. But the indulgent smile I’m about to allow myself vaporises when I realise that the speedo needle disagrees. It points obstinately at 184 kph and it’s still climbing. Now, I’ve ridden and driven a lot faster before so I know what 184 should feel like. The horizon should feel like a viable destination, my vision should narrow so the old porridge in the cranium can process the info and it should not feel this serene. But the Optra Magnum pays no heed. As long as I have the rightmost pedal buried, the needle continues to climb. How much more of this can it take? More
Courtesy:www.bsmotoring.com

Motown hums Tara Rum Pum

If you’ve already seen the Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee starrer Tara Rum Pum, you won’t be wondering why it finds a mention in Indiatimes Auto. More
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GM India to appoint more dealers

Enthused over the response to its hatchback Chevrolet ‘Spark’, General Motors India on Monday said it is considering appointment of more dealers in the country.

General Motors Director (Operation) Sanjiv Garh told a press conference here that at present the company had 78 dealers and this would progressively go upto 160 in two years. More
Courtesy:www.indiacar.net

GM to introduce more brands in India

Buoyed by the response of Chevrolet marque launched four years ago, General Motors India may introduce more brands like Cadillac, Pontiac, Saab in the country, to capture a 10 per cent share in the passenger vehicle market by 2010.

“It cannot be ruled out that General Motors(GM) brands like Cadillac, Pontiac, Saab and Vauxhall would be launched in India,” General Motors(GM) India President and Managing Director Rajeev Chaba told reporters here on Monday. More
Courtesy:www.indiacar.net

Optra leads fresh diesel charge.

With diesel becoming the drink of preference, it’s no wonder diesel versions of popular cars are flooding the market. Now much more refined, almost as powerful, as fast as petrol cars and much more fuel efficient, common-rail technology has given diesels a new lease of life.

After the Swift Diesel, here’s another popular car that is getting the diesel treatment. The Optra Diesel is all set to join the now not-so-exclusive common-rail club. Powered by a 1991cc TDCi engine (Chevy speak for common-rail) churning out 120bhp and 28kgm of torque, it should be quite a scorcher. More
Courtesy:www.autocarindia.com

Chevrolet moves to a new Beat.

Chevrolet’s small car at the distant New York Auto Show didn’t garner much attention in the general India media, but it should have.

Take a close look at the lines and overall form of the design. These are styling cues that Chevrolet and General motors(GM) are going to base their new small car, codenamed the M300, on. A successor to the M100 Matiz and M200 Spark, the all-new M300 is a clean sheet design that will sit bang in the middle of General motors(GM)’s triad of small cars sold in India. More expensive than the Spark but cheaper than the U-VA, the car will be the first to be produced at General motors(GM)’s all-new plant in Talegaon, near Pune.

General motors(GM) has big plans for the Beat and its derivatives in India. Designed to be small and efficient but not boring and staid, the car is meant to deliver a custom feel to the owner. The look is tagged ‘micro import tuner’, after the modified small hatchbacks that are so popular in the US at the moment. Styled at General motors(GM)’s Incheon design centre in South Korea, the company’s specialists in small car design, the look is radical for a small car. More
Courtesy:www.autocarindia.com

All it needs is a little Chevrolet Spark

If there was somebody in the automotive industry who knew how to spend money well, it would be Kim Woo Choong, the erstwhile chairman of the Daewoo group. It’s another thing that he spent money a little too well, ending up on the wrong side of the law and leading one of South Korea’s biggest chaebols to ruin. Kim’s profligate ways however benefited the biggest carmaker in the universe, General Motors, when they picked up the Daewoo car business.

Today, General Motors-Daewoo Automotive Technologies is providing the biggest support to mothership General Motors with a lineup of well thought-out cars at a time when the General is going through some difficult times. One of the cars that was particularly a windfall for General Motors was the Daewoo Matiz – you see, General Motors is not exactly a specialist in making small runabouts, and with the Daewoo Matiz, they ended up with a well-engineered supermini that showcased cheeky Italian lines and one which was a hit in most markets it was sold in. General Motors-Daewoo Automotive Technologies gave the Daewoo Matiz a thorough facelift inside-out, replaced the three-cylinder motor with an inline-four, stuck the Chevrolet bowtie at various spots and renamed it the Spark. In this guise, the Spark is now sold in over a 100 countries, including our own. So how is new Spark? Is it a Daewoo deja vu or does it need to be seen as a fresh, all-new product? Read on. More
Courtesy:www.bsmotoring.com


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