Monthly Archives: January 2009

Hyundai Genesis Bags the ‘North American Car’ of the Year Award

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Hyundai Genesis bags the ‘North American Car’ of the Year Award among the dazzling cars displayed at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show from the brand names like the Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, and the Volkswagen. Under the brilliant white light of the Detroit Auto Show was showcased an inspiring assortment of fabulous cars and concepts from around the world.

Cars like the Mercedes-Benz SLR Stirling Moss, the Audi Sportback Concept, BMW Z4, and the Volkswagen Passat CC were under the spotlight, drawing visitor’s attention towards their elegance, style, and aesthetic visual appeal. The Hyundai Genesis steals the show winning the car-of-the-year award.

The ’2009 North American Car of the Year’ is a honourable title which will further encourage Hyundai to manufacture more upscale, up-market cars in the similar platform for the US consumers. This award has marked a significant milestone in the history of Hyundai.

Hyundai has plans to launch a couple of new cars in the coming years. Maybe those are a part of this winning platform and may succeed with heaps and bounds in the Indian car market.

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Mahindra Xylo’s Grand Entry in the Indian Car Market

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New Mahindra Xylo Cars in India

The most anticipated Mahindra Xylo has finally made its debut in India spilling excitement and enthusiasm in the car market. Designed with excellence and elegance, this new car is to surpass the desires and demands of the modern day car buyers. The tough and rugged Xylo meets an unprecedented level of sophistication and luxurious comfort.

Born with powerful and novel ideas, the car sparks a revolution in its segment. It’s truly a world car with every single car component sourced from finest sources across the globe. You would be surprised to know that 160 skilled engineers from around the world have used their expertise and high-end creativity to create this technological marvel.

Xylo represents a perfect amalgam of performance and style with brilliant visual appeal, sophisticated interiors, and advanced engine technology. The car exterior is a combination of Bolero-Scorpio styling accentuated with bold grille, illuminated spoiler, and large head lights. As you step into the car, fresh look and welcoming interiors will fuel your senses with its charm and beauty. The plush interiors comprises the theatre style seating, flatbed front seats, doors fitted with puddle lamps, integrated foot rest, foldable flight trays, digital drive assist system, and a 2 Din entertainment system. Equipped with futuristic car features and high-end safety technologies, the car ensures high level of comfort, convenience, safety, and ride quality.

With all this impressive features, the car is sure to give a tough competition to its rivals. Available in three interiors shades and eight vibrant car colour choices, the Xylo displays a high degree of aggressiveness, beauty, and power. The car is powered with a 2.49-litre mEagle CRDe engine that generates112bhp. It is available in four variants – E2, E4, E6, and E8 with price tag varying from Rs 6. 2 Lakh to Rs 7.6 Lakh.

Mahindra perfectly calls the Xylo the ‘Great Indian Travelling Machine’ that will redefine the future of road travel in India.

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Sonata Embera to Get Subtle Makeover

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Hyundai has gained customer’s confidence with its unmatched product quality and services. Every car that rolls out from Hyundai’s plant are equipped with world class and unique features that make them hot favourite among masses.

The success of Hyundai i10 is a perfect example of the fulfilment of Hyundai’s commitment to its customers. Adding to the i-series is the recently launched i20, a premium hatch encompassing all possible luxurious features that individualises the cars in its class.

Moving ahead with its customer centric conscience, Hyundai is planning to foray the D-segment by introducing the face lifted version of its premium sedan, the Sonata Embera.

The refreshing Sonata Embera is known for its style and performance is powered with a 2.4-litre engine. The car is well complimented with luxury and comfort and the revamped version would also not upset its perspective customers. The new version of the car is expected to carry minor changes in the interiors as well as some cosmetic changes in the exterior.

The exterior is expected to come with new headlamps, bumpers, wheels, and grille giving a new appearance to the car. The interiors of the Embera will flaunt with a new centre console and instrumentation. The new design that Embera will carry is said to be inspired by Hyundai Veracruz- a premium crossover that shines in the international market with its sophistication, style, and performance.

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Mercedes-Benz Unveils ‘Fascination’ Concept

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New Mercedes-Benz Cars in IndiaMercedes-Benz introduced the concept ‘Fascination’ at the Paris Auto Show in 2008. The dramatic new concept by the German car manufacturer explores a new car design language with vibrant and sculpted cues.

The new concept draws inspiration from the classic Volvo P1800 car and a kind of crushed rear design from Aston Martin called “Shooting Brakes”. The ‘Fascination’ concept car is futuristic and elegant with a personified smooth flowing bonnet and flush-fit touch. Open door handles, dual-piece headlights, and extended rear lights add extra elegance and beauty to the car.

A peep into the car reveals an amazing continuance of the V-shape structure of the car’s exterior into the interior. An impressive dashboard displaying silver dials is the centre of attraction and the interior is adorned with high-quality woven fabrics and artistically crafted features.

In terms of power, the concept is graced with a 2.2 litre Bluetec diesel engine that produces an impressive 210 bhp. The Bluetec engine complies to stringent emission norms of the future and it is the same one that will be introduced in the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class that is set to roll out on Indian roads this year.

The fascinating concept by Mercedes-Benz is aimed at providing car designers with an opportunity to explore new horizons through an unconventional route.

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Expect a More Masculine Fiat 500 Soon

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The cute and scintillating Fiat 500 has been around in India for a while now and is quite popular for its unique Italian design and styling cues.

A more masculine version of the peppy 500 might be out soon as Fiat is considering building an SUV over the same platform. The reason for Fiat’s move is that the 500’s biggest competitor Mini Cooper is also undergoing a similar transformation.

The original iconic concept would probably be lost in the process and the more aggressively styled SUV may even fail to win the hearts of car buyers. From what is known, the engine on the new SUV will not be brand new and will be an upgraded version of any of the existing engines on Fiat cars.

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BMW Unveils the New Z4

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BMW has introduced the new Z4 roadster to fuel the senses of car buyers across the world. The Z4 carries everything that excites car enthusiasts and is an engineering marvel that symbolizes excellence in automotive design.

The new Z4 will come with three engine options each delivering unmatched performance and impressive fuel economy that is typical of BMW’s Z-Series cars. The car will be available in three variants – sDrive23i, sDrive30i, and sDrive35i. Both the 23i and 30i will come equipped with a six speed manual transmission as standard and a six speed sports automatic transmission as optional. The top-end Z4 sDrive35i will be powered by advanced engine technology mated to a twin clutch seven speed transmission.

BMW’s current model line-up for the Indian market stops at the alphabet X (X3 and X5 SUVs) and does not include the Z4 Roadster.

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A New Automatic Parking System For Cars

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Parking a car is a irksome task for most of us. Sitting on the driver’s seat many of us just struggle to fit in our cars in stuffed parking spaces. But now, to make the tedious parking job easy Ford has introduced a new car parking system.

This innovative car parking system is christened as Automatic Park Assist System. You may now not have to struggle for parking spaces. You can just sit calm behind the wheel and the new automatic parking system will park the car for you.

Ford has not used any new technology to support automatic parking. It has simply used the existing ultrasonic parking sensors combined with a new electric power assisted steering system. The sensors will figure out the actual distance from other cars in the parking lot and then steer itself into the parking space with only minor inputs from the driver.

A driver just have to press a button on the dash which activates the ultrasonic parking sensors to scan and check the parking area in terms of space for parallel parking. The car then signals the driver to select the suitable gear. The steering job is done by the active park assist system meanwhile the driver put brakes when required. The system also comes with a visual or audible interface that warns the driver of nearby cars, objects, and people.

Surprisingly, the automatic parking system is accurate and quick, proving its superiority in the car electronic market. The system will take some time to enter the Indian car market. But you can find this automatic parking system in Lincoln MKS and MKT cars in the international market.

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Mahindra Unveils the Thar Concept

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New Mahindra Ingenio Cars in India

Mahindra & Mahindra unveils the Thar concept in the Bologna Motor Show held in December 2008. In the Thar concept, Scorpio’s CRDe engine along with a 4*4 BorgWarner is used.

The company is mulling to launch this concept based car in the European market. Excitingly, it is designed on the platform of the Mahindra Classic and based on the Scorpio’s powertrain. Fitting Scorpio’s engine in a car like this clearly reflects the reliability and dependability of the Scorpio that is successfully running on Indian roads.

Earlier there were queries whether such a concept would do well in the market or not. But Mahindra declares that retro vehicles like the Thar have established their own niche in the European market. However, in India, the car market will take some time to accept this concept. But, with the powerful engine packed with innovation, Mahindra can definitely drive the Thar to the Indian car market.

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More AMG Centres Across the Globe

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AMG is known as the performance brand of Mercedes-Benz. These high power and super-efficient cars are tuned Mercedes cars that define the brand image of the company. Recently, Mercedes has introduced a bunch of AMG cars in India to satisfy the luxurious needs and demands of Indian car buyers.

AMG cars have carved their own niche in the global car market. And the best part of these high-end super-luxurious and powerful cars is that every engine is assembled by just one engineer. That’s the company’s philosophy, ‘One Man-One Engine’.

With the increasing number of cars in the market, Mercedes also plans to establish more AMG centres across the world to provide their easy availability for its customers. As the cars are unique so would be the centres. Each AMG centre is known to be designed with distinctive surrounding that will reflect the powerful characteristics of AMG cars.

About 175 centres are to be established with high quality materials, exclusive furnishings, and an assortment of colours.

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Reva on an Environmental Tour

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A white Reva plastered with signs displaying positive effects of reforestation is on an environmental tour. The car is on a green journey taking along the vows of Indian Youth Climate Network.

Strikingly, this white Reva along with two other cars that run on jatropha oil and waste vegetable oil are driven by 20 people to complete a journey of 4,000 km across the country. This tour is solely organised to spread awareness of environment-friendly cars. The stickers on these cars also depict the same motive – ‘save the environment and combat climate change’.

The cars started their journey from Chennai and would make pit stops at Bangalore, Nagpur, Mumbai, and Jaipur including various other places. Throughout the journey the drivers and the association members are educating people about the use of innovative technologies and solutions for generating clean technologies and designing green buildings.

The main target of these groups are the universities across the country where they plan to encourage students to pick green jobs. They will also stress on various climate change policies. Even the economic factors will be considered because many have a myth that green concept is an expensive affair. But actually it is a healthy and a long-term saving affair that needs to reach the masses.

Spreading green awareness can be best done by a car like the Maini Reva, the sole electric car in India. This is the only car in the country that generates zero emission and help us save our environment, thereby maintaining an ecological balance.

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