Fiat Planning Hybrid, India-Specific Small Cars


If the sources are to be believed, Fiat India could come out with a hybrid car in India by 2010 end or early 2011 other than the India-specific small car.

If the news comes right from the horses’ mouth, we all have every reason to believe it. Rajeev Kapoor, President and CEO of Fiat India said that the hybrid car certainly will be powered by CNG and petrol and also mentioned that Fiat India was also working on an India-specific car but he refused to give out more details. He was speaking to reporters at the ongoing Auto Expo held in New Delhi.

Fiat is very optimistic on doubling the sales of its existing models and will be introducing more variants of existing models, but denied any launches of new cars in India.

Rajeev Kapoor maintained that “Other than the variants launched today, we will not introduce any new models per se”. He also mentioned that Fiat planned to sell about 46,000 units doubling last year’s 23,000 vehicles which were sold.

He was quite optimistic that Fiat’s models Grande Punto and Fiat 500 could not pick up sales last year as the models were launched in the end of 2009 but 2010 would be a successful year for them.

The company Wednesday unveiled the diesel version of Fiat 500, three variants of Grande Punto and two of the Linea model.
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