GM To launch Mini car by Year End!

Pune, General Motors India (GMI) will launch the new mini-car in the Indian market by December, and increase its dealerships to 250 from the current 195, the company’s Vice-President, Mr P. Balendran, has said.

In the city to kick off a new initiative to hold free services and sales camps across India, he said that similar camps will follow in Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.

Among the services on offer here will be a 73-point service check up for GMI vehicles, pollution check, body wash and polish in addition to exchange and loan facilities and test drives. The company plans to hold such camps twice a year in each centre.

Elaborating upon GMI’s strategy, Mr Balendran said that recent tie-ups with public sector banks for finance will help the company focus on rural markets.

“Around 60 per cent of any manufacturer’s sale come from B and C class cities where private banks have lower penetration,” he pointed out.

Till April end, GMI had sold 18,683 units, including 11,000 of the Spark. “We will launch our second mini-car in the market by December. It will be produced at the Talegaon plant,” Mr Balendran said, adding that Chevrolet Cruze, to be produced at Halol, will enter the market by September.

To help distribution, the dealer network will be increased from 195 to 250 by December-end. The used car programme is currently running in nine dealerships and will be extended to 30 in the same period.

The company also has tied-up with BPCL for 24 service centres. Ten of these are operational, while the remaining is scheduled to go on stream in the coming months.
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Wish the small car to have a diesel engine.

I think this "New Small Car" Is Chevrolet Beat. :)

VT

Yeah, it is the Chevrolet Beat.

Have been hearing of beat's launch since last year but every time its launch shifts a month. :lol!:


RoadRocket

The Chevy Beat is not small. It appears to be the size of the UV-A.

Chevy Beat is going to compete with Ritz. :)


VT

RoadRocket

You are showing Pics of the concept car. The production car pics have already been released. Please post those. This car looks hot to me, only the rear looks like a Santro and it looks like as if Ritz and Beat were made on the same platform.

Theres one trivia guys-the Beat has been designed by our very own Dilip Chabria

Here is a 4 door version of Beat.



Rear view


And the interior

CC only first two pic are visible, hope beat comes with diesel engine from GM.

I say again, the beat and ritz look like as if they are made on the same platform. Interior of the beat looks superb but just a bit claustrophobic.

THREAD CLEANED.


VT

The Car is really super cool!!

Have seen this in Last years Auto Show !

But to say, this model is a concept & after making it for Indian roads, i dont know how it will look like?

Anyways, i am sure that it will look better than Ritz :)

what about the engine specs?

A 1.2L petrol , A 1.4L petrol , a 1.6L petrol and a 1.0L diesel are likely to come.

sparsh, can you share the source for that engine information

i guess there is no such car in that segment with soo many engine variants.. we have 3variants in the petrol version then why not in the diesel segment?

Well, I read it in a pamphlet which my friend got me from Geneva motor show.
I'm not sure which ones will come to India. But it is said by GM that it will come in these variants.

autodude sparsh wrote:Well, I read it in a pamphlet which my friend got me from Geneva motor show.
I'm not sure which ones will come to India. But it is said by GM that it will come in these variants.

Hey thats a good info sparsh. :winkthumb:

VT

Thanks, i hope this piece of info was useful to all of you.

yes it is dude:cheers:

Is General Motors making headlines or what? The (former) American Auto giant filed for bankruptcy hours ago, but clearly stated its Indian operations would remain unharmed. GM has managed finally to find a home in China for the Hummer brand, which is another huge achievement for the company that was searching almost forever.

Would Hummer make any sense in this era of small and fuel efficient vehicles which even the U.S is witnessing? We can’t do any answering now but all we can say is a lot of exciting products could wear the Hummer badge in the future. It all depends on the way the team regroups and works, because its terribly easy to screw it up.

But the hot report of the lot is the Rs.2-lakh car for the Indian market. The new small car would be positioned below the Spark which is currently the cheapest car in India.

Other than India, markets like Russia, China and Latin America would also be on this car’s radar, the report said.

The report also adds a new Chevrolet Spark variant would supplement the existing range. This could either be the 800cc engine or the LPG variant. Guess we have to wait and see.
Source: http://indianautosblog.com/2009/06/new-chevrolet-spark-variant-launch-tomorrow-rs2-lakh-car-planned-for-india

good move by Chevy India
this really shows that they arent in loss!