Volkswagen Launches Improved Polo with 1.6 L Petrol in India

Volkswagen, the German car manufacturer came with an additional model, Polo with 1.6 Litre petrol into Indian auto market. The cost of this car is Rs 6.16 lakh. Earlier this company launched Polo with 1.2 litre petrol in the beginning of this year.

This recent model car has a 4 cylinder petrol engine below it's bonnet. It has a 5 speed manual gear box. There is an expectation that it will have fuel efficiency of 15.96 km per litre. It has 4 cylinder petrol engine with an out put of 105PS @ 5250 rpm and a toque of 153NM @ 3750rpm.

It has gear shift knobs, interior door and interior trims handles in chrome, storage compartments for 1 litre bottles, 60/40 split folding rear seats, these are all about interior of the car. There are body coloured bumpers, chrome strip in front grille, outside door handles which are body coloured, mirrors and 15 inch alloy wheels. Front disc brakes are installed in this vehicle and it has electronic anti theft immobilizer and height adjustable driving seats. Comfort drive will be improved by adjustable power steering.

There officials of Volkswagen are expecting that consumers will be satisfied with this and it's features.

Launch of 5 CNG Model Cars By Maruti Suzuki

Indian Auto Industry is growing rapidly because of the increasing consumer demands. According to the needs of the people, the companies are striving for developing new models along with increasing investments for expanding the capacity.

There are many companies which are planning to increase their market along with reducing the pollution by reducing the green house emissions. Keeping in view of the increasing fuel costs, the auto makers are concentrating pollutant free fuel cars like CNG.

Of which, India's top carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, has launched five popular models with CNG engine technology and intelligent Gas Port Injection or i-GPI. They were unveiled at the entire capital regions of the nation, of which some of them are Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. Those five popular models are SX4, Eeco, WagonR, Estilo and Alto.

By using CNG i-GPI technology consumers can end up with many advanatages like reliable, safe, environmental friendly as well as with the less cost of ownership. Even the company is planning to spread this feature for the various models like entry level cars, compact cars, sedans and also for the MPV segments.

By the introduction of the CNG technology, dependency on imported fuels got reduced. Even the company officials said that customers of the CNG models have encountered with the benefits like full warranty as well as the extended warranty. For making this technology effective, 2700 Maruti Service Stations for providing this back up.

The cost of the CNG embedded technology cars are around Sedan SX4 Vxi is around Rs.7.47 lakh, WagonR Lxi is around $ 8,839 (Rs.4.11 lakh), Estilo Lxi $ 8,710 (Rs.4.05 lakh), Eeco 5-seater AC $ 7,828 (Rs. 3.64 lakh) and Alto Lxi 6,946 (Rs. 3.23 lakh).

Extension of Road Side Assistance by Ford India

As India is a developing auto country, many companies want to attract the customers by launching different models and new versions. Besides new launches and developments of the cars, the automobile industry is also showing interest in launching services which are efficient and useful to the customers and thus want their services to attract the people. In this context, the Ford's best selling car company is extending its services of assistance for different cities.

24-hour pioneered service for the roadside assistance service was launched in India in November 2007. Under this program in the first phase, different places of Delhi & NCR, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune was covered. During the second phase, the service was extended to different cities like Hyderabad, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Kochi within less than five months.

Under the third phase different cities like Coimbatore, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kolkata were serviced in the year 2008. With the success of all these phases, the company wants to extend the services even to Agra and thus the completion of the golden triangle Delhi, Agra and Jaipur will be completed.

This service is used 24-hours service in case of emergency. Several types of services like on-site mechanic services in case of small repairs, transportation to the service center in case of large repairs, fuel delivery, jump start batteries etc.

This will help the Ford customers a lot in cases of flat tyre, battery drain out, lost/locked in keys etc.