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General Motors India introduced the LPG version of its popular small car Chevrolet Spark.

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General Motors India’s brand Chevrolet is the successful one in Indian market. Chevy Spark is the most booming model in company’s product collection including models as Optra, Tavera, Aveo, Captiva, Forester, Aveo U-VA, SRV and the Spark.
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General Motors is ready to launch its new mini car in India by the end of 2009. Currently, GM has Aveo U-VA & Spark in a small car segment. And now they will soon launch their 3rd model.
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General Motors India has introduced the automatic variant of its Captiva SUV in the India. The AT is a five-speed unit and is mated to the 2L turbocharged Common Tail Diesel engine of the Captiva with a power 150ps and a 320Nm of torque.

General Motors India will increase its car prices by 1% to 2% fron January 2009 to cover increasing prices. However, according Sr. officials, the market conditions may not improve in a 1st half of 2009.

Mr. Balendran (VP, GM India) said that the price hikes were to cover the input costs and an impact of weakening of rupee last year.
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Maruti, the leading car manufacturer, recorded 10% fall (56,293 units), as compared to December 2007 (62, 515 units). However, compared to November 2008, it was 9 percent. Maruti sold 47,704 units in a domestic market in November’08.
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HM is planning to slash the prices of its Ambassador model by Rs 10K to Rs 14,500, following 4% decrease in CenVAT to customers.

The company is delivering on benefits of a duty cut to customers who can expect slash in the Ambassador costs.

General Motors is planning to employ 500 new employees at their Talegaon unit in Maharashtra. GM is facing challenging times back home but they have well development plans in line for the country. It’s also intending to introduce its small car to catch a big market segment in India.
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GM already has focused on its R&D and now they are looking for fuel options and are working on LPG and CNG variants.

We are looking at CNG and LPG vehicles for India and are closely working with our regional partners in Thailand (for CNG) and Korea (for LPG) in this connection.

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General Motors India has launched a new Chevrolet Aveo U-AV as part of its anniversary year celebrations. The new car is disclosed by Saif Ali Khan (Chevvy’s brand ambassador).