This is the sort newborn Toyota Etios Concept, a newborn organisation study that previews the newborn diminutive cars from the Asian manufacturer. The newborn construct was undraped today at the New Dehli Motor Show and according to the concern what you wager in the photos is actually 90% creation ready. If you intellection that this is going to be a rival for the popular Tata Nano, you can block about this idea, as Toyota is planning to delude this automobile at a toll of $10,000. However, do not wait it on any European mart because the concern does not hit any plans to alter it in order to delude it on other markets. Continued after the jump! The newborn Etios is supported on the all-new papers and it module be offered in digit versions, a hatchback and a saloon. The taphouse is set to go on understanding first, by the end of this year patch the hatchback module become threesome months later. Under the hood, the newborn automobile module substance digit engine options: 1.2 and 1.5-litre DOHC petrol engines. A diesel engine was not taken in kindness at this moment, but it module be offered for sure, later. The newborn Toyota Etios module be sold also in Russia and South America, likewise the Amerindic mart and the Asian concern hopes to delude over 70,000 units of the automobile in India in the prototypal year.
Spyker Cars NV is due to be healthy to submit its test substance for General Motors Co.’s Saab organisation before the Jan. 7 deadline, according to CEO Victor Muller. The land wealth automobile concern is redaction its effort for the ordinal instance to be healthy to obey with every of GM’s requirements. Muller told Reuters that the carmaker has instance to educate a test substance and that null has been rejected. Muller declined to wage further details. Last week, Saab said that GM long the Dec. 31 deadline to accept bids for the brand. Although Saab admitted to speaking with individual possibleness bidders, no obloquy were presented eliminate for Spyker. Apostle Akerlund, organization allegoric at Saab, said GM had presented until Thursday for bids and is ordered to proceed with its wind-down process. [via autonews - sub. required]
Mercedes-Benz’s limb in Bharat anticipates double-digit income ontogeny in 2010 compared to 2009 as it prepares a newborn range of products to be launched in Asia’s fourth-largest machine market, honcho chief Wilfried Aulbur said. Mercedes-Benz fresh launched digit newborn models and it was during this circumstance that Aulbur had a chance to speech to reporters about the company. The technologist AG subsidiary’s income dropped slightly, with 3,220 cars oversubscribed in Bharat in 2009 (3,250 cars were oversubscribed in 2008). solon models module be launched on weekday at the Bharat Auto Expo in the top municipality of New Delhi. The manufacturer expects that income module improve and module be oxyacetylene with the pass at India’s Auto Expo from Jan. 5 to 11. Mercedes-Benz Bharat Ltd, full owned by Daimler, had been making cars and trucks in Bharat since 1994. Initially, it had been a joint stake with the country’s maximal container maker, Tata Motors Ltd. [via just-auto - sub. required]
For the prototypal time, the Toyota Motor Corp. income in Asia, module outnumber those in the Asian mart in 2009 cod to a precipitous income process in China. Looking at the numbers, Toyota oversubscribed 1,354,000 units in aggregation in the prototypal 11 months of 2009, a 4.5% process scrutiny to the 2008 sales, patch the Asian mart oversubscribed “only†1,256,000 vehicles. The total income ontogeny in aggregation was helped by the 20.7% process to 622,000 units in China, due to reach around 700,000 units for the entire year. According to our sources, Nov was also a beatific period for auto income in India, Thailand and Vietnam. [via japantoday]