General Motors to launch mini car

Auto major General Motors India is harbouring definite plans to launch a mini car that would be competitively priced and would aim to get a market share of 10 per cent, a top official of the company said on Saturday.

"The company is committed to launch a mini car," which would compete with Alto, Santro and Maruti, General Motors India, vice president (corporate affairs), P Balendran, told reporters in Kochi after launching Chevrolet Aveo in the Kerala market.

Balendran did not specify when the mini car would hit the road but said it would definitely come and the intention was to get by 2010 a 10 per cent share of the international market, he said.

The Aveo, which has been launched in Mumbai and Chennai, is the first of the three new Chevrolet products debuting in the first six months of this year and would soon be joined by the Aveo U-VA and Optra SRV by June-July.

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