General Motors India on Wednesday announced the launch of its new vehicle Chevrolet Tavera, a new generation premium multi-utility vehicle.
The multi-seater vehicle currently runs on BSIII engines.
General Motors India on Friday said it would be hiking the price of its multi-purpose vehicle 'Tavera' and premium sedan 'Optra' by 1-2 per cent and will invest Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) to hike the capacity at its Halol plant to 80,000 units.
GM India said it has already sent individual letters.
General Motors India on Monday launched a new variant of Chevrolet Tavera priced at Rs 599,000.
General Motors India on Tuesday introduced a new version of its multi-utility vehicle Chevrolet Tavera, the Elite range even as the company prepares to rev up capacity at its Halol plant to meet rising demands.
General Motors India on Monday said it would launch Chevrolet Tavera in the second quarter of 2004 to take on competition from multi-purpose vehicles like Scorpio and Qualis.
General Motors India would roll out its BS IV version of Sports Utility vehicle Tavera in the country by next year, a top company official said on Tuesday
The company had to stop production of Chevrolet Sail, Chevrolet Sail U-VA and Tavera.
General Motors India on Wednesday said it would hike the prices of its multi-utility vehicle Chevrolet Tavera ranging from Rs 4,800 to Rs 8,700 across all variants from December 24.
The engine of this car is now Bharat Stage IV compliant.
Senior officials with the multinational car manufacturer say there is a need to improve the brand perception and are revising an earlier after-sales package to spruce it up.
GM India is working on launching a BS-IV variant of the car, but is in no hurry.
A government-instituted panel which probed the extent of non-compliance by General Motors in re-fitting pre-approved engines on Tavera models sent for inspection to meet specified emission norms, submitted its report late on Monday evening, holding the company responsible for corporate fraud.
The 1,14,000 affected vehicles will be repaired free of charge at GMI's 280 dealers, the company said.
The price mentioned is for the Bharat Stage (BS) III version, while the cost of BS IV will soon be updated by the company.
The major highlight of this New BS IV model will be the 2.0L 4-cylinder TCDI diesel engine.
The vehicle, a Tavera, was on its way to Jammu from Srinagar and it fell into a 300-foot gorge at the Battery Cheshma area of the district around 1.15 am, they said.
The US-based auto maker told the government an internal probe had revealed the company had violated testing targets
The company had identified some emission-related issue with Tavera and some quality issue with Sail.
General Motors India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, on Friday announced expansion of production capacity of its Halol facility to 60,000 units per annum.
General Motors India on Wednesday said sales jumped 119 per cent in October 2004 to 2,752 units over 1258 units in the same month last year, largely due to the increased sales of multi-utility vehicle 'Chevrolet Tavera'. \n\n\n\n
General Motors India on Tuesday reported a 58 per cent rise in sales in April at 2,214 units, fuelled by healthy demand for its multi-utility vehicle 'Chevrolet Tavera'.
What was being hailed as innovation in Indian industry not so long ago was nothing but cutting corners and skipping processes.
The NIA also conducted a raid at the residence of Shiv Sena leader and former 'encounter specialist' of Mumbai Police, Pradeep Sharma in connection with the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiren murder case on Thursday, sources said.
Sluggish sales have not stopped car makers in India from bringing reworked versions of their existing cars along with new models.
It said the auto major has 'admitted' to certain 'lacunae' on its part in maintaining certain standards in the report submitted to the Road Ministry by a three-member panel.
General Motors' Tavera recall prompts Union government to formulate a stricter policy.
Joginder Sharma, who was a member of India's Twenty20 World Cup winning squad in 2007, was injured following a road accident near Noida, on Thursday.
The recall will affect 2,910 units of the sedan version of Sail and 1,090 units of compact car variant of the model.
Mileage derived from the test drive was 12.4 km.
Riding high on the Indian success story of its Chevrolet brand, multi-national auto major General Motors is looking at launching its premium and iconic Cadillac in the country in the next two years, a top company official said.
Andhra Pradesh police has foiled yet another attempt to supply arms to the Naxalites in the state by seizing a big cache of arms and ammunitions in the Medak district.
New units of the iconic Maruti 800, Ford Ikon (1.3 petrol), Fiat Palio, Skoda Fabia (1.2 petrol) and Octavia (1.9 TDI engine), and Chevrolet Tavera (2.5 DI) of General Motors will no longer be sold in the 13 notified cities from Thursday, which constitute 40-50 per cent of total car sales in the country.
Eyewitness account of explosion in Vile Parle, north Mumbai
GM India has asked customers facing problems with their remote keyless entry accessory to go to their Chevrolet dealer.
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