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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

GM gearing up for good 2010

GM India that operates under Chevy brand in India launched its automatic version of Premium sedan Cruze. The manual version was launched in late 2009, that competes with Honda Civic, Toyota corolla Altis.

GM launched the popular hatchback version “Beat” in February recorded record booking of 15000 cars in 24 hrs. Their small car version Spark is fairly popular. GM in India has Aveo, mid size sedan, Tavera, a utility vehicle that is popularly used as a taxi, Opra big size sedan and Optra an SUV.

GM has a wait time for most of models in India. GM manufacturers its vehicles from Halol in Gujarat and Talegaon near Pune. GM now with its new stream of vehicles lined up and an upbeat Indian car market has recently announced of three shifts at Halol and 2nd shift at Talegaon.

GM that has its technical centre in Bangalore India caters to its global product design, development initiatives to reduce R&D costs is also expected to increase its workforce by 1000 in next one year. The powertrain group part of R&D is expected to grow by 200 and also start contributing to the fuel cell initiatives of GM.

GM has its popular Equinox fuel cell that is being test driven since end of 2007 across USA.

picture - GM India

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