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Tuesday 10 September 2013
BMW 1 Series
Specifications Summary
Engines
1598 cc, Petrol, 136 bhp @ 4400 RPM power
1995 cc, Diesel, 143 bhp @ 4000 RPM power
Gearboxes
8-speed, Automatic, RWD
Seating Capacity
4 seater
Steering
Power steering
| Ex-Showroom Price | ||
|---|---|---|
| BMW 1 Series 116i Hatchback
1598cc Petrol, Automatic, 16.29 kpl
| ₹ 20.90 lakhs | |
| BMW 1 Series 118d Hatchback
1995cc
| ₹ 22.90 lakhs | |
| BMW 1 Series 118d Sport
1995cc Diesel, Automatic
| ₹ 25.90 lakhs | |
| BMW 1 Series 118d Sport plus
1995cc Diesel, Automatic
| ₹ 29.90 lakhs |
Friday 6 September 2013
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vehicleEverything: Moto Guzzi Bellagio launched in India
vehicleEverything: Moto Guzzi Bellagio launched in India: Premium Italian motorcycle manufacturer Moto Guzzi has increased their Indian portfolio by adding the Bellagio. Moto Guzzi, which is...
Moto Guzzi Bellagio launched in India
Premium Italian motorcycle manufacturer Moto Guzzi has increased their Indian portfolio by adding the Bellagio. Moto Guzzi, which is owned by Italian scooter giant Piaggio, had made their foray in to the Indian two-wheeler market with the Greso 1200 8V in December 2012 (Related: Moto Guzzi makes Indian debut). The Bellagio is powered by an air-cooled, four-stroke, 935cc V-twin engine pumping out 74PS of power and a torque rating of 78Nm. Power is layed onto the rear wheels via a six-speed transmission.
Moto Guzzi has priced the Bellagio at Rs. 15.2 lakh (ex-showroom, Gurgaon). Bookings for the bike has commenced at the Northwards Motors dealership which is the first and only dealership of the brand in the country. As of now, the Bellagio will be only available in black colour with a waiting period of six weeks for delivery. According to company officials response for the premium Italian brand has been satisfactory with the dealership registering few sales. The Bellagio is pitched against the Ducati Streetfighter and the premium CKD models from the stables of Harley-Davidson.
Thursday 5 September 2013
Google To Build Its Own Driverless Cars
SOME inventions, like some species, seem to make periodic leaps in progress. The car is one of them. Twenty-five years elapsed between Karl Benz beginning small-scale production of his original Motorwagen and the breakthrough, by Henry Ford and his engineers in 1913, that turned the car into the ubiquitous, mass-market item that has defined the modern urban landscape. By putting production of the Model T on moving assembly lines set into the floor of his factory in Detroit, Ford drastically cut the time needed to build it, and hence its cost. Thus began a revolution in personal mobility. Almost a billion cars now roll along the world’s highways.
Today the car seems poised for another burst of evolution. One way in which it is changing relates to its emissions. As emerging markets grow richer, legions of new consumers are clamouring for their first set of wheels. For the whole world to catch up with American levels of car ownership, the global fleet would have to quadruple. Even a fraction of that growth would present fearsome challenges, from congestion and the price of fuel to pollution and global warming.
Yet, as our special report this week argues, stricter regulations and smarter technology are making cars cleaner, more fuel-efficient and safer than ever before. China, its cities choked in smog, is following Europe in imposing curbs on emissions of noxious nitrogen oxides and fine soot particles. Regulators in most big car markets are demanding deep cuts in the carbon dioxide emitted from car exhausts. And carmakers are being remarkably inventive in finding ways to comply.
Granted, battery-powered cars have disappointed. They remain expensive, lack range and are sometimes dirtier than they look—for example, if they run on electricity from coal-fired power stations. But car companies are investing heavily in other clean technologies. Future motorists will have a widening choice of super-efficient petrol and diesel cars, hybrids (which switch between batteries and an internal-combustion engine) and models that run on natural gas or hydrogen. As for the purely electric car, its time will doubtless come.
Towards the driverless, near-crashless car
Meanwhile, a variety of “driver assistance” technologies are appearing on new cars, which will not only take a lot of the stress out of driving in traffic but also prevent many accidents. More and more new cars can reverse-park, read traffic signs, maintain a safe distance in steady traffic and brake automatically to avoid crashes. Some carmakers are promising technology that detects pedestrians and cyclists, again overruling the driver and stopping the vehicle before it hits them. A number of firms, including Google, are busy trying to take driver assistance to its logical conclusion by creating cars that drive themselves to a chosen destination without a human at the controls. This is where it gets exciting.
Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, predicts that driverless cars will be ready for sale to customers within five years. That may be optimistic, but the prototypes that Google already uses to ferry its staff (and a recent visitor from The Economist) along Californian freeways are impressive. Google is seeking to offer the world a driverless car built from scratch, but it is more likely to evolve, and be accepted by drivers, in stages.
As sensors and assisted-driving software demonstrate their ability to cut accidents, regulators will move to make them compulsory for all new cars. Insurers are already pressing motorists to accept black boxes that measure how carefully they drive: these will provide a mass of data which is likely to show that putting the car on autopilot is often safer than driving it. Computers never drive drunk or while texting.
If and when cars go completely driverless—for those who want this—the benefits will be enormous. Google gave a taste by putting a blind man in a prototype and filming him being driven off to buy takeaway tacos. Huge numbers of elderly and disabled people could regain their personal mobility. The young will not have to pay crippling motor insurance, because their reckless hands and feet will no longer touch the wheel or the accelerator. The colossal toll of deaths and injuries from road accidents—1.2m killed a year worldwide, and 2m hospital visits a year in America alone—should tumble down, along with the costs to health systems and insurers.
Driverless cars should also ease congestion and save fuel. Computers brake faster than humans. And they can sense when cars ahead of them are braking. So driverless cars will be able to drive much closer to each other than humans safely can. On motorways they could form fuel-efficient “road trains”, gliding along in the slipstream of the vehicle in front. People who commute by car will gain hours each day to work, rest or read a newspaper.
Roadblocks ahead
Some carmakers think this vision of the future is (as Henry Ford once said of history) bunk. People will be too terrified to hurtle down the motorway in a vehicle they do not control: computers crash, don’t they? Carmakers whose self-driving technology is implicated in accidents might face ruinously expensive lawsuits, and be put off continuing to develop it.
Yet many people already travel, unwittingly, on planes and trains that no longer need human drivers. As with those technologies, the shift towards driverless cars is taking place gradually. The cars’ software will learn the tricks that humans use to avoid hazards: for example, braking when a ball bounces into the road, because a child may be chasing it. Google’s self-driving cars have already clocked up over 700,000km, more than many humans ever drive; and everything they learn will become available to every other car using the software. As for the liability issue, the law should be changed to make sure that when cases arise, the courts take into account the overall safety benefits of self-driving technology.
Wednesday 4 September 2013
Tuesday 3 September 2013
Tata nano diesel. approx cost 2.50-3.50
The Nano managed to capture the public's imagination, but it didn't manage to capture the sales charts in quite the same way. Thededicated facility in Sanand Gujarat for the Nano is functioning way below optimum and is not even close to break-even. Tata has tried everything to improve the numbers, right from offering discounts to limited editions with added features and even mid-life facelift, but unfortunately things haven’t changed much. Now however Tata is working on a new version, one that will set the statistics right and give the Indian carmaker more than a fighting chance in the slowing auto market – the Nano diesel.
The test-mules of the Nano diesel have been spotted a few times making distinct clatter of the oil burners, but there is no official information regarding the same. Tata has been tightlipped about the development of the new hatchback, so we will have to rely on our sources for the time being. The Nano diesel will look slightly different from its petrol counterpart, mainly for the better cooling required by the diesel engine. There is a possibility that the car will be launched with a facelift that will also be incorporated for the petrol variant. The new version will have few more features and better quality fitments. Tata cars have better interior space compared to its competitors; even the Nano is roomier than its rivals, mainly the Maruti Alto. The diesel version is expected to offer similar cabin space.
There is a word that the Tata Nano diesel will be an 800cc three-cylinder turbocharged unit. Turbo manufacturer Garett has updated their website confirming that they will be building a small turbine for the new mill. The power ratings are yet to be confirmed, but the diesel engine is expected to produce 42.9bhp and by virtue of being a diesel, a significantly higher torque. There are rumors that the diesel Nano will have an astonishing fuel efficiency of over 30kpl. Last but not the least, since the engine and transmission will be evolutions of the Ace pickup truck's drivetrain keeping the cots in check.
The new small car will be the least expensive diesel model in the country, and that will be its biggest USP. The prices will be significantly higher than that of the petrol model, but will compete with the top-end petrol versions of its competitors. The Nano diesel is expected to remain unchallenged for a while, as most manufacturers are working on diesel versions only in the B-Segment. The diesel version of Nano is expected to be launched in India in early 2014. The prices of the diesel Nano are expected to start around Rs 2.4 lakh, while the top-end variant will cost around Rs 3.25 lakh.
Toyota Camry Hybrid
Most of us associate a luxurious automobile with words like extravagance, extremity and indulgence. And if we were to give some thought to the recently launched 7th generation Toyota Camry similar nouns would come to mind.
However, as global pioneers of automotive hybrid technology Toyota has decided to put its greener expertise into its handsome flagship sedan, and the end product is now India’s first ever locally manufactured hybrid - the Camry Hybrid.
The Camry hybrid combines a newly developed hybrid exclusive 2.5L Beltless petrol engine with an electric motor. The vehicle runs on Hybrid Synergy Drive, which intelligently senses when to switch between the two power sources – petrol engine and electric motor.
The petrol motor on the Camry Hybrid retains the same 2,494cc displacement but the engine output now drops to 160PS and 213Nm of torque, compared to the 181PS and 233Nm from the petrol only engine. But the hybrid also gets added boost from the electric motor which together give an impressive total system power output of 205 PS. In addition to the features available in the petrol Camry, the Camry Hybrid comes with more than 35 enhancements. These include a rear armrest with controls for power recline rear seats, a power sunshade for the rear windshield, and a 3 zone air conditioning system among other comforts.
Regenerative braking technology, lower NVH levels, reduced fuel consumption and emissions as low as 122.8 gm of CO2 emissions per km of driving give the Hybrid version some obvious advantages over the petrol only Camry model.
Speaking about the introduction of Toyota Camry Hybrid in India Hiroshi Nakagawa, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, TKM said “This is in line with Toyota’s global philosophy to encourage the use of hybrid vehicles across the globe, for a greener tomorrow. Manufacturing Camry hybrid locally will be yet another step towards Toyota’s global commitment.”
The All New Camry Hybrid is priced at 29,75,000/- (ex showroom Delhi) and is available in four vibrant colours – grey metallic, white pearl crystal shine ,silver metallic and attitude black.
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