Porsche will unveil Panamera at upcoming
2009 Shanghai Motor Show and they officially announced the engine options available. Price range for
Panamera is 1.4 crore to 2.2 crores and the base version of Panamera i.e
Panamera S is equipped with a
4.8-ltr V8 with a power rating of
400 bhp and is a rear wheel drive with
7-speed PDK ( Porsche Double Clutch) transmission. Panamera S will hit the ton in
5.4 seconds and top speed is
283 kmph.
Panamera 4S is also having the same details but having a four-wheel drive system with same 7-speed PDK gearbox. Because of the four-wheel drive 0-100 acceleration time improves from
5.4 sec to 5.0 sec. And
Panamera Turbo features a
4.8-ltr biturbo V8 with a power output of whooping
500 horses and is also having the same PDK transmission.
Yamaha is a well known name for its performance machines and Indians have once tasted this performance in the form of RD350. These were the times when Indians first time rode a homologated bike with more that one cylinder and after the death of RD people were again became habitual of riding puny 100cc s . Yamaha was loosing the ground in Indian market as rapidly as the first gear acceleration of RD, but they have managed to change it little bit by their re-entry in the performance department. First they make the hype by the launch of the performane kings R1 and MT01, Yamaha knew that these bikes can't sell in big numbers in India and can't generate revenues for the Tuning-Frok logo, but that was the starting of the game plan. After that Yamaha launched two bikes R15 and FZ 16, which were specially designed for Indian market and were going to sell in mass numbers and they succeed this time.
But now Yamaha is going to keep the game on in multi-cylinder department. This time they are trying to lure Indian power hungry and heavy pocket buyers by low pricing. Yamaha is planning to launch FZ1 which comes in two flavors, one is naked and another is with quarter fairing. Bike supports a 998cc, liquid-cold, in-line four cylinder engine from previous generation R1 and produces a hefty 150 bhp. Yamaha is thinking about the SKD route (i.e Semi Knocked Down units) to keep the price under check, so that Yamaha can price FZ1 below Honda CB1000R.
As speculations are been made for the
Porsche Panamera's Indian Launch in October this Year, one thing about which people has curiosity is pricing. The Base Panamera will cost around 1.4 crores and for turbo Panamera the digits will go near 2 crores. It seems highly priced but who knows what is packed inside for this money.
Toyota is going to give Indian roads an another soft-roader in the form of
Fortuner. This Vehicle is backed up by the Toyota's world re-known reliabilty and coming to India by Septrmber 2009. Price for the fortuner will be around
20 lacs and it will give a stiff competition to the present rivals like Chevrolet Captiva, recently launched Mitshubishi Outlander and the segment leader Honda CR-V. Competition will be more fierce because Fortuner will come with a
3 ltr advanced common rail diesel with 163 horses on tap and a
2.7 ltr VVT-i pertrol may also be on offer . So lets wait and see that big gun running on Indian roads.
Mercedes-Benz is operating in India for a long time now and by this time Merc is getting a stiff competition from its Breed-German rivals Audi and BMW. So, its time to do some experiments by the Company and they have done it. Mercedes recently launched their Special-Edition E-Class with more aggressive amd sporty styling. E-Class now inherits the S-Class cues like C-Class did and is very exclusive too. Only 192 units ot this special edition will be produced to maintain the Exclusivity. Wilfried Aulbur, managing director and CEO of Mercedes-Benz India told that this car is more luxurious and powerful and will be a collector's item for sure.
As we all know by time that the booking amouts for nano's Base variant to Top of the line Lx variants ranges from 95k-1.4 lakh. Now another thing to get in to the mind is "insurance amount". You have to pay 3,468/- as an insurance amount for the Base variant and 4.431/- for the Lx. Nano is attracting people to the showrooms with big numbers and it shows by the sale of the "Booking Forms" . In just five days from the availability of the booking forms 51000 form were been sold. By the estimate Tata is going to have a cash back of 31 crores only by the booking forms. Financing is available at 9 percent by Union Bank of India and at 14.25 percent by the Federal bank of India.
