General Motors India has introduced its smallest diesel engine car on Monday Globally by Mr. Sumit Sawhney, Vice-President-Marketing Sales, and India. Chevrolet Beat is the smallest car in India, and The U.S.-based automobile company has taken competition on small diesel cars in up coming automobile market. This is especially crucial in a time when the demand for diesel cars in India is at an all time high. With the Chevrolet Beat Diesel, the company will also aim to demonstrate that a three cylinder engine too can be as smooth as say a four potter.key Specifications:
The 1.0-liter diesel engine has been developed by GM's engineers in Europe and modified to suit Indian driving conditions at the company's technical center in Bangalore. It have a cam chain instead of the conventional cam belt, the XSDE Diesel three potter is designed to be a low maintenance engine. The engine has also been developed keeping in mind the fact that its intended application will be mainly on city streets. Therefore, plenty of low end torque to make city driving a breeze is a strong point of the engine. 936cc and will be one of the segment leaders when it comes to fuel economy.
Tomorrow, at 1130 in the morning, the company will launch the Chevrolet Beat Diesel at Delhi and Mumbai simultaneously. 936cc and will be one of the segment leaders when it comes to fuel economy. Also, the fact that the engine being a three cylinder unit will cost lesser to produce than say, a four cylinder diesel engine that most of the other competing cars in the segment like the Tata Indica eV2 and the Ford Figo Diesel feature. And this factor is expected to make a big difference.
This cost saving aspect of the three pot engine is expected to translate into a lower sticker price for the Chevrolet Beat Diesel; one which we can expect that will be very competitive to say the least. So, you can expect the Chevrolet Beat Diesel to be priced very close to the Tata Indica eV2 or just a little higher than the Indica’s price, thus making it one of the lowest price diesel in a country.GM In
dia also sells a 1.2-liter gasoline Beat car.
