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Nissan To Introduce V-Platform Based Sedan In India By 2011

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 11:50 PM PDT

Nissan is a highly renowned global brand famous for its powerful yet quality products like the Nissan 370Z and the latest to its edition the new Nissan Micra. But hardly any of us knows the most unique thing about Micra, which is the Nissan V-Platform on which it based.

To give you a brief introduction about this platform its our duty to tell you that the V-platform was first introduced by General Motors in 1967 for rear wheel drives and was soon brought to front wheel driven cars by 1987. V-Platform is also written as V-body or in a simpler way to tell you V stands for Versatile.

The name versatile has been given to this platform since the cars based on it are lighter, roomer and most importantly cost effective and Nissan presently has two cars on this platform,one Micra and the other a sedan which is to be launched in India and is also planning to bring in an MPV to replace Note by late 2011.

Specifications Of V-Platform Based Cars

Engine

The majority of V-platform cars will be powered by new 'low-friction' three-cylinder engines, which are speculated to be in capacities ranging from 0.9 to 1.2-litre with possibilities of turbochargers with most of the versions.

Transmission

The company will install a newly engineered, compact, 'low-friction' CVT automatic transmission,having higher top ratio than normal transmissions.

Other Features

It underpins cars with weight up to 1600kg
The largest possible engine for family of these cars is a 1.5 Liter CRDI turbo-charged diesel unit
Maximum torque output is 210 Nm
18 percent reduced number of components
Highly fuel efficient

The V-platform focuses on reducing the overall weight of the vehicle as well as minimizing the number of components to be installed.

The weight of these cars is reduced by simplifying the car's systems and by reducing components which could be justified by the facts that the new cars contain a 3kg lighter exhaust system,a 2.2kg lighter and smaller fuel tank along with the least number of components for the cockpit module.

We optimistically look forward towards the upcoming sedan and wish that it does well in the Indian automobile market.

Suzuki Superbike Workshop In Delhi Coming Soon

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:30 PM PDT

Affording a bike in India isn't a big deal as the bike sector comprises of vehicles ranging from 110CC two wheelers like Yamaha YBR and Honda CB Twister to 250CC machines like Bajaj Pulsar, but there is a segment which is still untouched and unexplored due to its high price and is called as the Superbike segment.

Only a handful of rich people and bike enthusiasts are able to afford such mean machines having engines with displacements over 1000cc and with costs equivalent to a Honda City,Honda Civic or even more than the price of Honda Accord.

Buying such a high-end bike is one thing but maintaining one is certainly an issue which needs to be dealt with since a long time and to answer this Suzuki has come up with its first superbike workshop in Delhi for all those owners who apart from riding their exclusive bikes,believe in maintaining them too.

Also Read:- Full Technical Specifications & Price Of Suzuki GSX-R1000 And Bandit 1250PS

The company has made an association with Bittoo Sondhi, who is called as the godfather of the India's big bike movement and has named the first workshop as Bittoo Suzuki which is all set to service these dream bikes from Suzuki Hayabusa to Suzuki Intruder. Atul Gupta, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt. Ltd, has said "the workshop is also a step towards strengthening Suzuki’s big bike after sales efforts in Delhi,"

This is certainly a reason for all the Hayabusa and Intruder and to be owners of the newly launched GSX-R1000 and Bandit 1250PS , to celebrate since from now onwards in case of any problems they would have to simply head to Bittoo Suzuki and get their issues sorted out.

We wish more such workshops to be opened soon in the capital by other brands as well.

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