GM India vice president P Balendran spoke about this new model: The new Chevrolet U-VA brings superlative value and additional safety, security and luxury to our customers.

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New Delhi: General Motors India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, has launched a new variant of its hatchback Chevrolet Aveo U-VA in India. The car comes with additional interiors and exterior features and is priced between Rs. 3.98 lakh and Rs. 5.11 lakh. GM India vice president P Balendran speaking at the launch of the car said, “The new Chevrolet U-VA brings superlative value and additional safety, security and luxury to our customers,” he said.

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New variant of Chevrolet Aveo U-VA launched As part of General Motors’ centenary year celebrations, General Motors India, on 16th October’08, has launched a new variant of its hatchback Chevrolet Aveo U-VA, at a press conference attended by its brand ambassador and movie star Saif Ali Khan.

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Speaking on the occasion Mr. P. Balendran, Vice President said, ” The new Chevrolet U-VA now brings superlative value and additional safety, security and luxury to our customers, which is in line with our commitment to provide best-in-class products and services. With our Talegaon plant going into production last month, GM is now in a position to strengthen the company’s presence in the Indian market through the Chevrolet brand.

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Chevrolet is also offering a three-year 0% finance package for people wanting to buy a car outright. This applies to the Aveo, for which you pay 30% up front and then from 149 a month thereafter, depending on model. The Epica executive saloon is also covered, though this time you pay a 50% deposit and 199 per month from then on.

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Article and photo by Bill Vance In the early days of trucking, pickup trucks were mostly spinoffs of passenger cars. Manufacturers simply cut off a car body behind the front doors, closed in the rear of the cab and attached a utility box to the frame. This was largely the form of these no-nonsense working vehicles during the 1920s and ’30s. Then during the 1940s, particularly after the Second World War, light half-ton trucks began to take on their own persona.

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Chevrolet Silverado tops list of most stolen vehicles (1:37 p.m.) Sun-News report Article Launched: 10/09/2008 01:34:06 PM MDT EL PASO - The Chevrolet Silverado 1500 pick-up truck is the most popular vehicle among thieves and tops the list of the five most stolen vehicles, according to an El Paso Police Department news release.

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Of course, performance figures do not tell the whole story. The Camaro still held the upper hand. How about the contests that don t reward brute power? As you d predict for otherwise similar cars, the 275-horsepower Camaro creams the 215-horsepower Mustang in sheer speed. In nearly every performance measurement we take, the Camaro Z28 runs all over the Mustang GT.

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D ETROIT - When General Motors Corp. s new global small car hits the U.S. market in mid-2010, the company is expecting it to fetch a better price than Honda and Toyota get for their small cars, GM executives said today. The Chevrolet Cruze, officially unveiled today in Detroit on the eve of GM s 100th anniversary, is a big step up inside, outside and in fuel economy from its predecessor, the Chevrolet Cobalt.

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Does that sentence mean I’m placing too much weight on GM’s Chevrolet Volt , a plug-in electric vehicle to be released in 2010? Perhaps. But the company has placed so much of its marketing power behind the Volt, and anticipation is so high , it’s hard to escape the fact that the Volt is critical to GM’s immediate fuel economy future.

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