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Chevrolet posts 10% rise in sales

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GM launches Spark LPG variant in Bangalore

BANGALORE: General Motors India has a growth of 9.6 per cent in 2008, selling 65,702 units of its Chevrolet variants, in a year the industry as a whole registered a 2 per cent decline, company President and Managing Director Karl Slym said here on Thursday.

Speaking to reporters at the launch of the Chevrolet Spark LPG variant, he said, GM’s plants in India together had a production capacity of 2.25 lakh cars annually.

The Halol plant in Gujarat had an installed annual capacity of 95,000 units and the Talegaon plant in Maharashtra could manufacture 1.40 lakh units. The Talegaon plant’s production, which commenced in September last, would meet domestic requirements and future export potential, Mr. Slym said.

This facility will also have a 1.60-lakh unit powertrain/engine facility, with production scheduled to begin by the end of next year.

Spark LPG comes with a factory fitted sequential injection type LPG kit and has been safety certified by the Automotive Research Association of India and other organisations, Vice President-Marketing, Ankush Arora said.

A distinguishing feature of the car is its beige interior; it comes with the same three year/one lakh km warranty as the petrol variant.

The LPG model runs on petrol and gas.

Vice President-Corporate Affairs P. Balendran said the number of GM dealerships had doubled to 200.

The technical centre in Bangalore was one of the four such in Asia. It had a design studio for local product requirements and to develop alternate fuel technologies for the future.

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