Hyundai’s most popular SUV Santa Fe will soon be getting makeover under the Hyundai’s Current Fluidic theme. The soon to launch new Fluidic Hyundai Santa Fe has been spied now. The scooped picture clearly shows that design change being introduced in the new Santa Fe.

The new Fluidic Santa Fe looks much more stylish than the current generation, while the headlight resembles to those being used in Fluidic Verna. The front hexagonal grilled gives the vehicle macho look and is quite similar to those being used in Hyundai Sonata.

The leaked pictures clearly indicate new thick bumper and larger fog lamps with LED lining. At the rear you can clearly notice all new redesigned LED tail-lamps, tail-gate and bumper.

There are no details about the engine specification of the new Santa Fe. We hope Hyundai bring the new Fluidic Santa Fe to Indian Soon.

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One fellow member of Team-bhp has spotted the soon be launched new SUV from TATA Stable, the 2011 Tata Safari Merlin. The camouflaged safari really looks much better than the present generation. Looking at the picture, it is confirmed that the spare wheel will be tucked underneath.
The scooped Safari Merlin is believed to be launched somewhere in December 2011. We can just hope that TATA may shell out more details and specification soon. The new Tata Safari Merlin may come up with new wheel base, tuned up suspension, whole new interiors, a tune DICOR 2.2 VTT engine, HID headlamps, GPS navigator. This is also just speculation; we can just wait for more details to come up.

So by then, stay tuned for more information.

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One fellow member of Team-BHP (India Most Popular Auto Forum) has spotted Audi Q3 being driven by AMW staff. The Q3 really look amazing in flesh. With this scoop, it is almost confirmed that Audi will be launching its popular Q3 SUV in India too.
The premium segment in Indian Automobile market has started heating up since a year, Major Automobile makers like Mercedes, Volvo, BMW are bringing their premium segment cars.

In US the Audi Q3 comes with two power plant, 2.0-liter TFSI which churns outs 170HP and 2.0-liter TDI which gives a power output of 177HP. If launched in India, Audi will place it against the BMW X1, which is one of hottest selling Premium SUV in India.

We can just hope the Audi don’t go wrong with their pricing bracket, and price it wisely in the range of 25-28 lac.

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Nissan upcoming V-platform based sedan Sunny was caught testing in chennai. There were two test car and both of them were camouflaged, So this is confirmed that we will be getting atleast two variant for India.
The Nissan sunny was supposed to be global car and is expected to be exported from Nissan’s Factory at Chennai. The Nissan Sunny is expected to be priced around Rs 7.5 Lac where it will give competition to Tata Manza and Mahindra Verito. Under the hood we can expecet a 1.6-litre petrol engine which will give power output of 109 bhp and a torque figure of 145 Nm, while we can also expect 1.5-litre DCI motor as diesel option, the same engine powers up the Nisaan Micra and Mahindra Verito.
Nissan may also introduce some luxury features like Keyless Entry, One touch down function for front and rear power windows, cruise control, speed sensing auto door lock and much more.
Keep following the blog for futher details ….
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The most awaited Chevrolet Beat diesel will be soon hitting the Indian market. The company is trying out to cashout the increase in demand of Diesel hatch due to heavy differences in the price of Diesel and Petrol in India.
According to brochures leaked by Team-Bhp member, the Beat diesel will be powered by 936cc engine which will churns out 58.5 PS @4000 rpm and provide a maximum torque of 150Nm @ 1750rpm. The company is claiming mileage figure of 24kmpl which will be tested out as soon as it get in the market.

The company will also be providing Auto Climate control feature, the first hatch to get the feature in its segment. The top end variant will further get Dual Air-bag with pretensioner and Dual cockpit design. The company will further provide a warranty for 3 year / 1 lac kilometer.

At present the pricing details are not officially out but we are sensing something close to 4.9L for Beast LT and 5.45L for Beat LT(o).

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As we reported earlier, Toyota has plans to launch the Liva hatch in India during this month end. At what price?

Toyota Liva will change the people’s mindsets that are planning to buy a hatch. The company has plans to launch this model around Rs 4.1-lakhs for the base variant and reach 5.5-lakhs for the top end variant.

Toyota Liva will be available in both Petrol and Diesel variants and the former will be launched first and followed by later in the coming months.

Toyota Liva will compete against Fiat Grande Punto, Volkswagen Polo, Maruti Suzuki Swift, Hyundai i20, Skoda Fabia.

Mr. Sandeep Singh, TKM, Deputy MD, said, “We will launch the car at the most competitive price and like its sedan sibling Etios. It’s an all-new car, offering huge value for money to Indian customers.”