It has been a while (not so long either) when Fiat India launched its much awaited model Linea. This sedan car was much needed to improve Fiat image in India and this car is doing that quite well. The first look of car will generate an urge in you to own one. From design it looks like a much more expensive car than it is actually. Price range from 6 to 7 lakhs for petrol model and 7 to 8 lakhs for Diesel. These prices are rough figures and price may slightly vary in your city. Petrol version has a 1368 CC Fire engine which generates 90 ps and diesel variant has 1248 CC advanced multijet engine which generates 86 ps but only at 4000 rpm while petrol reaches its full output at 6000 rpm.

Performance of both the engines are good but people who already drive a bigger engine vehicles like Honda Civic or even people who will upgrade from Baleno will find this car little underpowered! Linea is available in 5 colors which are red, grey, champagne, black and white. In these colors red has been very popular till now and not because this color is most advertised but on road this color does look good on Linea. Almost everyone who bought this car has one complain, the built quality is not up to the mark. Every new car has some issues like poor quality fittings and people are finding the plastics used in this car very fragile.

Overall this car delivers what people expect from it and it’s a nice car to own. If you buy it, you will not regret on your decision. This car has forced its nearest competitor Ford Fiesta to reduce its price to 5.5 lakhs so that people can think about it. I would prefer Linea over fiesta because its new, it’s got fresh design and it’s cheaper to maintain car than Ford Fiesta and few more rival company’s sedan. Fiat claims that Linea is even cheaper to maintain than Maruti SX4!

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TATA Nano will soon be seen on Indian roads and if you are looking for the TATA showroom then wait, you don’t have to actually. State Bank of India (SBI) has announced that they will be the sole agency for bookings of world’s cheapest car, TATA Nano. So next time you head to bank for any work, don’t forget to ask your friendly accountant sitting there because they might give you any inside news which is not public yet.

Once again you will see huge discounts offered on various models of cars and this time it’s not because of any festival but due to December season. So what’s special this month? Before I answer this, we know that vehicle registration year matters a lot to buyers and most important to second buyer of that car if you plan to re-sell that car after some years of use. Most car owners sell their car after some years of use when the car starts giving troubles often to an old car dealer. Now if you buy in December 2008, you will get registration of year 2008 while if you wait for few more days, you can get registration of year 2009 and your car will be 2009 model instead of 2008. Due to this, car sales drop in the last few months of year and to boost up sales, car manufactures offer cash discounts or assured gifts on some models. You can get the idea behind this offer when you look at the cash discount. For a model which is very popular and sells more, the cash discount is less and for slower selling models, cash discount is more. Now my suggestion is to take benefit of this model and save a quite good amount of money, will this saved money, you can get some accessories installed in your new car like a subwoofer with amplifier for better sound, or alloy wheels if the car have regular rim. Benefit you get here is that when you sell your car after some years of use, you can tell the buyer that it was purchased in December and hence its just like 2009 model and its often seen that buyer understand the point very well. Your car will fetch more before of those extra accessories you installed with the money saved in offer!

Reigncom released its 3.5-inch portable navigation device ‘iriver NV mini’ in Korea market, which runs on Gini map software. Adopting a 3.5-inch touch screen with 320×240 resolution, the iriver NV mini supports GPS navigation, video/audio playback, photo viewer and more. On that tiny resolution, watching videos may not be a pleasing experience but its ok to have it because afterall its not the mainstream video playback device. Offering up to 2.5 hours of built-in battery life, it supports external memory capability of 8GB.

Hyundai Motor Company revealed its eco-friendly hybrid hatchback car ‘Santa Fe Blue Hybrid’ during Paris Motor Show, which is powered by a 2.4L Theta four-cylinder engine with 30kW electric motor. Featuring ISG (Idle Stop & Go) control system, the Santa Fe Blue Hybrid can accelerate from 0 to 100km/h in 10.6 seconds and reach a top speed of 170km/h. Acceleration is really slow and people driving car faster will feel it, while others cannot make out the difference. Hybrid cars are also priced much higher than their non hybrid version.