The Hindu Business Line : Tata Motors to launch Dicor model of Indica

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Chennai Feb 21 Tata Motors will launch a model of Indica with direct injection common rail engines (Dicor) this year, according to Mr Rajiv Dube, President (Passenger Cars).

The company is already producing Indica cars with Dicor, but only for export markets. In the domestic market, Tata Safari and Indigo vehicles are available with Dicor technology.

(Common rail technology enables a fine spray of compressed fuel into the combustion chamber, which results in better burn, and hence better driveability and fuel efficiency.)

"All I can say now is that it will be launched this calendar year," Mr Dube said.

He was in the city in connection with the inauguration of a dealership of Concorde Motors at Ambattur in Chennai.

Mr Dube said that passenger car volumes grew by 21 per cent in the first 10 months of the current fiscal. (In 2005-06, 1.14 million passenger vehicles were produced in India.) Diesel cars accounted for about a third of sales.

He also said that he saw the share of diesel cars in total sales increasing.

Stating that it was a "myth" that people bought diesel cars because diesel was cheaper than petrol, he said that in Europe, where prices of the two fuels are comparable, 51 per cent of vehicles are diesel-powered.

He said that one of the two concept cars of Tata Motors - Tata Crossover (the other is Tata Cliffrider) - would be "productionised" within the next couple of years, but did not elaborate.

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