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Skoda Rapid diesel expected to launch later India
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Nov-05-2011
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Skoda India is maintaining its status with its various cars in sedan car section in India
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Skoda India is maintaining its status with its various cars in sedan car section in India and all of its car are well known for their powerful performance with excellent comfort for driver and passengers. But now Skoda India is decided to provide a car in sedan section which is powerful as well as affordable to the user with its upcoming car Skoda Rapid. Company has finalized the launching date of this car as 16 th November. As we know Volkswagen is the parent company of Skoda and Skoda Rapid sedan is truly a familiar car of Volkswagen Vento which is already available in market and quite liked by Indian car users. But in India is tagged as Rs. 8,00,000 which is a bit lower than Volkswagen Vento.
Skoda Rapid is going to increase the profit shares of Skoda India because the production cost of various parts of this car is already very low because those parts are same which Volkswagen is using in its Vento and Skoda is sharing them. Skoda India has decided to available both petrol and diesel variant of its new Skoda Rapid in Indian market but both these options will available with 5 speed manual gear box system. Skoda Rapid is using the same engine which is equipped in Volkswagen Vento, its petrol car is installed with 1.6 L petrol engine which generates the power of 105 Bhp with 160 Nm torque and its diesel variant is set up with 1.5 L diesel engine which is also capable of generating same power as petrol engine but with more torque of 250 Nm. The petrol car is expected to give the mileage of 16.5 km pl whereas the diesel car gives 20 .5 km pl on highways.
Skoda Rapid specifications comprises that although having similar base of engine as Vento, company has made Skoda Rapid's exteriors more exciting with smiling front face with vertical grills. This car's front view gets more noticeable with its wider air dam on lower half and aerodynamically designed halogen lamps. The exteriors of this car is also similar in some aspect with the Skoda hatchback Skoda Fabia. In terms of interiors Skoda Rapid with starting price of 7 lac may not be that much comfortable but the deluxe version of Skoda Rapid looks more fine tuned and excellent with 5 seater facility with lumbar support. Its interiors are designed by considering Indian users requirement and thats why it consist features like power steering with adjustable head, power windows, adjustable driver seat, etc.
Honda City is being the most demanding sedan car in Indian car market in present time with its 1497 cc engine which gives goof performance with fine mileage but now Skoda Rapid can give a tight competition to Honda city with its more powerful engine of 1598 cc under its hoof.
As whole Skoda Rapid review suggest that it is a sedan car with similar heart of Volkswagen Vento but with different fascia in affordable price for Indian sedan car users, it can be second most cost effective and powerful sedan for Indian roads after Nissan Sunny.
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Travel and Leisure
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