Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa beat back the challenge of compatriot Jorge Lorenzo on a Yamaha and his teammate Casey Stoner to take pole position in the qualifying for tomorrow’s Czech Republic GP at Brno. Lorenzo’s teammate Ben Spies took fourth on the grid followed by Marco Simoncelli on the factory spec San Carlo Gresini Honda in fifth. Valentino Rossi of the Marlboro Ducati team took the sixth position on the grid while Andrea Dovizioso on the third Repsol Honda will start in seventh place in front of the Monster Tech3 Yamaha of Colin Edwards and the second Marlboro Ducati of Hayden. Pramac Ducati riders Randy De Puniet and Loris Capirossi find the Ducati a handful and have all lined up to the back of the grid. The Ducati’s reputation as a rider career destroyer continues despite the slight upturn in Valentino Rossi’s fortunes in qualifying. The race should be interesting.
Yearly Archives: 2011
Piaggio is really bullish on India. Not only is it launching its famed Vespa line of scooters sometime next year, it is also bringing other group companies and their products to India. The famed marque Aprilia is now owned by Piaggio and Aprilia sometime ago launched its flagship the RSV4 Factory (which won the World Superbike Championship in 2010 with Max Biaggi) and its derivatives in India. Now Motorbeam.com says that the entire range of motorcycles from Aprilia is available in India.
Here is what Motorbeam has to say
“Piaggio has launched the complete line up of Aprilia motorcycles in India. The company is offering the RSV4 in four variants including the RSV4, RSV4 R, RSV4 APRC and the top of the line RSV4 Factory (pictured here). The company is also offering the Mana 850 priced at Rs. 10.50 lakhs, Mana 850 ABS priced at Rs. 10.75 lakhs, Mana 850 GP ABS priced at Rs. 11 lakhs, Dorsoduro 1200 priced at Rs. 11.75 lakhs, Dorsoduro ABS priced at Rs. 12.10 lakhs, Tuono APRC priced at Rs. 14 lakhs, RSV4-R priced at Rs. 14.50 lakhs and RSV4 Factory priced at Rs. 17.50 lakhs (all prices ex-showroom, Pune). Bookings have already started and deliveries will take upto six weeks.”
Picture Courtesy: Motorbeam.com
Motorbeam.com is carrying news that the much awaited Force One SUV from Force Motors will be launched on the 19th of this month. Motorbeam says that this news is official. Many pictures of the test mules of the SUV which is based on Chinese Guangdong Foday Explorer III have done the rounds but this will be the first time that the SUV will be seen without any camouflage.
The Maruti Suzuki RIII which is a seven seater MPV built on a stretched Ritz platform seems to be nearing launch. Now more pictures of the said vehicle have found their way on to the internet with no camouflage at all. While speculation previously said that this vehicle would be launched at the Auto Expo in January, 2012 at Delhi, the proliferation of images of the vehicle could mean that the vehicle will be launched during the festive season itself.
Picture Courtesy: Carwale, Auto Bild India, Indianautosblog.com
Picture Courtesy: Auto Bild India and Indiancarsbikes.in
With the launch date of the Maruti Suzuki Swift drawing closer, the company has been releasing pictures of the details of the car one by one. Indianautosblog.com is carrying a picture of how the dashboard of the new Swift looks. This picture has officially been released by Maruti.
Picture Courtesy: Indianautosblog.com
Yesterday we brought you the news of the Indica facelift and also posted some pictures of the car. We had said that the car was likely to get the interiors of the Manza as well with the speedometer back to the traditional place in front of the steering wheel. However, new leaked pictures of the interiors of the car show that there is no change in the position of the speedometer. The interiors seems to have been given a Manzaish treatment only with dual tone dashboard reflecting similarity to the one in the Manza.
Picture taken from: Indiancarsbikes.in
Suzuki’s new Swift (in India the Maruti-Suzuki Swift) is an iteration of the existing version; bigger and bolder and now Suzuki is showcasing a badder version of the in guise of the Swift Sport at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Will it come to India? What are the chances of a two door and expensive Swift being sold in India? Zero, right?
Picture Courtesy: Autocar India.com
Mr. Vaibhav Saigal initially sent many pictures of a Yamaha undergoing prolonged testing, raising hopes of a bigger engined motorcycle from the manufacturer. However in the last few days a new set of pictures brought by Mr. Ram have put all that to rest with the bike clearly being an R15. The bike now has a stepped up pillion seat, beefy front and rear tyres and the bike is now supposed to look like a smaller version of the R6. Indiancarsbikes.in has now posted more pics of the bike photographed by Mr. Ram
Picture Courtesy: Indiancarsbikes.in
As the launch of the Brio hatchback from Honda is nearing more and more test mules are being seen. Honda has high hopes for the Brio which it hopes will rev up its sales in India and break the strangle hold of Maruti, Hyundai and to an extent Tata on the small car market. The pictures originally appeared on Carwale.com
Picture Courtesy: Carwale and Motorbeam.com
It is well known that Hyundai is internationally working on a new range of SUVs to replace the existing fleet. The ix35 has been seen as the replacement for the Tucson and Hyundai is also working on an ix20 which will be a baby SUV. The Santa Fe replacement is being called the ix45 though one does not know if that is the definitive nomenclature. Hyundai has been using names in some markets and the i and ix monikers in others.
Pictures Courtesy: Indian Autos Blog.com
