It feels nice to see WTCC Chevrolet Cruze on the television. I feel immensely proud of the fact that the road going version of the car can be bought in India. The good news is that soon, we might get to be even more proud. Popular Jap auto maker Honda has announced their plans of entering the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC).

The car to be used will be the 2012 European Honda Civic in a 1.6-litre 4-cylinder turbocharged avatar. This car has been developed by J.A.S Motorsport and Mugen. Yes, before you point out, I know that the European version of the new Civic car is not and will not be here but we should be getting the American sibling of the aforementioned car in near future.

Also, Honda has made an official announcement that they will be entering a two-car team in the next year’s championship.

Yet another big announcement to come from the after effects of Bajaj unveiling the 2012 Bajaj Pulsar 200 NS is that Bajaj Auto is busy working on development of a fully faired variant of the recently showcased Pulsar 200 NS.

Now, most of the premium segment bikes (read: Hero ZMR, Yamaha R15, Honda CBR250R) sport a fairing and as per the perception of many, a faired bike needs to be sharper and faster. Several R15 buyers were smitten by the machine only because it ‘looked’ like a race bike. Some still compare the ZMR with the baby CBR because both of them sport a full fairing. Thus, having a fairing seems to be the most quintessential factor to appear cool.

The Pulsar 200NS should also rub shoulders with the upcoming CBR 150R. The good part is that it should be priced considerably lower than both the R15 and the 150R and the 23BHP machine should outrun these two 17 and 18 bhp bikes on the road.

The faired 200NS should be the perfect successor to the fast aging Pulsar 220 DTSi and we are eagerly waiting to swing a leg on the all new Pulsar.

Recently, a bicyclist (!!) managed to capture on video tape the all-new 2012 Mercedes Benz A Class hatchback. The cyclist was riding from El Golfo to Playa Blanca on the Spanish island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.It is very likely that the German biggie was at that location to film the new model of the car.

The five door hatchback should be the first variant of the new A-Class to be introduced to the world.  Mercedes had earlier confirmed that this 5-door hatchback will make its debut at the fast approaching Geneva motor show. Our sources say that a sporty 3 door version of this car should hit the market next year. The same sources also claim that the AMG version of the A-Class will feature all-wheel drive with power coming from a high-performance four-cylinder turbocharged petrol motor producing as much as 300HP.

From what can be seen in the video, A-Class seen here is either the much talked about upcoming A25 AMG or the regular model fitted with an AMG sports package. What with the front bumper with the stretched out side pockets, the large alloy wheels and the side skirts? The BMW 1 series has suddenly started looking pretty ordinary. Thanks to the newbie here.

If not the S class Pullman, the good Lord should at least buy me this Merc Hatchback here.

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With the coming of the all new and second generation of the CLS sports sedan, there will also be an interesting sister of the car that should be christened as the Shooting Brake. Carsccop has managed to capture the images of the CLS Shooting Brake being tested. The sleek-looking estate model was testing in Europe when caught. It is being said that the E class estate is Roomier than CLS Shooting Brake but the new kid on the block will be have a larger boot.

The design of ‘near to production’ estate is not too different from the Shooting Break (In words of Mercs) concept car seen in 2010. The estate should share the several engine options with the sedan.

There is some possibility that the German biggie may introduce the CLS Shooting Break as early as next month at the Geneva Motor Show.

Stay tuned folks!

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The car measures 4140mm in length, 1780mm in width and is 1660mm high and the L is 594mm longer, 153mm wider and 172mm taller than the standard Fiat 500 hatchback. In words of the marketing guys at Fiat, the new 500 offers ‘MPV passenger space combined with the feel of a small SUV on the road.’

Here is our take on the ‘Multipa-ish’ styled car:

One look at this car is not really enough for a lay man to associate it with the popular Italian brand. While it does look like it is a Fiat, it does not really look like a Fiat 500. The front and rear of the car are quite similar to the current 500 but the similarity seems to end there.

The front fascia has a very distinctive chrome garnish holding the Fiat badge in the center. The headlights are larger than the standard 500 and the front surfaces are negative. The wheel arches are boxed in and they sway away from the standard car’s curves. The frontal shut lines are still the same but the door shut lines are different. The side is emphasized with a large body side moulding that holds a chrome rubbing strip in it.  The green house area looks very different with a flat top and gels with the rear that holds wrap-around rear windshield. The tail lamps are distinctive and have a softer rectangular form with different levels of glass. The tail lamps are emphasized by brushed chrome finished border pieces. The fiat badge stays in the center and the lower bumper has a matte black strip running across it.

Carrying an iconic name and staying true to it is not always easy. This car, although it is well designed and follows Fiat’s design philosophy, it just does not create much of the feeling of nostalgia. Design is not always about sharp lines and fancy lights, it is a feeling and a meaning that is conveyed through lines and surfaces.

This ‘Multipla-ish’ MPV could make it to India, albeit, in a stripped down avatar. What with every other manufacturer jumping into the mini-SUV/MPV bandwagon. Bring it on Fiat and while at it, get us the tasty Abarth version too. Please, pretty please!

It has not even been a couple of months since we had reported about the world’s most expensive car pile up that took place in Japan. The aforementioned crash involved more than two dozen premium car models. Out of the 24 cars, a one third were the holy Ferraris. But this clip here literally makes us have a heavy heart. The video clip here shows the white Ferrari Testarossa involved in the recent pile up and also includes a few F360S. The video has been shot at Japan and it is quite disappointing to see the cars end up having such a fate. As they say, What a WASTE! Is not it painful to see a lot of twisted scarlet metal in the video below?

The world of cars abounds with model names which make no more sense than the Congress managing to rule us for the past 70 years. How does ‘Daihatsu Naked’ sound for a car which you are supposed to drop your kids to school in? Imagine your 10 year old son’s classmates asking him about his ride. Now picture him replying – ‘Well, I ride a Daihatsu, Naked.’ Apart from someone who wants to go down in history as a luminary of the LGBT society, I wonder who else would want to have that sort of a name for his car. Here’s another. Nissan Rogue. Tell that name to a strictly Hindi speaking prospect, and he’ll run away thinking of it as the sign of a disease. I wonder how even the English speaking ones would find semblance in a product which nonchalantly tells the interested customers ‘Hey moron, buy me, for I’m a company certified scoundrel by name!’

Now I’m not under the influence of absinth as I write all this. The Yeti, as I figured after a comprehensive, 500km drive is a fantastic name for the vehicle you see in these pictures here. I’ll tell you why, somewhere in this article, and that somewhere, of course, is not here.

Does size matter?

Parked next to a big, bad SUV, like, say, the Fortuner, the Yeti, one has to admit, does look like a junior high student standing next to a freshman. It’s a different story altogether though that this junior high student, for whatever reason, is small only in size. He has a pair of big round things dangling below his crotch, concealed neatly beneath his ironed school uniform. And he looks this big, bad counterpart of his straight in the eye, cold and fearless. Intimidating, as the Fortuner may be, and smaller in size, as the Yeti may be, the latter remains undaunted; fully aware and confident of its own capability, and prepared for a fight if challenged. Some of the most vicious dictators in the world were amusingly short in height, just in case you’re not convinced.

However, beneath that relatively diminutive body beats a potent heart, and while they do not bulge out overly, the muscles on its body are well toned and full of strength. The Yeti looks more like a grown up, muscular hatchback than an SUV when looked at head on. Those unusually big fog lamps flanking the bottom of the radiator grille, and that silverish goatee are the first things to announce that this isn’t what you think it is. It’s got an extraordinarily oddball face. It gives two hoots to conventional design wisdom and treads a path of its own. And that’s the beauty of it, for that’s what it’s really meant to do in the 4×4 guise – to tread a path of its own.

Things are much saner in profile. Except the B-pillar with its unusual slant that gives the Yeti’s otherwise square-ish glasshouse a sporty look. At the rear, simplicity prevails again with clean, straight lines. Beneath the bumper, under that black plastic cladding however, you have some silver-ish pseudo diffuser lines, to jazz things up a bit for the audience trailing you.

It’s puzzling how the Yeti manages to look so simple yet so dramatic at the same time. Looking for a fantastic one night fling? This isn’t the hot hooker you’re hunting for. Add some thought, some intellect to your quest, scratch a little deeper beneath the skin and the Yeti unravels a philosophy. Non-conformist, yet not a rebel; capable but not pompous; proud, but not arrogant. Beautiful!

So just how well does it tread its path?

Like no other vehicle in its class I can think of. Evils like a soft suspension, high center of gravity, heavy weight and excessive body roll come as freebies with every (well, most) damn SUV or 4×4 you could buy. Now some may not care for it, but I do care a lot about the behavior of my car at speed. I drove the Yeti’s sedan cousin, the Laura 2.0 TDI DSG some time back for a good 1000km. And I cross my heart when I say this, it’s the best damn thing I have ever driven this side of Rs 20 lakh. Powerful, predictable, sure footed, solid, nimble, precise – the car was a peach. So when I drive a 20 lakh SUV, just thinking of the enormous fun I can have for that sort of money instantly kills it for me. As long as I am on a smooth surface that is.

Of course, I understand the additional responsibilities an SUV is meant to shoulder, but I just can’t help thinking about all the useless lard. Having said that, I also know for a fact that 90% of the premium 4×4 SUV buyers don’t buy the bloody thing for what it’s actually meant to do. They buy it for the size, for the weight, for the heft, for the sheer pageantry, the whole visual magnitude; and they don’t mind the evils I mentioned earlier which come along for no extra price, or discount.

And that’s where the biggest strength of the Yeti resides. It’s a nastily accomplished 4×4 machine, capable of flattening down your neighbor’s 100 acre standing crop in a night’s time. And yet, the way it drives on the tar with its extremely low center of gravity, wide track and lighter weight, comes surprisingly close to a sweet handling sedan. The underpinnings of the Yeti are gifted to it by its goddess sister, the Laura, so it does drive better than some of the other expensive sedans – both in a straight line, and around bends. The body roll, for a segment that the Yeti represents is ludicrously minimal, the steering feedback, delightful! A reasonably fun to drive sedan which can off-road if you will – how cool is that? It’s a true all rounder for its class.

That crop flattening part, expand on it

The Yeti, unlike many other pretenders in the cross segments doesn’t run a compromised off road gear. Beneath that running board you have a four-wheel drive system that incorporates a fourth-generation Haldex clutch. That 4×4 system isn’t the old-world iron crushing iron sort of an arrangement. It’s pretty advanced, and doesn’t need your inputs to be put to work. Let’s see how it works. On dry roads, 96% of the engine’s torque is delivered to the front wheels. However, if the Yeti’s electronic control unit and its army of sensors detect a difference in speed between the front and rear axles, the Haldex clutch can divert up to 90% of the torque to the rear axle. Then there is also a limited slip differential on the rear axle, so the drive is also distributed evenly from side to side, ensuring excellent grip and stability on all surfaces.

And there’s more! A whole torrent of data is flowing into the central unit at any given point in time from a network of sensors. Engine revs, throttle pedal position, wheel speed, steering wheel turn angle, brake light switch – they’re watching everything you do with the car, every millisecond. So tomorrow if you bash the thing up in an inebriated state and cook up a story to claim insurance, watch out! For they’ll come to know what exactly the car was doing! And you thought you were the only smart chap around!

Now all this data, in conjunction with the ABS and ESP systems ensures that safety and stability is maintained at all times. When the ESP system is engaged, control is taken over by ABS/ESP control unit and the Haldex clutch is handed over.

Then you have the hill descent control which gently and automatically applies brakes on low traction steep slopes to let the driver concentrate fully on steering the car.

Add 180mm of ground clearance to the equation and you’re ready to flatten the crop we talked about. Just make sure you flee the scene once done. 4×4 isn’t an anti flogging device by any means.

You seem impressed. Go on; tell us it’s powered by atomic energy.

Thanks for the sarcasm, but the engine is impressive for its size. It’s the same 2.0-liter TDI oil burner that powers the Laura. It dishes out 140 PS of peak power at 4200rpm. Peak torque is rated at 320nm between 1750 and 2500 rpm.

Now let’s do a bit of comparison. The Fortuner, with its 3.0 liter diesel produces peak power rated at 171 PS at 3600 rpm and peak torque of 343 Nm at 1400rpm. That’s 22% more power and 7% more torque. But then, that little advantage comes with about 50% higher cubic capacity, and more importantly is nullified instantly with a whopping 26% (more than 400kg) extra weight. And it’s a full time 4×4, so you cannot even imagine how much more fuel it burns per km. The comparisons are even more dismal for the Ford Endeavour, so we won’t discuss it.

The Yeti weighs a featherweight 1543 kg for the top of the line 4×4 variant. And it shows in the way it moves. Without a doubt, the Yeti with its higher specific output and much better power to weight ratio can outrun any of its diesel burning SUV counterparts from a standstill. With a top speed of close to 190 km/h, it has enough spunk to keep the competitors as a diminishing spec in its RVM. Around a series of bends, the Yeti is so superior; it doesn’t even warrant a discussion.

The transmission is taken care of by a 6 speeder unit. Like most other Skoda cars, there aren’t any real problems with the smoothness or the shift action, but thanks to a clutch that has a proclivity to slip, ever time the rev needle drops below the 1000 mark, you’ll find the engine stalled. It’s quite funny, as above 1000 rpm, thanks to its low end torque, the engine seems to have enough juice stored in its reservoir. So you lift the left leg up in overconfidence, and embarrass yourself in the middle of a crawling jam. It takes a bit getting used to before you know just how low you can let the revs go.

Once above 1500 rpm, the sweet 2.0 liter motor has enough punch across the rev range to let you surge ahead of obstructive traffic in any gear. It’s a delightfully sorted out diesel mill, best experienced, as mentioned earlier in the Laura with the DSG Auto doing all the dirty work for you.

Is it cozy too, and spacious?

The cabin shares its layout and much of its parts with the Laura. Everything is very well put together, and quality abounds across the fuselage. Nothing on this car, except the battery and the tyres are from India, and the finish and quality bear testimony to the fact. The leather wrapped seats feel comfortable as soon as you sink in. There’s a coloured central touch screen for some controls, and there are buttons for the rest. To be frank, I didn’t quite like the whole mixed setup. It isn’t as intuitive as some other such systems, and having half the controls on the screen, and the rest as good old buttons makes it confusing. You’ll understand it alright, eventually, but you’ll understand quantum physics too if you put in enough effort. This one takes some learning and getting used to. And let me clarify here, I know all about the iPhone 4s, Ice Cream Sandwich and the Playbook, so I am most definitely not a technology dinosaur to feel uncomfortable around electronic gadgets.

At the backseat, there is enough shoulder, head and knee room for the occupants. The central passenger will have a bit of trouble as the rear AC vents do take away a bit of leg room. For the passengers flanking him, however, there shouldn’t be a problem.  My wife has to be of the most demanding back benchers I have ever come across. She abhorred the X1’s backseat, she has abhorred the backseats of plenty of other cars, and she’d abhor me as well if I weren’t careful enough over bumps. And she was keeping shut with this one. Says volumes, doesn’t it. Though not as compliant as the Laura, thanks to a stiffer setup, the Yeti does provide a reasonably good ride quality. The higher ground clearance and more weight are balanced with a tighter suspension to keep the body roll in check.

The Skoda audio system sounds fab – no complaints, but the lack of a USB port really hurts. It’s a feature that people are ready to change their buying decision for. Skoda should do something about the odd slot, so conspicuous by its absence. You do, however, have an SD card reader as your option to hammer the last nail in music industry’s coffin. Kill piracy? Yeah, right!

The dual zone climate control works fantastically well. There are more than ample cubbyholes to store everything from your toll tickets to your wallet, coins, bottles, cans, coffee and everything else. It’s all very well thought out, and works very well in practice – especially when you are on a long trip with your family.

Rear seats are raised two centimeters higher than the front pair for a better road visibility to the back benchers. Incredibly flexible, they can be adjusted in more ways than all of Fardeen Khan and his late dad’s bombed movies put together, which, let me remind you, far outnumber your estimates. The VarioFlex concept allows the three separate rear seats to be individually folded or removed. The outer seats can be moved fore and aft, and with the middle seat removed sideways also by 80 millimetres. Incredible, isn’t it! The Yeti has 416 liters of boot space with all the seats in place, expandable to 1666 liters with both back seats flipped ahead. The boot itself is designed with smart solutions to save time while loading and prevent luggage from moving around during the journey.

What are the features? Do I get enough toys to play with?

Ample to keep you busy all day. The diminutive looking Yeti comes packed to the brim with features and technology. ESP, Traction Control, ASR, Parktronic, six airbags you name it and chances are that the unassuming looking Yeti would have the feature. Here’s the long list of features on the top of the line 4×4 Elegance variant for you to see and believe. Just to let you know, we have removed more than 60 percent of these to cut the list short. You’ll have to the Yeti’s official page for the entire list

Comfort

• Height adjustment for driver and front passenger seats
• Lumbar support adjustment for driver and front passenger seats
• Front centre armrest, adjustable for length and height
• Rear seat centre armrest
• SKODA audio player with touchscreen controls
• 6 5inch LCD TFT colour display
• SKODA Swing audio player
• Integrated six CD changer
• Eight speakers
• Audio controls on steering wheel
• Auxiliary audio input for portable media players
• SD/MMC data card reader
• Climatronic    automatic air conditioning with electronic regulation of cabin temperature
• Adjustable rear air conditioning vents on rear centre console
• Rear air conditioning vents under front seats
• Automatic air circulation, including AQS (Air Quality Sensor)
• Odour filter and pollen filter
• Leather seat upholstery
• Electrically adjustable external mirrors
• Front and rear electrically adjustable windows
• Height adjustable steering wheel
• Length adjustable steering wheel
• Adjustment for rear seat backrest inclination
• Length and lateral adjustment for rear outer seats
• Multi function display (MFD) of Travelling time, Distance travelled, Average speed, Immediate consumption, Average consumption, Travel distance before refuelling, Service interval, Outside temperature, Clock
• Gear change recommendation indicator
• Intensity adjustment of instrument illumination
• Electronic setup for MFD, Convenience, Lights and vision, Time, Winter tyres, Language, Units, Assistant, Alternate speed display, Service interval
• Automatic front wiper system with rain sensor

Safety

• Halogen headlights with manual levelling
• Corner function with front fog lights
• HHC (Hill Hold Control)
• ABS (Anti  lock Braking System)
• EBD (Electronic Brakeforce Distribution)
• HBA (Hydraulic Brake Assistant)
• ASR (Anti Slip Regulation)
• TCS (Traction Control System)
• EDL (Electronic Differential Lock)
• ESP (Electronic Stability Programme)
• Hill descent control
• Drive off assistant
• Off road ABS (Anti lock Braking System)
• Off road ASR (Anti Slip Regulation)
• Off road TCS (Traction Control System)
• Off road EDL (Electronic Differential Lock)
• Parktronic system
• Six airbags
• Switch off function for front passenger airbag
• Occupant detection system for front passenger seat with seatbelt warning light
• Seatbelt pre tensioners for front seats
• Height adjustable three point seatbelts at front
• Three height adjustable head restraints at rear
• Two Isofix child seat preparations on outer rear seats
• Fuel supply cut off in a crash
• Child proof rear window and door locking

Security

• Engine immobilizer with floating code system
• Security code for central infotainment system

Storage

• 416 litres luggage compartment space
• 1665 litres of total luggage space with rear seats removed
• Two luggage restraint nets
• Four adjustable and foldable baggage hooks on horizontal rails in luggage compartment
• Four fixed load anchoring points in luggage compartment
• Rear seat centre armrest with through  loading
• Three  part split and completely folding rear seats
• Storage compartments in side panels under luggage compartment floor
• Removable rear parcel shelf
• Storage compartment under the front passenger seat
• Storage compartment on the top of central dashboard, closed
• Jumbo box – storage compartment under front centre armrest, with cooling
• Front glovebox with cooling and illumination
• Bottle holders in the front and rear doors
• Cup holders in the front centre console and rear seat centre armrest
• Storage compartments in the front and rear doors
• Eyewear compartment
• Storage compartments in the front and rear centre console
• Roof rails
• Coat hook on rear roof handles and B pillars
• Ticket holder on A pillar
• Retaining strip on front sun visors

So what’s the verdict?

The Yeti is one hell of an accomplished product. It’s such a well rounded package, so ambidextrous that nothing can replace it for the price if you wanted just one car for your garage. It’s packed to the gills with technology and features and delivers performance which is mighty impressive. Having said that, attuning myself with the typical Indian mindset of ‘bigger is better’, the Yeti does ‘look’ a bit overpriced for its size. At a little more than Rs 17 lakh ex-Delhi for the top of the line Elegance 4×4 variant, I would call it only a smidgeon expensive. If Skoda throws in a DSG, adds a USB port, and replaces the metal top with a panoramic sun / moon roof, it’ll suddenly be a deal! If that happens, this will be the car I’ll personally buy myself next.

Here’s some food for thought. The Fortuner, which retails for a little more than Rs 21 lakh ex-showroom costs more than 4 lakhs extra over the Yeti. Except for its size, and the two extra seats, what do you get as an advantage over the Yeti? The Yeti is faster, more frugal, better behaved and comes with technology much superior to that of the Fortuner. You don’t have any of the Yeti’s cutting edge electronics and long list of features (TC, ESP, 6 airbags, and much more) on the big Toyota. All you pay for is the size, the heft, the visual drama, and as I mentioned earlier, the evils that come free with size and weight. But then again, in our society, ego, in most cases prevails over wisdom. Size is perceived as value, while it isn’t actually.

The problem is, the Yeti comes in as a CBU, which means a very high duty is levied onto it, which in turn is passed on to the customers. Skoda does have plans to assemble the car here in its Aurangabad plant in due course. CKD assembly should bring down the cost to the company, and in turn, the price tag. We hope it happens soon.

Epilogue

And now we get back to where we started from. The name.

The Yeti, for whatever little knowledge we have about it, is perceived to be the closest to humans in terms of intelligence. So close, we chose to call it The Abominable Snowman. It’s known to be wild enough to brave the unrelenting Himalayan weather, yet smart enough to have eluded the humans for ages now. Undocumented as it may be, but Yeti is still the best known cross between the civilized, susceptible humans, and the wild, rugged apes. Much the way its mechanical namesake is one of the best crosses between a mud-plugging 4×4, suited for the wilderness and a refined sedan meant to roll gracefully on the well finished city streets.

Makes sense, doesn’t it? Unlike one Daihatsu Naked.

PS: Comments, feedback is valuable. Praises, profanities, throw them all at us – we’re listening!

The gorgeous Fiat Linea has been in the international market since 2007 and it is high time the Italian manufacturer comes up with a Linea refresh. As expected, Fiat Linea seems to be getting a new fascia with a new bumper, head lamps, fenders and grille. Also, the car gets revived bumper and lamps at the rear. The spy shot here shows that Fiat has done with the Audi-ish ‘Bulgarian beard’ and gets a grille that reminds us of last generation Hyundai Verna.The 2013 Linea is due to launch by the end of this year. The car is expected to hit the home market by the end of this year and that will soon be followed by an Indian debut.

It may be noted that Linea has never managed to take the upper C segment in India by storm and has been plagued due to poor after sales support being offered by the venture between Tata and Fiat. Some cases have surfaced where Tata dealers have been dishing out step motherly treatment towards Fiat car. However, lining on the clouds is that Fiat is reconsidering the deal with the Indian manufacturer and might break up from the JV. Fiat is gradually getting aggressive with its Indian operations by offering the latest variants of its cars and is also working on building a better perception in the eyes of the public. Fiat recently launched the Fiat Caffe at Delhi and the manufacturer’s seriousness for Indian market can be gauged from the fact that Fiat is trying so hard that India will soon be the only country to have two Fiat Caffe outlets, the second one soon opening at Pune.

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South Korean auto manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company, in collaboration with KOICA and PLAN Korea, have launched a project to help youth in under-developed areas support themselves by setting up technical training center for automobile repair in several African nations. Starting with Ghana, Hyundai has started installing automobile repair training schools in Africa and Asia.

The repair training school in Koforidua, Ghana, called Hyundai-KOICA Dream Centre, offers a three-year program and has student capacity of about 300 students. Hyundai supports the establishment of the school, from paying teachers to developing curriculum. Graduates with good school records will be offered jobs at Hyundai Service Centres.

The cause of high unemployment among youth is the lack of employable skills needed by the job market. Most educational training curricula are not valued by the current job market. As such, the Hyundai-KOICA project has been designed to give youth employable skills.

The project’s support programs and goals are :

1.    Setting up a technical training center and supporting equipment for automobile repair training.

2.    Recruiting and educating students to be auto mechanics.

3.    Enhancing the skills of existing auto mechanics.

4.    Creating skilled and literate mechanics.

5.    Enabling self-reliant poverty reduction through youth empowerment.

6.    Strengthening Hyundai/Korean and Ghanaian technical and cultural cooperation through Hyundai’s social contribution expertise.

Some days back at the Auto Expo, we had reported that Yamaha had showcased two new paint schemes. We also reported when the bikes with new paint schemes was about to hit the market. These two new color schemes on the bikes are called WGP 5oth Anniversary Edition and Fiery Red Special Edition.

It may be noted that the sales of bikes with these two new paint schemes is limited to a few 100 units.

Almost every Yamaha outlet is taking bookings for the limited edition of the bike and Yamaha recently posted images of these 2 limited edition R15V2.0 on its website. The R15 WGP limited edition is priced at INR 1,11,000 (Ex – Showroom, New Delhi) and the Fiery Red scheme is priced at INR 1,10,000 (Ex – Showroom, New Delhi).

Click here for more info on the R15 limited edition.