Monday, December 7, 2009

REPORT: Minicar, EV on the way from Opel



General Motors has declared that industrialist needs a minicar, a tiny lowercase thing that crapper compete with runabouts same the author Ka and Peugeot 107. That's a dustlike view here at the play line, but to intend to the closing GM module need to keep industrialist streaming smoothly, intend its Spark onset apace (if indeed it aims to ingest that as an Opel), and attractiveness whatever eyeballs absent from the two dozen minicars currently in the segment and the ones on the artefact from the likes of Volkswagen and Toyota.

Opel showed soured the Trixx Concept (pictured) five eld ago, but it was left out backwards to expire in souvenir of the Spark. Five eld on, the Spark hasn't arrived, meanwhile the author Ka has solidified its function with 500,000 sales in the UK lonely over the last 13 years, the equally affordable and cuter-than-kittens Fiat 500 is ease winning awards and concealing whist and the VW Up! is fighting drums.

When Magna was feat to acquire industrialist it said it would hit a minicar for the sort by 2012. GM gave no timeline for its arrival, but did feature that it was also hunting at battery-powered automobile cars -- mayhap an automobile Spark with the support of Reva? Whatever it is -- as long as it's beatific -- it can't become likewise soon.

[Source: Automotive News - Sub. Req.]

Filed under: Budget, GM, Opel, Electric

Tags: chevrolet, Chevrolet Spark, ChevroletSpark, chevy spark, ChevySpark, generalized motors, GeneralMotors, gm, Nick Reilly, NickReilly, opel



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