| It is always good to have a family car that costs less | | | | market. i10 was the most awarded small car of the |
| than half the price of Harley Davidson Fat Boy. | | | | year 2008, its current price starts from 3.5 lacs and |
| Fortunately, the fight of small cars is becoming bigger | | | | the superior models can be purchased at a price as |
| and bigger every day. | | | | less as 5 lacs. The most expensive model of this car |
| In recent times, all motor companies are | | | | is Hyundai i10 Asta which costs 5.58 lacs. |
| concentrating on their small car. India is a huge | | | | Here we come to Hyundai i20. The i20 starts from |
| market for small cars purchasers. The companies like | | | | just over 5 lacs for its base model. The top model's |
| Suzuki, Hyundai, Ford, Chevrolet, Skoda, Fiat and | | | | price is higher than 8 lacs. The reason for such high |
| Honda have launched new small cars in order to | | | | price of these models is that these models are more |
| compete in the race of small cars. Every car with less | | | | than 1300 CC. |
| than 1300 CC gets subsidy by the Indian | | | | Now we come to the new product from TATA, |
| government, so clearly their prices are lesser. | | | | which is Indica Vista. Vista is a new car with elegant |
| We start with Suzuki. Suzuki has recently launched | | | | looks starting from 3.4 lacs to 5 lacs. After Indica, |
| two small cars A-star and Ritz. A-start starts from | | | | Indica Vista is becoming a hot car for a certain class |
| just more than Rs. 3,50,000. The special thing about | | | | of people in India. |
| this car is that it's a 998 cc car with three petrol | | | | The General Motors has launched two small cars in |
| models: Lxi, Vxi and Zxi. It's a good small family car. | | | | recent past. These are: Chevrolet Aveo U -VA, |
| Ritz is the most recent launch of Suzuki, its price | | | | Chevrolet Spark. Both of these cars have got good |
| range is from 0.4 million to 0.55 million. The most | | | | response from Indian market. The price range of |
| important thing of this car is that it is available in | | | | Sparks is from 3.4 to 4.7 lacs. Sparks is a 995 CC car |
| diesel and petrol engine both. The petrol models are | | | | with 5 person seating capacity. |
| 1197 CC and the diesel cars are 1248 CC. Its looks | | | | Chevrolet Aveo U -VA is a nice car available at a |
| are very beautiful. | | | | price just more than 4 lacs for its base model. |
| Other cars lying in this category from Suzuki are: Zen | | | | Skoda and Honda have also launched their small cars |
| Estilo and Swift. These two are relatively old models | | | | Fabia and Jazz respectively. But these are a little bit |
| but these are also getting good response. Zen estilo | | | | expensive cars. Jazz starts from 7.5 lacs and Fabia's |
| starts from just over 3 lacs and 20 thousands. | | | | base model costs almost 5 lacs. The superior models |
| Now we come to Hyundai. Hyundai is a company | | | | of Fabia are available for can be purchased in from 6 |
| which has launched a good number of small cars in | | | | to 8 lacs. |
| India, in actual sense Hyundai is the real rivals of | | | | Fiat has also joined the fight with their new car Fiat |
| Maruti Suzuki in the small car fight. They have already | | | | Grande Punto. Its starting price is 4.2 lacs and the |
| launched cars like; Santro, Gets and Santro Xing. | | | | higher models are available for 5 to 6.3 lacs. |
| These were launched against Maruti Zen, Wagon R, | | | | People don't purchase cars everyday, so one must |
| Alto and Swift. | | | | check all possibilities before purchasing a car. Soon we |
| In the recent months Hyundai has launched two small | | | | will see few more small cars coming to join the race |
| cars i10 and i20, both of these cars have their own | | | | of small cars which is getting bigger everyday. |