Audi A4 gets leaner after Mahindra Scorpio

Recently we saw an unusual trend of bulky styling of new cars. There were many launches from top auto makers which exhibited a high weight car models. This big increase in weight was mainly because of ample of features embedded in the car models. But now seems that the scenario is changing as the carmakers are working towards car models with reduced weight.

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Published On Mar 12, 2011 12:55 IST

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Audi A4

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Earlier the cars were getting stuffed with number of features in order to resist the sky touching competition but now the car manufacturers are paying attention to the increased weight of the car models which affect the engine performance at a great scale. Recently launched Toyota Etios Sedan astound the users by offering a weight of 930 kilo which way lighter than most of the compact cars in Indian auto market.

Mahindra Scorpio

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Recently we got the news that Mahindra’s T026 project is started by the company which is aimed at reducing the weight of Mahindra Scorpio SUV by around 200 kilos. Coming to the latest launch from German luxury car maker, Audi A4 on which the company is planning to work in order to trim down the weigh figures. In the year 2015, we will see a complete new avatar of Audi A4 which is to astound the world with a striking 150 kilos lighter weight than the existing model. The company is targeting this reduction in weight by the use of more aluminum along with other high end technologies to reduce the overall weight of this stunning car.

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Meenal has been a writer since the time she knew what it is to write. Being a team lead at CarDekho, she guides her team to bring in fresh ideas and true stories to develop a brain storming news for the car enthusiasts across the world. Meenal started writing during her school and is continuing still. Being a post graduate in English Literature with Linguistics, Phonetics, and Grammar as her favorites, she topped throughout. And perhaps that's what helped her starting her career directly as an Editor with international clients from the very beginning. She also has been trained in and has got experience in pre-editing and master-editing journals and books. With almost 5 years of experience in journalism behind her, she still believes that she gets to learn new things about writing news every new day. She plans to start on another degree in psychology. Future plans for her include nothing more than a dynamic GROWTH for herself and SMILES on the readers' faces.Read more

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