DC Design
unveils India's first ever sports car, the DC Avanti. This is no concept
car, it's a road worthy prototype destined to hit our roads by 2013
The DC Avanti is a big deal for India considering that this is the
first sports car to be made by an Indian firm. The news gets even better
when it was confirmed that the DC Avanti is not just a concept but a
road worthy prototype that has been confirmed for production. The
production run for the Avanti will begin in 2013.
The DC Avanti is not a car cobbled together with bits from old cars
just to make an attempt at being the first Indian sports car. The Avanti
will be powered by Ford’s revolutionary EcoBoost engine technology. The
unit is a 2.0 litre DOHC four cylinder featuring Direct Injection, four
valves per cylinder with Variable Valve Timing (VVT) and turbo
charging. Power output has been rated at 243PS with 366Nm of torque. The
engine meets Euro5 norms and an ECU remap can make it comply with Euro6
legislations as well, DC is eyeing the export market as well.
The engine will be mated to a six speed manual gearbox for the purist
while a six-speed dual clutch gearbox will be on offer for a higher
technological plane. The car is electronically limited to a top speed of
250 km/h. The car will come with ABS and Airbags as standard.
The suspension consists of unequal length wishbones in conjunction
with coil over shock absorbers all around for those traditional sports
car drive dynamics.
With its low slung silhouette and sports car levels of performance
the Avanti will no doubt be on the minds of petrolheads across the
nations with or without deep pockets. But at an unbeatable price tag of
Rs. 30 lakhs (Ex-Showroom) the DC Avanti makes a strong case for itself
as a proper sports car.
Indian petrolhead and designer Dilip Chhabria is the man who calls
the shots in DC Designs expressed his enthusiasm about the DC Avanti by
saying, “The Indian market for high-end automobiles is on a steep uphill
curve as witnessed year-on-year and our focus is on the top end of the
rarefied niche. We intend to set up an all new facility at Talegaon,
near Pune to build this vehicle. 300 – 400 units of the Avanti will be
produced between 2013 and 2014. Based on demand production capacity
could be ramped up to four digit figures per annum for the Avanti.”
1 comments:
India is getting the best of cars as well as sports cars. Great. But do their have proper roads for these cars. Even the High ways is so crowded with all types of vehicles,bull-carts, cows sitting/crossing the road. These cars need speed.
The next thing. The best of cars r driven by the DRIVERS. ha ha ha.
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