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Skoda Citigo, Skoda’s new small car for the year 2012


AdamSmith147
11-04-2011, 09:38 AM
Skoda is planning to launch Citigo to the growing Indian small car market by the year 2012. Skoda Citigo was already launched in the Czech market, and the company is on the verge to launch its first small car to the Indian and European markets by next year. Citigo is built on the Volkswagen Up platform and also shares similar engine options and dimensions with the Volkswagen Up. As per the words of Skoda Chairman, Prof. Winfried Vahland, the Citigo is a simply clever car with enough power and spacious interiors for city drives.

Even though the Skoda Citigo shares the same platform with the Volkswagen Up, the Citigo comes with stylish and sporty uniquely designed headlamps and restyled tail lamps, new sporty alloy wheels, and brand new body colored bumpers with fog lamps. The radiator grille is chrome plated, which gives luxurious feel to the front. Skoda Citigo comes with two door variants- three doors and five doors. In the three door variant, front seats can be moved forward and folded to access the back seats. Compared to the exterior looks and small dimension of the Citigo, the car has got unbelievably spacious interior.

The Skoda Citigo comes with decent interiors for a small car with quality plastics and beige interiors. The seats are covered with standard fabric with optional leather upholstery. Skoda designers emphasized the safety features of the Citigo, which includes a head-thorax side airbags made available to the driver and the front seat passenger, along with a number of other safety features. The Citigo has got a safety feature called the ‘City Safe Drive’, which is certainly an advantage in ‘bumper to bumper driving’. The City Safe Drive is an intelligent braking system assisted with laser sensors, which reduces the chance or at least severity of a collision by halting the vehicle at speeds less than 30 kmph, if needed.

The Skoda Citigo has got a three cylinder 1.0 liter petrol engine as its power house, which is capable of producing a maximum power of 60 bhp while the higher variant engine can produce maximum of 75 bhp. As Skoda designed this car basically for city drives, the engine is tuned to provide an impressive torque of 110 Nm and that too at a comparatively low 3750 rpm. Citigo is a front wheel driven car and has got five gear transmission. The car takes 13.9 seconds to achieve the 100 kmph mark from complete rest, while the higher engine variant takes only 12.9 seconds to reach the same.

Skoda Citigo is expected to be launched in the price range of 4-5 lacs in India. The small turning radius and superb drive control makes it the ideal city car. The Citigo will certainly increase the already tough competition in the small car market and it will be a born rival to the other competitors including the Maruti Suzuki’s Swift and Ritz, the Chevrolet Beat and Hyundai i20.

Read original post about Skoda Citigo (http://automobile.ejukeytur.com/skoda-citigo-skoda%E2%80%99s-new-small-car-for-the-year-2012/)

Koener
01-08-2012, 09:21 PM
Is that going to be another VW production for the city like to VW UP! This one is launching in Europe currently.

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