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Peugeot Looking For Land In India Peugeot has begun evaluating locations for its car project in India. It has kicked off negotiations with the Andhra Pradesh government that has offered to allocate around 800 acres of land near Hyderabad. Peugeot is looking at an investment of Rs 1,500 crore for the project. Tamil Nadu is also on the company’s radar, amid expectations that Peugeot will roll-out low cost cars in emerging markets like India by 2010. It is also not clear whether the French auto major will bring in the Peugeot or the Citroen brand first. “We are evaluating several locations across India and a team from Peugeot is expected in the country in the second week of June to take a decision on the location,” said a senior Peugeot India official. The state offered a Rs 300 crore cash compensation to Tata Motors for re-locating Nano from Singur and setting up an integrated plant here. To sweeten the deal, it offered 1,000 acres of free land in Hyderabad, Vizag, Hindupur and Tada in Nellore district, and a slew of fiscal incentives making investment on the project virtually free.

Tata Nano Hopes U.S Entry Tata Motors hopes to offer the Nano, dubbed the world’s cheapest car, in the United States within two years. Tata plans to offer the European version of the Nano, which costs about $2,300, in 2011. Tata Motors is also working to develop cars that run on fuels other than gasoline such as clean diesel, biofuels and batteries. “It will need to meet all emission and crash standards and so we hope in the next two years we will be offering such a vehicle in the U.S,” Ratan Tata said.

Skoda India Announces Pre-Monsoon Campaign Skoda India has organized a ‘Pre-Monsoon Campaign’ at all their dealerships. Skoda has kicked off its second service & maintenance campaign for its esteemed customers across all its authorized sales & service network of 61 dealerships in the country. The ‘Pre-Monsoon Campaign’ has a 20 point free check-up of the car which includes cleaning of the plenum chamber, gallery of sun roof, pollen filter, inspecting the tire pressure and wheel alignment, brake pads, wiper functions, all interior & exterior lights etc, amongst others. The car will be examined thoroughly to ensure safe & hassle free driving. Skoda car owners can avail this service from 8th to 13th June in Western & Southern (except Tamil Nadu) states of India and from 22nd to 27th June, 2009 in Tamil Nadu and Northern & Eastern states of India at any Skoda authorszed dealership in their vicinity.