{"id":8022,"date":"2009-09-25T02:37:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T21:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2009-09-25T02:39:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T21:09:54","slug":"ford-says-no-to-automatic-variant-of-figo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/ford-says-no-to-automatic-variant-of-figo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford says no to automatic variant of Figo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Few highlights from vicky.in exclusive interview with Mr.Michael Boneham, President &amp; Managing Director of Ford India.<\/strong><\/em> <em>Complete video interview will be posted soon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>* Ford to launch new car every 12 or 18 months from now<\/p>\n<p>* Ford has no plans to introduce automatic transmission of Figo<\/p>\n<p>* Ford will launch new variants of Figo<\/p>\n<p>* One of the variant of Figo will be called <strong>&#8220;Figo Titanium&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* He denied to comment on <em><strong>chance of producing notchback variant (compact sedan) of Figo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>* Figo will get 1.4L diesel engine from ikon and an 1.2L engine which will also offer superior fuel efficiency<\/p>\n<p>* Ford plans to make Figo a benchmark for lower cost of ownership<\/p>\n<p>* Ford has no plans to introduce LPG or CNG variant of Figo<\/p>\n<p>* Ford Figo comes with 85% localisation which enables Ford to price the car very competitively<\/p>\n<p>* Ford looks at bringing more SUV&#8217;s to india.\u00a0 He refused to comment on<em><strong> bringing &#8220;Kuga&#8221; to India<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>* <\/strong><\/em>Ford has no plans to set-up\u00a0 R&amp;D plant in India. However Indian engineers will work with Ford global set-up to develop the best cars for India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few highlights from vicky.in exclusive interview with Mr.Michael Boneham, President &amp; Managing Director of Ford India. Complete video interview will be posted soon * Ford to launch new car every 12 or 18 months from now * Ford has no plans to introduce automatic transmission of Figo * Ford will launch new variants of Figo &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/ford-says-no-to-automatic-variant-of-figo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ford says no to automatic variant of Figo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1627],"tags":[1329,283,2417,212,43,673,2422,282,326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8024,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions\/8024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}