Honda to introduce diesel variant of Brio

3 February 2012: The Japanese automaker, Honda Motor is planning to introduce the diesel variant of its high-selling compact car 'Brio' in India this year, bringing forward it plans to tap a car market skewed away from costly petrol. The carmaker is testing its newly developed diesel technology, common rail i-DTEC, on the Brio and could introduce it in a 1.2-litre version.

The diesel variants of its City sedan and Jazz hatchback, carrying larger engines, will be introduced later. The company had earlier planned to introduce diesel vehicles in 2013. The automaker, which entered India in 1995, has seen sales fall 27% in the first nine months of the current fiscal, largely because it was unable to introduce any diesel variants, which have become popular in India because of the rising cost of petrol. Cars that created a buzz in 2011 | How 2011 was for cars in India

Source: Economic Times