Sunday, October 2, 2011

CHRYSLER YPSILON ARRIVES IN THE UK



    Since the buyoutof Chrysler of the USA by Fiat of Italy, several Fiat models have crossed the bounds to become Chryslers.Now it’s the turn of the Lancia Ypsilon,which has recently been introduced to the UK as a Chrysler Ypsilon. Rebadging 2012 style!


    The car is fitted with a long list of nice big-car features such as Magic Parking, xenon headlights, Blue&Me -TomTom LIVE, the SmartFuel System and a 360° 500-Watt soundsystem with four 40W musical Dome tweeters, four 80W musical Neodymium mid-woofers and a digital eight-channelamplifier to count a few. There will be 16exterior paint colour combinations of which four are bi-colour, fivedifferent upholstery trims, and three types of alloy wheels to choose from.

    Two engines are fitted, the one is a 0.9 litre (875cc) TwinAir motor with a very impressive 63kW and 145Nm of torque, matched to 97 g/km in C02 emissions. The bigger 1.2-litre develops less power, at 51kW and torque (102Nm) than the smaller TwinAir. C02 emissions are also lessimpressive at 115 g/km. Both models are matted to a 5-speed manual gearbox. Diesel fans aren’t left out of the box asthey can specify the 1.3-litre MultiJet II turbo diesel with 71kW and 200Nm of torque, starting from 1500rpm.

    Chrysler South Africais definitely looking at bringing the Ypsilon over here, just as soon assomeone in their marketing department figures out how to pronounce the name.

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