Chennai: General Motors India has commenced vehicle exports to Chile. The first 140 left hand drive Chevrolet Beat cars were shipped from Mumbai on September 25. They are expected to reach Chile in the next few weeks.
"The first shipment of Chevrolet Beats demonstrates our commitment to make our India-built products available in global markets," said GM India president and managing director Arvind Saxena. "We will continue to ship models to Chile on a monthly basis."
The Beat is produced at GM India's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Talegaon, Maharashtra. Available with gasoline and diesel engines, the Beat is India's most fuel-efficient hatchback and GM India's best-selling model. The city car is also built and sold in many other markets around the world. Saxena said, "We expect to identify additional export markets going forward. This will help drive capacity utilization at our Talegaon plant," he said.
GM CEO Mary Barra recently visited India and participated in the rollout of the first Beat for export on September 10. The Talegaon manufacturing facility has an annual production capacity of 170,000 vehicles and 160,000 engines.
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