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Its official! Ford will launch the EcoSport compact crossover for the Indian market at a function in Delhi on June 26.  After many months of spy shots, speculations, international launches, soft unveiling and a mega media drive in Goa; the EcoSport will finally be on the road. Ford had already begun shipping the car to its dealers across the country and they in turn have been accepting bookings for it since June 14 by charging Rs 50, 000 as the booking amount. 

Three weeks after we exclusively brought to you the introduction of the Scala RxE, Renault India has announced the induction of the entry level RxE variant to its Scala diesel lineup. Priced at Rs 8.29 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi), the base model is half a lakh cheaper than the RxL variant.

Italian auto manufacturer Fiat has announced their MPV variant of the 500L as they plan to expand the line of the 500 model. While the standard 500L has a five-passenger seating configuration, the new 500L Living adds a third row of seats, upping capacity to seven passengers. The world preview for the model is planned for July 2013 on the sixth anniversary of the 500 family.

Tata Motors has announced that it has refreshed eight cars in its lineup for 2013. The refreshed cars are the Indigo eCS, Indica eV2, Sumo Gold and Safari facelift and they will go on sale immediately. The refreshed line up also includes CNG variants of the Indigo eCS, Indica CNG and the Nano CNG that will go on sale in September. 

Tata Motors has unveiled a facelifted version of the Nano along with a CNG version. The car, dubbed the Nano emax will be launched in September and is expected to be priced about Rs 30,000 over the equivalent petrol-fuelled variant. 

The 2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class will be launched in New Delhi on the 25^th of this month. The car was unveiled at the 2013 Detroit Motor Show and flaunts the new design philosophy that Mercedes has incorporated in its recent models. 

Lamborghini has launched an India limited edition Gallardo LP550-2 for Rs 3.06 crore (ex-showroom Maharashtra). The car has been limited to just six examples for the Indian market and has been launched as a part of the Raging Bull’s 50th anniversary celebrations. It joins other limited models of the Gallardo like the Singapore and Indonesia Limited Editions that were unveiled as a part of Lamborghini’s golden jubilee celebrations.

Just yesterday, we brought you a report that provided all the details on the successor to the Lamborghini Gallardo. The report also said that a concept version of the car will be unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show and that a final production version will go on sale in the middle of next year. Now, we have our first glimpse of the vehicle testing on what is believed to be a racing facility somewhere in Europe. 

Mercedes-Benz has priced the CLA45 AMG sedan at 48, 375 USD (Rs 28.25 lakh) for the American market and is 18,000 USD (Rs 10.51 lakh) more expensive than a regular base-spec CLA.  The compact sedan, based on the German automaker’s MFA front-wheel drive platform and derived from the CLA sedan, was unveiled at 2013 New York Auto Show. It is range topper in the CLA line up.

If the headline does not ring alarm bells this paragraph certainly will. We are not writing about Mitsubishi discontinuing the current model to make way for a next generation version; the Japanese car maker has confirmed that the Evo X will be the last of the Evolution Series.