Small Chinese car with Italian clothes

Mon, 12/21/2009 - 07:54 — Michał Hadyś

Three years after the presentation of DR3 and DR5 SUV models in Bologna, Italian company DR Automobiles has presented a new city model DR1, developed in collaboration with Chery Automobile. In this case “cooperation” means only a facelift of model, which is offered under a new brand Riich M1 in China. DR1 will be soll in Europe with LPG installation and, in further future, with very fashionable in Italy CNG installation

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The basic version of the car - with government’s incentives* - will cost EUR 7,830, or nearly PLN 33,000. This price includes rich standard equipment, like: ABS, two airbags, manual air conditioning, radio MP3, power steering, park assist and alloy wheels. Every car will be offered with metallic color. The car, having 3.6m lenght, is equipped with 1.3L petrol engine and 83 hp and 114 Nm of maximum torque. Car’s performance is typical for urban cars - maximum speed 156 km/h, acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h - 12.5 s. The Chinese automaker underlines the average fuel consumption, which is 5.8/100 km as well as low CO2 emission - 138 g/km. The importer considers the LPG installation as well (78 hp).

Chery as DR Motor' brand in Geneva

The electric version of this car with 150 kilometers’ range will be sold in China and it is very likely that the Italian importer also will decide to sell this variant in Europe.

The range of DR will expand to DR2 and DR4 models in 2010. All information about models currently available can be found on the website, respectively: www.dr1.it, www.dr3.it and www.dr5.it.

* Italian government’s subside for new car is EUR 1,500, and EUR 2,000 with LPG or CNG instalations

Source DR Automobiles

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