Bajaj RE60 – not a car, but a four-wheeler vehicle

Bajaj RE60 – not a car, but a four-wheeler vehicle
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It has four wheels, has a car-like shape (can’t say if it drives like one though), but its maker says it isn’t a car. It’s the Bajaj Auto RE60, which was unveiled yesterday, ahead of the 2012 New Delhi Auto Expo.

You’d be forgiven if you thought that the rather ungainly RE60 has come about to compete with the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, but Bajaj says it’s not the case – rather, the 400 kg hatchback has been designed to give drivers of three-wheeled vehicles the chance to move up to the safer performance of a four-wheeler, on the cheap.

Bajaj RE60 – not a car, but a four-wheeler vehicle
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The boxy vehicle measures in at 2.75 metres long, 1.31 metres wide and 1.65 metres tall, and is powered by a whopping 20 hp 200 cc engine, which is rear-mounted. The little mill is capable of running on LPG and CNG as well as petrol, and gives the RE60 a 70 km/h top speed. Bajaj says that the car will give 35 km to the litre in regular use.

The RE60, on which work began in 2007, will be made at Aurangabad, which is where Bajaj produces its three-wheeler range. It’s expected to roll in cheaper than the Nano, but then again, it’s not being tagged as a car.

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

Comments

  • 4 wheel tut tut?

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  • lancermania on Jan 04, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    i saw a shadow of Savvy….

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  • Gajen on Jan 04, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    ugly man..looks like a toy car..at least nano looks ok..this one looks as though u need to pull it back and let go to make it move forward [childhood days] haha

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  • deftones on Jan 04, 2012 at 5:39 pm

    as long as physically have 4 tyres, roof and have doors..just call it a car la..why want to make it complicated…

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    • Lion King on Jan 04, 2012 at 6:24 pm

      Maybe so that manufacturer can evade some taxes. Owners also maybe pay lower road tax & no need car driving license. Hence, more potential customers.

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      • nasi lemak special on Jan 04, 2012 at 10:09 pm

        definitely lower road tax. displacement only 200cc maa… same mcm nk byr roadtax moto

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    • mohsin on Jan 04, 2012 at 6:28 pm

      call tablet la, why call Ipad?

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  • so basically this one add one more wheel to use.

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  • mohsin on Jan 04, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    suits for urban use mah!

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    • V-Power Racing on Jan 05, 2012 at 12:50 am

      Surely add to malaysian accident statistic. I have seen so many roll overs involving Bajaj. Its just not safe.

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  • Peter on Jan 04, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    This can’t sell in M’sia b’cse JPJ cannot put them in any existing vehicle category :) A motorbike with 4 wheel?

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  • ‘The little mill is capable of running on LPG and CNG’

    Really? CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) is usually stored under much higher pressure than LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas). CNG=30MPa, LPG=1.5MPa. How do they do this? Two different gas tanks?

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  • This car reminds me of Juara ^^v

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  • policeman on Jan 04, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    “Bajaj says that the car will give 35 km to the litre in regular use.”

    Said not a car but now refer to it as a car.

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  • Paint on Jan 04, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    Look like car, sound like car, but not a car. Another V.K. Lingam in the making?

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  • foxis on Jan 04, 2012 at 7:54 pm

    It might sell like RM30K for CBU in Malaysia because it is an imported car. Might selling RM29,999 for CKD version because you just need few screws to assemble it up.

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    • dont spend too much of your thought predicting the price of this “I-am-a-car-but-not-really-a-car” in Malaysia
      no one in their right mind in Malaysia would think of buying one of this Bajaj or even the “better-spec” Tata Nano

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  • Serious Fast Donkey on Jan 04, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    It looks like car, it sounds like car, but it is not car.

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    • V-Power Racing on Jan 05, 2012 at 12:52 am

      Nope. It doesnt sound like a car. It sounds like an old vespa.

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  • nebula87 on Jan 04, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    Plz dont speed and turn…although this car hav all those safety features, but AGAIN…plz dont speed and turn…

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  • This is not a car,not four wheeler vehicle,this is a junk.

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  • well…20hp.. u can’t even fix much durian on it….collapse i think.=-= feel so fragile

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  • it has 4 tyres, got an engine, has steering to steer,runs on petrol.
    Its a freaking car lah dawgammit bajaj cheap marketing stunt pft!

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    • Brian Jong on Jan 05, 2012 at 10:08 am

      its not classified as a car, in EU market this classified as quadricycle…if you dunno what its mean go google search:D

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  • CrabStick on Jan 04, 2012 at 10:51 pm

    Indian SH*T! Keep in India!

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  • this type of car with this speed will cause traffic congested especially in bolehland!

    we can see clearly nowdays how people drive their low power vehicle on road or highway. they just drive on the highspeed lane with their turtle speed without considering the behind driver!! causing bad vehicle flow!

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  • andrew on Jan 05, 2012 at 8:30 am

    100hp/liter – the specific output is not bad… if Bajaj is honest, that is :D

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  • Once tis is starts selling, cant image wats d effect gonna b on d Nano n cheapo Marutis.

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  • Wow as if they do not have enough traffic jams in India. If you think KL jams are bad should try Mumbai then you realize KL is “chicken feed”.

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  • This will screw up the definition for car!

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  • kamaji on Jan 05, 2012 at 1:08 pm

    Pls dont bring this Tut-tut with 4 wheels here….otherwise there will be a lot of ninja turtle on the road.

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  • fuel cell phone on Jan 05, 2012 at 6:24 pm

    perhaps this ‘not really a car’ can use the motorcycle lane on our highways, avoid jam :-P

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  • barang2man on Jan 05, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    When this car already on the road, the owner sure will rebadge the RE logo with the transformers logo front and rear, it looks fit maa… and claims this yellow beast will be the new character in the next transformers movie… hahaha…

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  • Hp Tan on Jan 05, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    WTF???

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  • tempoyak on Jan 06, 2012 at 11:00 am

    This 4-wheel-car-lookalike sure has identity crisis.

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