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Team-BHP renders the sub-4 meter Chevrolet Enjoy Compact MPV

A big success for General Motors in China, the Chevrolet Enjoy MPV was launched in India couple of months ago. The Enjoy MPV has been registering decent numbers, attributable to the sharp pricing that General Motors has managed for the vehicle. The American car maker seems to have big plans for the Enjoy MPV in the coming years with an AutocarIndia report suggesting that GM is working on a sub-4 meter version of the Enjoy MPV. The sub-4 meter version of the Enjoy MPV could hit the Indian market in 2015, which is a couple of years from now. Team-BHP's crack team has come up with a bunch of speculative renders to highlight how the Enjoy Compact MPV could look like. Meanwhile, The sub-4 meter Enjoy MPV is said to retain the wheelbase of the full sized 7 seat Enjoy, with the chop job focusing on the boot.

A shorter boot would mean that the Enjoy MPV's sub-4 meter variant will need to sacrifice the third row of seats, effectively making the MPV a 5 seater. The shorter length of the Enjoy will mean attractive excise benefits for General Motors, which will most certainly be passed on to the car buyer. So, the Enjoy in sub-4 meter guise is expected to be priced at about 50,000 lesser than the 7 seat variant. We've seen Mahindra take this approach with the Quanto, which is a sub-4 meter chopped version of the Xylo MPV. India is no stranger to cars with reduced lengths. The Tata Indigo eCS, the Mahindra Quanto and Verito Vibe are three examples that comes instantly to mind. These cars are priced lower than their longer siblings and also bring aboard aspects of practicality such as easy manouvering and parking. 

The sub-4 meter Enjoy MPV is expected to retain the 1.3 liter turbo diesel engine as standard and GM does have a 1.2 liter petrol engine in its engine line up, if it intends to launch a petrol variant of the shortened Enjoy. The Chevrolet Enjoy is rebadged and restyled product with Chinese origins. General Motors' Chinese partner, SAIC, developed the Enjoy as the Wuling Hongguang MPV, aimed at the people mover market in China. A best seller in China, the Hongguang is also exported to many emerging markets under the Chevrolet CN100 badge. In India, General Motors will be hoping that the 5 seat and 7 seat versions of the Chevrolet Enjoy will deliver big volumes in the booming MPV market.  

 
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