NEWS: Edaran Tan Chong To Lunch Several New Models Before The Year Ends!!!

Looks like Edaran Tan Chong is busy preparing the final push for the 3rd quarter and 4th quarter of this year with several new launches under is belt which includes Nissan and Infiniti. Yesterday during the Hari Raya Media Gathering, the head honcho of ETCM has indicated two new model will be launching before the year ends which is the Nissan X-Trail which will be local assemble before the end of the year and also Infiniti Q50 which is expected to be launched at the end of this month.

The Nissan X-Trail was launched last year at 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show has received rave reviews with its new front face of Nissan V-Motion grill, LED daytime running light and C shaped tail lamps and this SUV is powered by two engine choices such as a 2 litre MRD20DD and 2.5 litre QR25DE which both units are four cylinder engine which is mated to a six virtual gears of Xtronic CVT gearbox. The power output for the 2 litre engine is 142hp with 200Nm of torque and for the 2.5 litre, the power output is 169hp with 226Nm of torque.

The next model which is the Infiniti Q50 has been publicly previewed here in Malaysia during 2013 Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show and this new car has seen as the indicative design language of the upcoming models from the Infiniti brand. Honed and co-developed by the F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel, this car promise to be a fun car to drive with its world first drive by wire electric power steering. 

This car will coming in two guises with the based model Infiniti Q50 2.0T, a turbo charge 2 litre engine from Mercedes engine that powered the W212 E-Class facelift with power output of 211hp and 350Nm of torque and the second variant will be in the guise of Q50 S-Hybrid with total power output of 364hp and 546 Nm of torque. An indicated price also has been announced by ETCM head honcho with the 2.0T retails below RM250K and for tthe S-Hybrid the indicative price is below RM400K.

Stay tune for more updates and I will forward you the latest news once these models launched here in Malaysia!!!!