India Times suggests that Indian cars not ready for E10 mandate

In India, concerns have grown that Indian cars will not be compatible with a new E10 mandate proposed to take effect in October 2008. India Times suggested in an article that most Indian cars are E5 compatible and will not experience a problem with the current E5 mandate, but that only newer models such as he Honda Civic, Chevrolet Spark, many of Maruti and Hyundai’s newly-launched models, many of Ford and Honda models—are E10 compatible.

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