Besides, its entire line-up of multi-utility vehicles and 4-wheel drives is also being studied to finalise a vehicle for India, General Motors Asia Pacific executive-in-charge, operations, Kevin E Wale, said here.

This is as part of the company's attempts to broadbase its product range in India to cover the entire strata of the passenger car industry."We are now present in the upper end of the mid-size segment with Astra and will be moving into the lower end of the segment by the year-end with Corsa.

Once these models are in place, we are looking at expanding our product portfolio both ways. We are looking at a lower-end car to be positioned below the Corsa and a premium segment car above the Astra," Wale said. GM is studying all the existing models in the company's portfolio. "Once the product is identified, it would be modified to suit Indiandriving conditions."

The Indian market, he said, has a great potential to become a production and sourcing base for GM vehicles, "but the success of these models in the domestic market would depend on a cheap price tag."

Towards this end, GM is also planning to make India one of the production sites for its much-touted Asia car, which would be manufactured under a joint initiative with Suzuki Motor Corporation of Japan.