With rising fuel prices, sales of CNG models are on track to jump 54% this year at India’s biggest car maker, Maruti Suzuki. The company has sold 7.66 lakh units of CNG vehicles in the first eight months of the year, more than the 7.46...
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Maruti Suzuki car prices to increase next month
Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, said it will increase car prices next month due to increased costs. “Over the past year, the cost of company’s vehicles has been impacted adversely due to increase in commodity prices and foreign exchange rates, etc. “Hence, it has...
Maruti Suzuki Baleno sales rise 20%, hit 5 lakh mark in 3 years
Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, said its premium hatchback, Baleno, averaged sales of 13,158 units since launch, crossing the 5 lakh mark this month. Moreover, sales in the first seven months of this financial year have been 20% higher than that in 2017. The...
PHOTO GALLERY: Maruti Suzuki Ertiga gets a Rs 900 cr makeover
Weeks after Mahindra & Mahindra announced the Marazzo, Maruti Suzuki has announced a total revamp of its affordable utility vehicle, Ertiga, at a cost of Rs 900 cr. The company said the vehicle, which has an image of being rather boringly utilitarian due to its...
Maruti Suzuki’s Vitara Brezza sales hit 13,571 per month
Maruti Suzuki is on track to see growth of more than 10% this year in the shipment of its highest-selling premium car ever, the Vitara Brezza. In the first seven months of the year, it has sold 95,000 units of mini SUV, or 13,571 units...
Maruti Suzuki reports flat October auto sales as SUV slows
Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, reported flat sales for October. Total sales, including exports, came in 1.47 lakhs versus 1.46 lakhs last year, rising just 0.2% on year. Domestic sales did slightly better than exports as they were up 1.5% at 1.38 lakh. Exports,...
Ciaz 2018 gets 10,000 bookings in first month, says Maruti Suzuki
The 2018 version of Ciaz, the ‘A3’ sedan from Maruti Suzuki, has notched up bookings of over 10,000 in the first month, India’s largest carmaker said. This comes as a relief as the numbers had seen a drastic decline in the run-up to the launch...
Maruti Suzuki’s electric vehicles hit Indian roads for testing
Suzuki, the Japan-based parent of India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki, has started real-life testing of electric vehicles in India. The company had, in September, promised to bring 50 units of its electric vehicles to India for conducting tests in real life conditions. “This extensive real-life...
Eight years later, Maruti Suzuki Eeco cross 5 lakh sales
Maruti Suzuki Eeco, India’s largest selling affordable utility vehicle, has crossed the 5 lakh sales milestone, nearly eight years after it was introduced. The ‘van’ was brought in as a bigger, safer and stronger alternative to the relatively successful Omni. However, Eeco failed to match...
Fitch Ratings changes JLR’s outlook to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’
Fitch Ratings has revised Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc’s outlook to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’, indicating a higher risk of a downgrade in its credit rating in the future. The move comes in the wake of higher investments by the company into research and development and...
JLR sales in China continue to be down, August retail falls 5% overall
Jaguar Land Rover today reported total retail sales of 36,629 vehicles in August 2018, down 4.9% year on year, hit by a 38% fall in sales in China due to ongoing tariff war between the US and China. However, Chinese retail sales showed a slight...
Mahindra Marazzo comes with aggressive pricing of Rs 9.99 lakh
Mahindra & Mahindra has unveiled its next SUV, the Marazzo, at a price that is considerably below what the market was expecting. While the ‘shark-inspired’ UV was supposed to be priced in the same range as the XUV500, the actual starting price is about 20%...
Maruti Suzuki employees contribute Rs 1.5 cr to Kerala Flood relief
Maruti Suzuki, India’s biggest carmaker, said it will contribute Rs 3.5 cr, including employee contributions, to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund in the context of floods in Kerala. “With regard to the recent floods and colossal damages in Kerala, Maruti Suzuki stands with the...
Mahindra SUV sales continue decline in July, Marazzo launch next mont
Mahindra & Mahindra’s passenger vehicle sales continued to be impacted by the success of Vitara Brezza and other SUV models from its biggest rival Maruti Suzuki. For the July quarter, total utility vehicle sales at Mahindra & Mahindra fell by 7% compared to a year...
Maruti Suzuki recalls Swift, Dzire cars made between May & July
Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest carmaker, said it will recall 1,279 units of new Swift and new Dzire cars to check for a defect in the airbag system. These vehicles were manufactured between 7th May 2018 and 5th July 2018, the company added. The suspected defect is...
Vitara Brezza completes 3 lakh sales in 28 months – fastest SUV sales
Maruti Suzuki said it has sold 3 lakh units of Vitara Brezza, the most popular SUV to have hit the Indian market ever. Given that the model was launched in March 2016, this works out to average sales of 10,700 units per month. The number...
Maruti Suzuki launches Vitara Brezza 2018 facelift
India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki unveiled a new look for Vitara Brezza, one of the most successful cars in its history. The company also announced that it is selling around 12,300 units per month, making it the most popular SUV in India. “The exterior and...
Mahindra launches XUV500 2018 with more power, price Rs 12.3 lakh
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd launched the 2018 version of its high-end utility vehicle, the XUV500, with improved interiors and an engine that is about 10% more powerful than the outgoing variant. The XUV500 2018 comes with an mHawk engine that delivers 155 BHP (114 kW)...
Maruti Suzuki overtakes Mahindra to become India’s No.1 SUV maker
Maruti Suzuki India said it has become the No.1 utility vehicle brand in India, overtaking long-time incumbent Mahindra & Mahindra in the financial year ended March 2018. The company said it had a 27.5% market share in the UV/SUV space in the year. Riding on...
M&M sets up electric ‘hypercar’ unit in Europe under Italian brand
Mahindra & Mahindra, India’s largest SUV maker, said it will launch a high-end electric car brand in Europe, with the first model out in 2020. The company will leverage the design talent of Pininfarina, an Italian design car designer it purchased three years ago. The...