India’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki today denied that it was facing problems with demand, and said the recent slowdown in sales is because of availability of semiconductor chips. Shashank Srivastava, executive director in charge of sales and marketing, denied that the company was facing any issues liquidating its inventory, and said stocks were well […]
Maruti Suzuki and Toyota Group’s have created the first major, scientific auto-scrapping unit in India at NOIDA near Delhi. The factory can disassemble and recycle 24,000 vehicles per year, and has been constructed at a cost Rs 44 cr. ““Till now there was no scientific, clean and healthy way to dispose a car at its […]
Tata Motors again surprised on the upside with its excellent performance as far as October auto sales are concerned, even as market leader Maruti Suzuki faced yet another month of depressingly poor sales in its core hatchback segment. Mahindra & Mahindra, meanwhile, beat the blues thanks to strong demand for its newly launched XUV700 model. […]
Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra, the two primary home-grown auto makers in India, reported continued pick-up in the sales of heavy commercial vehicles, but their passenger vehicle sales showed a declining trend, though not as sharply as in case of market leader Maruti Suzuki. Passenger vehicle sales for M&M fell to 13,134 in September […]
Marurti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, has warned customers not to drive their Ciaz, Ertiga, Vitara Brezza, S-Cross and XL6 models made between 4 May 2018 and 27 October 2020 over water-logged areas. The company said there is a fault in 1.82 lakh of these vehicles which can cause unexpected results if the customer drives […]
Maruti Suzuki continued to see strong momentum in its auto sales, assuaging fears that auto sales will soon run out of steam as pent up demand vehicles start running out. However, India’s largest car maker reported total sales of 1.67 lakh in March, compared to 1.64 lakh in February. The number is double the 83,792 […]
Maruti Suzuki has said that it will go for a round of price increases next month (April), its second in four months. The company had increased prices of its cars and utility vehicles on Jan 18 this year, citing rising commodity costs. “Over the past year the cost of company’s vehicles has been impacted adversely […]
Maruti Suzuki today launched the all-new Swift 2021, three years after it gave India’s most popular hatchback a overhaul with its 2018 edition. While the 2018 model was a complete makeover that changed the very shape of the car, Maruti Suzuki 2021 carries over much of the design language of its predecessor. Perhaps the biggest […]
Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest carmaker, may soon offer a new product for companies with a large fleet of vehicles, such as taxi operators, BPOs and IT companies. The company has called for a shareholder vote on including fleet management services in its memorandum of association — the most basic document of a company that […]
Consumer-focused automakers, such as Maruti Suzuki and Hero MotoCorp, fared better than commercial vehicle makers, going by auto sales trends in December 2020. Maruti Suzuki, which accounts for around half the cars sold in India, was among the best performers, with a 20% jump in sales compared to December last year. The company sold 1.60 […]
Maruti Suzuki India today said it had decided not to use Toyota Kirloskar’s factory in India to manufacture Vitara Brezza, also sold as Toyota Urban Cruiser in India. An agreement was announced in March last year in which the two companies announced that Maruti Suzuki will supply Baleno to Toyota in India. At the same […]
After launching car subscription services in Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, India’s largest carmaker has brought the service to Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The service will cost around Rs 14,690 per month in Gujarat for a Swift LXi for a four-year contract, excluding GST. In Chennai, it will cost Rs 15,196 […]
Suzuki Motor Gujarat Pvt Ltd, the India-based auto-manufacturing arm of Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp, has completed the construction of its third and final assembling unit to achieve its full production capacity of 750,000 vehicles per year, sister concern Maruti Suzuki said today. Unlike Maruti Suzuki, Suzuki Motor Gujarat Pvt Ltd is 100% owned by the […]
Maruti Suzuki India reported a whopping 31% jump in its September auto sales, while Mahindra & Mahindra reported a more modest increase of around 5% in its passenger vehicles. The commercial vehicles division continued to struggle with low demand. M&M Unlike Maruti Suzuki, which benefited from higher sales of its smaller cars, Mahindra & Mahindra’s […]
In a move that has the potential to radically alter the way cars are purchased in India, Maruti Suzuki today unveiled a new ‘subscription’ model of car sales that starts at just Rs 14,463 per month, including all maintenance, taxes, registration charges and insurance. For Rs 14,463, Maruti Suzuki will offer the customer a brand […]
Maruti Suzuki and Escorts have reported strong auto sales numbers for August 2020. While Escorts report an all-time high for its monthly tractor sales, Maruti Suzuki reported a 21.3% year-on-year jump in passenger vehicle sales, possibly indicating a move by consumers away from public transport. The company sold 1.13 lakh passenger vehicles, up from 93,174 […]
Maruti Suzuki India said it has tied up with NS Raghavan Center Entrepreneurial Learning at IIM Bangalore to scout out start-ups in the automobile sector. Maruti Suzuki, India’s biggest carmaker, will look for technology-based innovations that can be applied in the mobility sector. Among the focus areas will be digital, data and AI/ML in the […]
Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest carmaker, has started a car subscription service in India in association with ORIX, a Japan-based car rental service provider. Car subscriptions are like car leasing, but with more flexibility that comes at typically higher costs. Unlike car leasing, car subscriptions typically do not come with conditions such as travelling limits. […]
Maruti Suzuki has come out with a range of health-related products and car accessories keeping in mind the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The most interesting of these is the ‘car cabin separator’, a PVC shield that can be kept behind the front seats to seal off the front and back sections of the car. “The car […]
Maruti Suzuki has delivered a BS-VI upgrade to its popular WagonR car without implementing a price change, unlike the petrol version. The new, BS-6 compliant WagonR S-CNG Lxi will continue to be available at a price of Rs 5.25 lakh in Delhi, excluding RTO charges. The only other CNG trim, Lxi (O) will continue to […]
