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 recalls 640 Super Carry vehicles to fix faulty fuel pump
Maruti Suzuki India Limited said it is recalling 640 units of its Super Carry small cargo vehicles manufactured between 20th Jan 2018 till 14th July 2018 to rectify a possible defect in fuel pump assembly. Starting today, owners of the vehicles included in this recall campaign...
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...
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...
SWIFT HYBRID LAUNCH: Govt says no GST cut for bigger competitors
The Finance Ministry today said there would be no cut in the GST levied on bigger hybrid vehicles sold in India. At present, medium and large sized hybrid cars are taxed at a rate of 43%, including a ‘compensation cess’ of 15% — only marginally...
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...
34 years later, Maruti Suzuki crosses 2 cr production mark
Maruti Suzuki said it has completed production of 20 million (2 cr) vehicles in India, 34 years after it started production. The feat has been achieved in a little over seven years after the company hit the 10 mln (1 cr) milestone. The carmaker 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 reports strong auto sales for May 2018
Maruti Suzuki reported one of its strongest auto sales performances in recent months for May, with total passenger vehicle sales up 24% at 1.615 lakh. Total vehicle sales in May were up 26% at 1.725 lakh, compared to a rise of 14% reported for April....
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...
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...
Suzuki starts exporting vehicles from its fully owned plant in India
Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp said it has started exporting vehicles from its recently established 100% Indian unit Suzuki Motor Gujarat Pvt Ltd. The first model to be shipped was the new Swift, destined for the South African market, the company said. “This is the first...
Maruti Suzuki February auto sales up 15% vs 4.8% in January
India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India said its monthly auto sales jumped 15% in February, after a disappointing growth of only 4.8% in January. The company reported total auto sales of 1.50 lakh in February compared to 1.30 lakh in the same month of last...
GALLERY: New Swift to give 13% higher mileage – Maruti Suzuki
Maruti Suzki today unveiled the most anticipated new car in years, the new Swift, with a promise of 12.7% more mileage and 28% more luggage space than the outgoing version. The petrol version of the new Swift has been priced between Rs 4.99 lakh and...