Indian Cars, Bikes

Maruti Suzuki Recalls 1 Lakh A-Stars

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Recall mania continues and this time Maruti Suzuki is replacing fuel pump gaskets of the A-Star, following reports of anomalies in the fuel tank. Approximately 1 lakh cars (including exports), manufactured before August 22, 2009, will get new fuel pump gaskets and O rings. The company came across this issue last November as part of [...]

Maruti A-Star Wins TNS Customer Satisfaction Award

Friday, January 29, 2010

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The Maruti A-Star have won the TNS Customer satisfaction award. The A-star has managed to pip its competitors to win the customer satisfaction award with the highest score of 95 in its segment. Compact car segment has not only grown in sales volume but in customer satisfaction as well. The Voice of Customer Awards are [...]

Suzuki Launches New & Taller Alto In Japan

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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Few months back when we saw the taller version of the A-Star at the Tokyo Motor Show, we thought it was just a concept and it will remain so. But Suzuki has gone ahead and launched the taller version of the Maruti A-Star in its home market as the new Alto. We however think it [...]

Maruti Suzuki Ships Out 100000th A-Star

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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Maruti Suzuki’s world strategic model for global markets, crossed export mark of 1 lakh units, with the shipment from Mundra Port. The company has achieved 1 lakh units cumulative export of A-Star in less than a year since its first shipment to Europe in January this year. Suzuki’s fifth world strategic model, A-Star is manufactured [...]

New Suzuki Alto Concept Already

Friday, October 2, 2009

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Although the Suzuki Alto Concept is nothing close to the Maruti A-Star concept, it still exists for two reasons. The first being it is not as tiny as the current Alto and the other being its meant for the markets where the current Alto is not sold. This car runs on a 3-cylinder 658cc [...]

Maruti A-Star Stunt Commercial

Monday, August 31, 2009

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Maruti Rolls Out 1 Lakh A-Stars

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Maruti Suzuki India has achieved the feat of rolling out the 1,00,000th A-Star. The production of the A-Star started in October, 2008. The Manesar facility which produces the A-Star, SX4, Swift and Swift DZiRE, has also crossed the 5-lakh-units production mark since the commencement of the unit. These landmarks come less than two weeks after [...]

Nissan Increases A-Star Order From Maruti

Monday, August 10, 2009

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The Maruti A-Star/Alto is not only setting the sales chart on fire as a Suzuki but even as a Nissan. The growing demand for small cars in Europe has led Nissan to nearly double the cars that it buys from Maruti Suzuki. The contract manufactured A-Star’s annual order is now in excess of 50,000 units.

Maruti A-Star Launched In Saudi Arabia

Sunday, June 28, 2009

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Suzuki Saudia, the sole distributor of Suzuki vehicles in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has introduced its new Suzuki Celerio 2010 compact car into the Kingdom’s dynamic $9 billion automotive market. The Maruti A-Star is known as the Maruti Alto worldwide and as the Suzuki Celerio in Saudia Arabia. The Celerio paves the way for [...]

Suzuki Alto Achieves 10 Million Sales

Saturday, May 23, 2009

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The Suzuki Alto has reached the 30th year of an illustrious history that began with its first-generation launch in May 1979. The Alto is also in the spotlight for having reached 10 million units of aggregate worldwide sales at the end of March 2009. Since the first-generation launch, 4.8 million Alto units have been sold [...]