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The Maruti Suzuki Alto which happens to be India’s largest selling car has gone global by emerging as the largest selling  small car in the world in terms of volumes. This is the 2nd consecutive year the car has outnumbered the total sales of any other small car all over the world. The Volkswagen Golf [...]

The Alto from the country’s largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki is the most favourite car among the Indian consumers with its sales figures touching close to 24,000 units per month. In a drive to promote customer awareness in terms of fuel efficient driving Maruti Suzuki recently conducted an Alto Xplore Max Mileage rally. The rally [...]

Maruti Suzuki’s market share in India has declined after the entrance of new competitors. The recent and most brutal attack to Maruti’ Suzuki’s small car dominance is undoubtedly the Hyundai Eon. The company’s bread and butter model, the Alto looks atleast two decades old infront of the entry level Hyundai. To counter the Korean automaker, [...]

Suzuki has just announced the 2012 Alto Eco, which (hold your breathe) returns a mileage of 32 kmpl in the Japanese 10-15 test cycle. But what makes this Alto running on gasoline power return such an insane fuel efficiency figure, which is atleast 28% better then the most fuel efficienct petrol car in India. Well [...]

When you think of small cars, there are two such vehicles which come to the mind – the Maruti Suzuki Alto and the Hyundai Eon, both falling in the 800cc segment, having 4 doors, inexpensive maintenance costs and what not! The Maruti Alto, which was the leader in this segment till date, now faces tough [...]

Talk about the Hyundai Eon effect, Maruti Suzuki is facing it already. India’s largest car maker has launched Alto Xplore, which is a limited edition version of the Alto. The limited edition is available in both Alto Lxi and Alto K10 Vxi versions and is available in 6 colours. The Alto Xplore features body coloured [...]

After the whole controversy over Tata Nano’s catching fire we have another story of a car catching fire but this time it’s not the Nano but the Alto. The fatal accident took place at the capital in North West Delhi. The person who was driving the car was a 27 year old sales executive Pradeep [...]

The Maruti Suzuki Allto is not only the best selling car in India but the largest selling hatchback in the world. The Alto beat the Volkswagen Gold in Germany, Fiat Uno and Volkswagen Gol in Brazil. During calendar year 2010, Alto sold 3,00,956 units. Whereas Volkswagen Gol sold 2,93,738 units and Gold sold 2,51,078 units. [...]

Maruti Suzuki Alto is not only the highest selling car in India but also the largest selling car in the world in 2010. The Alto’s top spot in the list has made it a first for an Indian car. Maruti Suzuki sold more than 3,00,000 units of the Alto in 2010, which was a 25% [...]

Avid Motorbeamer Adoksh Shastry has sent us pictures of his stock 2005 Alto F8 doing 150kmph. He was able to achieve this on the NICE Corridor in Bangalore. This is one of the reasons why the Alto still out numbers the Nano every month, the fantastic engine which gives decent performance and does not feel [...]