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The alliance between Japanese car major Suzuki and German auto giant Volkswagen is all set to benefit Maruti in a huge way. Suzuki and VW will work jointly at producing cars for the world market in the coming future and Maruti Suzuki is bound to eat a piece of the pie.  Volkswagen had bought out [...]

Maruti Suzuki has been the king of the road for the last 2 decades with atleast half of all cars on the road being produced at its stable. Maruti was commanding close to 53 percent market share but in the past few months it has dipped to 47 percent. A cause for worry maybe? Maruti [...]

Within 10 months of starting production of the KB-series engines, Maruti Suzuki has rolled out over one lakh of these next generation engines that power the two small cars, A-Star and Ritz. The fuel-efficient technology will soon be seen in other existing as well as new models. The company produces Bharat Stage-III, Bharat Stage-IV and [...]

Maruti has stopped working on LPG models as it will roll out CNG variants of the entire range of its cars from early 2010, the first of which could be the Alto. Since CNG was available only in 11 Indian cities at present, such versions had so far not been launched by Maruti. Compressed natural [...]

Maruti Suzuki plans to take the A-Star to new markets, such as Africa and the Latin America. Maruti is looking to tap new markets for exports, as the demand is shifting towards compact cars globally. This would help Maruti meet its target of exporting 1.5 lakh cars, across all models, in the current fiscal, two [...]

Maruti Suzuki has announced that it has it has already shipped out 30,000 units of  the A-Star to be sold by Nissan in the UK under the name Pixo. Just like its initial shipment of 2,000 units in April, all the cars have been exported from Maruti’s dedicated port at Mundra in Gujarat. Maruti Ships [...]

Maruti is concerned over sales growth coming mainly from the Dzire and Swift.  Unless its other products contribute equally Maruti could face problems in the long-term. The Maruti SX4 hasn’t been doing well of late, maybe due to the new Honda City and the Fiat Linea. The WagonR and A-Star are having tough competition from [...]

Maruti Suzuki is going to refresh its entire existing portfolio of older models in the next two years. Swift, the largest selling premium hatchback in the country, will get a fresh design and new petrol engine while Maruti’s largest selling product Alto will come in two new variants. As posted earlier, Alto will have a [...]

Maruti Suzuki has not yet taken a call on phasing out its successful cars 800 and Omni. Earlier there have been reports that Maruti would phase out 800 and Omni by 2015. However, Maruti is now working on upgrading the 800 and Omni to meet Bharat Stage 4 emission norms, which will come into effect [...]

Maruti Suzuki is working on an ambitious plan to roll out electric cars and compressed natural gas (CNG) variants for 3 or 4 models in India which may take upto five years. The plan is part of Maruti’s broad strategy to develop small cars that run on alternative fuel technology and thus save on fuel [...]