Which entrepreneur would willingly part with her or his hard-earned money for grasping, self-serving politicians? asks Debashis Basu.
The previous highest sales figure stood at 1,08,006 units in September 2010. It was also for the fifth time in this fiscal that the company's monthly sales crossed the one lakh mark.
Although rising interest rates threaten to push passenger cars to the middle lane, Maruti Udyog is geared to continue on the fast track with its new car models.
Eight months after India's largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India, announced plans for a Gujarat unit to be set up as a wholly-owned subsidiary of parent Suzuki, opposition to the move continues to simmer.
Sensing stiff competition from Maruti Suzuki with the all-new Alto 800 with an aggressive price tag, Hyundai and Tata Motors announced deep price cuts and launch of new special edition variants, respectively to beat the market leader.
Both these are super compact SUVs that will be competing against each other at a similar price point
The government has decided to go slow on sale of its remaining shares in Maruti Udyog and complete the process by next fiscal as stock markets remain uncertain.
The first diesel car from Maruti Suzuki, Celerio diesel is pitted against Hyundai Grand i10, Ford Figo and Chevrolet Beat.
After the July 18 violence at the Manesar plant in which one senior executive was killed, the company had fired 546 workers.
Sales for the same month previous year were at 84,804 units, Maruti Suzuki India said.
India's largest automobile manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki is planning to launch the company's entry-level sports utility vehicle, Jimny in the country by the year-end.
S-Cross has seen a 22 per cent drop in dispatches in September.
The company had sold 50 units of SX4 sedan in August 2014.
Country's largest car maker draws nearly half of its sales from exchange programmes, rural focus.
In February, Maruti cut vehicle prices by between Rs 8,502 and Rs 30,984 across models after the excise duty reduction was announced.
The task of usurping three leading brands is far from easy. However, Amaze has shown it can be attempted.
Among the Sensex firms, Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, Wipro, Infosys, Bajaj Finance, Tata Consultancy Services, Bajaj Finserv and ICICI Bank were the major gainers. Power Grid, Nestle, Asian Paints and Hindustan Unilever were among the laggards.
MUL would lift the month-long lockout and resume production at the violence-hit Manesar unit from Tuesday.
In April, MSI had recalled 1,03,311 units of its popular models -- Ertiga, Swift and DZire -- manufactured between November 12, 2013 and February 4, 2014 to replace faulty fuel filler neck.
Maruti Suzuki India said it would be investing Rs 1,250 crore (Rs 12.50 billion) to double capacity at its K-series petrol engine unit in Gurgaon to 500,000 by 2012.
A senior Maruti official was killed and 100 injured in violence at the plant last week.
The company had recently stopped production of petrol models, including the Alto, M800, A-Star, Estilo and Omni for three days to prevent inventories piling up further.
Gains in IndusInd Bank, HCL Tech, TCS, Tech Mahindra, NTPC, ITC, JSW Steel and Tata Steel helped the barometer scale a fresh high. Axis Bank fell the most by 1.26 per cent, M&M by 0.99 per cent and Hindustan Unilever by 0.67 per cent. Maruti, Bajaj Finserv, Bharti Airtel and HDFC Bank and Infosys also declined.
The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission on Thursday advised auto giants Maruti and Hyundai not to target each other in advertisements and asked Maruti to file its reply to a complaint filed by its rival carmaker.
With swanky showrooms and VR-enabled sales platforms Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors, and Skoda bet on shine and gloss,and place their faith in experiential branding.
The current headcount in Maruti stands at around 9,350, including the 200 employees it hired since the beginning of this fiscal.
Lamborghini has sold 10,112 cars worldwide -- so India's 100 is certainly a big deal for them. But how big a deal is it for us to peg our consumption theories around, asks Rama Bijapurkar.
Foreign share holding limit in Maruti Suzuki India has reached trigger limit and any further investment by FIIs will be allowed only after RBI's approval.
If Tesla comes in, India's position as a manufacturing hub will rise many notches, as it will become only the second country, after China, to have both Apple as well as Tesla.
Stiff competition and rising input costs have affected margins and earnings outlook.
Shows i10 in poor light two weeks after Hyundai took swipes at Ritz.
The government has initiated the process of selling all its holding in Maruti Udyog Limited to raise more than Rs 2500 crore (Rs 25 billion).
The prices of the three petrol variants of the WagonR range between Rs 3.23 lakh (323,000) and Rs 3.72 lakh (372,000).
Acting as a dampener ahead of the festive season, Maruti Udyog Limited today effected a 0.2-1 per cent price hike in all its models except Swift, due to an increase in input costs including freight costs.
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