"We are training about 100 people in research and development area at Suzuki Japan. They have been sent to Japan for two years and would come back in batches between 2008-10," Maruti Suzuki India's executive director (HR) S Y Siddiqui told PTI.
The testing facility at Rohtak would have more than 30 different tracks covering a length of about 30 km to check the various operational aspects of a vehicle.
Country's largest car maker draws nearly half of its sales from exchange programmes, rural focus.
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.
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.
The new model, which is based on the company's fifth generation HEARTECT platform, comes with a BS-VI compliant one-litre petrol engine with a claimed fuel efficiency of 21.7 km per litre.
MUL would lift the month-long lockout and resume production at the violence-hit Manesar unit from Tuesday.
The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Friday said it is recalling 1,81,754 units of petrol trims of various models, including Ciaz, Vitara Brezza and XL6, to replace faulty motor generator unit. This is the company's largest vehicle recall till date. As a responsible corporate, keeping in mind customer safety, the company has announced to proactively undertake a recall of some petrol variants of Ciaz, Ertiga, Vitara Brezza, S-Cross and XL6, MSI said in a regulatory filing.
Talks between the management and striking workers at the Manesar plant broke down.
The current headcount in Maruti stands at around 9,350, including the 200 employees it hired since the beginning of this fiscal.
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.
In February, Maruti cut vehicle prices by between Rs 8,502 and Rs 30,984 across models after the excise duty reduction was announced.
Car exports from India have reached the levels of around six lakh units annually.
The crippling strike at the country's largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India's Manesar plant entered its 13th day on Thursday, with production completely shut down.
Nissan Motor Company, Japan's third-largest auto maker, has decided to cut its small car sourcing target from India's biggest car company Maruti Suzuki by 80 per cent in view of the severe downturn in Europe's automobile market.
According to industry sources, the company has stopped its production of the current SX4 model in order to change engine, which would be in compliant with the Bharat Stage-IV norms.
Includes all-new versions of Swift and Swift Dzire.
A clutch of automakers including Maruti Suzuki, Hero MotoCorp, Mercedes Benz India, Eicher Motors, TVS Motor, and Isuzu Motors India announced they had got the clearance from the governments of the states they operate in to resume operations.
Workers, union leaders in hiding amid spate of arrests; Japanese nationals among 100 injured; killed person identified as HR general manager
According to information available on the company's website, Swift, which was launched as a world strategic model in 2004, reached cumulative worldwide sales of four million units in August 2014 -- nine years and nine months since the start of sales in 2004.
Maruti was allotted around 640 acres of land at Hansalpur which lies nestled between Mehsana district and the Sanand-Viramgam area.
Top carmaker Maruti Suzuki on Thursday said that Gujarat is a preferred location for the company to set up its new manufacturing plant.
Taking exception to an advertisement by Maruti Suzuki India in November last year in one of the newspapers published in Chandigarh, HSCI's notice said a comparison between SX4 and the new Honda City was made, which had 'given completely false figures of the new Honda City in order to show superiority of your product SX4.' The comparison relates to height and length of the new Honda City as well as the 'absence' of integrated stereo systems.
According to estimates available with industry experts, the wage bill of Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest car maker, is expected to increase by Rs 65-70 crore (Rs 650-700 million) after the increments.
It is currently working out the details of the quantum of price increase, which will vary depending on the model.
From the Sensex pack, Nestle India, HCL Technologies, Tech Mahindra, Bharti Airtel, Titan, Infosys, Asian Paints, NTPC, Bajaj Finserv and Sun Pharmaceuticals were among the laggards. State Bank of India, IndusInd Bank, Zomato, Power Grid, ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Consultancy Services and Adani Ports were the gainers.
Sales for the same month previous year were at 84,804 units, Maruti Suzuki India said.
Suzuki Motor Corporation Chairman Osamu Suzuki has rejected an appeal by the Gurgaon unit of the Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union to reinstate the 500 workers who were sacked by Maruti Suzuki's management for their alleged involvement in the violence at the company's Manesar plant on July 18, which left one dead and several injured. The facility was locked out for about a month.
The country's largest car-maker has also issued termination notices to 500 regular workers.
The national capital-based company recorded sales of 82,870 units in the domestic market last month, a 19.15 per cent fall from 1,02,503 units in November, 2010.
The car will rival Honda City, Hyundai Verna, VW Vento and Skoda Rapid.
Auto majors, except Maruti, register marginal growth in sales in October.
Indian passenger vehicles market registered record wholesales of 43 lakh units in 2024, with companies like market leader Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Tata Motors, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, and Kia posting their best-ever annual domestic sales. The continued growth of SUVs, along with rural markets playing a key role in driving up car sales, helped the industry better the previous best of nearly 41.1 lakh units posted in 2023.
The strike by workers at Suzuki Powertrain India Ltd in support of their colleagues at the Manesar plant has made the situation even more precarious for the Maruti Suzuki India management.
Car wil be available in two variants, with base version priced at Rs 6.52 lakh, top end at Rs 7.30 lakh
At 12:25 PM, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 358 points or 1.3% at 26,368.
The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India on Monday reported a 25.34 per cent fall in total sales for July to 75,300 units, mainly due to sluggish market condition and non-production of hatchback Swift as the company is preparing to launch a new version of the car soon.
Shares of Maruti Suzuki tanked over 5 percent last week on concerns related to its plant in Gujrat. However, its chairman says, company will deliver good results in ensung quarters.
Siam argues that a 2040 ban could destabilise ongoing and future investments and threaten millions of jobs in the automotive value chain.
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