Dealers have stocked up vehicles in the run-up to a price hike, which is expected to be announced by leading players some time this month.
The 30-share Sensex is up 253 points at 29,263 and the 50-share Nifty has gained 68 points at 8,829.
M&M also saw its domestic passenger vehicle sales grow by 1 per cent, while Toyota Kirloskar Motor witnessed a decline in its PV sales.
India's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki on Saturday raised car prices of most of its models
The recently anointed managing director and chief executive officer at Maruti Suzuki India Ltd tells Business Standard how he intends to get back to over 50 per cent share in the domestic market, apart from a larger role in the parent's global operations.
India is a market for low-priced cars with low running costs. The global majors don't have models that fit the bill; only Maruti and Hyundai have successful entry-level models, observes T N Ninan.
With the impasse that started on August 29 continuing, the company said it brought in 50 more ITI-trained and experienced workers at the plant.
Four years after it launched the entry-level sedan Swift DZire, the country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India is bringing a shortened version of the car that will hit the market next month.
With the domestic auto market going on a downhill slide, Tata Motors and Maruti Suzuki have cut production as the automobile industry braces up for a single digit sales growth this fiscal.
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Country's largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India continues its dominance on the Indian roads, with its four models, led by entry-level small car Alto.
Maruti's 7 models in India's top ten selling passenger vehicles in 2016-17
Maruti Suzuki India has hiked prices of its diesel cars by up to Rs 10,000 with effect from Monday on account of higher input costs and appreciation of Japanese yen.
MSI in January increased prices by up to Rs 31,600.
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In the last two days, the company had done the ground work for resumption of work in the press, weld and paint shops by bringing in additional workers.
August 2010 proved to be a good month for most auto manufacturers.
Leading automakers Maruti Suzuki India, Hyundai Motor, Kia Motors and Tata Motors reported sales growth in the domestic market in November, aided by robust offtakes amid the festival season. While Maruti Suzuki India reported marginal growth, Hyundai logged in its highest ever monthly sales in November. Others like Honda Cars India, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Mahindra & Mahindra and MG Motor India also reported sales growth in November as compared with the same month last year.
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Passenger vehicle sales continue to drop in June; Maruti, Hyundai, Tata Motors, Toyota witness decline. Mahindra & Mahindra, however, reported a 4 per cent growth.
While Hyundai Motor India reported a marginal growth, Toyota Kirloskar Motor witnessed a dip in sales last month.
Maruti Suzuki continues to dominate the Indian automobile market with its best-selling cars like Alto, WagonR and Swift. Maruti Alto has maintained its position of India's best-selling model.
Having learnt lessons from the past with Baleno and SX4 models, the company is preparing to aggressively tap customers who are looking to upgrade, with the Ciaz, on which it has invested Rs 620 crore (Rs 6.2 billion) on development.
Maruti Suzuki India's grip on the country's car market tightened in October with six of its models, including the newly launched mid-sized sedan Ciaz, featuring in the top 10 selling brands in the month.
Cumulative sales of India's top passenger vehicle makers -- Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra and Mahindra, Tata Motors, Honda Cars, and Toyota Kirloskar -- increased to 206,418 units in February over 200,322 units in the same month last year, an increase of 3 per cent.
Seeking to make a mark in the big car segment, the country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India will open bookings of its upcoming mid-sized sedan Ciaz from Wednesday.
Manufacturers report unexpected post-festival surge in demand.
Maruti Suzuki India continued its grip in the passenger vehicles market in India with five of its models in the top ten best selling models in June.
Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Honda Cars and Tata Motors posted single digit growth during the period under review while M&M reported decline in sales.
Leading automakers Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai and Tata Motors on Thursday reported robust sales in March as a shift towards personal mobility and pent up demand continued to help companies push dispatches to their respective retail partners. Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Honda Cars and Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) also reported strong sales last month as compared to the year-ago period, when dispatches were adversely impacted due to the impending transition to BSVI from April 2020 and the nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India said its domestic sales stood at 1,49,518 units last month. The auto major had reported sales of 76,976 units in March 2020.
The company has proposed to launch the 'made-in-India' car in the next three years. Given its nascent engineering strength, the Indian auto co is looking at existing platforms. The company will, therefore, save a fortune by not opting for a completely new car platform. Generally, the cost of developing a new platform constitutes a substantial part of the expenditure incurred on a new car's production.
The Baleno excels in most departments, leaving little scope for improvement in some.
The unit has a manufacturing capacity of 700,000 cars in two shifts. This means the Japanese major is cutting production by 35,000 cars as higher loan rates and a slowing economy sapped demand for automobiles. Sales at Maruti, 54 per cent owned by Suzuki, fell 7 per cent in October. India is the biggest global market for Suzuki, Japan's second-largest minicar maker.
Honda will launch 4 cars in India soon.
The company had sold 50 units of SX4 sedan in August 2014.
Various factors, including robust demand in rural markets and good response to new models, helped in driving the sales.
BS-VI emission norms and the COVID-19 lockdown impacted the dispatches.
Maruti Suzuki had discontinued the mid-sized sedan Baleno in 2006, which was replaced by SX4 later on.
Its sales grew 21% to 165,346 units
Top 10 vehicles, value-wise, is dominated by the two players in the market, Maruti Suzuki & Hyundai
Helped by softer interest rates on vehicle loans as well as their better availability, the country's top car makers posted healthy sales growth in July.
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