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Maruti Udyog on Tuesday launched a Euro-III variant and a new Euro-II version of Maruti 800, sporting a higher price tag, and said the entry level car was not being phased out.
Private sector banks have jumped on to the bandwagon to offer better rates than Maruti Udyog for its best-selling car, Maruti 800.
When the first Maruti 800 was introduced in 1983, it was made of almost entirely imported components; in a few years it had been heavily indigenised - although, for years, the older "original" models commanded a premium on the thriving second-hand market.
Maruti Udyog Ltd on Friday said the repositioning of compact car Alto would give the customer yet another option at the entry-level while asserting that its bread and butter model Maruti 800 would not be phased out.
India's biggest carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd on Wednesday said domestic sales grew 32.2 per cent at 42,480 units in August 2004 as its compact cars notched up impressive numbers.
Maruti's bread-and-butter model Maruti 800 witnessed a decline in sales for the second month in a row even as India's largest carmaker saw a 10 per cent rise in sales in June this year at 39,574 units.
The Maruti 800 changed the way cars were bought, sold and serviced in India, components were made, and industrial enterprises were organised. For the first time, the customer became the focus of manufacturing.
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'Without his vision and foresight, his willingness to take a risk that no one else was willing to take, his deep and abiding love for India, the Indian automobile industry could not have become the powerhouse that it has become.'
Bringing curtains down on the glorious saga of the Maruti 800 model, Maruti Suzuki India has stopped production of the iconic car brand that had been carrier for millions of Indian middle class families, since last month, said senior official of the auto maker.
The model's engine being upgraded to comply with BS IV norms. Engineers at Maruti Suzuki India can upgrade the engine that powers the car to comply with the Bharat Stage IV emission norms set to kick in by April next year.
While Maruti held the top spot for four decades, the Ambassador was the best-selling car in post-Independence India for three decades.
Over 2.5 million units of the icon were sold in its lifetime.
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Even as Maruti Suzuki's once bread-and-butter M800 model is seeing interest wane among buyers in India, demand for the country's once most iconic car has shot up in markets abroad.
As Kolkata marches towards modernity, it is hard to imagine its streets without these cabs, notes Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd).
A 40.7 per cent dip in the sales of Maruti's bread and butter model M 800 virtually offset the gains from Alto, WagonR and Zen as the carmaker posted a marginal four per cent rise in domestic sales in May 2004.
The sun may be slowly setting on Maruti Suzuki India's once flagship M800 model in the domestic market, but the car is springing a surprise with rising exports this financial year.
To check sagging sales of its once bread-and-butter 'M800' model, the country's biggest carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd on Monday announced a Rs 16,000 price cut, taking it below the Rs 200,000-mark.
We will not be in the ultra-low-cost car segment. Our focus will be on the A1 and A2 segments, which are growth areas in which many of the new players like Nissan, Volkswagen or Toyota are planning to enter. Our entry-level car will remain the Maruti 800.
With 15 models and a market share of close to 50 per cent, it rules the Indian market, selling almost 1.5 million units every year, rolling out one model every ten seconds.
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The company was offering a discount of Rs 11,000 on Alto, which will now come down to Rs 10,000, while discount on Maruti 800 would drop to Rs 8,000 from Rs 12,000 earlier. The reduction in discount is in line with the company's expectation of a good demand of Alto, Omni and Maruti 800, sources said.
This car has been codenamed H800 and is also called Hyundai HA and it will take on Tata Nano, Maruti Alto and New Maruti 800.
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Three months after its launch, Maruti Suzuki's multi-purpose vehicle, Eeco, has notched sales figures of over 7,000 units a month.
Maruti is working very hard to tap the entry level segment and it might reduce some features from the original model available in Japan.
The country's largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India, on Thursday said that "Tata Nano" may have a marginal impact on the sales of its entry level small car Maruti 800 but ruled out cutting its price.
India's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki on Thursday said it has no plans to cut the price of Maruti 800 to compete with Tata Motors' Nano.
Venkataraman Krishnamurthy, who is considered as the turnaround man of several Indian corporate houses like BHEL, Maruti Udyog, SAIL and Gail (India), passed away on Sunday at the age of 97. Krishnamurthy is considered as "the father of public sector undertakings in India" by many in India Inc. Born in the temple town of Tamil Nadu's Karuveli, he started his career as an airfield technician during the Second World War.
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