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'It will take some more time because the affordability of these cars have changed drastically.'
Maruti Suzuki is planning a medium term invement of Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion), part of which will be utilised to build five vehicle stock yards in the country within one to two years, a senior executive said.
Just a day after Volkswagen alleged the Japanese company had infringed an agreement by purchasing diesel engines from Fiat for its plant in Hungary, Suzuki demanded Volkswagen offload its 19.89 per cent holding in it.
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Passenger vehicle sales are expected to experience muted growth in the current financial year.
Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) will keep consolidating its existing product line-up, including hatchbacks, while bolstering presence in the fast growing SUV segment to power its way back to 50 per cent market share in the domestic passenger vehicle market, as per a senior company official. The country's largest carmaker, which has seen its market share drop to 43.38 per cent in FY22 from 47.7 per cent in FY21, aims to bring in multiple SUV products with focus on new technologies like hybrid powertrains in order to enhance fuel efficiency, making them comparable or better than diesel-powered models that are currently being sold in the market, especially by its Korean rivals. With no intention of making a comeback in the diesel segment, MSI is also focusing on increasing its play in the CNG segment to bring in additional volumes.
Celerio was launched at a time when the Indian automotive market was going through a transition.
Japanese automaker Suzuki on Tuesday expressed doubts whether Tata Motors' Rs 1 lakh car would be a complete product, and felt that the quest for lower pricing should not lead to a compromise of quality and safety norms.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be on a five-day tour to Japan from Sunday to expand business ties with that country and will also meet auto major Maruti Suzuki's top brass, official sources said.
Maruti will launch its first electric vehicle (EV) in the next financial year (FY24), and will roll out six EVs in the country by FY30, the automaker's parent firm Suzuki said on Thursday.
The Suzuki Swift has been a great success for the Japanese car maker whose forte is small cars.
Japanese auto giant Suzuki Motor Corporation on Tuesday said it plans to make India an export hub for its small cars, mainly for European and African markets.
The Baleno is among the top selling cars with unserviced bookings of 55,000 units.
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Car market leader Maruti Suzuki India's July sales remained almost flat at 58,543 units as against 57,909 units in the same month last year.
As if unsatisfied by the success story of Maruti, the new chief of the Indian arm of Japanese auto giant Suzuki Motor Co's on Friday claimed it will overtake the parent company in the next two years.
SMILP, despite having an installed capacity to manufacture 100,000 vehicles, sold a little over half that number between April and December last year and 5,753 units in January 2007.
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, the country's biggest carmaker, is set to play a larger role in the operations of parent Suzuki Motor and will contribute a third of the Japanese company's global sales by 2009-10, the Indian firm's managing director Shinzo Nakanishi said on Thursday.
Hero MotoCorp, India's largest two-wheeler maker, has seen a decline in its market share in rural areas since 2018, losing ground to major competitors such as TVS Motor Company, Bajaj Auto, and Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI), according to data from JATO Dynamics reviewed by Business Standard. Hero's share of rural two-wheeler sales in India has dropped from 40.4 per cent in 2018 to 33.3 per cent in 2023. In contrast, Bajaj's share increased from 12.7 per cent in 2018 to 13.9 per cent, HMSI's from 21.8 per cent to 22.2 per cent, and TVS' from 15.5 per cent to 17.8 per cent. Suzuki Motorcycle India has also seen its share rise from 1.7 per cent to 2.5 per cent.
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Ahead of this year's Budget, leading car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki on Monday asked the government not to roll back the entire stimulus package at once as it may hamper economic growth.
In a filing to the BSE, Maruti Suzuki India said HSBC Global Investments Fund Mauritius Ltd had sold 1,99,198 shares in the open market on June 29.
MSI is also looking to produce one million vehicles by the end of this fiscal.
Maruti recorded a 13.12% year-on-year surge in average revenue earned per car in 2023 compared to M&M's 7.56%, Hyundai's 6.76% and Tata Motors' 1.88%.
Maruti Suzuki produced 9,66,069 cars from January to December 2009, up 27 per cent from the year ago.
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd is not contemplating any price raise, despite a 20-30 per cent surge in raw material prices in recent months.
The country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, on Tuesday said it expects sales to grow around 10 per cent in 2010.
Proclaiming India as a major success story, Japanese small car major Suzuki Motor Corp said the record sales achieved its premium hatchback model, Swift in the country 'easily topped' targets in its first year of launch.
Maruti Suzuki on Thursday reported 6.54 per cent increase in sales at 1,18,949 units for February. The company had sold 1,11,645 units in the same month last year.
At a time when consumers increasingly embrace green mobility solutions, it is not electric cars but hybrids that are taking the lead, as automotive sales data indicate. Since January, 64,097 electric cars have been sold compared to 266,465 hybrids, according to data from the ministry of road transport and highways' Vahan dashboard. Hybrid car sales have surged from 4.42 per cent of the 4.1 million cars sold in calendar year 2022 to 7.2 per cent this year.
Japanese small car major Suzuki on Thursday launched its fifth global model small car, which will be launched in India under "A-Star" brand by mid-November this year.
The revenue growth of early birds or companies that have declared their Q4FY24 (March quarter) numbers is the highest in the last four quarters. The 178 companies (excluding their listed subsidiaries) that declared their results have reported a sales growth rate of 13.2 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y), taking aggregate revenue to Rs 9.1 trillion. Including other income, growth is at 16 per cent, the highest in the last four quarters.
At a time when consumers increasingly embrace green mobility solutions, it is not electric cars but hybrids that are taking the lead, as automotive sales data indicate. Since January, 64,097 electric cars have been sold compared to 266,465 hybrids, according to data from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways' Vahan dashboard. Hybrid car sales have surged from 4.42 per cent of the 4.1 million cars sold in calendar year 2022 to 7.2 per cent this year.
Shinzo Nakanishi, the 65-year-old managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), spent the better part of last week visiting and apologising to injured colleagues across half a dozen hospitals in Gurgaon, Haryana.
Supporting the all India strike called by 11 trade unions, Suzuki Motorcycle India Employee Union President Anil Kumar said: "As many as 27 workers unions of different factories in the Gurgaon, Manesar, Dharuhera and up to Bawal have agreed to go on strike for a day. So, there will be no production at our plant tomorrow."
Lenders have become worried as some dealers were not using the money provided to them for car financing.
The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday reported 17.8 per cent increase in net profit at Rs 802.2 crore (Rs 8.02 billion) for the third quarter ended December 31, 2014
