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100,000 KB-Series engines produced by MSIL in 10 months

100,000 KB-Series engines produced by MSIL in 10 months

Maruti is extremely delighted. 100,000 KB-Series engines have rolled out of its Gurgaon plant into cars in India and abroad since operations began ten months ago.

The KB Series engine powers the Ritz and the A-Star (sold in Europe as the Suzuki Alto and Nissan Pixo)

The next model to be powered by a KB-Series engine could be the Estilo, followed by the Wagon R. The company will take this as an opportunity to face lift these cars and prepare them to combat challenges posted by the Euro IV emission norms next year.

The engine is lighter, powerful and more fuel efficient than the exisiting line-up. company produces Bharat Stage-III, Bharat Stage-IV and Euro-V emission norms compliant KB-series engines.

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Entry posted on July 29th, 2009 and filed under Maruti Suzuki

Maruti to introduce Stop-Start technology to its range

Maruti Suzuki is likely to roll out cars with stop-start technology soon. This technology will boost the fuel economy by around 5-10%, but will increase the car’s price by Rs.10,000-20,000. Bosch is said to source this patented technology to Maruti.

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Entry posted on May 20th, 2009 and filed under Sideblog

FLASH – MSIL launches Ritz hatchback at 3.90-4.99 lakh

You can catch our Maruti Suzuki Ritz Special segment to learn the earlier developments and the car

Just hours ago, MSIL (Maruti Suzuki India Limited) launched the Suzuki Ritz (Splash elsewhere) in India in petrol and diesel variants. The Ritz is the seventh small car in Maruti’s portfolio, positioned in the A2 segment.

The Ritz will be available with two engines- you choose either the K-series 1.2 litre, four-cylinder, 85PS Petrol engine or the 1.3 litre, 16-valve DDiS, 75PS Diesel engine that Fiat and Tata customers are happy driving.

The diesel variants cost Rs 4.65 lakh and Rs 4.99 lakh, where as the three petrol variants cost between 3.90 lakh to Rs 4.80 lakh.

Petrol Versions –

Lxi – Rs.3,90,000/-
Vxi – Rs.4,20,000/-
Zxi – Rs.4.80,000/-

Diesel Versions –

Ldi – Rs.4,65,000/-
Vdi – Rs.4,99,000/-

(All prices Ex-Showroom Delhi)

Suzuki designed the Ritz on the Swift’s platform, and the high degree of localization additionally helps bringing down the costs.

The company was able to achieve 85% localization for this car.

The Ritz is also India’s first BS IV compliant hatchback. Maruti’s spokesperson declined to comment on the number of cars they were targeting to sell due to the twisted market conditions, but assured it was equipped to meet any level of demand.

Maruti Suzuki India Managing Director and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi-

“Ritz is our parent Suzuki’s fifth global model and it will be the first Bharat Stage-IV emission norms compliant Indian car. We have launched it at the beginning of the fiscal and we hope it will bring excitement in the market”

We’ll update you when more information is available.

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Entry posted on May 15th, 2009 and filed under maruti suzuki ritz

New Suzuki Alto to go on sale in UK next month

New Suzuki Alto to go on sale in UK next month

The new Suzuki Alto (Indian A-Star) is ready to go on sale in the UK from the 1st of March and from where else will the car be sourced? Maruti Suzuki will export the first few Euro-spec units from right here in India (remember that the A-Star is not made anywhere else in the world). The base version will carry an on-road price tag of £6,795.

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Entry posted on February 12th, 2009 and filed under Suzuki

Maruti Suzuki to replace WagonR, Omni & Versa

Maruti Suzuki to replace WagonR, Omni & Versa

Maruti Suzuki India today revealed its plans to replace three of its cars — the WagonR, Omni and Versa. A person dealing with the projects said the new WagonR will be based on the Suzuki’s MR Wagon platform(like the existing model), but the exterior and interior will be throughly made-over. The new Omni will be built on Versa platform to replace both Omni and Versa.

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Entry posted on February 6th, 2009 and filed under Suzuki

Maruti Suzuki hikes prices yet again; Hyundai and others to follow

Maruti Suzuki hikes prices yet again; Hyundai and others to follow

India’s largest carmaker – Maruti Suzuki has yet again hiked the prices (since its last hike in October’08) of its cars by Rs 5,000-10,000 with effect from January 28, attributing it to higher input prices and foreign currency movement, which affects prices of imported components.

While prices of all variants of SX4 sedan has been hiked by Rs 9,000, the price of Swift Petrol LXi has now been revised upwards by Rs 5,000.

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Entry posted on January 28th, 2009 and filed under Announcements

Suzuki A-Star Bags Zigwheels COTY Award

Suzuki A-Star Bags Zigwheels COTY Award

The Latest offering from Suzuki’s stable – The Maruti A-star, re-badged as Pixo in Euro markets and Alto in others, has bagged its first Car Of The Year Award from Zig Wheels.

The A-star will be sold in markets such as Australia later in 2009 and will be named as ‘Alto’. The Alto we know of is the different model, in the previous generation car in the Alto lineup, which turns out to be India’s best selling car as of now.

Chief judge Adil Jal Darukhanawala was impressed by the well designed small cars, which is frugal, simple, reliable and efficient. The judges were very enthusiastic about the A-Star’s all new 1.0-litre engine.

“The car doesn’t break any new ground in absolute power and torque, but in its actual delivery in terms of acceleration from standstill, in-gear driveability and top speed it is the proverbial David with the wherewithal to massacre many Goliaths.”

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Entry posted on January 10th, 2009 and filed under Suzuki

Suzuki Kizashi going to enter India next year?

A few months ago, we brought you spy pictures of the upcoming Suzuki Kizashi testing in the U.S, which you can view here.
It looks like the Suzuki Kizashi could well be the next vehicle from Maruti after the upcoming A-Star and the Splash in India. Maruti is taking bold decisions after the immense success [...]

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Entry posted on October 28th, 2008 and filed under Maruti Suzuki, Maruti Suzuki Kizashi, Suzuki

Diwali Offer? Maruti cars costlier by upto Rs.6,000

The recent worldwide economic crisis as we know, has had a severe impact on Automobile manufacturers. So severe that, Market leaders like Maruti have been forced to hike the prices of select models, before Diwali – during when they normally offer discounts! The rising steel prices has taken its toll on all car makers [...]

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Entry posted on October 26th, 2008 and filed under Announcements, Maruti Suzuki

Suzuki Alto production halts in China- Don’t even think about it happening here

Changan Suzuki (Maruti counterpart of Shanghai), has confirmed that it has halted production of the existing Alto model back in July itself. This is to pave way for the next generation Alto model due to hit the roads in next September in China.
We won’t and can’t expect Maruti to follow suite and discontinue production [...]

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Entry posted on October 13th, 2008 and filed under Announcements, Maruti Suzuki, Suzuki

Honda City Diesel and Jazz Diesel might happen

Honda City Diesel and Jazz Diesel might happen

Since its debut in 1995 with the Honda City, Honda has never thought about a diesel car. Despite the lack of a diesel engine, Honda could somehow entice the consumers with its ultra smooth petrol engines. Even abroad, Honda offers its popular i-DTEC (diesel) engine option only for the Accord and CR-V.
Until recently, Honda [...]

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Entry posted on October 10th, 2008 and filed under Honda, honda jazz

Reader Rides- Nilesh Sawant’s Zen Estilo

Nilesh Sawant, an avid reader of IAB has emailed us a comprehensive review of his Zen Estilo. He has owned it for over a year now, and some of his observations and feedback, we believe, will help a lot of potential buyers.
I have been using the Zen Estilo Vxi for over a year know. [...]

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Entry posted on October 9th, 2008 and filed under Maruti Suzuki, Reader Rides

Suzuki eyes Weight Reduction in future cars

Suzuki considers the concept of ‘lighter, faster, better’ for achieving optimum efficiency in its cars. As an initiative, Suzuki recently launched the ‘one component, one gram’ drive in Istanbul, which aims at reducing the weight of each of the cars’ components by a gram and thereby bringing down the overall weight of the car. [...]

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Entry posted on October 8th, 2008 and filed under Maruti Suzuki, Suzuki
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