The Maruti 800 has no airbags, ABS or ESP. The company can’t offer them even as options
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Can the Maruti 800 pass a European crash test? Does a Maruti Omni have crumple zones? Structurally, do the Omni and 800 have anything to boast about, apart from being made of steel, that is?
Mr.Osamu Suzuki, Chairman Suzuki Motor Corporation wouldn’t accept that his organization can’t bring to the table, a competitor for the Tata Nano. Instead of agreeing and moving on, he now tries to describe why the Nano isn’t a car according to him. He says items like single windshield wiper will erode standards.
Just because the Nano has a single windshield wiper, it doesn’t mean it isn’t a car. Suzuki’s biggest rival Toyota, is also adopting the same technique with the Etios. So is the Etios also not a car for Mr.Suzuki? Will a car with a single wiper blade be less safe than a car with two of them? I’d say a car designed more than twenty years back can have two windshield wipers and still be less effective in providing a clean windshield than a car designed in 2005, during a storm.
Tomorrow if Maruti is not able to successfully crack the D-Segment with its Suzuki Kizashi, will Mr.Suzuki find ways to prove Accord, Camry and Passat are not executive cars because they did not have something to belong in the same category? Maybe its competitors don’t have the letter ‘k’ or ‘z’ in their names. That could be a possible reason, you never know.
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