November 19th, 2008 — suzuki
Maruti Suzuki India (MSI), the country’s largest carmaker, plans to pitch its forthcoming compact car A-Star, to beat the slowdown. The company plans to offer the car at an introductory price of Rs. 3.47 lakh. The prices for other variants will go up to Rs 4.12 lakh.
“November and December are usually tough months for carmakers. Knowing that very well, we will be launching the A-Star so that it can bring excitement to the market,” according to MSI Executive Officer Marketing and Sales Mayank Pareek.
The company that is manufacturing A Star at its Manesar plant, is aiming to sell about 50,000 units in the Indian market and one lakh units abroad.
MSI claims that according to the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), the A-Star delivers a mileage of 19.59 km per litre.t is powered by the company’s new K10B 998 cc petrol engine and will be rolled out in three variants.
Manufactured at its Manesar plant, the company is aiming to sell about 50,000 units in the Indian market and one lakh units to be exported.
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November 16th, 2008 — suzuki
November 13th, 2008 — suzuki
NEW DELHI: Maruti seems to have come off age after more than two decades it was formed as a joint venture between Japan’s Suzuki Motor and the
Indian government. The company is set to develop an all-new model from scratch by 2011 using its Indian engineering strength.
IV Rao, managing executive officer (engineering) of Maruti Suzuki, told TOI that the company has been strengthening its engineering and design competencies as it plans to nearly double its engineering workforce by 2010 from 560. “We would like to close March next year with 740 engineers and reach 1000 by 2010,” Rao said.
And speaking about the future direction for the Indian R&D team, he said, “Going forward, we would be working on a model that is conceived, developed and designed at Maruti by its own engineering team.” Rao’s statement indicates the fast-growing stature of Maruti within Suzuki’s overall global plans and clearly brings out the future strategy of the Japanese carmaker.
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November 6th, 2008 — suzuki
November 4th, 2008 — suzuki
INDIA’S CAR leader Maruti Suzuki is thinking of entering the upper mid-size segment in Indian car market. The company has dominated the small car segment in India, but now wants to concentrate on other segment too.
Maruti plans to introduce a new model named Kizashi from the D-segment by 2009. In India, this will be the first car to be enhanced with four-wheel drive in its class.
Maruti Suzuki has already gained success with its models in the A-segment and B-segment cars in India. Kizashi was first showcased at the Frankfurt Motors Show 2007 and was displayed at the Delhi Auto Expo 2008. This new model is powered with an advanced four-valve turbo-fired 2 L petrol engine that follows Euro V norms.
The price of the car has not been confirmed yet, but it is expected to carry the price tag of Rs. 10 lakh or above, and would be competing with other car players like Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla Altis, Hyundai Sonata, Skoda Octavia, and Volkswagen Jetta.
Source:Autoblog.com
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September 29th, 2008 — suzuki
Bangalore, The latest passenger car from Maruti Suzuki, the onelitre A-Star model is expected to cost about Rs 4 lakh (ex-showroom) and will be launched during mid-November.
An official with Maruti Suzuki told newspersons that the A-Star will also be exported under the Nissan badge to Europe and the Middle East and will be called Pixo. Nissan can also sell the same car in India as well under a different brand. The new car is also perhaps the only model in the world which will have 750 variants as it will be sold across 151 countries including Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and Africa, the official said.
Maruti Suzuki is also increasing the number of engineers working in its R&D centre from the current level of 570 engineers to about 1,000 by 2010. Another R&D centre is also expected to set up shortly.
The official said Maruti Suzuki will manufacture about 1 lakh car units of the A-Star a year for the export market and 50,000 for the domestic market. The same model will be made for Nissan under a contract manufacturing arrangement. The A-Star will be the fifth world strategic model from Suzuki which means the same car can be manufactured simultaneously in other countries. Suzuki will sell the same car in Europe but under the Alto as well as under the Celerio names.
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September 14th, 2008 — eco-car segment, nissan, suzuki
It’s a new car but will have three different names. For the first time in the Indian automobile history, the same car—made in India—will don three different badges in the global market.
Maruti Suzuki, manufacturer of the car, will brand it A-Star in India. The same car will be contract-manufactured by Maruti for Nissan Motors and called Pixo. And it will be the new Alto for Suzuki Motor Corporation in Europe. The car will be manufactured exclusively by Maruti Suzuki’s plant at Manesar in Haryana and will be unveiled by both companies at the Paris Motor Show next month at their respective pavilions.
Both Nissan Pixo and Suzuki Alto will compete against Toyota Aygo in the international market while it will be pitted against Hyundai i10, Fiat Palio and Tata Motors Indica Vista in the premium small-car segment in India. An MSI spokesperson refused to comment and said: “A-Star has nothing to do with Alto, which will continue to be the flagship model of Maruti Suzuki in India. It is a totally different segment.”
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March 19th, 2008 — suzuki
January 18th, 2008 — Auto show / Motor Show, suzuki
While the halo at Auto Expo might justifiably be all pervading over the Tata Nano, industry leader Suzuki has finally done something which it wasn’t known to do. For the first time in the history of the firm, it has let two Indian designers conjure up the look and feel of what would be the company’s fifth World Strategic Model - the A-Star Concept.
Saurabh Singh and Rajesh Kumar Gogu are the two young lads credited with penning the stunning exterior of the A-Star Concept and also its sporty interior. They have, for the first time for a Suzuki, delivered a design where quite a few details from the Indian way of life have been incorporated in some form.
The A-Star Concept is a critical model in Suzuki’s model line-up. Since it is to be built in India for export and domestic markets, it was appropriate that there was a bit of Indian-ness to the design.
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December 11th, 2007 — suzuki
New Delhi (PTI): Emphasising the importance given to its Indian operations, Japanese car major Suzuki Motor Co on Tuesday said it will be rolling out its fifth global product — to be showcased at the upcoming auto expo here as concept ‘A-Star’– only from the country.
“The A-Star is to be produced only in India, not even in Japan. This will be displayed at the Auto Expo in Delhi (in January) and it will come under SMC’s ‘family theme’,” SMC Chairman Osamu Suzuki told reporters here.
“The production of A-Star will start by the autumn of 2008 by when export to Europe would commence,” he added.
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