Maruti Suzuki Sales Up 4% YoY

Maruti Suzuki India April sales stood at 97,155 units versus 93,058 units YoY.

Carmarket leader Maruti Suzuki India Limited sold a total of 97,155 vehicles in April 2011. This includes 10,011 units for export.

The company had sold a total of 93,058 vehicles in April 2010.

Segment	Models	April			April'10-
					March'11
		2011	2010	% Change
A1	M800	2528	2258	12.00%	26485
A2	Alto, Wagon-R, Estilo, Swift, A-Star, Ritz	57443	56416	1 8%	808552
A3	SX4. D'zire	13899	9994	39.10%	131272
A4	Kizashi*	35	-	~	138
A: Total Passenger cars		73905	68668	7.60%	966447
B :MUV	Gypsy, Grand Vitara	217	712	-69.50%	56S6
C: Van Type	Omni, Eeco	13022	10654	22.20%	150626
Domestic Sales		87144	80034	8.90%	1132739
Export Sales		10011	13024	-23.10%	136266
Total Sales		97155	93058	4.40%	1271005

* Maruti Suzuki Kizashi waslaunched in February 2011.

Maruti Suzuki Alto: World's Best/ Largest Selling Car

The best selling small car of India, Maruti Suzuki Alto has beaten all cars in the world to become no. 1 best selling car of the world. In the race, it has left behind worlds’ top selling compact models like Volkswagen Gold in Germany, Fiat Uno and Volkswagen Gol in Brazil.

During calendar year 2010, Maruti Suzuki Alto sold 3,00, 956 units. Whereas VWGol sold 2,93,738 units and Gold sold only 2,51,078 units.

This is the first time when any Indian car model has outsold global best sellers.

Maruti Suzuki Alto, which was launched in September 2000, has been a big success story from day one. It has sold cumulative 16.68 lakh units till now. Since financial year 2005-06, Alto has been the Number One selling car model in India.

Maruti Suzuki Alto crossed its first 1 million sales mark in just eight years, November 2008, making it the fastest 1 million units selling car of India.

“Today, Alto along with another sibling called Alto K10 launched in August 2010 sells average 32,000 units a month. In March this year, it sold over 38,000 units. During just concluded fiscal 2010-11, Alto alone has sold around 3.47 units.

This is over 1/4th of Maruti Suzuki’s total sales of 12.71 lakh units from all models during the fiscal. It also reflects a growth of 47 per cent in Alto’s sales compared to 2.35 lakh units sold during fiscal 2009-10” informs Shashank Srivastava, Chief General Manager (Marketing), Maruti Suzuki India Limited.

Some other records of Maruti Suzuki Alto in India:

• First car to cross the 5 lakh domestic sales figure (in 6 years)
• The achievement of the next 5 lakh unit sales – in 2 years and 2 months
• Crossed the 1 miilion production mark in Feb 2008.
• First car brand to cross the 2 lakh sales figure (domestic sales) in a single financial year - achievement twice in FY 2006-07 & FY 2007-08
• India’s largest selling car (domestic since FY 2005 -06)
• Fastest to sell 1 lakh cars – in 150 dys
• Awards & Accolades for Alto
• 2000 : Winner of the “Overdrive most exciting new car of the year”
• 2001 : BS Motoring Car of the year 2001
• 2002 : Overdrive Car of the year 2002
• First Indian car to undergo a 24 hrs endurance test and set 13 national records
• Topper of the JD Power IQS in its segment for 2 years i.e 2004 and 2005
• 2006 : Winner of the EFFIE award for Boondein campaign
• 2007 : Winner of the EFFIE award for the ‘fuel efficiency’ campaign

Source: Maruti

Maruti To Recall 13157 Diesel Engine Cars

Maruti Suzuki India Limited today announced that it will inspect the ‘Connecting Rod Bolt’ for 13,157 units of Swift Dzire (4505 cars), Swift (6841 cars) and Ritz (1811 cars) diesel cars with engines manufactured between 13th November 2010 and 4th December 2010. If the Connecting Rod Bolt is found defective, the company will replace the component free of cost.

No other vehicles in the range or the vehicles exported by Maruti Suzuki are impacted.

Maruti Suzuki dealers will contact owners of the cars. The new part has been despatched to the dealer workshops.

Users of Maruti Suzuki diesel cars purchased after 13th November 2010, can check the website www.marutisuzuki.com to ascertain if their diesel engine car is among the above mentioned vehicles. Customer need to fill in the engine number (D13A followed by 7 digits) on the computer screen. Engine Number is embossed on vehicle ID plate and also on the vehicle registration documents. Customers may also contact the nearest Maruti Suzuki dealer workshop to ascertain if their car is amongst the above vehicles.

Information on recall hereafter will be also available for our customers on our website: www.marutisuzuki.com.

Maruti Cars Price Hike by Rs. 9000

Maruti Suzuki has reportedly hiked prices of all models by up to Rs. 9000, on the back of increasing input prices.

According to reports, the price hike across the models will range between 0.2% to 2.4%. It will translate into a minimum increase of Rs. 1,100 and a maximum of Rs. 9,000 depending on the model.

The price rise is with effect from April 4, said a financial daily.

Maruti Suzuki India is expecting its sales growth to moderate to around 15% this fiscal from nearly 25% last fiscal.

Maruti Suzuki Ltd total vehicle sales in FY11 (April-March) jumped by 24.8% to 1,271,005 units from 1,018,365 units in the previous fiscal year.

During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011, Maruti’s domestic sales increased by 30% to 1,132,739 from 870,790 units in the previous fiscal year.

Maruti Cars Price Hike As Per Models:

- New Maruti Wagon R will cost Rs 3,500-4,500 more

- Maruti swift will get costlier by Rs 4,700 across all variants

- Maruti Estilo gets dearer by Rs 3,500

- Maruti Suzuki SX4 sedan price increases by Rs 7,500

- Maruti Alto, is the only car that is exempted from the price hike!

Maruti Suzuki FY11 Sales Up 25% YoY

Maruti Suzuki Ltd. said on Friday its total vehicle sales in FY11 (April-March) jumped by 24.8% to 1,271,005 units from 1,018,365 units in the previous fiscal year.

During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011, Maruti’s domestic sales increased by 30% to 1,132,739 from 870,790 units in the previous fiscal year, the company said.

Exports during FY11 declined by 6.3% to 138,266 units from 147,575 units in 2009-10.

Total passenger car sales in FY11 stood at 966,447 units as against 765,533 units in the year ended March 31, 2010. This represents an increase of 26.2%.

Source: Maruti Suzuki Ltd.