New Delhi: Suzuki Motor Corp. is likely to supply as many as 25,000 Maruti Suzuki Baleno premium hatchbacks each year to Toyota Motor Corp. as the car gets set to become the first cross-badged product of the auto makers, said two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Toyota will start hawking the Baleno through its own dealership network from the first quarter of next fiscal year, the people who didn’t want to be named said.

Sales of passenger vehicles in July by the country’s top two manufacturers Maruti Suzuki India and Hyundai Motor skidded with the former seeing a decline of 0.6% compared with the same month last year and the latter seeing an incremental growth of 1.1%. However, the automakers said this was due to the recalibration done last year in the run-up to the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) and had nothing to do with the underlying sentiments in the market and would normalise from August.

The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India on Wednesday reported a marginal decline in sales at 1,64,369 units in July.

The company had sold 1,65,346 units in July last year, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said in a statement.

Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL) on Wednesday said it is recalling around 1,300 units of its popular Swift and Dzire models for an airbag-related fault.

The company said 566 new Swift units and 713 new Dzire units, manufactured between May 7 and July 5, 2018, will be checked for issues in the airbag controller unit.

Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) today said it is recalling 1,279 units of new Swift and Dzire models to inspect for a possible fault in the airbag controller units.

MSI in a statement said it will proactively and voluntarily undertake a recall for 1,279 vehicles (566 new Swift and 713 new Dzire) manufactured between May 7 to July 5, 2018.

New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, the seller of every second car in the country, plans to introduce its first entry-level car in India in more than two decades, as a revival in rural consumption is expected to boost demand for such vehicles.

The made-in-India car, code-named Y1K, is in the development stage at the company’s newly built research and development facility in Rohtak, said two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

New Delhi: Suzuki Motor Corp. will fit premium cars sold by its Indian unit with lithium-ion batteries sourced from the parent’s upcoming Gujarat battery plant, starting FY21, two people aware of the development said.

The longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries will replace the traditional lead-based ones in cars sold by unit Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. The lithium-ion batteries will be fitted in the Swift hatchback and all models that are more expensive than it, these people said, requesting anonymity.

Of the 10 top-selling cars in the country in the April-June quarter, the top six were from Maruti Suzuki and in total the company had seven models in the top 10 list. The remaining three models were from Hyundai Motor India, data sourced from Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) showed.

The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) plans to add another 750,000 units manufacturing capacity from three production lines in Gujarat plant by 2020, taking the total capacity to over 2.25 million units a year, a top company official said today.

The company, which already has a market share of over 50 per cent in the domestic passenger vehicle segment, is also initiating process to study ways to further expand production capacity beyond 2.25 million units per annum after 2020.

Carmakers have reported an unusually high double digit volume growth in domestic sales for June on a low base of previous June. Domestic volume of passenger vehicles (cars, vans and utility vehicles) in had slipped more than 11 per cent to 198,399 units in June last year as manufacturers consciously regulated dispatches to dealers to minimise losses arising out of the transition to the goods and services tax (GST) regime from July 2017.

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