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<keyword id="44883" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Maruti-Suzuki">Maruti Suzuki</keyword> India today launched a variant of its mid-sized sedan Ciaz priced at Rs 9.2 lakh and Rs 10.28 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). The Ciaz RS variant will be available in both petrol and smart <keyword id="2037407" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="hybrid-diesel">hybrid diesel</keyword> options. While the petrol variant is priced at Rs 9.2 lakh, the smart hybrid diesel option is tagged at Rs 10.28 lakh (prices ex-showroom Delhi), the company said in a statement. Maruti Suzuki India Executive Director, Marketing and Sales <keyword id="1646923" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="RS-Kalsi">RS Kalsi</keyword> said: "Ciaz has emerged as one of our strong brands. It has enabled us to strengthen our position in the mid-size premium sedan segment." 

	The introduction of smart hybrid diesel and safety features such as dual airbags and ABS in base variants has enhanced the reputation of Ciaz, he added. 
 

	Ciaz RS comes with new sporty black interiors and a grey chrome finish instrument panel. 
 

	Since its launch in October last year, Ciaz has seen sales of over 56,000 units. 
	 
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Maruti launches Ciaz RS variant starting at Rs 9.2 lakh

New Delhi, Jan 25 () The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India on Saturday launched Ciaz S, the sports variant of its premium mid-sized sedan Ciaz, priced at Rs 10.08 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
 The company also said it has introduced BS-VI compliant Ciaz priced between Rs 8.31 lakh and Rs 11.09 lakh. This will be its 11th offering complying with the stricter emission norm, ahead of its implementation from April 1.
 "With over 2.7 lakh happy customers and record 29 per cent market share in its segment, Ciaz is popular for its impactful exteriors, sophisticated interiors and strong performance. There was a latent need from our sedan loving customers for a Sporty version of Ciaz," Maruti Suzuki India Executive Director (Marketing &amp; Sales) Shashank Srivastava said in a statement.
 Ciaz S fulfils that need and it adds a sporty quotient to the premium mid-sized sedan, appealing to the customers desiring 'the good life', he added.
 Ciaz S comes with signature dual-tone sporty exteriors and intense black accentuations on side and rear under body spoilers, trunk lid spoiler, ORVM cover and front fog lamp garnish, the company said. It also has multi-spoke 16-inch alloy wheels in coordinated dark finish. RKL ABM
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Maruti Suzuki launches sports variant of Ciaz sedan

India's leading car manufacturer, <keyword id="44883" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Maruti-Suzuki">Maruti Suzuki</keyword> is bullish about the new Maruti Ciaz - its latest mid-sized sedan for the country. Maruti had unveiled the concept version of the Ciaz earlier this year at the 2014 <keyword id="73154" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Auto-Expo">Auto Expo</keyword> and as these first undisguised pictures suggest the production version of the Maruti <keyword id="6911" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="suzuki">Suzuki</keyword> Ciaz looks like a promising sedan.
 The company has been struggling to have a successful run with its sedan models above the <keyword id="484565" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Maruti-Dzire">Maruti DZire</keyword>, while arch rival <keyword id="596" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hyundai">Hyundai</keyword> has hit the sweet spot with Indian car buyers with its sedans like the Hyundai Verna and Hyundai Elantra. But, this time around Maruti Suzuki is taking no chances as the Ciaz appears to have most things working in its favour as of now.

	Recently, a bunch of production ready Maruti Suzuki Ciaz were caught resting their heels in the company's Manesar manufacturing facility in Haryana. The company is working on a war footing to meet the scheduled launch of the Ciaz by second half of September 2014.
 Design wise the new Maruti Suzuki Ciaz strikes a good balance between the last generation SX4 and the Kizashi luxury sedan. The four slat chrome grille features a large Suzuki logo, while the headlight design is very distinct in the segment and is expected to feature projector lamps as standard fitment. The multi-layered bootlid design and shape of the taillight makes the Ciaz resemble the new <keyword id="31353" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Honda-city">Honda City</keyword>'s rear end quite a bit.

	The interiors are inspired by the more premium Maruti Kizashi and would feature a two-tone dashboard with integrated entertainment system, steering wheel mounted audio controls, electric OVRMs and AC vents even for rear seat passengers among others.

	Optional features could include 5-inch display for the infotainment system, reverse parking camera, ABS, 16-inch alloy wheels, climate control air-conditioning, additional airbags and push button start to name a few.
 Pricing of the Maruti Suzuki Ciaz would be on par to the <keyword id="20630" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Honda">Honda</keyword> City and Hyundai Verna and is expected to start from Rs 7.5 lakh onwards

Maruti Suzuki Ciaz production begins

<keyword id="6911" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="suzuki">Suzuki</keyword> Motor’s Indian arm <keyword id="44883" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Maruti-Suzuki">Maruti Suzuki</keyword> is going to develop a new generation <keyword id="6412620" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Alto">Alto</keyword> and strengthen its hold in the entry-car space. 
 Alto’s share dropped nearly to 40% -48% with the launch of <keyword id="43777" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Renault">Renault</keyword> Kwid. Kwid, however, has been able to gain almost 20% of the segment sales. The average monthly sales of the Alto have come down to 19,000-20,000 from 21,500 in the last fiscal year. 
 
 As per the sources, the company has started working on the project which internally is being called Y1K. The <keyword id="3734807" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="new-generation-Alto">new-generation Alto</keyword> is most likely to be launched by the festive season of 2019. The car will be the most expressive Alto anyone has ever seen and may even sport a crossover deign, they said. 
 
As the car will be engineered and made in India, it will be tailored as per the Indian market need. 
 
"While the company has made strong headway in the premium end of the market with the Baleno, Vitara Brezza and Ciaz, it will never lose sight of its bread-and-butter segment ... as the largest carmaker, Maruti needs to have a solid option for the prospective buyer and Y1K is an initiative on that front,” a person in Maruti Suzuki asking anonymity, told ET. 
 
The new-generation Alto will be engineered and designed based on a new platform so as to meet new regulations. "The hardware and technology will come from Suzuki, the putting together of hardware - that is design, engineering and validation will be all done by the Indian team with local inputs” a second person told ET. A Maruti spokesperson said as a policy, the company does not comment on future product plans. 
 
Maruti has lost share in the entry A car space, but has been expanding the share B segment, priced between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 12 lakh and led by the new Baleno, Ciaz and Brezza. 
 
Maruti is most likely to revamp its WagonR hatchback and Celrio tool in the next three years as part of its plan to launch 15 new products by 2020. 
(image: Indiatimes)

Maruti Suzuki to revamp its Alto hatchback

The country's largest two-wheeler maker <keyword id="6357252" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hero-MotoCorp">Hero MotoCorp</keyword> has reduced prices of its mass selling models by up to Rs 1,800 to pass on GST benefits to its customers. "The quantum of reduction ranges from Rs 400 to Rs 1,800 on mass-selling models," the company said in a statement. The actual benefit varies from state to state, depending on the pre- and post-GST rates, it added. Some of the premium segment models would see a reduction of up to Rs 4,000 in certain markets, Hero <keyword id="738064" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="MotoCorp">MotoCorp</keyword> said. "In one or two states, such as <keyword id="41646" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Haryana">Haryana</keyword>, where the pre-GST rates were lower than the post-GST rate, the prices of a few models may go up marginally," it added. The company sells a range of bikes priced between Rs 40,000 and Rs 1.1 lakh. Earlier on Saturday, car makers <keyword id="44883" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Maruti-Suzuki">Maruti Suzuki</keyword>, Toyota Kirloskar, JLR and <keyword id="6355119" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="BMW">BMW</keyword> reduced prices in the range of Rs 2,300 to over Rs 2 lakh of different models to pass on to consumers the benefit of lower tax incidence under the GST regime. Maruti <keyword id="6911" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="suzuki">Suzuki</keyword> India (MSI) slashed prices of most of its models by up to 3 per cent with immediate effect except for diesel versions of sedan Ciaz and MPV Ertiga with mild hybrid technology, which saw increase in prices by over Rs 1 lakh.

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The undisputed champion in small-car market, <keyword id="6365618" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Maruti-Suzuki-India">Maruti Suzuki India</keyword>, is leaving no stone unturned to pierce mid-size and premium vehicles segment. For this, it is putting a new independent management structure and dealership in place to sell bigger cars, price between Rs 9 lakh and 10 lakh or above. 
 The mid-size segment is currently dominated by Japanese rivals <keyword id="20630" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Honda">Honda</keyword> Motor and <keyword id="6374528" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Toyota">Toyota</keyword> Motor and Maruti, which makes one in every two cars sold in India, is making more concerted efforts to enter the segment. 
 
Even though the company made many attempts in the past, it could not achieve much success. Maruti’s newest offering in the mid-size range, Ciaz, saw decent demand but it had to discontinue selling the Kizashi, a premium sedan it brought to India a few years ago, as it found very few buyers. 
 
As per reports by the Economic Times, merely 1-3% of Maruti's vehicle sales currently come from vehicles priced above Rs 10 lakh. 
Now, a fresh team, internally named NEXA, will aim at offering a different experience to customers. 
 
Partho Banerjee, Maruti's new Vice President for sales and dealer network, will head NEXA who will be supported by two zonal heads and eight regional heads. 
 
"Every year, our company reflects on the roadmap it intends to take. This new structure was decided last week by the company," a Maruti executive told ET. 
 
He added that just like Toyota has Lexus and Nissan has Infiniti as their luxury brands, Maruti Suzuki would have NEXA as its premium brand for vehicles priced above Rs 10 lakh. 
 
However, a Maruti spokesman declined to comment on "an internal company matter" but as per people once the new channel comes in, existing dealerships will not be able to sell cars which are priced above Rs 10 lakh. 
 
However, the present dealers have been given an option to open new NEXA outlets and Maruti is mulling to have at least 100 such outlets in the first 12-18 months, before expanding into the interiors of the country. Maruti presently has around 1,500 outlets. 
 
Meanwhile, the new outlets are likely to sell the upcoming crossover, globally called the S Cross, as well as 7-seater multipurpose and sport-utility vehicles Maruti plans to launch post-2018, people in the know told the financial daily. 
 
It is likely that Maruti may bring back Kizashi. 
 
"The company is likely to test the waters with the S Cross ... there are other models in the pipeline, which could be sold through these outlets, but they will depend on how the premium outlet model evolves," said one of people in the know. 
 
Gaurav Vangaal, senior analyst at IHS Automotive, said the move pointed at Maruti and Japanese parent Suzuki Motor’s aspiration to move towards the premium segment. 
 
"This is a bold move on part of Maruti Suzuki to transition to a higher level. The initial response to the Ciaz shows that there are takers for Maruti Suzuki in Rs 10 lakh range ...Having said that, it will be a challenging task for Maruti Suzuki to sustain this imagery over Rs 10 lakh,” he told ET. 
 
Another person who closely tracks the company said Maruti and its dealers may invest in personnel and training and the dealerships may have to hire executives from the hospitality or aviation industry for the NEXA outlets, to give different experience to customers. 
 
(Image: Reuters)

Maruti has set up ‘crack teams’ to drive out rivals Honda and Toyota from the Indian mid-size car segment

Of late, the second largest car manufacturer in the country <keyword id="596" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hyundai">Hyundai</keyword> has revamped its i10, i20 and Elantra and they look completely brand new. 
 When all car makers are going for a facelift of their popular cars, can <keyword id="44883" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Maruti-Suzuki">Maruti Suzuki</keyword> be far behind? After giving back to back successes with <keyword id="6379565" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="baleno">Baleno</keyword> and Ciaz, India’s largest car producer went for a facelift of its popular product, <keyword id="6360068" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="swift">Swift</keyword>. Launched decades back, Swift has already experienced a facelift a few years back. 
 The 2017 <keyword id="6911" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="suzuki">Suzuki</keyword> Swift has a radical exterior and a sporty interior, car experts claim. The car is expected to be launched in India late this year or early next year. 
 Look wise, the car stands out from its older generation. However the car is expected to be powered by the same 1.2-litre petrol and 1.3-litre diesel engine as the current car. Built on the same platform of Baleno, the chassis will be a bit lighter and give an edge to the fuel economy that <keyword id="6912" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="maruti">Maruti</keyword> is always known for. 
 
 
As the photos of new Swift started doing round in the internet, car experts and enthusiasts somehow felt the new Swift looks copied from other cars. 
 It’s not the first time that Maruti Suzuki is facing this allegation. When Alto 800, the low priced car of ambitious Indian middle class was launched in 2012, the car’s front bumper, headlights, and front grill resembled that of old <keyword id="6355174" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ford">Ford</keyword> Figo. 
 
And now the allegation is on Swift. So we consulted Faisal Khan, Editor, <a href="http://www.motorbeam.com">MotorBeam.com</a>. 
 "The 2017 <keyword id="103029" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Maruti-Swift">Maruti Swift</keyword> does remind me of many cars as the design of India's best selling hatchback gets evolved in its third generation. The front grille reminds me of the <keyword id="42034" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jaguar">Jaguar</keyword> F-Type while the hood is similar to the <keyword id="2429395" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Fiat-Punto-Evo">Fiat Punto Evo</keyword> and the headlights have a similar flow as the <keyword id="3186040" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hyundai-Elite">Hyundai Elite</keyword> i20. The side seems to be inspired from the <keyword id="709856" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mini-Cooper">MINI Cooper</keyword> while the rear will surely confuse people with the Toyota Etios Liva but we can see the design has been influenced from Suzuki's own Baleno hatchback.” “The design of the rear door handles are similar to the <keyword id="55200" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chevrolet">Chevrolet</keyword> Beat. That's a lot of cars in the all new Maruti Swift." 
 
So Maruti Suzuki fans who are planning to drive the all new 2017 Swift would be able to experience at least 5 cars in one go! That’s incredible! 
 
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