The country’s Largest car market Maruti Suzuki India said it sis set to launch multi –purpose vehicle Ertiga by end of March this year The new seven seater compact MPV was unveiled at the 11ht Auto Expo.
“We would like to start the sale of this car as quick as possible, but possibly, the commercial roll out would being by end of March or beginning of April this year, “ Maruti Suzuki india manager Director and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi told reporters. Without specifying the price of the new car, the company said, “it will be attractively priced.”
The company would manufacture the new car at this its plant in Gurgaon.
With Ertiga, Maruti Suzuki will step into the Utility Vehicle (UV) segment and effectively create a new compact MPV segment in India. According to an estimates provided by the company, the utility vehicle segment accounts for around 14 present of the India automobile industry and 66 percent of these are MPV, with new this car, the company will for the first time introduce K14 VVT 1.4 litre engine in India. The car will also be launched in diesel variant.
The company claims that fuel efficiency of the diesel variant (1.3 litre DDiS Super Turbo) with fuel efficiency of 20.77 Kmpl.
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