Maruti Suzuki India has named a new milestone under its name.
Maruti Suzuki India has named a new milestone under its name. The largest car manufacturer in the country has made more than two crore four-wheelers in time span of 35 years. With the new achievement, Maruti Suzuki India has also surpassed Japan's record by almost a decade. Suzuki Japan took 45 years and 9 months to achieve this record.
Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation began its journey on Indian roads through a joint venture with the Central government - Maruti Udyog. The firm said that it took 34 years and 5 months since starting production in December 1983 to make 2 crore cars.
"Of the 20 million units, Alto was the most produced model with approximately 3.17 million units," SMC said, adding the company crossed this milestone in India with the newly launched Swift produced at the Gujarat plant.
Currently, 16 models, including the Dzire, Baleno, Alto, Swift, WagonR, and Vitara Brezza, are produced at the three plants.
In 2017-18, around 1.78 million units were produced in India, of which 1.65 million units were sold in the domestic market and 1,30,000 units were exported to over 100 countries and regions including Europe, Japan, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, SMC added.
The company had crossed the first 1 million units milestone in March 1994 and went on to reach 10 million units in March 2011.
It crossed the 15 million units cumulative production milestone in India in May 2015.
The top five produced models are Alto (3.17 million), Maruti 800 (2.91 million), Wagon R (2.13 million), Onmi (1.94 million) and Swift (1.94 million), the company said.
Earlier, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) reported 14.4 per cent increase in total sales at 1,72,986 units in April against 1,51,215 units in the year-ago month.
The company's domestic sales stood at 1,64,978 units, up 14.2 per cent from 1,44,492 units in April last year, MSI said.
Sales of mini segment cars, including Alto and WagonR, witnessed a 2.8 per cent decline to 37,794 units during the month, under review from 38,897 units in April 2017, MSI said.
The auto major further said sales of the compact segment comprising Swift, Estilo, Dzire and Baleno jumped by 31.8 per cent to 83,834 units last month as against 63,584 units in the year-ago month.
MSI said sales of mid-sized sedan Ciaz declined by 27.2 per cent to 5,116 units during the month.
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