Maruti Intends to build its own cars!

Maruti is strengthening its research and
development team in India. The R&D center is one of the biggest for Suzuki
outside India and the team is now gearing up to manufacture its own car from
scratch. Till date the Indian R&D team had been involved in giving facelifts
to older Suzuki cars like Omni or Zen. It has not built its own car till now,
even though it had been actively involved in development of extremely successful
models like Swift, Dzire and SX4. However, the fact remains that even for these
popular cars, the initial concept was conceived and developed in Japan only.

The Indian center is now set to change this as it
gets involved in development of small cars which is its specialty. The center
shall also have a testing track along with research facilities to test the newer
technologies and safety features. “We are doing a global search for engineers
and technocrats to develop new team leaders to equip the company to gain
competence in making structural changes in our existing cars as well as
developing new concept models for Maruti,” executive officer-R&D IV Rao
said.

The Indian R&D center is increasing its team
strength and intends to have nearly 1000 engineers by 2010. “India is Suzuki’s
largest operating business, contributing more in sales and profitability than
even Japan. Suzuki wants it to evolve as a full-fledged car company with
capability to develop cars from scratch in future,” said Maruti Suzuki India
managing director, S Nakanishi. Suzuki has already announced $2 billion
investment by 2010 in India for capacity expansion and new product development.http://www.cartradeindia.com/car-bike-news/maruti-intends-to-build-its-own-car-111060.html

Great News!
This would really help Maruti to develop its own identity, Also, Now between the Maruti - Suzuki collabration, Suzuki has more shares, As a result we see Suzuki badges in all MSIL cars nowdays, Which used to be of Maruti earlier!

RoadRocket

thats a good news for maruti and for us too, but it would take a long time for maruti to be on its own, where its been suzuki rulling with its engines for these years, i dont think they would go out without suzuki but may be something new and surprising.

Theres still a big question left, Will maruti be able to design good cars?Maybe they have learnt something in collabration with Suzuki.

VT

The main problem will be the engine.
Though they have learnt but have they learnt enough to match the suzuki engines?
I dont think so.

This a good news actually. There was a good level of contribution by Indian engineer's i A-star, especially the suspension, etc.. If Maruti takes over everything, then with knowledge learnt from Suzuki and keeping Indian needs in mind, good results can be expected. Regarding engine, they can still use Suzuki's and Fiat's engines, and design the car themselves.

Crazy cat wrote:This a good news actually. There was a good level of contribution by Indian engineer's i A-star, especially the suspension, etc.. If Maruti takes over everything, then with knowledge learnt from Suzuki and keeping Indian needs in mind, good results can be expected. Regarding engine, they can still use Suzuki's and Fiat's engines, and design the car themselves.

But designing is still a min factor and plays a ver imp. role in the sales on any car, As I said earlier, Let's hope Maruti has learn't something from Suzuki. :)


VT