List of articles tagged: Ritz

The Maruti Suzuki Ritz has been on sale for three years now, and a facelift is long since been due. The 2012 Ritz has appeared on Suzuki's Japanese website, and it is expected to go on sale in India soon. 

Maruti Suzuki is all set to invade the TV sets by bringing an all new reality show Ritz—Jeele ye pal. The reality show goes on air from Sept 10, 2011. Ritz Jeele ye pal has been specially designed in association with LIN TV, a division of Lintas Media Group to connect and engage with its customers.

Maruti Suzuki announced the recall of the diesel variants of its cars namely the Swift, Ritz and the Swift Dzire. The company found a defect in the Connecting Rod Bolt in engines manufactured between November 13 2010 to December 4 2010. A total of 13157 cars have been recalled which include 4505 Swift Dzires, 6841 Swifts and 1811 Ritz.

Maruti Suzuki India Limited sold a total of 1,11,645 vehicles in February 2011 which includes 10,102 units of exports. The company had sold a total of 96,650 vehicles in February 2010. In February 2011, the company sold 1,01,543 units in the domestic market. Sales were up 19.4% in A2 and 27 per cent in A3 segment. In C segment, company recorded a growth of 26.9%.

Maruti Suzuki Ritz clocked the fastest ever sales of 100,000 units today in the A-2 premium segment.  The car which was launched in May 2009 has to date sold one lakh units and the company is looking forward to more bookings this festive season.

Maruti Suzuki India Limited, sold a total of 104,791 vehicles in August 2010, growing 23.6 per cent in the month. This includes exports of 12,117 units. This is the highest ever monthly sales recorded by the company. The company had sold a total of 84,808 vehicles in August 2009.

Maruti Suzuki will unveil a special limited edition Ritz Genus to commemorate the first anniversary of Ritz model. The limited edition, Ritz Genus has a few added features which include: a brand new colour Emerald Blue. There will also be body coloured handles and rear view mirrors on the car.

Maruti Suzuki India Limited announced the production of a record 5 lakh K-series engines in less than 23 months. The first K-series engine was manufactured in October 2008. The company has an installed capacity of 500,000 K-series engines annually. To meet the growing market demand, Maruti Suzuki recently announced an expansion plan of additional 200,000 K-series engines by 2012. The K-series engines are available on seven Maruti Suzuki models including the new Alto-K10, the Wagon R, Swift, Ritz, Estilo, Swift Dzire and A-star.

Post the announcement of prices of Volkswagen Polo (starting at Rs 4.34 lakhs), CarWale team is on the first drive of the Polo today.

With the growing competition in the Indian car market, the 1.2 litre car market now has a neck tight competition. Most of the manufacturers have a model in this range, but with hardly any price variation.