Balkrishna Industries has set a target of 800,000 annual tire sales supported by its scheduled January 2027 entry into the Passenger Car Radial tire segment. The company continues to target long-term EBITDA margins of 20%-25%. Market snapshot: Balkrishna Industries Limited has outlined strategic…
The Times of India NEW DELHI: Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu have emerged as the top-performing states in ease of vehicle ownership, while Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal rank at the bottom, reflecting wide disparities in procedures for…
It’s been a year since Jorg Burzer took over as CTO of Mercedes, the German automotive giant, and in that time, he has already been to India about three times. Q. As the CTO, how much of a role do…
Maruti Suzuki has announced its November 2026 offers across the Arena range, with total advertised benefits reaching ₹1.51 lakh on the Victoris Strong Hybrid. The latest promotional scheme includes consumer discounts, Diwali booking benefits, exchange bonuses, scrappage incentives, loyalty upgrades and institutional…
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Mercedes-Benz has signalled that India could eventually become a global manufacturing and export hub for the luxury carmaker, although the company has not yet decided to export fully built vehicles from the country. The immediate opportunity, global chief Ola Källenius…
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04 Nov 2026 | 1 Views | By Ketan Thakkar & Hormazd Sorabjee India will have a role in every future Mercedes-Benz, chairman Ola Källenius said, underscoring the country’s engineering importance to the German luxury carmaker beyond its domestic vehicle business. “I cannot see any Mercedes…
It is hard to overstate what Maruti means to India. The company began in 1981 as Maruti Udyog, a government venture with Japan's Suzuki, and in 1983 it delivered the first Maruti 800, a small, efficient, reliable hatchback that turned car ownership from a privilege into an aspiration for millions of middle-class families. Suzuki gradually took control, the company was renamed Maruti Suzuki, and for decades it has been India's largest carmaker by a wide margin, selling roughly two of every five passenger cars in the country.
The formula has been consistency. Maruti cars are rarely the flashiest or the safest in their class, a long-running criticism the company has worked to address, but they are cheap to buy and run, easy to service anywhere in India and famously frugal. Factory CNG versions have become a huge part of the business. The lineup is split between two dealer networks: Arena, selling mass-market favorites such as the Alto, Wagon R, Swift, Dzire, Brezza and Ertiga, and the more upscale Nexa, home to the Baleno, Fronx, Grand Vitara and e Vitara.
Maruti's partnership with Toyota is one of the industry's most productive. The two companies share models, with Maruti-built cars rebadged as Toyotas and Toyota hybrid technology appearing in Maruti SUVs. Maruti is also India's biggest exporter of passenger vehicles, shipping cars to Japan, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, and its new Gujarat-built e Vitara has carried exports to Europe. Its rivals at home are Hyundai, Tata, Mahindra, Toyota and Kia, all of which have chipped away at its share in the SUV boom.
Coverage follows monthly sales and market share, quarterly results and the cost pressures that squeeze margins, new launches and facelifts, festive-season discounts and price hikes, CNG and hybrid strategy, exports and EV plans, recalls and reviews. Maruti's share price is a bellwether for the Indian consumer economy, and its product decisions, from cheap hatchbacks to electric SUVs, ripple through the entire market within months. Whatever happens in Indian motoring, Maruti is usually either causing it or responding to it.
India's biggest carmaker, the Suzuki-controlled giant behind the Swift, Brezza and Ertiga, now exporting the e Vitara EV to Europe and Japan.
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