India's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki, which has more than 50% of the fast-growing market, intends to hang on to that share by boosting output to 1.5m units a year.
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Suzuki will build a new factory in India after car sales in the nation jumped more than 30 percent this year.
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Suzuki Motor has retracted a plan to build an industrial park for parts suppliers for its Sagara plant in Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture, citing the yen's steep appreciation as a reason for the decision.
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New Suzuki GB boss Yoshinobu Abe, four months into his job, is taking his time to study the UK operations as he works out how to move the brand forward.
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Volkswagen has pulled off a masterstroke hiring Hans Demant away from GM. Demant, a veteran of Opel, knows GM's past and near-future products inside out. VW plans to put Demant to work overseeing its new alliance with Suzuki.
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Automakers are like pop singers. Sometimes, they produce hits (think Mazda Miata or Ford Escape, two vehicles that enjoy steady popularity year after year); other times, they fail miserably (think Suzuki X-90, Subaru Tribeca or Chevrolet HHR, a trio that simply missed the mark and now lives in oblivion).
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Suzuki has delayed the relaunch of its Swift small car in the United States until next year while it works on a global product strategy with Volkswagen AG and ponders the growing strength of the yen against the dollar.
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Suzuki has delayed the relaunch of its Swift small car in the United States until next year while it works on a global product strategy with Volkswagen AG and ponders the growing strength of the yen against the dollar.
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Maruti Suzuki has said it might set up a third factory in the country as it races to meet burgeoning demand. The company, majority-owned by Suzuki Motor, has forecast India's car market could more than double to 5m units annually by 2015 and said it must increase supply to keep its leadership position.
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Suzuki said it wants to sell more than 2 million units of its remodeled Swift subcompact cumulatively worldwide.
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Maruti Suzuki India, the maker of half the cars sold in the country, may cut partsmakers unable to pay for expansion as an industrywide components shortage slows auto production in Asia's third-largest vehicle market.
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Maruti Suzuki plans to limit vehicle exports to 15% of its overall production as it focuses more on the local market, where car sales are expected to double in the next five to six years.
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Maruti Suzuki India on Friday said it had produced a record 500,000 K-series engines in less than 23 months. The first was manufactured in October 2008.
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VW, Suzuki and Hyundai have introduced waiting lists on some models in India as a dearth of parts forces automakers to reduce production in Asia's third-largest automotive market.
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WENDOVER, Utah - Piloting American Suzuki Motor Corporation's (ASMC) modified 2010 Suzuki Kizashi Bonneville Special, Road & Track's Sam Mitani injected the Kizashi into the record books (and himself in the 200 mph club) with his 203.720 mph run at this year's Bonneville Speed Week, exceeding the previous record of 202.301 mph.
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Maruti Suzuki on Tuesday launched an automatic transmission variant of its A-star small car (exported as the Alto and Nissan Pixo) priced at INR435,000 (US$9,300) in New Delhi.
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Maruti Suzuki has introduced factory fitted 'next generation' compressed natural gas (CNG) systems for five models across all segments in which it competes in India, claiming performance and driveability are "at par" with comparable petrol engines.
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About 50 Suzuki dealers have accepted buyout offers from the company in the past five months as part of a plan to cut the brand's worst-performing stores. Struggling American Suzuki Motor Corp.
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Maruti Suzuki, the dominant player in the Indian new car market has seen its share slip below 50% this month but is aiming to claw its way back by launching a record five cars in a single day this week.
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