The success of the Grand Vitara has also propelled Maruti Suzuki’s premium retail chain, Nexa to a 15% market share in the overall Indian passenger car market.
Answering questions about the company's current backlog of orders, Shashank Srivastava, Senior Executive Officer, Marketing & Sales, Maruti Suzuki India said that the company’s total number of pending orders is more than 3.2 lakh units.
New tech will alert other road users within a five-foot radius about the presence of the vehicle.
The new Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara delivered to the Ambassador is painted in ‘Opulent Red Midnight Black’.
Maruti Suzuki has received 61,000 bookings for its flagship SUV since order books opened in July.
Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara compact SUV is offered with 2 engines, a mild hybrid and a strong hybrid.
The new Grand Vitara will be available with two powertrain options – standard petrol and strong hybrid.
Maruti Suzuki has issued a recall for the Grand Vitara SUV to check for a possible fault in the manual transmission. The company has sold over 151 vehicles which were manufactured between June 2008 - May 2013 and all the units have been recalled. Mind you, the Grand Vitara came to India via the CBU route and so was not manufactured here.