The Maruti Suzuki Eeco has reached a new milestone as the company has sold 7 lakh units in the last 10 years. The Eeco was launched in 2010 and Maruti Suzuki sold over 1 lakh units of it in just two years. The sales continued with an upward trend steadily and in 2014 Maruti again sold 1 lakh units of the Eeco as its demand kept growing in the cargo market. Catering to this demand, the company launched a new Cargo variant of the Eeco in 2015 and then went on to sell over 1 lakh units of the Eeco consecutively in the next three years, selling a total of 5 lakh units by 2018.
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The Maruti Suzuki Eeco is also gets a CNG variant.
The Maruti Suzuki Eeco also made its BS6 transition at the start of this year itself, much ahead of the April 1 deadline. It is still powered by the same 1.2-litre, four-cylinder engine that powers a range of Maruti's BS6 models. It puts out 73 bhp and 101 Nm of peak torque and there is also a CNG variant in the Eeco line-up that delivers a high fuel economy of 21.8 kmpl. In fact, 17 per cent of total Eeco sales are attributed to the CNG variant.
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The Maruti Suzuki Eeco was essentially designed for small businesses and the middle-class Indian families.The Maruti Suzuki Eeco was designed to cater the needs of the middle-class Indian family especially in tier 2 cities and also to support small scale business. It has a huge customer base in the intra-city logistics market and is preferred by the courier and online-retail companies along with a good customer set of local sole-proprietors.
