India’s number one car maker Maruti Suzuki is in its 27th year. The company was established in 1982 as Maruti Udyog after Indian Government joined hands with Japanese car major Suzuki Motor Corporation to produce cars. Maruti Udyog was renamed to Maruti Suzuki India Limited on 17 September 2007.
The
Maruti 800 was the flag ship and the first car from Maruti Udyog to be launched in India on 14th December, 1983. This small family car brought in an auto revolution in India. In all these years, the car company has been successful in driving out more than 80 Lakh cars from its Gurgaon and Manesar facilities.
The company began with producing 844 units in the first year in its facility plant at Gurgaon and now in its 27th year of producing cars and after 81,05,228 cars of its 14 models on roads, it is still going strong with the backing of the people of India.
The Maruti 800 alone accounts for over 27 Lakh units and more than 25 Lakh units of this model were sold in the Indian car market and the rest were exported.
Maruti Suzuki achieved the benchmark of one Lakh units in the month of September, 1986. In the next twenty years, it manufactured 40 Lakh units and was effective in making another 40 Lakh units within a period of six years.
Last month the
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) built 86,630 units, which is the highest ever in a month.
The Indian car giant has contributed about Rs 50,000 Crore to the national exchequer. The company is now undertaking an investment programme of Rs 9,000 Crore which includes adding a new facility at Manesar and increasing the capacity of the Gurgaon plant, besides ramping up Research and Development (R&D) activities and coming up with new variants.
