Thankfully Maruti sticks to Fiat for diesel engines rather than looking at Volkswagen’s TDI range!

Fiat Multijet 1.3 Diesel Engine

The 1,248cc four cylinder Fiat designed Multijet diesel engine in a way can be called the National diesel engine of India, for the sheer number of cars it powers transcending segments. To give you a perspective on how many segments the Fiat Multijet is used in, cars like the Swift, the Ritz, the Fiat Palio Stile, the Fiat Grande Punto, the Tata Indica Vista, the Maruti Suzuki Dzire, the Maruti Suzuki SX4, the Tata Indigo Manza and the Fiat Linea are the cars which use the 1.3 Multijet Diesel engine in various states of tune.

Furthermore, we have cars like the Premier Rio, the upcoming Chevrolet Beat Diesel and the Maruti Suzuki RIII MPV all set to use the Fiat Multijet Diesel engine or it’s derivative. So, now you must’ve figured out why we’re calling the Fiat Multijet Diesel engine the national diesel engine of India. In a startling move of sorts, Fiat will supply Maruti Suzuki Multijet engines to meet Maruti’s future demand, which loosely translates into Maruti not looking at expanding production of the Multijet diesel engine at it’s existing multijet engine plant in Manesar.

2011 Suzuki Swift

Just yesterday, we brought you Maruti Suzuki’s expansionist plans in India and since Maruti would be manufacturing close to three million vehicles by 2015, with a good chunk of those being bound to be exported, it only means that Fiat will use it’s Ranjangaon Multijet diesel engine manufacturing facility to meet Maruti’s growing demand. On another note, it looks like Fiat is happier peddling engines in India rather than it’s cars.

Suzuki Swift

Thankfully, this also means that Volkswagen’s small capacity diesel engines, the 1.2 Liter TDI Common Rail diesel engine used in the Polo, won’t be shared by the Swift and the Ritz and other future Marutis. This is a relief of sorts as Volkswagen diesel engines are pretty uninspiring to drive with higher maintenance costs due to factors like increased oil consumption to boot. So, thankfully we won’t have the sprightly performance of the Fiat Multijet diesel engine being dumped for the average 1.2 TDI Volkswagen units.

Also, this latest bit of buzz seems to indicate that Volkswagen’s part acquisition of Suzuki doesn’t seem to working as intended as Maruti Suzuki overlooking Volkswagen for diesel engines seems to point out. This, more so as diesel engined small cars are set to become the rage in the times to come in India as petrol prices are at stratospheric levels. In a nutshell, the diesel car enthusiasts have been spared of tolerating Volkswagen TDI diesel engines. So, be glad that the Volkswagen-Suzuki pact is still struggling to develop synergies.

2011 Suzuki Swift

Via AutoNews

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June 2, 2011 | By Jay Prashanth · Tags:

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One Response to “Thankfully Maruti sticks to Fiat for diesel engines rather than looking at Volkswagen’s TDI range!”

Prof.K.C.Panda on June 2nd, 2011 6:04 pm

Dear sir
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