Volkswagen To Induct Suzuki Cars Under Its Wing

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Europe’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, has asked its Indian operations to send proposals on Maruti Suzuki’s models which could be sold under the VW brand.

This is facilitated by the fact that VW owns a 20 percent stake in Suzuki Motor, which in-turn owns a majority stake in Maruti.

VW are looking at Ritz to be sold under the Skoda brand and the newest fugly dudly to hit the shores, WagonR, to be inducted under the VW wing.

The cars would be assembled at the VW plant at Chakan and that the cars would cost 5-7 percent more than the similar siblings by Maruti. VW also plans to use the superior K-series and DDIS engines in some of its cars for India.

Under the proposal, Skoda, which is owned by Volkswagen, may use Maruti’s new Wagon platform for its budget car model.

The going may not be so easy for VW this time because – Maruit supplies the A-star to Nissan in Europe as the Pixo and their famous diesel mills are from Fiat and the Ritz is sold as the Opel Agila in Europe.

Buyers, get ready for some major brand confusion here.

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April 27, 2010 | By Shourya · Tags: DDis Diesel Engine Technology, Maruti DDiS Engine, Nissan Pixo Car India, Opel Agila Europe

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One Response to “Volkswagen To Induct Suzuki Cars Under Its Wing”

Leon from the Netherlands on May 10th, 2010 4:19 pm

Here in the Netherlands and Europe we have a 3th Suzuki-twin! The SX4 is also available under the
Fiat-brand. They called the car (only as 5-door) Sedici,that means 16 in Italian,because 4×4=…16.

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