Maruti Suzuki launched the new Swift in India last week, and the supermini has got off to the best possible start. Even before the price was announced at the launch, Maruti received an amazing 50,000 bookings for its latest model, and the waiting period starts from three months.
Maruti plans to sell 18,000 units of the new Swift per month, making it the market leading brand’s second biggest model in terms of volume, second only to the Alto. It’s looking like a successful sequel to the success that is the previous gen Swift, which found over 600,000 new Indian owners since it was launched back in 2005.
Here’s something more interesting: of the 50k pre orders, 80% of them were for the Swift Diesel, proving that diesel torque and economy is really catching on in the subcontinent!
The oil burner in question is a Fiat sourced 1.3-litre DDiS engine with 75 PS and 190 Nm of torque from 2,000 rpm. Maruti quotes 22.9 km/l economy, which should be a best effort cruising figure. The other option is a 1.2-litre K series petrol engine with 87 PS and 114 Nm of torque at 4,000 rpm. This one does 18.6 km/l.
Wouldn’t it be great if Suzuki introduces a diesel option when they launch the new Swift here?
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This story makes me think
when will they launch this in malaysia. ?
“Wouldn’t it be great if Suzuki introduces a diesel option when they launch the new Swift here?”
YES!
All modern diesel should be introduced here!!!
provided diesel sold in malaysia os of higher quality. at least euro3 or higher.
not euro2M.
in the words of the clarksonian
diesel is devil’s act
haha
on another serious note
in india approach of the auto industry is more to suit
the need to remove 100 people on the back of a tiny lorry
or a family 7 riding a bike
and get them into a decent or simply basic and safer mode of transportation
willl our swift come from india? =(
50k booking is something to shout about even before the launched date. By the way someone even shout even louder after its models launch a few months back with 31k bookings.
RAWANG, Aug 24 (Bernama) — Perodua has received 31,000 orders for its newly-launched Myvi, said Managing Director Datuk Aminar Rashid Salleh.
“We’ve already delivered 14,000 units while the rest will be handed to the owners in phases,” he said.
50k bookings for a 1 billion+ population country compared to 31k bookings for 27mil+ ppl?
now thats something to shout about……eventhough the “lagi best” model is not my cup of tea. ganbateh proton…
thank you for pointing that out.
OTR price for Swift in India.
MARUTI SWIFT LDI RM33574.95
MARUTI SWIFT ZDI RM41413.63
MARUTI SWIFT VDI RM36398.97
MARUTI SWIFT LXI RM27418.99
MARUTI SWIFT ZXI RM35916.27
MARUTI SWIFT VXI RM30901.55
so… willing to live there?
I’m just to give the info to all reader. Is it become an offence?
nope…
Nice car really fuel saver, hope Suzuki Malaysia bring it here sooner.
yaya cheap compact diesel car mari mari
It clearly gives indication that the Cars having Diesel models will sell more than otherwise. Now-a-days Car owners are looking more for Diesel Cars.
Couldnt agree more