Maruti Suzuki Swift was India’s best-selling car in 2020

Maruti Suzuki Swift was India’s best-selling car in 2020

The Suzuki Swift has emerged as the best-selling car in India in 2020, with Maruti Suzuki reporting around 160,700 units were sold to customers. The company also had another reason to celebrate last year, as the model crossed the cumulative sales milestone of 2.3 million units across all generations.

The Swift was first introduced in India in 2005, and by 2010, 500,000 units were sold. Later in 2013, that figure would climb to one million units and to 1.5 million units in 2016. The current, third-generation Swift was launched in the country in Februrary 2018, initially available with petrol and diesel engines.

However, the latter has since been discontinued, so the only option available currently is a BS6-compliant 1.2 litre naturally-aspirated four-cylinder petrol mill with 83 PS (82 hp) and 113 Nm of torque. Depending on variant, a five-speed manual or automated manual transmission is available.

“Maruti Suzuki Swift has been the best-selling premium hatchback in the country for the past 15 years with over 2.3 million delighted customers. Despite the adverse impact of Covid-19, the Swift sold over 160,700 units in CY (calender year) 2020, emerging as the top brand in the pecking order,” said Shashank Srivastava, executive director (marketing & sales) of Maruti Suzuki India.

Maruti Suzuki Swift was India’s best-selling car in 2020

“We take this opportunity to thank our loyal customers for their constant support and trust in brand Swift. I am confident that with continuous customer support Swift will successfully achieve many more milestones in future,” he added. According to the company, 53% of Swift customers being the age of 35 years, the model has been deemed as the “coming of age” car for India.

Maruti Suzuki has a strong grip on the Indian market, as the company delivered a total of 1,183,777 cars last year, referring to a report by RushLane. The next closest brand is Hyundai with 407,800 cars, while Tata occupied the final podium spot with 145,394 cars.

In fact, the top five best-selling cars in India last year were all from Maruti Suzuki, with second place taken by the Alto (154,076 units), followed by the Baleno (153,986 units), Wagon R (148,298 units) and Dzire (124,969 units). The Dzire is the sedan sibling to the Swift, while the Alto was the leader in 2019.

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Gerard Lye

Originating from the corporate world with a background in finance and economics, Gerard's strong love for cars led him to take the plunge into the automotive media industry. It was only then did he realise that there are more things to a car than just horsepower count.

 

Comments

  • Danny Tay on Jan 25, 2021 at 6:07 pm

    basically India’s Myvi

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  • Amran on Jan 25, 2021 at 6:34 pm

    LOL! Toyota mana? Talk big but top 5 pun tak dapat!

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  • karam singh on Jan 25, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    and thats enough reason to make suzuki a top 10 japanese car maker in the world.

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  • sugarhill on Jan 25, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    tired of reading automotive news outside Malaysia…
    so obvious that Malaysia’s automotive development is stagnant now..investor all ran away edy..soon only proton n perodua remains..

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    • Avenger on Jan 26, 2021 at 10:34 am

      Runaway? No problem. With the rip off specs they gave us all these while, I prefer they leave and not continue giving us overpriced shittier cars.

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  • panjang on Jan 25, 2021 at 8:55 pm

    Huge difference in what can be called as ‘premium’ in one part of the world compared to another.
    If an Iriz or Myvi is sold there it will fall under ‘ultra premium’ category.

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  • Pratik Rai on Feb 01, 2021 at 8:35 pm

    I also have Maruti Suzuki Swift, I bought it from Maruti Suzuki Sai Service. because maruti Suzuki Swift offers best features in that price segment i had few options but i went wuith the best.

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