Great selling techniques...

[Albert Ross]

Maruti.... hmmm. Need lessons maybe?

http://www.marutiomni.com/features.asp

[dollywobbler]

I'm glad it has a sporty instrument cluster or I wouldn't be even slightly interested.

[fiatdaft]

http://www.holland-car.com/

[John F]

I'm glad it has a sporty instrument cluster or I wouldn't be even slightly interested.

 

That's what I thought, until I realised it didn't have a rev counter. So no, I've decided to go for an Alfa 8C instead.

[loserone]

Maruti.... hmmm. Need lessons maybe?

http://www.marutiomni.com/features.asp

Surely that's a pisstake? Open the page and look at the title. A truely forgettable experience?

[quicksilver]

'Truely' (sic) unforgettable, eh? Afraid not as I've forgotten it already. Glad it has clear lens headlights though, I'm fed up of those opaque lenses that don't light the road ahead What the hell is 'reinforced enhanced safety' anyway?

[pompei]

I'm all in favour of brake boosters.

[Station]

The Maruti 800 (Suzuki Alto) was the best selling car in India, replacing an old archaic Austin.

There's loads of these over there, I think they're built in the country as well.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

The only reason they're selling any of them is the very fact that they're made in India. Anything imported has approx. 432593275974% tax slapped on it. Of course, a lot of carmakers have factories and/or JVs in India, but it sure isn't very easy to compete against the well-connected local conglomerates.

[scaryoldcortina]

Best viewed in IE4 or higher on 800 x 600 (16 bit) resolution.

 

GR8 4 VGA+Win98.

[Pillock]

It has Reinforced Enhanced Safety!

(with a picture of a kid being strapped in with a belt at a perfect decapitation level)

[eddyramrod]

Maruti 800, 2005 model.

My friend Andreas has a bunch of these that he's just retired off his rental fleet. He's been trying to get hold of Maruti in order to import some of the current model, called a Zen, but without success. If the 800 looks familiar, think of an old Suzuki Alto... It's also easy to find the Maruti badge on old-style Suzuki jeeps, the one before the Jimny. There were loads of those here as holiday rentals and many survive.

[myglaren]

Radial tyres for comfort!

Is there any alternative?

 

The Suzuki badge all over the place is a bit of a giveway too.

[Taff]

there's a minute if my life i won't see again

[ProgRocker]

Maruti.... hmmm. Need lessons maybe?

http://www.marutiomni.com/features.asp

 

 

I can almost imagine Vauxhall using the same taglines in 1986 to sell their Astra and Cavalier 'Antibes' limited edition models.

[wuvvum]

The Maruti 800 used to be sold officially in France. My parents test-drove one when we moved over there in '93 - my dad couldn't believe you could buy a year-old car for £2,500. He soon understood when he drove it. Mum ended up with a much more expensive but vastly superior Peugeot 205 Green instead.

[gricer]

The Maruti 800 (Suzuki Alto) was the best selling car in India, replacing an old archaic Austin.

There's loads of these over there, I think they're built in the country as well.

 

 

Maruti is an Indian brand, so naturally it's built there! And it didn't replace anything, certainly not an "old archaic Austin"!

 

If you mean the Morris Oxford-based Hindustan Ambasador, it certainly didn't replace that - it's still being made.

 

Maruti was established in the early '80s as an attempt to widen car ownership in India, changing a policy established in the 1950s (hence the survival of old chod like the Ambassador and the Premier Padmini, based on the Fiat 1100). It was a Government-backed JV with Suzuki, and was an immediate success - previously no small cars had been available. Before the market was liberalised in teh late 90s, Maruti controlled around 80% of Indian car sales.

 

If you'd like chapter & verse, I can provide!

[AeroNautiCal]

I loved this pic!