Fiat India to Supply 2.2 lakh Diesel Engines to Maruti Suzuki & Tata Motors
Fiat India will increase it’s engine production capacity at the Ranjangaon plant as they have to supply 2.2 lakh more diesel engines to Tata Motors and Maruti Suzuki in India. Fresh agreements have been signed between Fiat and other two brands regarding the same. Out of the total number of engines, 1.5 lakh units would be sold to Maruti Suzuki for it’s Dzire, Ignis, Ciaz and Vitara Brezza. The 70,000 units for Tata Motors will displace 2.0 liter and may get used in the upcoming Q501 and Q502.
Fiat’s Multijet Diesel Engine
Maruti Suzuki is developing its own 1.5 liter diesel motor to use in all future products. Indian automobile industry believes that only two to three products are successful when a total of ten products are launched in India. Sharing platforms and engines could help them not just save time and effort but even a lot of investment on new products. Tata Motors has even signed MOU with Volkswagen that can result in future sharing of platforms and engines among the two noticeable car brands of India.
Maruti Suzuki Ciaz recently moved to NEXA outlets
Tata Motors is revising its entire lineup to get rid of slow sellers and aged products. The introduction of Tiago and Tigor was a successful operation while Hexa is currently struggling to find some reasonable amount of buyers. Maruti, on the other hand, launches new products that are even not as capable as the ones from the Tata side but still manages to post much higher numbers due to its widespread network. Fiat is currently focusing more on its engine department as their products could not even match the sales of luxury car manufacturers.
