Plan to set uo a stock-yard by Maruti Suzuki in Nagpur

Lowering of the transit time and increase delivery of vehicles the country's largest auto-maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) would reportedly set up its stockyard facility in Nagpur. The Maruti Suzuki India Managing Executive Officer (Marketing and Sales) Mayank Pareek said that, "We will be setting up one in Nagpur soon." When asked whether the delivery of its latest sedan DZire would be increased with the setting up of stockyard, he said "We are only producing 8,000 units in our plant. We should be increasing the production... This stockyard would help to reduce the transit time of other products, “he said. At present, delivery of DZire takes upto three to four months.

It was reported that Pareekh stated that stockyard would be established region-wise so that there would not any delay in delivery of the vehicles. He was quoted as saying "We just opened one in Bangalore (for southern region). We will be setting up one in Nagpur soon."

The company has launched a new shorter DZire sedan version and according to the company, the new DZire has at least 150 new features compared to the existing model. The petrol variant is priced at Rs 4.77 lakh to Rs 6.20 lakh (ex-showroom Chennai) and the diesel variant from Rs 5.82 lakh to Rs 7.12 lakh (ex-showroom Chennai). Maruti Suzuki reported a 5.18 percent rise in sales in January at 1,15,433 units. The company had sold 1, 09,743 units in the same month last year.Automobile News