Maruti Suzuki expects sales to boost with auto gear shift technology: Report
Hindustan TimesWith increasing congestion across cities in India, Maruti Suzuki India expects sales of its vehicles with auto gear shift to pick up further next year, according to company Senior Executive Officer, Marketing & Sales Shashank Srivastava. The company had introduced the auto gear shift technology that relieves drivers from manually changing gears using the clutch, for the first time in 2013-14 on its hatchback Celerio. In terms of AGS penetration, he said, "It varies between 12 per cent to 23 per cent across the models" and the volume among individual models also "varies because of different times of introduction". Celerio has clocked cumulative sales of 2 lakh units of AGS, followed by WagonR at 1.39 lakh units, Swift 1.24 lakh units, Dzire 1.01 lakh units, Alto K10 68,000 units, Ignis 49,000 units, Brezza 39,000 units, S-Presso 37,000 units and Baleno 20,000 units.