Kochi: The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki aims to maintain export of its different models at 1.3 lakh units next fiscal, which is the same as this one, a top company official today said.
"We will try to export the same numbers in 2010-11 as there is scrappage incentive scheme in Europe, which will end this year. So we will try to maintain the same export figures as of this fiscal," Maruti Suzuki General Manager (sales support) Amitava Roy told reporters after launching the company's new green car 'Eeco' in Kerala.
During 2008-09, the company had exported approximately
72,000 units.
The five door, C segment (high-end) vehicle has been specifically designed for India and comes with a flexi design, offering 7-seater and 5-seater options.
Eeco Standard (5 seater) has an introductory ex-showroom price in Kochi of Rs 2,71,1994, Eeco A/C (5 Seater) costs Rs 3,01,994, while Eco Standard (7 seater) comes at Rs 2,87,989, Roy said.
Asked if the company had plans to export Eeco, Roy said "if there is a request from the export market, we can look at neighbouring countries."
The Eeco is India's first Green car among C segment vehicles. There are no plans yet to bring in the diesel version of Eeco, he said.
The new vehicle has fuel efficiency of 15.1 km per litre. MSI also said that the petrol variants of the Swift and the Swift Dzire will now be equipped with Bharat Stage (BS) IV norms compliant 1.2 litre K-series engines.
The K12 petrol engine on these variants delivers a fuel efficiency of 17.9 kilometre per litre, as against 15.9 kilometre per litre in the old engines.
"The Diesel variants of Swift and Swift Dzire are also upgraded to meet the BS-IV norms," it said, without giving further details.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 19:16