Maruti Suzuki stops production of Maruti 800

[vgane]

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Maruti 800 has been the iconic brand of Maruti Suzuki and had an emotional connect with the Indian middle class for 30+ years..It started production in 1983 and was prized at Rs 50000 then..The production has stopped in Jan 2014..Between this, it had sold 2.7 million units

I first drove this car in 1993...It had a smooth suspension and a silent gear box with low pollution when compared with the Ambassador and Fiats which were ruling the roost then

The vehicle was the precursor to the small car business and a thriving auto parts industry

Maruti Suzuki stops production of iconic Maruti 800 - The Economic Times

 

[krish44]

Maruti 800 has been the iconic brand of Maruti Suzuki and had an emotional connect with the Indian middle class for 30+ years..It started production in 1983 and was prized at Rs 50000 then..The production has stopped in Jan 2014..Between this, it had sold 2.7 million units

I first drove this car in 1993...It had a smooth suspension and a silent gear box with low pollution when compared with the Ambassador and Fiats which were ruling the roost then

The vehicle was the precursor to the small car business and a thriving auto parts industry

Maruti Suzuki stops production of iconic Maruti 800 - The Economic Times

there is a lot of sentiment attached to maruti 800. this is the first small car which fuelled middle class aspirations for a car . i used maruti 800 and later wagon R until as late as 2010 when I got more aspirational to get a Toyota. I still miss my maruti 800 .

 

[prasad1]

I know we get attached emotionally even to a silly car. This time it was Maruti-800, but a similar Attachment was there for the outdated Ambassador.
We should expect improvements in the things we use, instead of clinging on to "junk". Some how we are not able to call a "spade a spade". Some how we have this melancholy mindset to not let go of such mundane things.
How did our scriptures ever conceive this idea of letting go everything and retire to vanapresthasram?

So here goes the reason for the demise of Maruti-800

Maruti Suzuki had commenced upon a phase out of Maruti 800 beginning in April 2010. Maruti Suzuki did not have plans to upgrade it to Euro IV or BS IV emission norms. Starting April 2010, Maruti halted sales of the car in 13 major cities – the four metros and 9 other cities including Kanpur, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Agra and Surat, where the law made it mandatory for the vehicles sold to be Euro IV compliant.

Another reason cited was the relatively outdated model's declining sales. Maruti 800 sales were down by 3.7% in the month of April 2010, when compared with April 2009. Total sales of Maruti 800 was 33028 for the period April 2009 to March 2010.
In the first-ever independent crash tests conducted on Indian vehicles, most small cars showed high risk of life threatening injuries in road crashes.
The models tested included the Suzuki-Maruti Alto 800 received a score of ZERO.

It is high time that we value human life and get rid of death traps. It is high time that we demand the best products for India from Indian and MNCs.
We should not accept the trash of the world to be dumped in India, for these companies to make money. Let us learn from South Korea.

 

[vgane]

I know we get attached emotionally even to a silly car. This time it was Maruti-800, but a similar Attachment was there for the outdated Ambassador.
We should expect improvements in the things we use, instead of clinging on to "junk".

Dear Sri Prasad,

There are a few vintage Maruti 800 cars that were made in the 80's...During this period the critical components were imported from Japan..Such cars had the least noise..The reason for that is not difficult to comprehend...The Japanese are stalwarts in manufacturing who produce components with minimum noise ie variation..If a tolerance of a particular dimension is given, Japanese use 1/3rd the tolerance..They control all sources of variation and they try to minimize its effect

With time, imports reduced and indigenisation got a thrust and quality got a backseat...However due to good service centers, which were well equipped, Maruti still maintained the premium status

 

[vgane]

Maruti 800 being a trend setter for the pot holed and haphazard Indian roads ...It made the middle class aspire for it..How many of us learnt car driving in Maruti 800..I did way back in 1993 when I was commuting to my office in Solan District from Chandigarh in the 90's...It was about 35 kms & on a normal traffic day we would take about 45 minutes to reach the destination..Maruti was the savior

 

[vgane]

Amul's way of saying farewell to Maruti 800!