The Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara was launched on September 26, 2022, and has simply accomplished a 12 months of being on sale in India. The midsize SUV has been co-developed with Toyota, and spawns a sibling within the Urban Cruiser Hyryder. What’s most distinctive concerning the Grand Vitara is its strong-hybrid powertrain that fills up for the dearth of a diesel engine that’s nonetheless fairly common on this phase.

The Grand Vitara changed the ageing and slow-selling Maruti Suzuki S-Cross as a extra worthy competitor to the likes of the Hyundai Creta, and likewise resurrected the ‘Grand Vitara’ moniker after virtually a decade. We take a look at the Grand Vitara’s journey over the previous 12 months and analyse this midsize SUV’s affect available on the market.

Maruti Grand Vitara value

The Grand Vitara was launched with costs ranging between Rs 10.45 lakh-16.89 lakh for the petrol variants, whereas the hybrid variants had been priced between Rs 17.99 lakh-19.49 lakh, which is sort of aggressive for the phase. The hybrid variants, nonetheless, had been a bit costlier than Toyota’s Hyryder.

Over the course of the 12 months, the costs for the petrol Grand Vitara went up by Rs 2,000-25,000, whereas the hybrid variants have change into dearer by Rs 34,000. That’s nonetheless considerably decrease than the Hyryder, which noticed costs hiked by as much as Rs 1 lakh. The CNG variants had been added to the line-up in January this 12 months, making it the primary midsize SUV to get this gasoline possibility.

Maruti Grand Vitara gross sales

Over the previous 12 months, the Grand Vitara bought a median of about 8,300 items per 30 days, considerably greater than sibling Hyryder, which averaged nearly 3,200 items per 30 days. This could be attributed to Maruti’s stronger community, higher model worth and marginally lower cost than the Toyota. Of all items bought, a few quarter had been the strong-hybrid variants whereas CNG variants made up 14 p.c.

With manufacturing prioritised for the Grand Vitara, Maruti additionally didn’t face as many points with hovering ready durations as Toyota did with the Hyryder. In reality, with a gentle rise in gross sales, the Grand Vitara was fast to climb as much as change into the second bestselling midsize SUV every month, trailing behind solely the Hyundai Creta, though by a good margin.

More just lately, Maruti additionally introduced the Grand Vitara clocked 1 lakh gross sales since launch, making it the quickest midsize SUV to hit the landmark milestone.

Maruti Grand Vitara remembers

The Grand Vitara has already been recalled thrice to date. The first was in December 2022, to interchange a entrance seat belt shoulder top adjuster plate meeting. In January 2023, the corporate issued a second recall resulting from a suspected situation with the airbag controller the place the Grand Vitara was a part of over 17,000 Maruti’s that had been recalled. Shortly after got here the third recall resulting from a attainable defect in rear seatbelt mounting brackets which affected greater than 11,000 items.

Just a few teething points and production-related constraints apart, the Grand Vitara, together with its sibling Hyryder, has actually gone the size in democratising hybrid tech in India.

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