With parent Suzuki’s Gujarat plant set for commissioning later this month, the country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) expects to significantly reduce the waiting period for its high selling models Vitara Brezza and Baleno. At present, the two models have a waiting period ranging between 20-24 weeks depending upon the variants.
“Our major difficulty in 2016 has been inadequate manufacturing capacity, which resulted in quite large waiting period for the Baleno and the Vitara Brezza. The commissioning of the Gujarat plant this month should give relief in 2017-18,” MSI Chairman RC Bhargava told PTI. Suzuki Motor Corp’s Hansalpur-based facility, which is the Japanese company’s first wholly-owned unit in India, would roll out Baleno from the first assembly line. He said MSI had to adjust production of all its other models last year in order ‘to reduce the waiting time for Vitara Brezza and Baleno to the extent possible’.