The new workshop is situated at Kaza in Himachal Pradesh on the North East of the Continent, next to the highest petrol station in the world. Not only it is meant to cater the growing number of customers in the area, but is is also aimed at increasing the tourist traffic there.
The areas around Kaza are cut off from the rest of the World for a good four months of the year and the workshop will be able to support a local pool of 700 Suzuki vehicles and drastically reduce the challenging 150 mile journey customers previously had to make to get their car repaired.
Maruti Suzuki retains a market share of more than 50 per cent of passenger vehicles sold across India and is very keen to establish the importance of developing more aftersales outlets in as many places as possible to support growth in new car sales. In 2010 sales volume reached 1.1 million units and is set to grow to 1.7 million annually in 2013.
Maruti Suzuki currently has 900 new car dealers and 2,992 service workshops in India serving 1,406 Cities. Some of the larger City dealers maintain over 250 cars per day in their 50 bay service centres with the monthly service load across the network averaging one million cars. The company plans to have service outlets every 25km across India.
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