Baleno hatchback’s waiting period again extends to 6 months

The Baleno hatchback from Maruti Suzuki continues to have the waiting period of six months, according to the latest report from the automotive sources. Now, the company has to deliver 45,000 units of the Indian-made Baleno but it has the lack of production units. In fact, the production of Baleno is running at its manufacturing unit with the full production capacity, even though the company will not deliver the models on time. Because the Baleno hatchback popularity is rising day by day in the passenger car market.

The premium hatchback has been launched in October 2016 and recognised in the car market like one of the top 10 best-selling cars in the last month. In the previous months, the Baleno has been received the best sales structure with the highly inflexible and lightweight platform. Offered at the price tag of Rs 4.95lakh, Maruti Suzuki introduced automatic gearboxes on the new Baleno car only on the Delta petrol version. Later, the carmaker introduced top-end Zeta variant with the CVT unit in the last month due to the considerable demand from the customers.                                                                                                      

The demand for the Baleno is expanded to the multiple biggest markets and it is the first Indian-made Maruti Suzuki car exported to the Japanese (Suzuki’s home-grown) market. The hatchback is now available with the 1.3-litre DDiS diesel and 1.2-litre K-series petrol engines. The petrol variants generated 74bhp of the maximum power and 190Nm of the torque at the high-speed range and offered with the 5-speed CVT and manual boxes. While the diesel engine mated with the manual gearbox and rated at the outputs of 83bhp and 115Nm.

Baleno gives the toughest competition to the best-selling hatchback, Hyundai Elite i20 and it’s kind of category models. The Indian made car sold a total of 10,004 units of models and named as the sixth highest selling passenger car. 

In the current period, the new models Vitara Brezza and Baleno received more booking orders with the high demand so that the company is struggling with the lack of units. Consequently, the Brezza receives around 7 to 9 months waiting period while the Baleno to get 6 month waiting period based on the location and variants. Moreover, the Ignis with the Suzuki’s platform and Baleno RS expected to launch in the next two to three months. There is confirmed that the Baleno RS will be sold via the premium Nexa outlets, but the Ignis crossover to offer at the general Maruti Suzuki outlets.

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