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Suzuki Alto facelift debuts in China
The design of Alto in Pakistan is a couple of decades old and is obsolete in other countries however, Pak Suzuki is reluctant to bring Pakistan to par with the rest of the world and is keen on resuming the production of the old Alto but in China, the new Alto has been there since a while and it was time to produce a facelift version of their car and what better event could be than the Chengdu Auto Show to unveil it. Suzuki is manufactured by Changan Suzuki in China and three years ago, Changan did build the Pakistani Alto …
Why Pak Suzuki had to close down Alto’s production
Auto assemblers of Pakistan had taken steps to hide their incompetence in the shade of ‘auto imports are hurting the local auto industry’, and recently, we uncovered how Indus Motors’ incompetence led to their factories closure while today, the case of Suzuki Alto has come to light and it is also another case of local auto assembler’s incompetence, and complete lack of regard to government’s policies. Pak Suzuki used to import Alto’s parts from Japan, but India has been growing fast and has localized a lot of vehicles which it now builds independently without any reliance over foriegn products. Since …
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Alto and Coure to be discontinued as Pakwheels reported six months ago
As we reported six months ago that Suzuki will discontinue its Alto, now, Pak Suzuki has hinted at suspending the production of Alto and the dealers and vendors can take parts til May 2012. Vendors had been notified earlier about the future of Alto while Pak Suzuki sighted the reason for its suspension that Japan no longer make Alto’s 1000cc engine but India does however, due to lack of free-trade agreement with India, Pak Suzuki cannot import these engines from them. We also reported that Pak Suzuki is working on to replace the 1000cc Alto with Wagon-R however, Pak Suzuki …
Alto to be replaced by Wagon R, Liana close to its death and Mehran will have an EFI engine
The company which advertised a 20 years old obsolete car in 2011 as bearer of executive look has been confronted with a lot of rumors about Mehran’s conversion to EFI system. The hideous car which bears the executive look, Cultus was also converted to EFI and some riced out grille, head and tail lights. Now though, Mehran is also following the very steps. Government has set deadline of 2012 for auto-assemblers to bring their cars to Euro-2 standards therefore Suzuki is working pretty fast to upgrade its Mehran to Euro-2 standards. Ofcourse, this goal will be accomplished through installing the …
