Subscribe to the Blog
Subscribe to Our RSS feed:
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 …
Posted in News
9,806 views
Suzuki S-Cross concept teased before Paris Auto Show
Suzuki has been putting pretty impressive designs this year and we have to admit it, we were astonished to see the new Jimny Concept as it is dynamic looking, futuristically styled SUV and now there’s more to come to Paris Auto Show. Among many cars Suzuki has planned to show at Paris Auto Show is the S-Cross (don’t mistake it with the S-Class) which is a crossover vehicle (as the name suggests) and Suzuki has released a teaser image. According to the official information, this new concept will feature an “Emotion x Quality x Aerodynamics” design theme about which we …
Pak Suzuki and Indus Motors have decided to shut down their factories
We still remember President’s interview to some TV channel where Mr. President said that everything fine and dandy in Pakistan, it’s just the interviewer who thinks that there are problems. Apart from the problem we reported on the previous post, here’s another grave problem on the brink of which lies thousands of jobs. Indus Motors and Pak Suzuki have decided to close down their plants temporarily to control their expenses and the production volume as demand has fallen down by a great margin. While the economy is in shambles which makes up one important and major influence on the problem …
Posted in News
4,593 views
Pictures: Suzuki Liana facelift spied in China
We’re not sure whether or not this new facelift will be launched in Pakistan as it seems to be a China specific update however, the changes made on the Chinese Liana are so simple, that they can be easily be retrofitted on Pakistani Liana. The new facelift Liana spied by Autohome.com.cn has minor change, a new bumper has been designed and a grill but the back has changes one can barely notice although they have spotted the station wagon version. The facelift is very small and includes a only minor changes on the front bumper and the grill. Bigger news …
Posted in News
2,288 views
How Suzuki dealers steal your money in the name of registration and freight charges
While we’re more or less aware of the fact that Pak Suzuki and the rest are monopolistic companies that have been going on to loot the country by providing obsolete cars on exuberant and unjustified prices, it is however much less known how they actually do it. NewsPakistan.pk ran this story of how Pak Suzuki dealers take on a rude attitude and begin dictating the terms and everything else once you’ve booked and paid for your order. According to this story, a customer booked a Suzuki Mehran through Mandi Bahauddin Suzuki Dealer and insisted that he wants to register the …
Posted in Articles
1,627 views
Local auto assemblers increased prices of car by almost 70% during the last 5 years
Prices of every commodity has increased during the last five years under the current government. Many owe this increase viable to dollar and Pak rupee parity and the unstable economic and financial environment where most of the money has moved abroad and little has moved inbound. Ministry of Industries posted the data after the question raised by MNA Shaikh Rohale Asghar about model-wise ratio of increase made in the prices of cars since March 2008 till date by the manufacturing companies and the reasons of the increase. While Indus Motors have increased the maximum prices of its vehicles by 69.13 …
Posted in News
1,121 views
Punjab government yellow cabs are not being used as a taxi
When Punjab government announced the yellow cab scheme once again, we termed it Pak Suzuki’s bailout plan due to the obvious reasons and the lesson from the past but government’s short-sightedness and hasty attempt to create jobs plunged economy further into abyss as a eagle-eyed Pakwheeler caught a women driving the Mehran won from the yellow cab scheme recently. The problem is that the women is not in fact driving it as a taxi but instead is using it as a private vehicle to probably drop her kids off to school. Why else would you scratch the taxi signs and …
Posted in News
2,725 views
Pak Suzuki stops booking for CNG versions of Mehran, Alto and Bolan
Ever since the banhammer was forced upon the trading of CNG kits, consumers, buyers and assemblers have been affected by the decision alike. While buyers are forced to buy CNG kits on inflated prices – car assembler whose major sales were brought from the CNG installed vehicles has been pushed to stop the booking of CNG versions of their vehicles. Suzuki had to stop booking of CNG versions of Mehran, Alto and Bolan while Indus Motors did not say that it will stop taking orders of their CNG versions of Coure and Corolla due to the fact that Pak Suzuki …
Posted in News
2,798 views
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 …
Maruti Suzuki teases 2014 Jimny concept
Suzuki Jimny is quite popular as a small SUV capable of reaching the same heights as Toyota Land Cruiser, Mitsubishi Pajero and Nissan Patrol, but under a good driver. It is the choice of a lot of Pakistanis who enter rallies, etc. But its price doesn’t justify its capability even than it has been popular however, the category D of the recent Jhal Magsi rally had only 1.3 Jimnys which speaks alot about it. Now though, it is time for the world to embrace an all-new Jimny, but don’t get too much excited as, Maruti Suzuki announced that it will …
