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Maruti Brezza breezes past 800,000 sales in less than 80 months

Game-changing compact SUV notches latest sales milestone with the last 100,000 units coming up in a scant 10 months. The petrol-only model is to get a CNG-powered sibling soon, which should add more tailwind to sales.

By Ajit Dalvi

10 Jan 2023

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Launched in March 2016, the Maruti Brezza compact SUV has driven past the 800,000-unit sales milestone in the Indian market in 79 months.

While the half-a-million sales mark was crossed in 46 months, the next 300,000 units took just 33 months. While 600,000 to 700,000 units took 11 months, the last 100,000 units have come up in just 10 months.

Hisashi Takeuchi, MD and CEO, Maruti Suzuki India with Shashank Srivastava, Senior Executive Officer (Marketing and Sales), at the new second-generation Brezza launch on June 30, 2022.

The Brezza, which was a diesel-only model, went petrol in early 2020 with a 105hp/138 Nm from a1.5-litre engine.

New Brezza’s updated K15C petrol engine, which develops 103hp and 137 Nm, has dual injectors for each cylinder, which boosts efficiency.

Maruti Brezza breezes past 800,000 sales in less than 80 months

The Maruti Brezza has become the latest model from Maruti Suzuki India’s stable to surpass the 800,000-unit sales milestone in the domestic market. The game-changing compact SUV’s drive to the new landmark has taken 79 months – from launch on March, 8 2016 through to end-September 2022. In August 2022, its sibling the Maruti Ertiga MPV drove past 800,000 sales in the Indian market, having taken 10 years and five months since launch to do so.

As per Autocar Professional’s data analytics (see sales data table below), the Brezza (previously Vitara Brezza) has sold a total of ...

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