TOKYO -- Maruti Suzuki, India's top carmaker, is leading the recovery of new car sales in the South Asian country which now has the world's second-highest number of coronavirus cases.
The unit of Japanese group Suzuki Motor announced on Sept. 1 that its passenger vehicle sales had jumped 21% on the year to 113,033 units. Among other categories, sales of mini cars with engine capacity of less than 1,000cc and an overall length of no more than 3.6 meters, such as the Alto and S-Presso models, nearly doubled compared with last year.
