Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

Maruti Suzuki (India), the largest car maker of the country has unveiled ‘XA Alpha’ a concept for a compact SUV, at Auto Expo 2012 on January 05, 2012. ‘XA Alpha’ combines ruggedness and muscle - the traditional attributes of a sports utility vehicle (SUV) with elegance, a certain finesse and compactness.

In XA Alpha, the ‘Alpha’ represents trendiness and newness that the youth connect to. The ‘A’ signifies that this compact, 4 metre long concept, is designed for customers wishing to enter the utility vehicle segment and the ‘X’ denotes cross-over category.

Together with ‘Ertiga’, to be unveiled on January 06, the XA Alpha signals the company's plans to expand into the utility vehicles space.

The company had sold a total of 92,161 vehicles in the month of December 2011, down by 7.10% as compared to 99,225 vehicles in December 2010. This includes 14,686 units of exports during the month. The sales in A-Passenger Vehicles segment dropped by 8.40% to 69,329 units and the sales in C-segment registered a fall of 41.60% while, the sales in B-segment tumbled by 11.90%.