{"id":11170,"date":"2010-04-27T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T07:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2010-04-27T12:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T07:23:40","slug":"volkswagen-to-produce-cars-based-on-maruti-wagon-r-and-ritz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/volkswagen-to-produce-cars-based-on-maruti-wagon-r-and-ritz\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen to produce cars based on Maruti Wagon-R and Ritz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the 20% stake acquisition in Suzuki (the parent group of Maruti Suzuki) by Volkswagen,  the two giants have started looking at synergies. As expected, India is the prime market for this european &#8211; japanese tie-up and things have started unfolding. NDTV reports that Maruti may produce cars based on Ritz and new Wagon-R (2010) for Volkswagen and Skoda brands. Maruti will produce cars for Volkswagen group and re-badged as Volkswagen\/Skoda. It adds that Volkswagen will also source DDIS (diesel) and K-series engine (petrol) for these cars. Going through the details, it lookalike Maruti &#8211; Nissan deal might be replicated (Maruti produces A-star for Nissan which is re-badged as Nissan Pixo and being sold across europe.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the 20% stake acquisition in Suzuki (the parent group of Maruti Suzuki) by Volkswagen, the two giants have started looking at synergies. As expected, India is the prime market for this european &#8211; japanese tie-up and things have started unfolding. NDTV reports that Maruti may produce cars based on Ritz and new Wagon-R (2010) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/volkswagen-to-produce-cars-based-on-maruti-wagon-r-and-ritz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Volkswagen to produce cars based on Maruti Wagon-R and Ritz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[298,4097,219,931,1995,182,810,225,881,1817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11171,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vicky.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}