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S6E3: And The Maruti Story | The Great Indian Car Dream 3

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Maruti's Walk Culture

The first cars had to be produced from SKD or semi-knocked down kits, that is, the entire painted body along with most of the components were imported for Japan. The project implementation schedule was prepared in great detail and every stage of the work to be done each week had been identified. At a press conference in Calcutta, skeptical journalists mocked that the Maruti 800 would disappear in the city's potholes during the rains. In 1984, after the monsoons, reporters admitted that Maruti 800 was the only car that kept running, even when the roads were flooded. They wanted to know why. Vargava said it was because the distributor in Suzuki vehicles was waterproof

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