Toyota To Manufacture The Vitara Brezza For Maruti Suzuki At Bangalore Plant

Maruti Suzuki has officially announced that the Vitara Brezza compact SUV will be assembled at Toyota Kirloskar Motors' plant in Bidadi, near Bangalore. It was a known fact that the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza was among the cars listed for Toyota to share with Maruti Suzuki as part of their agreement.

Now, reports state that Maruti Suzuki would hand over manufacturing of the Vitara Brezza to Toyota Kirloskar Motor India. Since 2017, Maruti Suzuki and Toyota were preparing to enter into a partnership and it finally went through in 2018.

Toyota To Assemble The Vitara Brezza For Maruti

It was in March 2018 that Maruti Suzuki and Toyota Kirloskar Motor India entered into a partnership to co-develop cars. The first car in the Toyota-Maruti Suzuki partnership is the Maruti Suzuki Baleno that will be rebadged as the Toyota Glanza.

The other cars involved in the deal from the Maruti Suzuki stable include the Ciaz, Ertiga and the Vitara Brezza. The Vitara Brezza is currently among Maruti Suzuki's best-sellers and it makes sense for Toyota to have wanted the same car in their product portfolio as Toyota does not have a presence in the segment.

Toyota To Assemble The Vitara Brezza For Maruti

Now, Maruti Suzuki has decided to completely push production to Toyota's plant in Bangalore. R.C Bhargava, chairman of Maruti Suzuki India was quoted by CarAndBike as saying, "Toyota has some spare capacity in their Bangalore plant. We will use that capacity to manufacture the Brezza. That saves us the investment which otherwise would have been required."

"We will utilise that capacity, so it's a win-win for both of us. We get cars without making any investment and they get something to use their capacity. So we are all looking always to maximise the efficiency of the total system."

Toyota has its manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Bangalore at Bidadi, and the company has not been using the plant's entire production capacity. Phase I of the plant that was launched in 1997 is reportedly functioning at its full capacity of 1,00,000 units per annum to manufacture the Toyota Innova Crysta and Fortuner.

Toyota To Assemble The Vitara Brezza For Maruti

Phase II of the plant was set up in 2010 with an annual capacity of 2,10,000 units but it turns out that a majority of that capacity is unused, hence Maruti Suzuki has made the move to shift production of the Vitara Brezza to Toyota's plant.

Thoughts On Maruti Suzuki Brezza To Be Produced At Toyota's Plant In Bangalore

Toyota and Maruti Suzuki are giants in the automotive industry and both manufacturers have brilliant products. With the new agreement, Toyota and Maruti Suzuki will get access to each other's strengths.

Once the Toyota-rebadged version of the Vitara Brezza has been launched, the Toyota plant in Bangalore will start manufacturing the compact SUV with both Maruti Suzuki and Toyota badges.

Source: CarAndBike

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Article Published On: Friday, April 26, 2019, 13:46 [IST]
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