Maruti Suzuki India rolled out the second-generation Celerio hatchback in the second week of November 2021. Within one month of its arrival, the model received over 15,000 bookings that’s said to be much better than its previous generation. The latter one used to gathered bookings around 5,000 – 6,000 units on monthly basis. Currently, the new 2022 Maruti Celerio commands a waiting period of up to 12 weeks (which is around 3 months) depending on the variant.
The reason behind the high waiting period is the global shortage of semiconductor and electronic components. In fact, Maruti Suzuki’s monthly production declined by 60%, 40% and 15% in the month of September, October and November respectively. Due to shortage of semiconductors, Maruti Suzuki cars have long waiting period and the Indo-Japanese automaker has around 2,50,000 pending orders. While the petrol models are observing waiting period up to 9-12 weeks, the CNG models have waiting period of up to 17-1 weeks.
The new 2021 Maruti Celerio comes in four trims (LXi, VXi, ZXi and ZXi+) and seven variants (4 manual and 3 AMT). The LXi, VXi, ZXi and ZXi+ manual variants are priced at Rs 4.99 lakh, Rs 5.63 lakh, Rs 5.94 lakh and Rs 6.44 lakh respectively. The VXi, ZXi and ZXi+ AMT variants cost Rs 6.13 lakh, Rs 6.44 lakh and Rs 6.94 lakh respectively. All aforementioned prices are ex-showroom. Read – New Maruti Celerio CNG Coming Soon
Under the hood, the new Celerio features 1.0L, 3-cylinder K10C Dualjet petrol engine boosted with idle start/stop system. The motor pushes out a peak power of 67bhp and 89Nm of torque, thus making it 1bhp less powerful and 1Nm less torqueier that the previous generation. While the VXi AMT variant delivers fuel efficiency of 26.68kmpl, ZXi and ZXi AMT variants promise 26kmpl and LXi offers 25.24kmpl. The VXi, ZXi and ZXi+ manual variants return a mileage of 24.97kmpl.
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