Celerio Diesel Dealer Dispatch Starts This Month, Launch By June

             According to a report, dispatch of Celerio Diesel for dealers will start this month at Maruti and the market launch of Celerio will take place towards either the end of this month, or in the early part of June. 

According to previous reports it is said that production of the small diesel car had already commenced at Maruti’s Manesar plant.

Maruti Suzuki’s first self–developed diesel engine will provide power for the Celerio

diesel. 

This engine is reported to be a 0.8 liter twin-cylinder unit, and matched to a 5 speed manual transmission gearbox. 

Managing Director and CEO of Maruti Suzuki said that this engine will deliver closer to 30 kmpl mileage.

In the first year before expanding production capacity Maruti will be manufacturing 100,000 units of this diesel engine in the first year before expanding production capacity.

 Similar to the petrol model, the diesel Celerio will come in variants of LDi, VDi and ZDi, though an automated manual transmission is not expected to be offered, at least in the beginning.