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EMaruti SUZUKI
With new cars coming every
now-and-then, competition
in the Indian automobile industry is getting fierce and
Maruti Suzuki India, being
the biggest market shareholder, is on everyone's target. Maruti's current market
share has fallen over the
years owing to stiff competition and maturing purchase
decisions of the consumers.
It is now close to 50% while
it used to be 70% at its peak
in the mid-to-late 1990s.
market in 1996 and rolled
out its first product - the
much-famous Santro - in
1998 and soon became the
country's second largest carmaker. Today it is the biggest passenger vehicle exporter in India. Now, when
manufacturers like Honda
and Ford, too, have joined
the race against Maruti Suzuki India and are launching
impressive products, while
expanding their touch-points
in India at the same time, it
has become more of a necesHyundai is one company that sity for MSI to bring in new
affected the sales of Maruti
cars and facelift some of its
Suzuki and in a sense betop-selling
came a threat for MSI. The
products.
reason why I said Hyundai is So, to keep
a threat for MSI is because
enjoying
of the exceptional sales per- the Nuformance shown by the Ko- mero Uno
rean automotive giant in a
position,
relatively short span of time. Maruti SuHyundai entered the Indian
zuki is
Drifting
Drifting tournaments have requirements and they are based on this:
a controlled slide. Drifting is considered a motorsport these days.
models I will mention
Cars need to be rear wheel drive!
Nissan 350z
Most drift cars have custom built
engines and usually drift with around
450-600 HP. A lot of drifting cars are
naturally aspirated due to the turbo
lag which doesn’t give much power
during the drift but gives a lot of it at
the end thanks to boost building up
during the corner.
Nissan Skyline R34 GT-T
Some very popular drift cars are BMW,
Nissan,