Maruti rolls out A-Star

Maruti Suzuki, India's largest passenger carmaker launched its much-awaited hatchback A-Star on Wednesday. The car is the company's fifth global model, which would be manufactured only in India. It is also the company's fifth launch in the A2 segment.

Manufactured completely out of Maruti's Manesar facility, the company has set a target of selling 50,000 units in the domestic market. It also plans to export the car to 150 countries across Europe, Middle East, Latin America, Asia, Australia and Africa.

Keeping the car's export target at 1-lakh units, the company will start exporting it to Europe first by early 2009. The company has set an export target of 2 lakh units by 2010-11.

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