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Fun fact: before Maruti Suzuki came calling, cars were not transported on trucks or trains to the dealership. They were driven there. So it was common to buy a
by elSidCampeador 6y ago
Fun fact: before Maruti Suzuki came calling, cars were not transported on trucks or trains to the dealership. They were driven there. So it was common to buy a car new, and receive it with 500+ kilometres on the odometer because it had been driven from the factory to the dealership.
Maruti was the company that pioneered putting cars on a trailer and shipping them over to wherever. Even today, those trailers are called Maruti Car Carriers.
- jacquesm 6y agoThat's how they were doing it everywhere else for decades, no? Maruti only started in the 80's. Hard to call that pioneering.
- gtyras2mrs 6y agoI think you should read the parent comment with a caveat - "in India" on each claim.
- jacquesm 6y agoYou could, but it wasn't there and terms like 'pioneering' should not be used when the intended use is 'common sense like everybody else was already doing for decades'. It's really not innovative at all.
- kumarvvr 6y agoI could be due to poor demand and already excessive cost, due to imports. Too few cars to be shipped to a huge country, makes sense to drive them.