[Yogesh Sarkar]

After some delay, Maruti Udyog on Friday said it will launch a diesel version of Swift next week. MUL MD Jagdish Khattar said the company is also expanding its diesel engine manufacturing capacities from one lakh units now to three lakh engines.

"We are scaling up capacity by increasing our investment to Rs 2500 crore from Rs 1500 crore at the diesel engine plant, which went on stream September last year," Khattar said.

Although Maruti had rolled out diesel versions on the Zen and Esteem by importing the engines, Khattar said this is the first time the company will get a first hand experience with the diesel engines at its India plant.

Khattar, however, clarified the Fiat 1.3 litre diesel engines — to be used on the Swift — will be different from the multi-jet, 1.3 litre engine as Fiat and Fiat-Tata Motors vehicles. Maruti is manufacturing the 1.3 diesel engine from Fiat under license from Fiat.

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[Yogesh Sarkar]

Finally its here:

Body type : Hatchback
Number of doors : 5
Seating capacity : 5
ENGINE Capacity : 1248cc
Number of cylinders : 4
Number of valves : 16
Bore x Stroke : 69.6 x 82mm
Maximum power : 75 bhp @ 4000rpm
Maximum torque : 190 Nm @ 2000rpm
Fuel distribution : Common Rail
Air charging system : Fixed geometry turbo charger with intercooler
Emission : BS-III
Fuel injection system : Common rail multi injection @ 1400 bar
Drive train : DOHC
Oil filter : Green oil filter
TRANSMISSION
Type : 5-speed manual, with synchromesh in all gears, one reverse

Gear ratios

1st 3.545
2nd 1.904
3rd 1.233
4th 0.911
5th 0.725
Reverse 3.250

Clutch : Hydraulic
Overall length : 3695mm
Overall width : 1690mm
Overall height : 1530mm
Wheelbase : 2390mm
Track front : 1470mm
Track rear : 1480mm
Ground clearance : 170mm
Minimum turning radius : 4.7metres
Luggage capacity : 232 litre (with seatback raised)368 litre (with seatback folded)
Kerb weight : 1065kgs (LDi), 1075kgs (VDi)
Gross vehicle weight : 1490kgs
Fuel tank capacity : 43 litres

http://www.marutiswift.com/dieselrock.aspx

[hacket]

diesle MUL cars always failed to appeal the buyers.The mindset among the people is,Petrol>go for maruti,for Diesel>go for tata.Lets see how swift going to fare.

[Yogesh Sarkar]

This is what remains to be seen, lets see if maruti has played its cards well or not.

[sachinontop]

diesle MUL cars always failed to appeal the buyers.The mindset among the people is,Petrol>go for maruti,for Diesel>go for tata.Lets see how swift going to fare.

no its not like that!

look at the performance of that zen diesel... it was way too capable despite of its small size and unbalanced heavy weight!
it was delivering near to 18 kmpl in city drives!!!
and they were selling it in gud numbers... but since indica was available, they just cud not hamper tata's sales only due to the space factor.

i have seen many a diesel zens' engines being fitted in other bigger cars like esteem and M-1000!!

and the swift is coming with fiat's proven diesel engine known as 1.3-Multijet...!!

if they prices it decently, then i m sure it'll change the petrol swift's sales figures tremendously!
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@yogesh:
this machine will churn out 69bhp and not 75! check that again!

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Sachin got the figure from the official Swift site