{"id":652516,"date":"2010-02-03T03:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/indian-car-scene\/74806-alto-wagonr-get-yp3-engine.html"},"modified":"2010-02-03T03:29:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:29:33","slug":"alto-wagonr-to-get-yp3-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652516","title":{"rendered":"Alto, WagonR to get YP3 engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Source :MSN India<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s largest passenger car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki India, is working on a new engine, which would replace the existing engines of its 800 cc hatchback Alto and 1.1 litre Wagon R. Once the automaker replaces the existing engine of these two high-selling cars, it is expected that it would be in a position to lower their prices significantly, which would help it rev upsales.<\/p>\n<p>The new engine would be more powerful and would be the next revolutionary change after the KB Series engine, fitted in Estillo, Ritz and A Star. The new engine is code named YP3.Currently F8D engines are fitted in Alto and Wagon R.<\/p>\n<p>Maruti has already started procuring components for YP3, to be fitted in these two cars by year-end. The new engine will have two variants with two cylinders and three cylinders for Alto and Wagon R, respectively.<br \/>\nWhen contacted, a Maruti spokesperson said, &quot;We do not comment on our future product and strategies&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The Maruti move comes at a time when global auto biggies like Toyota, Volkswagen, Honda and Nissan &#8212; are stuck with anemic growth in their recession-hit home markets like the US, Europe and Japan and are set to be aggressive in India with their small car models.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source :MSN India The country&#8217;s largest passenger car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki India, is working on a new engine, which would replace the existing engines of its 800 cc hatchback Alto and 1.1 litre Wagon R. Once the automaker replaces the existing engine of these two high-selling cars, it is expected that it would be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JKs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}