The new Maruti Alto

The Maruti Alto is a city car manufactured by Maruti Udyog in India. It is the best-selling car in India.[1] It is exported to a number of countries in southeastern Asia including Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and to Chile.

The Alto is powered by a 796 cc gasoline engine with 3 cylinder, 4 valves per cylinder MPFI engine with 32bit ECM.

* Maximum Power: 46 bhp
* Acceleration 0-100 km/h: approximately 20 seconds
* Top Speed: 125-130 km/h

The Alto is offered in the following variants:

* Base model - All that is needed in a basic car.
* LX - Base model with A/c, cup holders, fabric seats and few small changes
* LXi - Same as LX with power steering.

There used to be a VX/VXi model with a 4-cylinder 1061 cc engine (64 bhp/80 Nm torque). This has now been discontinued. But this VX model is still sold in certain European countries. The Alto VX model also featured a tachometer which was absent in LX model.

All models are equipped with 5-speed manual transmission.