The Maruti Alto is a city car manufactured by Maruti Udyog in India. It is the best-selling car in India. 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.
