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Buy a Maruti car and get 36 litre of petrol

At a time when people are virtually at war for even a single drop of petrol, Maruti is offering 36 litres of petrol free with the purchase of any of its petrol cars including Maruti Alto, Maruti Swift or Maruti Eeco. Already Maruti is offering a discount ranging from Rs 12000 to Rs 70,000 on its cars as part of the Monsoon Offer and now that it is offering petrol on every purchase, buying a Maruti car now is all the more lucrative. What one needs when the car maker is giving a car at discounted price and giving petrol to run it as well. This seems to the best time to buy a Maruti car.

The scheme called as Roll the Dices and Beat Petrol Prices is aimed at boosting petrol car sales that have gone down since the petrol prices have reached to newer unreachable heights. Now that the petrol offer by Maruti is here, the discount seems to have gone up by Rs 2800 on select models of Maruti cars. However, the Maruti discounts are not on Maruti Ertiga or Maruti Grand Vitara which are exempt from the discounts. Recently, Maruti has also reportedly shut down production of its petrol cars for some time due to the steep fall in petrol car sales. Since, Maruti cars are primarily petrol cars; it is the worst affected car maker due to the petrol price rise besides Honda which is the worst sufferer.

Meanwhile the production of diesel cars has been increased and Maruti will do whatever to keep a smooth flow of its diesel cars in India especially the Ertiga that is in great demand and Maruti seems to be unable to handle the demand and thus the waiting period is bulging day by day. The current offer of petrol with the car purchase seems to do some good to Maruti petrol car sales however in the long run it might be insufficient effort to literally force people to buy a petrol car despite of the already high petrol prices.