https://carspiritpk.com/ciaz-you-will-be-missed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ciaz-you-will-be-missed Pakistan's Trusted Automobile Blog Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:55:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://carspiritpk.com/ciaz-you-will-be-missed/#comment-6350 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 04:09:12 +0000 https://carspiritpk.com/?p=41915#comment-6350 Ciaz was a good enough offering, it could be cheaper if they sold it as CKD.
Suzuki not only rules the “hatchback & small car segment“, it also rules the microvan and microtruck segment with its 1979 model Suzuki Bolan and Suzuki Ravi. One of the other disgusting things they did was to sell APV only as CBU, it is also a very good offering with powerful engine and comfortable ride, spacious interior (it is a minivan not a kei/microvan) and low tax category (because of small engine), better safety features because design is more modern than Bolan; however they chose not to CKD it hence exorbitant taxes. You could do an article on APV also.

]]> https://carspiritpk.com/ciaz-you-will-be-missed/#comment-6349 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 03:26:21 +0000 https://carspiritpk.com/?p=41915#comment-6349 The oligopoly of the original three hard at work. It just goes to show how much the cartel of the original three still have reign over the market and how much they influence each other’s businesses. I mean, suzuki just discontinued a very good product instead of localizing or improving it. Judging by the positive response to the Caiz in other markets, This could have been their halo car in Pakistan which could have brought them back in form into the sedan game. But, alas, to maintain the oligopoly, they had to let it go.
This cartel must be broken up. For the sake of the future of Pakistan’s auto industry. Rules must be set up that make such cartels non beneficial to companies.
Here is a crazy idea, what if the government makes it a rule that every auto company must have one car in each segment. Hatchback, sedan, crossover and SUV etc. That way it will be in the best interest of each company to concentrate on their own products and try to give the best they can. That would create true competition which would benefit the market.
It might finally bring some normalcy to Pakistan’s corrupt auto industry and we might actually see true progress and maybe lowered prices for the consumer due to the competition.

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