All Maruti Suzuki cars to get 6 airbags by year-end

New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest carmaker, on Wednesday said it will equip all its passenger vehicles with six airbags by the end of this year.

The company offers 10 models with six airbags as a standard feature across variants. These models are Alto K10, Celerio, WagonR, Eeco, Swift, Dzire, Brezza, Grand Vitara, Jimny and Invicto.

"Within this year, Maruti Suzuki will be having all models across all variants equipped with six airbags as standard," said Hisashi Takeuchi, managing director of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.


(MSIL), the Indian subsidiary of Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation.

Separately, Maruti Suzuki said it has received five-star rating for the new Dzire in Bharat New Car Assessment Programme (BNCAP). With this rating, the Dzire became the country's first sedan to receive this recognition.

The other model tested under Bharat NCAP , the new Baleno, scored four stars.