Maruti opens highest altitude workshop at Kaza

Maruti Suzuki, which already boasts the widest sales and service network in India, has opened a new outlet in one of the most remote areas and at the highest altitude of any car workshop at 3,740 metres (12,200 feet) above sea level, higher than its previous high altitude workshop at 3,505 metres.

The new workshop, situated at Kaza in Himachal Pradesh, is situated next to the highest petrol station in the world and has been opened to cater for the growing number of customers in the region as well as the increasing number of tourist traffic there. The workshop,Spiti Motors, will also cover other areas like Rangnik, Kibber, Hanse, and Losar towards Keylong and Attargo, Dhankar, Tabo, Hoorling, lower areas of Spiti, and areas of Kinnaur towards Recong Peo.

The areas around Kaza are cut off from the rest of the world for a good four months of the year and the workshop will be able to support a local pool of 700 Maruti Suzuki vehicles and drastically reduce the challenging 240km journey customers previously had to make to get their car repaired.

Maruti Suzuki currently has 900 new car dealers and 2,992 service workshops in India serving 1,406 cities. Some of the larger city dealers maintain over 250 cars per day in their 50-bay service centres with the monthly service load across the network averaging one million cars. As India's road infrastructure is now developing at a fast pace, the longer term plan for the carmaker is to have service outlets every 25km across India.