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</p><p>&nbsp; India’s largest automaker <u><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://carhunt.in/Brand/Maruti_Suzuki">Maruti Suzuki</a></u> have decided to hike prices across all its models which will be effective immediately. On an average the price rise is between 1500 to 5000 depending on the model but its top seller both <u><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://carhunt.in/Maruti_Suzuki/Baleno">Baleno</a></u> and its youngest baby <u><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://carhunt.in/Maruti_Suzuki/Vitara_Brezza">Vitara Brezza</a></u> which are clicking tremendous number gets very steep hike of Rs 10,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively. Automaker defended itself by saying that it had launched the Vitara Brezza in March at an introductory price and so this hike was imminent. The Baleno premium hatchback's price has been upped by 10,000.</p><p>&nbsp; It turns out to be the second hike by the Maruti in the year and fourth one in span of just 12 months. Earlier in January, Japanese manufacturer had increased the prices. At that time also highest increase was of Rs 20,000 for Baleno. For its January hike Maruti had raised the figures to rising capital costs to justify the hike. Coming to the present, the company points Forex movement and strategic product decisions for the hikes. It's expected that other major players will follow the cue of Maruti and have price hike as lately other companies wait out for major player to announce the hike to announce there soon following it. Like in January also, Hyundai had announced hike up to Rs 30,000 price hike immediately following Maruti’s announcement. So it won’t come as surprise with price rise across other players.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; With festive patch of year just around the corner it will be interesting to see how hike plays out as usually companies tend to offer discounts during that time which might nullify the hike but won’t be discount in real sense this festive season for the buyers.</p><p></p>