Volkswagen India to increase prices from January 2018

IANS  |  Mumbai 

Car manufacturer on Thursday announced an upward price revision of up to Rs 20,000 across its product range effective from January 2018.

Passenger Cars' Director Steffen Knapp said: "The price increase is essential on account of several external economic factors as well as fluctuations in the global commodity price and local input cost and is in line with industry."

On Wednesday, automobile major Maruti Suzuki said that it will increase the prices of its entire passenger vehicle range by up to two per cent from January, due to rising input costs.

"The company will go in for an upward price revision by up to 2 per cent due to rising input costs," a Maruti Suzuki official told IANS.

Earlier, Tata Motors had said that it will increase the prices of its entire passenger vehicle range by up to Rs 25,000, starting from January to offset the impact of rising input costs.

Another automobile manufacturer Ford said that it will increase the prices of all its vehicles by up to 4 per cent from January 1, 2018.

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First Published: Thu, December 14 2017. 18:54 IST