The carmaker has been a late entrant in the SUV and electric segments, and is now investing heavily in both
In 1982, a year into his deputation with the then government-owned Maruti Udyog Ltd, a small car project launched by the Indian government, RC Bhargava had a tough choice to make. He had to either stay in the Indian civil services, which meant leaving Maruti Suzuki and going back to work for the government with a fair chance of becoming Cabinet secretary in a few years or sticking on with the public carmaker in a country where a paltry 40,000 cars were sold annually.