India, Nov. 9 -- It's not a secret, but let me say it nonetheless - Maruti Suzuki accounts for almost half of India's new car sales. If nothing else, this fact tells us one thing for sure - that Maruti Suzuki knows the Indian passenger car market better than any other carmaker. As a small-automobile manufacturer, it has always prioritised petrol cars. But when it came to some of its bigger cars, Maruti Suzuki made a conscious decision to offer them as diesel-only models years ago. Case in point is the S-Cross, which was branded as a premium crossover. This, in fact, does make sense, as customers of bigger and heavier cars prefer diesel models, owing to their lower fuel consumption.
However, and here things get interesting, in the BS6 era, ...