Maruti Suzuki ties up with Magneti Marelli for ECU's

Maruti has been using the Fiat-Suzuki JV multijet diesel engines.Maruti Suzuki now take this patnership one step further by tying up with a Fiat group company Magnetti Marelli for the production of Electronic Control Units[ecu's] for these diesel engines.

The Magnetti plant would come up at Manesar and would have a capacity of about 500,000 units annually[Production expected to start by 2008],this plant could be used for supplying units to other manufacturers as well[That includes fiat india].

The demand for Fiat's diesel engines is projected to be such in India since they are expected to power cars from Maruti,Fiat,GM and Tata in India.

[Source:Business-Standard]