Maruti Ciaz Is Now India's BEST Selling C-Segment Sedan; Beats Hyundai Verna & Honda City
The Hyundai Verna was the second best selling C-Segment sedan in India with dispatches of 4,077 units, while the Honda City finished third with dispatches of 3,366 units. The recently launched Toyota Yaris has started off in 4th place during its first month of dispatches with 1,585 units. However, actual customer deliveries of the Yaris will start only from the end of this month. The Ciaz continues to be a strong seller thanks to its value proposition.
The car is the best priced sedan in its class, with prices starting from 7.83 lakhs. Airbags and ABS are standard even on the base variants. The car is sold with petrol and diesel engines, with the petrol engine also getting a 4-speed torque converter automatic option. The Hyundai Verna on the other hand is pricier than the Ciaz except for its base variant.
However, the Hyundai Verna offers a fresher design, plusher interiors, more luxury features and of course, much more powerful petrol and diesel engines, apart from automatic gearbox options for both petrol and diesel engines. The Honda City’s premium pricing may be a reason why sales are slipping even as competition is hotting up.
Among the three cars, the Honda City is the most expensive and the arrival of the Toyota Yaris will put further pressure on the car as far as sales go. Meanwhile, Maruti is lining up a facelifted Ciaz with more powerful petrol and diesel engines, and fresher styling. Maruti is also said to be offering a petrol-hybrid option on the facelifted Ciaz. If the automaker manages to retain sharp pricing for the facelifted Ciaz, both the Verna and City may find it difficult to claw back to the top spot in the C-Segment sedan space.
April Thompson: A lot of people expected some kind of resolution. And it just seemed like there wasn't one. Gayle Rose | Lorenzen's friend: Well I know at the time Toney Armstrong was their chief of police, and this was very personal to him. And he pledged that he would find the killer.
Armstrong says his department never gave up on the investigation. Toney Armstrong: I can tell you that we threw everything but the kitchen sink at this investigation. And it was personal. He had been meeting regularly with Wright's grieving mother, Deborah Marion. Toney Armstrong: It was heartbreakin'. Just -- just gut-wrenching to sit across the desk and talk to her -- and to see the pain that -- that she was in. Toney Armstrong: I wanted to be able to make that phone call to her and tell her, you know, that we found the person responsible for this.
…I wanted to deliver that news to her. And we just wasn't able to at that time. Meanwhile the relationship between Lorenzen's ex-wife Sherra and Kelvin Cowans had soured. Kelvin Cowans: I can't say it didn't work out because she was a awful person, but there were signs of greed that I wasn't used to.
200,000 check from the NBA for his son's estate. The couple left Houston and went their separate ways. Cowans came back home to Memphis and Sherra moved her kids to Riverside, California, where her brother is the pastor of a church. Within months she was married, for a third time, to a music producer, Tim Robertson. Back in Memphis, the rumor mill implicating Sherra Wright was still grinding away.
Marc Parrusquia: …she was at the spotlight of this whole thing as -- as, you know, kind of, you know, seemingly suspect number one. But rumors don't equal proof, and police director Toney Armstrong's tenure had come to an end. Toney Armstrong: I had already announced my retirement. I remember havin' a conversation with an investigator by the name of Darren Goods. …And he asked me for permission to -- to look at -- into the case.
