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Chapters -
0:00 - Introduction
1:06 - Maruti's last diesel
3:47 - Loss of market share with diesel exit
5:30 - Suzuki diesel history
6:49 - TUD5 diesel
11:04 - Multijet diesel
14:00 - In-house diesel
15:13 - What went wrong?
19:55 - End of diesel for Maruti
22:24 - Alternate powertrains

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