Petronas is a partner with Maruti Suzuki
Malaysia’s PETRONAS, one of the leading lubricants company in the world, has signed up with Maruti Suzuki (MSIL) as their Genuine Lubricant Partner for the supply of MGDO 5W40 for diesel vehicles.
PETRONAS also stands to gain immensely as a Maruti Genuine Lubricant Partner. Through this partnership, PETRONAS will gain access to Maruti Suzuki’s entire network of Sales Service, apart from supplying the product in Bazaar trade. This gives PETRONAS a huge reach considering that MSIL has the largest network in the country – a total of 3100 plus service outlets running across the country.
As a Maruti Genuine Lubricant Partner, PETRONAS has come out with the customized PETRONAS SYNTIUM 3000 SZ MGDO 5W40 for Maruti Suzuki. The lubricant is formulated for the latest generation diesel engines and is especially designed for full service life in extended drain conditions. It minimizes oil thickening at very high operating temperature, minimizes wear-tear which prolongs engine life, optimizes the engine’s performance and minimizes friction and wear at start-up.
PETRONAS is already amongst the top-15 lubricants company in the world and the momentum is already propelling the jade-green oil drop well on its way to be amongst the world’s leading lubricants companies. Petronas is the official oil partner with the Mercedes AMG F1 team, which is currently leading the Formula 1 championship.
With a growing global presence in key markets across Asia Pacific and Europe, the PETRONAS SYNTIUM range of products boasts fully synthetic multi-grade engine oils specifically engineered to exceed international standards. PETRONAS Lubricants (India) Pvt. Ltd. manufactures, markets and distributes premium lubricants, transmission, anti-freeze and functional fluids for land transportation, machinery and other industrial equipment. In India there is extensive presence in bazaar trade through distributors. PETRONAS Lubricants India is also partner to key OEMs like Piaggio, New Holland India, Fiat, TATA Motors etc.
Being born and brought up in a family that has been a part of the Automotive industry for over seven decades, Rachit has cars in his blood. Four wheelers are his childhood love, and he has grown up playing with bolts and spanners. To add more value to this passion, he studied automobile engineering and even karted at National level competitions.
Soon after that, he got into motoring journalism- where began the process of testing and evaluating cars. He has driven a wide range of cars beginning from Tata Nano to the Aston Martins, most of the cars that are currently sold in the Indian car market. Apart from this, he has also done many long road trips, and shall continue to do so. Rachit was one of the first journalists to take a Nano across the Golden Quadrilateral.
