chennai rising demand for an owned mode of transport coupled with decadal low auto loan rates has resulted in the return of a wait list for car buyers this is no longer restricted to just bestselling compact suvs alone small cars including the maruti alto and wagonr hatchbacks like maruti swift and hyundai i20 and sedan hyundai verna require buyers to be on a wait list for anywhere in the 110 months rangefor market leader maruti which has been functioning at 100 capacity utilisation since october the wait list is in the range of 34 weeks for models like swift alto and wagonr but increases to 68 weeks for ertiga maruti undertook a maintenance shutdown from december 27 to january 3 even with the assembly lines working at peak capacity the situation will take time to ease out said a company dealer based in delhi arch rival hyundai is ramping up volumes of its critical models starting with the creta we have doubled creta production from 340 units a day to 640 units in the last six months so the wait list came down from 6 months to 23 months said hyundai motor india director production ganesh mani hyundai is doing volume augmentation for venue and verna too the new i20 is on 23 months wait list and we are augmenting that too currently we are doing 80009000 a month but we can go up to 12000 mani said hyundai can also tweak the exportdomestic mix to get more volumes around 40 of the verna is exports and creta and i20 are also being shipped said mani our total capacity is 750000 units a year so even if the market hits 3 million we will be able to manage he addedauto dealers say the wait list is the result of a combination of factors in the case of kia whose seltos and sonet have a 23 month wait list there is an issue with engine parts and bumperskeeping the unprecedented demand in mind we have fasttracked the process of increasing the production capacity both at our nasik facility and the supplier end initially we had planned for a capacity of about 2000 vehicles per month and have now ramped up substantially to 3000 and then 3500 units per month in two short phases this would help us bring down the waiting period to a reasonable timeline said vijay nakra ceo automotive division at mm whose justlaunched thar is running on a 2040 weeks wait list earlier this week nissan announced that it is ramping up production of the magnite from 2700 units a month to 4000 units to bring down the wait list from 6 months to 23 months dealers say the inventory pipeline has been wiped clean with december being a good month hence the current situation will take several weeks more to ease outpassenger vehicles original equipment manufacturers dispatched 18 more vehicles yearonyear in december at 276500 units this was the highest december sales in the