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Pick-up and SUV-specialist Isuzu could launch a mini sports utility vehicle in India to cash in on the undying demand for such vehicles in the country.

A senior official of Isuzu Motors India, the Indian subsidiary of the Japanese company, said that a smaller SUV is under development, and it will take a final call on a possible launch in the Indian market. “SUV demand is growing not just in India but across the world and the trend is expected to remain like that for some more years. Product development work (for smaller SUVs) is going on internationally and we are yet to decide if India should be one of the markets for it,” Ken Takashima, Deputy Managing Director and Executive Vice President, Isuzu India Motors India told Moneycontrol.

“As we go along we will consider what kind of products we should have next. In India, we are relatively new so we would like to brush up our current line-up as much as possible. We will be bringing out variations of our current line-up for the future. We feel we can do a lot more to improve ourselves in order to meet customer requirements product-wise”, added Takashima.

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