One of the shoulder-sagging moments in an auto journalist’s daily routine is to make a numbers-based story sound interesting. And yes, this one falls in the same category. However, injecting some relatable fun-facts is one way to make things less dreary. Okay, let’s give that a shot! Maruti Suzuki has reached an export milestone. The carmaker recently surpassed one million exports from the Mundra Port, which is in Gujarat.

Maruti Suzuki’s exports from Mundra Port commenced in 2009. Roughly, the company took ten years to reach one million exports. The unit that introduced the seventh digit in the exports counter was a Dzire sedan, finished in Oxford Blue paint. It was shipped to the South American market of Chile. In India, the current-gen Dzire was launched in May 2017. By October 2018, the model became the fastest to clock 3 lakh (300,000) sales in the history of the Indian car industry. As a marque, the Dzire took just ten years to breach past 19 lakh (1.9 million) sales. And that happened earlier this year.

Mundra is Maruti Suzuki’s second export terminal. The company also ships units from Mumbai. A total of 14 models are exported to several markets in Latin America, far east and Europe. Apart from the Dzire, models such as Celerio, Baleno, Alto K10 and the Ignis are exported to over 125 countries worldwide. Maruti Suzuki claims that cumulative exports cross 18 lakh (1.8 million) units.

With the deadline of mandatory transition from BSIV to BS6 emission norms just over six months away, Maruti Suzuki is yet to introduce future-proof derivatives of products like the Vitara Brezza, S-Cross and the Ciaz. That said, it is the only mainstream carmaker that already has seven BS6-compliant models, and the petrol-powered Dzire is one of them.