{"id":73012,"date":"2026-06-15T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/?p=73012"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:16:46","slug":"maruti-wagon-r-bioflex-launched-at-rs-7-24-lakh-indias-first-flex-fuel-car-is-fleet-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/maruti-wagon-r-bioflex-launched-at-rs-7-24-lakh-indias-first-flex-fuel-car-is-fleet-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Maruti Wagon R Bioflex Launched at \u20b97.24 Lakh \u2013 India&#8217;s First Flex-Fuel Car is Fleet-Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clean-word-content\"><p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73016\" src=\"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/maruti-wagon-r-bioflex-launched-at-rs7-24-lakh-india-s-first-flex-fuel-car-is-fleet-only.webp\" alt=\"Maruti Wagon R Bioflex Launched at Rs7.24 Lakh \u2013 India&#039;s First Flex-Fuel Car is Fleet-Only\" width=\"1440\" height=\"720\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/maruti-wagon-r-bioflex-launched-at-rs7-24-lakh-india-s-first-flex-fuel-car-is-fleet-only.webp 1440w, https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/maruti-wagon-r-bioflex-launched-at-rs7-24-lakh-india-s-first-flex-fuel-car-is-fleet-only-300x150.webp 300w, https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/maruti-wagon-r-bioflex-launched-at-rs7-24-lakh-india-s-first-flex-fuel-car-is-fleet-only-1024x512.webp 1024w, https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/maruti-wagon-r-bioflex-launched-at-rs7-24-lakh-india-s-first-flex-fuel-car-is-fleet-only-768x384.webp 768w, https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/maruti-wagon-r-bioflex-launched-at-rs7-24-lakh-india-s-first-flex-fuel-car-is-fleet-only-150x75.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/maruti-suzuki-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maruti Suzuki<\/a> has officially revealed the price for the <a href=\"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/maruti-suzuki-cars\/wagonr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wagon R<\/a> flex-fuel version, named the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wagon R Bioflex<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">, at <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u20b97.24 Lakh (ex-showroom)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The model is based on the top-spec ZXi+ 1.2L petrol manual variant and costs exactly <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u20b986,000 more<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> than its standard counterpart. <\/span><\/p>    <div id=\"ad-1781604808-jurHog-container\"\r\n         class=\"comman-ads-container\"\r\n         style=\"position: relative; 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While it commands a premium over the standard petrol model, its true success will live or die by the price gap between standard E20 petrol and upcoming E85 fuel blends. If the operating costs fall in line with CNG, Maruti&#8217;s fleet-first experiment might just pave the way for a highly successful consumer rollout in the years to come.<\/span><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maruti Suzuki has officially revealed the price for the Wagon R flex-fuel version, named the Wagon R Bioflex, at \u20b97.24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":73015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[1070,687,1035,945,536,315,316],"class_list":["post-73012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-breaking-news","tag-flex-fuel","tag-launch","tag-launch-in-india","tag-launch-price","tag-launched","tag-maruti-suzuki","tag-wagon-r"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73012"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73035,"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73012\/revisions\/73035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caronphone.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}