Maruti Suzuki SX4

So finally Maruti launched the SX4. This car is Maruti’s only offering in this segment and It will rule this segment, price is very genuine(Rs6.20 L – Rs7.25L) and car is a great value for money. Maruti is giving a lot of features with this car which they never offered before with any of its cars.

It has a 1.6 Litre 16 valve, 4 cylinder engine which provides power of 102 Horses mated with a 5-speed manual gear box.

Regarding the exterior, it has huge headlamps which look amazing depicting as if the car is looking very angrily, they are very big, a first from Maruti, they takes up a turn in the corner which make them feel huge. The car is longer than its competition, the Verna, Fiesta and the City. The front doors resembles that of the Honda Civic a bit because it has that small window over its ORVMs and the body coloured protective strips and the door handles resembles that of the Fiesta. The front and the rear bumpers are huge, and probably costly. The front one is in a single piece starting from the bonnet to the bottom in the middle. A big chromed front grill looks good with a big “S” badging. Inside, the car has beige coloured interiors with a dark grey topping of very high quality and nice looking plastic on the doors and the dash. The dashbord is quite different, more so vertically visible, not so bigger horizontly which means that one cannot put anything or so many things on it. The center console is bordered with a thick chromed strip which is accompanied by an In-dash CD player and a climate control AC(Zxi only) with a small display panel on the top in the middle. It has rectangular AC vents in the middle and circular ones in the corners. The best thing in it is the steering wheel, it has buttons on it to control the music system with patches of silver coloured metal like material on two of its three spokes, an another first from Maruti stable. Car has ample leg-room in the rear with a huge spacious seat with a center arm rest. The top end Zxi with leather(optional) really provides a very high quality beige leather seats and makes it very luxurious and also makes it feel cosy.

It is available in three variants, Vxi, ZXi& Zxi(Leather-One can get the leather seats and leather wrapped steering wheel on this model) Dual airbags, ABS & EBD are standard with Zxi. A new Copper colour is also available. Soon will update with the test drive reports.