Maruti Gypsy

This is the catalogue record of the Maruti Gypsy, one of 14 models Maruti Suzuki has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1985. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Maruti Gypsy properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1980s were the decade of turbocharging, electronic fuel injection and the first mass digital engine management — Group B rallying and hot hatches defined its performance culture. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the SEAT SEAT Ibiza, the Toyota Toyota MR2, the Renault Renault Espace — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Maruti Gypsy reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol Inline-4 F10A 8-valve Carbureted / G13BA 8-valve Carbureted / G13BB 16-valve MPFI; kerb weight is recorded at 985 kg Soft top / 1049 kg Hard top; drive goes through 4-speed Manual transmission / Manual (1990-1998) / 5-speed Manual transmission / Manual (King); the layout is Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Maruti Suzuki story

Within Maruti Suzuki's own catalogue the Maruti Gypsy sits alongside the Maruti 1000, the Maruti 800, the Maruti Dzire, the Maruti Eeco. It was succeeded by the Suzuki Jimny 4th Gen.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Maruti Gypsy was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.