Suzuki Motor Corporation
The Suzuki Baleno is one of 68 Suzuki Motor Corporation models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2015. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Suzuki Baleno properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. 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 Ferrari Ferrari 488, the Ford Ford Escort, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Suzuki Baleno reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 998 cc Suzuki K engine#K10C / K10C Boosterjet Straight-three engine / I3-Turbocharger / T (WB42S) / 1197 cc Suzuki K engine#K12M / K12M Straight-four engi; kerb weight is recorded at 865 -; drive goes through 5-speed manual (all engines) / 4-speed automatic (K14B) / 6-speed automatic AWTF-80 SC (K10C) / Continuously variable transmission / CVT (K12C/M); the layout is Front-engine, front-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.
Within Suzuki Motor Corporation's own catalogue the Suzuki Baleno sits alongside the Fuji Cabin, the Geo Metro, the Suzuki A-Star Concept (2005), the Suzuki APV. The record names the Suzuki Swift#AZG / Suzuki Swift (Indonesia) / Toyota Etios hatchback (Glanza/Starlet) / Toyota Yaris (XP150) hatchback (Starlet, South Africa) as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Yoshio Takeuchi (pre-facelift) / Takashi Maeda (facelift) / Kikako Kaneko (RS facelift). Assembly is recorded at India: Manesar (Maruti Suzuki); Ahmedabad (Suzuki Motor Gujarat).
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