Suzuki Cultus Crescent

This is the catalogue record of the Suzuki Cultus Crescent, one of 68 models Suzuki Motor Corporation has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1995. 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 Suzuki Cultus Crescent properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. 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 Honda Honda CR-V, the Toyota Toyota Tacoma, the BMW BMW Z3 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Suzuki Cultus Crescent reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.3 L Suzuki G engine#G13BB / G13BB Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.5 L Suzuki G engine#G15A / G15A I4 (Japan/Indonesia) / 1.6 L Suzuki G eng; kerb weight is recorded at Hatchback: 870-1040 kg / Sedan: 940-1080 kg / Wagon: 1000-1130 kg; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 3-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / Continuously variable transmission / CVT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / 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 Suzuki Motor Corporation story

Within Suzuki Motor Corporation's own catalogue the Suzuki Cultus Crescent sits alongside the Fuji Cabin, the Geo Metro, the Suzuki A-Star Concept (2005), the Suzuki APV. The record names the Suzuki Cultus/Swift/Esteem as its predecessor and the Suzuki Aerio / Suzuki Aerio/Liana (sedan/wagon) / Suzuki Swift (hatchback) / Suzuki SX4 sedan (India) / Chevrolet Optra (Philippines) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Shizuoka prefecture / Shizuoka (Suzuki Sagara Assembly Plant) / Colombia: Bogotá (GM Colmotores / GM Colombia) / India: Gurgaon (Maruti Suzuki India) / Indonesia: Bekasi Reg.

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.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Suzuki Cultus Crescent 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.