The Suzuki Celerio is a 5-door hatchback from Suzuki, built from 2008, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine.
The background
The Suzuki Celerio is a hatchback city car produced by the Japanese manufacturer Suzuki since 2008. Originally a rebadged Alto/A-Star city car for some markets, the Celerio was made as a global nameplate and a standalone model replacing the A-Star in 2014.
Suzuki unveiled the second-generation Celerio at the Auto Expo 2014 in India, after being previewed as the A:Wind concept model at the Thailand International Motor Expo in November 2013. The third-generation model was unveiled in November 2021. In 2023, the third-generation model was also marketed by Toyota in African markets as the Toyota Vitz.
The engineering
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 785 kg. It shifts through a 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 5-speed AGS automated manual transmission / automated manual / Continuously variable transmission / CVT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2425 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Suzuki Zen Estilo (second generation, India) / Suzuki A-Star (India) / Suzuki Cultus (second generation, Pakistan); assembly was at Manesar. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan 370Z, the Tesla Roadster, the Nissan GT-R — show what else the money bought that year. Its Suzuki stablemates include the Suzuki XL-7 and the Suzuki Landy.