Suzuki does not build many cars like the Suzuki Ciaz: a 4-door sedan with Petrol engine, built from 2014 to 2023 as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
How it came about
The Suzuki Ciaz is a subcompact sedan produced by Suzuki from 2014 to 2025. It was developed to replace the Suzuki SX4 sedan in several Asian, African and Latin American markets. It went on sale for the first time in India, the largest market for Suzuki in September 2014. The Ciaz has been rebadged and marketed by Toyota as the Toyota Belta since 2021 for certain African markets. The "Ciaz" name stands for "Comfort, Intelligence, Attitude and Zeal", or "City from A to Z".
The hardware
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 960 –. The gearbox is a 5-speed manual transmission / manual / 6-speed manual (India) / 4-speed automatic transmission / automatic / 6-speed automatic (China) / Continuously variable transmission / CVT (T. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2650 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Suzuki's history is not in doubt: the Suzuki SX4#First generation (GY/EY/RW; 2006) / Suzuki SX4 sedan / Toyota Vios (XP150) / Toyota Yaris sedan (for Toyota Belta) came before it; it was built at Manesar. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Ferrari 488, the Ford Escort, the Chevrolet Camaro. Its Suzuki stablemates include the Suzuki XL-7 and the Suzuki Landy.