The Suzuki S-Presso is a 5-door hatchback from Suzuki, built from 2019, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine.
Where it came from
The Suzuki S-Presso is a city car produced by Maruti Suzuki, Suzuki's subsidiary in India since 2019. It slots above the Alto and below the Wagon R in the Indian market.
The car is marketed as a "micro SUV" or a "mini crossover" by its rugged styling and high ground clearance of 180 mm (7.1 in). The S-Presso is built on the HEARTECT platform, which is derived from Suzuki's kei cars, and uses 40% high tensile steel. It is exported to several emerging markets in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Under the skin
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 726 –. It shifts through a 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 5-speed AGS Automated manual transmission / AMT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2380 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Suzuki Karimun Wagon R (indirect, Indonesia); assembly was at Manesar, Haryana (Maruti Suzuki), India. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model Y, the Kia EV6 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Suzuki catalogue sit the Suzuki XL-7 and the Suzuki Landy.