The car that had a lot of eye brows raised on the benefits of the lower tax rates due to the under 4 metre length, the 2012 Swift Dzire is now under test runs in the Manesar Factory of Maruti Suzuki.
The factory which has faced a lot of labour protests in the recent past and had been producing the Swift hatchback, A-Star hatchback and the SX4 sedan, is now testing the under 4 metre Dzire built based on the swift platform. This means that the car could be released much prior to the Delhi Auto Expo. Factory workers are calling it the Swift 3.99 where the latter denotes the sedan’s overall length.
The car is speculated to have a 90 bhp engine in both its variants. The manufacturers could have taken a bite off the boot space due to the reduction in car length. The existing Dzire , now in the big car category has brought upon excise duty of 22% compared to the newer model which is getting a 10% reduction in tax.
With the designers of the new Dzire going “Honey! I Shrunk the Car!”, the Dzire will be a direct competitor to the Toyota Etios and the Tata Indigo sedan. Tata themselves took benefit of the tax reduction by introducing the Indigo CS which made the car around Rs.50,000 cheaper. Mahindra is working on two sub-4 meter vehicles using the Verito and Xylo as donor cars.
The Dzire is to come with a 1,200cc petrol and 1,250cc diesel engine as the powerhouse. Being developed at under 500 crore and is primarily targeted for European and Latin American who prefer smaller and fuel efficient cars.
Maruti has no reason to drop the Dzire brand even if the sedan has become smaller.
[sourced from: Livemint.com]
I hope that the price of top model of new swift desire 8.50 lakh
new one is better it looks much better then the previous one and i hope cost will also be in budget however before its launch in india it will be exported to some other countries
http://13mania.com/1621/new-swift-dzire-2012
dear,
kindly required long trunk and gps of exciting swift desire
dear,
kindly required increase the height of seats of new of swift desire
when it will available & what about booking pls suggest
it should be available in the next two months
Maruti may be thinking that they can give anything under name of swift. This is not at all good looking car.
I think they will use the Swift name as it is powerful in India
dear
kindly required 8.5 cm car width of exciting swift dz ire
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The 2011 model has got lot of improvements, which is more impressive and even other models like ZXI, and VXi also got interior and exterior tweaks.
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Swift hatch looks way much better in hatchback market. But above image is disappointing. MarutiSuzuki should design it like Audi TT, because Swift and Audi TT shares a lot of similar design language.
I hope it gels well, but even if it doesn’t there are going to be plenty of takers. People are driven to these products not because of Swift or Dzire, but more so of brand Maruti.
They should add q tag line better than previous ‘ugliness’
MOST UGLY CAR IN THE WORLD..
UGLIER THAN THE SWIFT DESIRE..
Good news… Compact sedan with Maruti’s trust..
Maruti Trust – its biggest feature.
That is the ugliest car I’ve seen in a long time. The swift is a good looking car. I cant believe people will pay MORE money than a swift to buy this hideous looking thing!
Fully agreed. Maruti has tried to reconstruct the magic of IndigoCS, but I guess they forgot that looks matter too !!
Hey the 3.99 can be the length also In meters
It is the length