If you thought Maruti has gone over board with special edition launches, wait till you see what the parent company has done. They launched a special edition of the Wagon R in Japan!
The reason for the celebration is because the company clocked 3.5 million domestic sales of the same car.
Sadly, these cars are for JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) only. We’re unable to point out any major differences and the description is also absent. We assume special paint schemes and accessories will be part of the new model’s list of features.
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All this while we’ve only been hearing of LWB BMW 7 Series and Mercedes S-Classes. We know of a Mercedes E-Class L, Audi A4L and a Volvo S80L in the land of China.
Now we have a ‘Suzuki Wagon R long wheelbase’ in China according to our friends at China Car Times.
Chang’an Suzuki will introduce a long wheelbase Wagon R in the Chinese market by the end of 2010. The prime motive of this extended wheelbase hatchback is to offer additional rear legroom.
China is yet to receive the latest generation Wagon R which Indians were provided with earlier this year. China has to do with the earlier gen Wagon R which received a facelift recently (Suzuki Wagon R E+).
China Car Times adds that a stretched wheelbase vehicle could transform this hatchback into a load-carrying van which will have good demand in the Chinese rural areas.
Maruti Suzuki – Do you plan to do something like this for India?
The Chinese Wagon R is not very far away from what we’re going to get
As India awaits a facelifted Suzuki Wagon R with a BS4 compliant 1.0-liter K-Series engine that promises to be more powerful, more fuel economical and less polluting, China is also spitting distance away from receiving its new Wagon R.
Spied at a dealership, the new Wagon R’s front-end is similar to the Indian version. The Wagon R has a neatly designed “hide and seek” tail gate. The rear view mirrors look like ears. The rear spoiler adds smoothness to the rear-end. The 5-sided stop lamps integrated into the rear bumper doesn’t.
There are no clear shots of the interiors. What we can infer is the new vehicle will get a redesigned steering wheel dressed in beige.
The biggest difference between the Indian and Chinese version is under the hood. Our neighbors love acceleration and speed, so they get a massive 1.4-liter petrol engine that outputs 90hp and 112Nm of torque!
If you thought Maruti has gone over board with special edition launches, wait till you see what the parent company has done. They launched a special edition of the Wagon R in Japan!
