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BANGALORE, INDIA – The first images and data about Toyota’s new Urban Cruiser have given the impression on the company’s website, and the new compact SUV is possibly well suited to the South African market.
It has not yet been shown whether Toyota SA had plans for this vehicle, however, when Toyota Kirloskar Motor’s Indian department announced a merger with Maruti Suzuki in 2018, it also revealed that some of the resulting products would be destined for Africa. Markets.
The Urban Cruiser we see here is a reworked edition of Maruti Suzuki’s Vitara Brezza, which in itself is a shorter and reworked edition of the global style of vitara we know.
While Toyota stores its fundamental shape with its twin Suzuki, it gets a new front design with a giant Fortuner-inspired grille. It is also available with a wonderful diversity of two-tone external paint colors, adding Groovy Odiversity, and buyers can also opt for 16-inch diamond-cut alloy wheels.
As the images show, the cockpit is largely a Suzuki deferral and includes Suzuki’s touchscreen information and entertainment system.
The same goes for the engine, which is a 1.5-litre atmospheric unit that produces 77 kW and 138 Nm and buyers can between a manual and an automatic transmission. Automatic versions are also supplied with a convenient hybrid formula consisting of a battery and a built-in starter generator.
This is not the first Toyozuki to see the smoothness of the day, as the company has already revealed the Toyota Glanza sedan in Baleno, while Suzuki from Europe recently revealed an SUV in the Toyota Rav4 called Aross.
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