Suzuki has given the A-Star a facelift in China. The Maruti A-Star is only sold in India, whereas it is sold as the latest generation Alto overseas. The Japanese automaker has made slight cosmetic changes to the Chinese Alto, giving it new headlights, new grille, new front and rear bumpers, new alloy wheels and new tail lights. If the headlights were a little bit more swept back, Suzuki China would have almost achieved the Fluidic styling of Hyundai on the Alto facelift.
Other than the cosmetic changes, Suzuki has made no changes to the mechanicals of the car. The Suzuki Alto facelift will continue to be powered by a 1.0-litre K-Series engine which produces 67 BHP of power output and 90 Nm of torque output. The engine is mated to a 5-speed manual or a 4-speed automatic gearbox. Changes to the interiors are still a mystery but one can expect the company to offer new fabric and colours. Pricing will remain the same as the Chinese automobile market is an extremely competitive one.
Will Maruti Suzuki bring in this facelift? Almost certainly it will, but when is the question. Maruti Suzuki gave the A-Star a mild facelift recently and is currently focusing on replacing the last generation Alto with a more modern looking vehicle. Once the Alto replacement makes its way to the market, Maruti Suzuki is most likely to turn its attention on the A-Star, which has done very poorly in the Indian car market.
Source – Autohome.com.cn
Sushrut June 21, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Suzuki will not change the K-series engines for the next 10 years. So expect models to get only cosmetic changes.
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Deepak Dongre June 21, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Finally a slightly better looking rear.
Abhimanyu June 22, 2012 at 1:54 pm
still s***s to the core.. i dont understand why people buy a-star.. even alto is much better looking than it.. and if people are buying it for being a maruti suzuki then why not alto or estilo..
Suraj December 7, 2012 at 12:19 pm
B’cos it is a seriously fun small car to drive . Got loads more personality than anything else in the market . But i guess explainin dat is futile to ppl here who have a herd mentality .
Kedar June 22, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Front copied from Hyundai and taillights copied from Skoda :-)