Cultus is local made brother. They are insisting to sell Cultus because of profit margin.
You cannot compare Cultus with swift and it is useless to debate on comparison between these.
I own 2016 model swift manual transmission.
Weekly drive around 500kms in city as well on GT road.
It never felt me down in term of performance.
Crossed 40 thousand kms ODO and Allhumdulillah no issue so far.
Just regular maintenance and oil change .