Suzuki Car Reviews

I bought Alto 2003 second hand just four months before. I had mehran first. Its the worst car i ever had because its driving is like you are driving a truck. Coming back to alto, its an amazing car in a cheap price range. Its driving is so smooth like a luxurious car. The interior is perfect, sides are covered with plastic material. Brakes work fine below speed of 80. Engine is powerful. Car can be easily turned in a small space. A/C is great. It gives good mileage on CNG as compared to Petrol. I think this car has no comparision with coure or mehran. You can say Coure is an improved version of Mehran.
Howevere there are some negative things as well. The engine of alto is a bit noisy. Road grip in not soo good with the tyres fitted by suzuki. The car starts a little bit shaking above speed of 85.
Apart from that, Alto would be an extra superb car if suzuki has installed power steering, power windows and ABS in it.
Overall its a perfect car.

Of all the choices we have under a million bucks, cultus is the best choice. I know its way to over priced, but considering its size, shape and design its better than the other options, unless you wanna buy a cuore for 930,000. Most Fuel Efficient on CNG!

High points:

1. Spacy interior compared to its size.
2. Good colour choices.
3. Fuel Economy. Mine does 150km on a full CNG tank.
4. Good road grip and control inbuilt in its design frame.

Low points:

1. Over priced.
2. Poor quality of built. Noises and Sounds in new ones as well as poor quality of material used such as in doors.
3. Poorest acceleration in its class.
4. Cheap interior.
5. No power options which are being offered even in smaller cars like Joy.
6. No Safety options.

I've been driving/travelling in an APV for almost 4 years now. (in fact i learned driving using this vehicle! )

Firstly lets get to the basics, the Price. Currently its a bit overpriced. Though i would still go for it as a family 7-seater over any jeep/vehicle in this price range.

Comfort: To be honest for an imported vehicle its not the most comfortable car. Though i have seen worse, much better than many Pakistani cars/vans. (and it has LOTS of SPACE! ) that's all that matters, i guess..

Consumption: On CNG its fairly cheap. Specially on long drives. On petrol its a bit expensive cause of the extra power due to the weight. But i'd prefer driving it on petrol all the time as its totally at a different comfort level on petrol! (though i don't pay for either, so i guess my opinion doesn't matter. My dad pays and he says its good on CNG :P )

Now to the other things that matter,

Power: it has lots of power! the 1.5L engine is just about the right size for this vehicle.

Safety: Here is where the APV looses most of its points. It has NO ABS! That really is the worst part. NO AIRBAGS! The tires, play an important role in keeping the car stable. if you change them to bigger ones, you might increase the comfort but decrease the stability! its fairly stable, as a teenager like me hasn't killed himself yet, using the vehicle. So its stable till that extent. Though after a few years it will be very risky to drive it over 120 km/h on the Motorway or anywhere for that matter, as it wobbles, and feels very unsafe.

Practicality: It is the best car in this section. It has LOTS of space for ANY type of luggage.. Though the CNG cylinder does take a bit of space in the back, there is still room to put two big bags behind the rear seats. You can easily fit 10 people in it. Though the people at the back will be a bit squeezed. Add one of those roofs to it and your luggage problem for these ten people is solved. (if each person has a bag )

Overall, it is one of the best Cars/Vans i've seen in Pakistan. And in this price range any other vehicle of it's type can not compete with it.

Though if you can manage the cost of fuel, i'd suggest getting a Prado or Pajero.. As they are more fun to drive and has way more power plus comfort. Only problem would be they'd be old and the APV would be brand new.

Sir, in that case and according PAMA Suzuki Mehran has a sale of 14,134 units and while Dahatsu cuore sold only 1728 units. So according to your equation what mehran would be a better car then cuore wouldn't it be? You don't compare cars from their selling ratio. You compare them from their performance, value for money and services given in them. Now why toyota has more sales. Look first of all I don't think that anybody rational would say that Liana is better than corrolla that's a fact whether anybody admits it or not. And selling of more units is because of having the great reselling price and most of all the durability this car is offering, no other car even honda is giving it to its users. Great shocks with good life of engine even in rural areas. That's why its competing. If you look for value of money, meaning the price you are paying for the services you are getting, Sir you have to admit that Liana will get more rating. 1.2 M and it gives you everything that 1.4 M Xli doesn't give and 1.55 M Gli do gives you with an additinal abs, Thats it.

i bought this car zero meter in December 2007. since then i have not any major problem with this car. XLI and GLI are still crap infront of my liana .. because it's powerful doch engine which is 300cc more powerful then these craps corolla , which are quite expensive.

am using it on cng .. pple are asking of missing and other problems with cng . Trust me am using it with cng for four years. not a singal porblum i face and also there is not atall any lack of pick up .
I sort out that pple are facing problems with cng are only who are using 1.3 . and 1.6 is discontinued ..
I feel lucky and proud for my right decision.