The Grand Vitara will be a sister model to the Toyota Hyryder, global debut slated for July 20.
Maruti Suzuki has announced that its all-new mid-size SUV has been christened the Grand Vitara. Bookings for the new Maruti SUV are now open for Rs 11,000.
As we had reported before, the new Grand Vitara will be built by Toyota and share its underpinnings with the recently unveiled Hyryder SUV. The global debut for the Maruti Grand Vitara will take place on July 20, 2022. Both SUVs are expected to go into production next month and will see their market launches thereafter.
- Will come with strong and mild hybrid powertrains
- To be sold via Nexa outlets
Maruti Grand Vitara: Maruti’s comeback kid for India
The name Grand Vitara is not new for Maruti. The company sold the second-gen Grand Vitara (XL7) and also the third-gen Grand Vitara SUV in India. While both of these were sold as full imports, the upcoming midsize SUV will have India as one of its manufacturing hubs and will be exported to multiple overseas markets.
We’d reported last month that the new Maruti midsize SUV will most likely take the “Vitara” branding. The second-gen Brezza SUV too dropped the “Vitara” prefix, allowing Maruti to use the branding for the upcoming car.
The Maruti Grand Vitara, now in its fourth-generation, is a sister model to the Toyota Hyryder and will be built at the latter’s Bidadi plant in Karnataka. Both SUVs will use Suzuki’s Global-C platform that has already formed base of popular models like both generations of the Brezza for India, the S-Cross and also the outgoing Maruti Grand Vitara SUV, which was sold overseas. The SUVs will also share powertrains – 1.5-litre mild-hybrid and 1.5-litre strong hybrid powerplant options – and will also have an AWD option.
While both SUVs will look more or less identical from the sides and at the rear, although their front styling is expected to be completely different. We have already seen the Toyota Hyryder and its styling mimics Toyota’s larger SUVs sold abroad, while spy shots confirm that the Grand Vitara will have similar styling bits as seen on the Suzuki ACross SUV sold in Europe. Styling elements like body panels and interior elements will be common in the two SUVs as well.
Maruti Grand Vitara to be the most advanced Maruti SUV till date
Feature list for the new Maruti Grand Vitara will be similar to the Hyryder too. With equipment like a panoramic sunroof, premium leather interiors, a soft-touch dashboard and a full hybrid powertrain, the new Grand Vitara will be Maruti’s most technologically advanced and feature-laden SUV for India till date.
Expect Maruti to reveal more details on the new Grand Vitara SUV in the run up to its global debut on July 20. Price announcement will take place after the Toyota Hyryder, sometime in the second half of August this year.
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