Stand out in a Suzuki

LIMITED-EDITION: THREE MODELS ARE GIVEN A SPECIAL TOUCH

‘To offer customers the chance to express their unique style and individuality’.

Suzuki has continued its model onslaught with the latest being three limited-edition versions based on the Swift and Ignis. Differing only on aesthetics, the special edition (SE) Swift uses the mid-range GL as a base and comes with a grille taken from the European-spec models, resplendent with blue detailing, black decals and a blue boot lid spoiler, door sills and mirror caps. Bluetooth, Apple CarPlay and Android auto-enabled touchscreen infotainment system round the changes off.

On the Ignis, the SE touches have been applied to the GL as well as the flagship GLX, with the former receiving black door cladding, red accents on the grille, black door sills and bespoke red decals. The latter builds on these by featuring a white surround for the grille, logo bar, fog light surrounds, down the side and on the boot spoiler.

Underneath the bonnet, both continue as is with the 1.2-litre petrol engine continuing to produce 61kW/113Nm, fed to the front wheels via a five-speed manual gearbox. Fuel consumption is rated at 4.9l/100km for both models.

“The Swift Special Edition and two Ignis Special Edition variants offer customers the chance to express their unique style and individuality,” says Andre Venter, divisional manager for sales and marketing at Suzuki Auto South Africa. “As exclusive versions of our top-selling models, we are confident that it will find favour...”

Priced at R193 900, the Swift GL SE is offered in a choice of two colours; Silky Silver or Arctic while with allocation limited to 50 units each, while the Ignis GL SE retails for R186 400 and has the same colour choices, with production set at 25 units each. The Ignis GLX SE is priced at R212 400 and will be decked out in Tinsel Blue for the first 50 buyers.

“We know that customers who opt for a special edition model like to stand out, so we have introduced the SE models in a choice of several colours ... in very limited numbers,” says Venter.

Standard on all models is a five year/200 000km warranty and a two-year/30 000km service plan.