111.97 rupees to a litre, we need a car to beat the petrol prices. Well ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to PowerDrift, I'm back, and so is the new Celerio.
The Celerio will be your first car purchase because it's new and when it's new,
it looks much like the Swift with a mascara added to the eyelids, headlamp and overall
rounded-off proportions, much like Cyrus.
The Celerio always had a peppy engine, but this one
it's even better. It always had good AMT but this one looks so much cooler.
Your first car purchase the new Celerio is now a bigger car. The wheelbase has been increased
by 10 millimetres and if you move over to the front here, much like Cyrus, the car's gone wider,
wider by 55 millimetres. The new Celerio gets electrically adjustable sideview mirrors and
who would want their first car to be without an engine start/stop button. The boot space it's 40%
bigger, 313 litres so you can carry a big fat red check-in bag and an easy rucksack.
By the way the new Celerio seems to be coming shod with Yokohama BluEarth tyres
straight from the factory. Now you may not like the way this is positioned but then
it's functional for your new car purchase, could, would and should have keyless entry.
Because Celerio wants to be your first car it is
the widest and one of the longest car in its class, that's understandable,
but what's not nice is that your first car, the new Celerio here does not get a rear view camera.
Unleashing 67 horses,
89Nm of torque, the new engine definitely feels torquey in the low range here,
so city driving is going to be that much more efficient and rather easy. Doing all this is the
new K Series K10C engine which is a three-cylinder 1.0-litre engine with dual-injectors, dual-VVT,
engine start/stop functionality and all of these of course unlocking a fuel efficiency number
which is almost motorcycle territory, a fuel efficiency number of 26.68 kilometres per litre,
can you believe it? 26.68, that would be what the fuel efficiency of a Karizma, right?
Suzuki engines are refined and the one in the Celerio is no exception.
The top-notch refinement is accompanied by a linear power delivery and a spunky top-end that will make
you smile on a bad day just like your first car should. The 1.0-litre engine comes mated with a
five-speed gearbox and the option of having manual transmission or automated manual transmission.
AMTs are not all that bad by the way and in the modern day and age AMTs have come so far.
On a plain road like this, what is particularly standing out is how easy it is to cruise in this
car and as you see there are undulations on this road, which the car is really taking like a boss,
so in terms of ride quality, this car's doing a great job with its damping.
The road noise and potholes or the crashy drive at intermediate speeds,
well all of it is just amplified because of your average noise insulation.
New drivers, you don't really want them rolling back on an incline and so the car here the AMT
variant, it comes equipped with hill hold assist, I believe that's a segment first.
A nice thing to notice is as I drive with a nice looking shifter knob here to the AMT transmission,
my left leg of course is pretty much useless, but I do have a sensible dead pedal here
to be doing long journeys. The ride quality supports long journeys,
the amount of space that is now excavated in this car also supports a long journey.
The car's based on Heartect platform, which means well it's more width now, which essentially means
that you're tired shoulders here which don't really have great seat bolstering
will however get more shoulder room here. When someone's sitting as a co-passenger,
that's when you really realise the extra width and what I'm also noticing as I look at the seats here
is that you have fixed headrest for the front seats and fixed headrests for the backseat.
The rear is more spacious than before but the rear seat still leaves a lot more to be desired.
It is softly cushioned and has a flat base which means long journeys will tend to become
slightly cumbersome but of course city drives will be very comfortable.
There's not much to do in the back, no centre armrest, no USB ports, no
cell phone holder or charger, only one seat back pocket and despite the added width,
three of your friends will be better off in a Wagon R on your first road trip to Goa.
If you were someone who wanted to have a daytime-running lamps in your first car
purchase, well you're not going to get it on the Celerio, nor are you' going to get any LED headlamps.
Big door pockets here that accommodate one-litre bottles, but what you don't have to the right
at the door is the power window switches, they're not here to the right on the door,
the power window switches are here on the dashboard. The rear power window switches
are here at the back if you can see them and that's right behind the handbrake.
Now, if you have elderly people sitting at the back then it's going to be slightly cumbersome
for them to reach out but otherwise it's not a deal breaker for me.
Such a thin steering wheel
here in my hands, I don't even know if Cyrus's big hands would be very comfortable grabbing this one.
Okay, so what we're going to do right now is we're going to see
how fast is the new Celerio with its new updates to the engine. Alright, starting from 0 kmph here
in the 1.0-litre, three-cylinder engine, 67 horses, first shift, 40 kmph,
gear shift indicator tells me we are in second now, 70 kmph, second shift,
quick shifts, beyond 80 kmph, there was the beep, approaching 100, still in third gear 110,
that's the fourth shift, and I think it's time to brake, such a light car, so agile.
To our country, the Celerio here it's much like, it's much like morning breakfast cereal,
it's essential and important, perhaps the most important meal or car of the day because it
solves real problems, of all those who are in the market for their very first car purchase
and delivers on every promise better than any Celerio before. Of course at Rs. 8 lakh for
the top-end variant on-road, it's now one of the most expensive cars in its segment,
much like Cyrus, so do I like it? Oh I sure do like Cyrus a lot, he's mature in his approach
and brings in a lot of efficiency to the table. So the new Celerio here is a lot like Cyrus.
Is now even better, thanks to the keyless entry, oh, I just locked it. But then
your new car purchase could, would and should have keyless entry, that's my bad again.