Maruti Suzuki makes facelift Dzire more desirable

The country's leading car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki, launched refreshed avatar of the Dzire, which is aggressively priced, starting from Rs 5.07

By Arup Das | on February 23, 2015 Follow us on Autox Google News

The country's leading car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki, launched refreshed avatar of the Dzire, which is aggressively priced, starting from Rs 5.07 lakh, and boasts of being the most fuel-efficient car with ARAI certified mileage of 26.59 kmpl.

The new DZire looks a lot more contemporary now, thanks to the new styling. The new chrome front fascia, the new headlamp cluster with smoky black tinge and body colour bumper make it appear more youthful. To give it a more premium feel, the Dzire fog lamps bezel have chrome accents. Adding a bit of a sporty flavour, it comes with trendy alloy wheels.

Maruti Suzuki has also added new features in the Dzire like engine start / stop button, reverse parking sensors, electrically retractable ORVM and Bluetooth enabled with music system.

At the launch of the new Dzire Mr. R.S. Kalsi, Executive Director Marketing & Sales, Maruti Suzuki India said, “Taking forward our efforts to refresh our existing models, we present new DZire as India’s most fuel efficient car returning fuel efficiency of 26.59kmpl. The rich equipment list on the refreshed Dzire that includes premium features like engine push start / stop system, reverse parking sensors, new motion alloy wheels and Bluetooth with audio etc will be valued by the customers.”

The new Dzire is powered by the tried-and-tested 75PS @ 4000rpm, 1.3-litre diesel engine and 1.2-litre petrol engine that delivers a power of 84.3PS @ 6000rpm. But Maruti Suzuki insist that their engineers have tweaked the engines, therefore improving fuel efficiency. They have made changes in engine hardware leading to improved thermal efficiency, reduced frictional losses and changes in engine calibration. Due to this Maruti has pegged Dzire as India’s most fuel efficient car as it returns a mileage of 26.59 kmpl (ARAI certified) on diesel, up by around. 13%. The petrol trim comes with a fuel efficiency improvement of over 9% with a certified fuel efficiency of 20.85 kmpl (ARAI certified).

Petrol variants: (Ex-showroom, Delhi)

LXi: Rs 507,883

LXi (O): 520,147

VXi: Rs 585,000

Zxi: Rs 680,000

Diesel variants: (Ex-showroom, Delhi)

LDi: Rs 599,523

VDi: Rs 685,097

ZDi: Rs 781,000

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