The new Suzuki Swift will be launching in Thailand early next year, the Bangkok Post reports. The fourth-generation B-segment hatchback made its home market debut in December 2016 and the Swift Sport hot hatch surfaced two months ago.
The new Swift comes with a 1.0 litre Boosterjet triple, but Thais will instead get a 1.2 litre naturally-asprated four-cylinder unit dubbed Dualjet. The K12C 1.2L twin-injector engine will go it alone in the Land of Smiles, without the integrated starter generator (ISG) that a mild hybrid variant gets in Japan.
This is of course due to cost, as the Swift is an Eco Car playing in Thailand’s entry level market. Nissan’s Note eco car, launched there early this year, also omitted the JDM version’s e-Power hybrid system, making do with a 1.2L NA engine. The recently rebooted Toyota Yaris will be the car to beat.
The Swift’s K12C makes the same 91 hp/118 Nm as the K12B unit in the outgoing Thai Swift, but it should be more fuel efficient and green to meet Eco Car Phase 2 standards of 23.3 km/l and 100 g/km of CO2 emissions. The new Heartect platform, which is more rigid and less heavy would help the cause – the JDM car’s weight reduction is from 30 to 160 kg.
Interesting little car, but one that we won’t be getting with Suzuki out of the local scene.
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Come on, Proton. Rebadge the Swift Sport and finally have a car that people want to buy.
Majority owner, DRB boleh call suzuki.
Mitsubishi tried to save Proton with Lancer….tak jadi
VW tried to offer to help Proton….Proton reject
Renault (Savvy) and Citroen (Tiara) tried to help Proton….tak jai
Suzuki also tried to help Proton….Ertiga got bad sales.
Honda tried to help Proton….Accordana failed
Now we wait for China Geely to try to help.
many developing countries envied to copy P1 car making knowledge. Knowledge is power.
Orang Malaysia mampu tengok je new Suzuki Swift on the internet je, no thanks to Geli.
Wow new gen Satrio neo Swifspot
In Miri oredy see this new suzuki swift on the road. Bruneian have it, some Mirian able to buy this from Brunei also.
True
Should able to bring in 1.4 boosterjet turbo engine also.
Pity we won’t see this car here. Cause Proton dropped Suzuki overnight when Geely agreed to buy Proton.
Otherwise we can see rebadged Proton Swift and even Proton Grand Vitara
Let us face facts…we rakyat are the losers cause Proton Grand Vitara is 100x better than China Boyue.
Jap technology and quality is far better than China quality.
Right now, China steel, China axles, China airbags, even China carpets, r proving to be more quality than Jepunis. Hail China!
Hail Iphone China!
Don’t be stupid. Geely came in as shareholder, not as rebadge partner. If there is, it’s still possible for a rebadge Suzuki. Ertiga is still being sold
Suzuki japs & Geely do not welcome sneaky and cheating business tactic of drb P1.
Suzuki is making good cars, I really enjoy my Swift, but sadly I found no service centre near my area. Disappointing… and irresponsible…
you should be able to service your Suzuki at these Proton centers: https://paultan.org/2016/01/14/all-29-malaysian-suzuki-dealerships-are-now-proton-edar-outlets-sales-of-suzuki-brand-models-ended/
TAKE MY MONEY!
Come back to Malaysia Suzuki!
Poor Suzuki, Proton played you out… and the Japs should hv known better…
first p1, has grandeur plan to rebadge suzuki, force them closed shop, cannot sell anymore.
(just like poor mitsubishi lancer.)
suddenly decide to sell themselves to geely. ^^
sigh but we no get this car
i want to old suzuki swift sport.
This should be sold here as full spec with a manual transmission and priced below RM50k…
And because of some incompetent monkeys in pre-Geely era proton, we malaysians can’t buy one of the great budget car – suzuki swift.
And because of these monkeys too, our honda accord resale value now become bad.
Taiwan has the 1.0 Boosterjet engine.
Took pics of this car testing in Bangkok.
most people here talking with facts pulled out of .. who knows where. should actually do some reading an understand the timeline of proton. DRB is the one that messed up everything with their quasi govt. mentality. and suzuki is distributed by DRB, not proton..if you still cant understand who was actually making all the decisions…please stop commenting. i think geely coming in and now seemingly having management control is the best thing thats happened to Proton, ever…