The Ertiga will be the next model to be rebadged under the partnership between Suzuki and Toyota, and which will be launched in India by August 2021, according to The Economic Times. Currently manufactured by Suzuki Indomobil Motor in Cikarang, Indonesia and by Maruti Suzuki in Guragon, India, it will be the India plant which manufactures the Toyota-branded model, which will also be on sale in African markets.
The second-generation Suzuki Ertiga was introduced in April 2018 in Indonesia, followed by its launch in Thailand a little under a year after that. The three-row, seven-seater MPV is powered by a K15B 1.5 litre naturally aspirated engine producing 108 PS at 6,000 rpm and 138 Nm of torque at 4,400 rpm, sent to a four-speed automatic gearbox. The facelifted first-generation Ertiga was rebadged by Proton in 2016.
Neither Suzuki nor Maruti Suzuki has confirmed the Ertiga’s entry into the Indian market. The country will not get any global Toyota models priced under 1,000,000 rupees (RM58,028) in the foreseeable future, according to Indian Autos Blog, which means that the Toyota brand will rely heavily upon Maruti Suzuki in the sub-1 million rupee segment, the report said.
New Suzuki models to join the Indian market include a revised Vitara Brezza due in the second half of this year, with the aforementioned Ertiga to follow around a year after that. Currently, the Toyota-Suzuki partnership in the India sees the Toyota Glanza on sale in the country as a rebadged Suzuki Baleno, and with the Vitara Brezza, the Ertiga brings Suzuki’s line-up in India to three models.
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Kesian Toyota is rebadging another car and this time from a much smaller company in Suzuki. 100 years of automotive history down the drain, I wonder what their engineers and R&D workers are doing, tidur lepak minum sake 8X a day??? Such shame! ;-p
86 rebadged from Subaru BRZ
Supra rebadged from BMW Z4
MR2 rebadging from Porsche
Yaris USA rebadged from Mazda2
Toyota miniSUV rebadged from Ertiga
Toyota EVs rebadged from Geely soon
Neither Suzuki nor Maruti Suzuki has confirmed the Ertiga’s entry into the Indian market. The country will not get any global Toyota models priced under 1,000,000 rupees (RM58,028) in the foreseeable future, according to Indian Autos Blog, which means that the Toyota brand will rely heavily upon Maruti Suzuki in the sub-1 million rupee segment, the report said.
This means even a Manual base spec 1.0T Toyota Raize enter India, it won’t starts below 1million rupees or rm58k.
Avanza no good?
The Indian model is so gorgeous!
Toyota is smart. They cannot sell cars under 1 million rupee segment, they rebadge the Suzuki. So they get the sales, the profit, the volume and brand value… While suzuki/Maruti also make money from licensing and assembly.
But with so many companies wanting to do JV with Toyota no other company manage to approach Toyota asking to rebadge it’s models.
So Toyota is the real winner here.
Everybody wants to JV with Toyota, even Peugoet and BMW.
But Toyota gets to select who can JV or rebadge it’s cars… Which so far – none.
World class thinking.
Ertige