Driver's Car. Review on Maruti Suzuki Swift

When I sat in the driver's seat in the Swift I immediately realised that it is a driver's car. All the controls wrap around you within comfortable reachibility and once you get used to a new car driving should be automatic.

One thing this should have had is independent suspension on the rear wheels. That would have enabled it to get rid of the tight feel you get alike that of a Santro. The suspension should have been a little softer after all this is a premium hatchback.

The boot space is meager. If you look at the boot before bearding the car, you are made to believe that the rear seat passanger should be having ample legspace. That is not the case, the rear passangers could do with a couple of inches of more legspace.

The mirror on the left side should have been motorised as, with the given breadth of the car, the driver has quiet a problem reaching to the left through the cabin.

Quality of the glass and the mirrors is premium unlike the interior plastics. They have a chep feeling around them, better than an Alto, and probably better than the City also but then it does not match the premium finish of the exterior.

Don't fall for the 87Bhp, consider the weight of the car. It is solid steel, the engine should have been a tad more powerful, to give it that nip like the Santro of the Getz. The cruising is pretty comfortable though.

My personal feeling is that the car should have been priced about Rs. 20000/-lesser.