In September, Suzuki presented hard evidence that it increasingly shares the sheets with Toyota. Suzuki brought the Swace to the attention shortly after it presented the Across. It is now known what the Toyota Corolla-based hybrid station wagon will cost. The Suzuki Swace will be at dealers from January 2021.
The Suzuki Swace has a Dutch starting price of € 31,800. There is not much to choose on the Suzuki price list. In all cases, the Suzuki Swace has the 122 hp hybrid powertrain, which consists of a 96 hp 1.8 four-cylinder petrol engine and a 72 hp electric motor. A great powertrain that of course also lies in its twin brother from Toyota: the Toyota Corolla (Touring Sports). The Corolla is also available with a non-hybrid 1.2 Turbo and with a more powerful 2.0 Hybrid powertrain, but those versions pass by the nose of the Swace.
The starting price of € 31,800 is for the Select version. The Swace Select already has LED headlamps with high beam assist, climate control, 16-inch light alloy, heated seats, a heated steering wheel and an infotainment system with 8-inch display as standard. As far as safety systems are concerned, the Swace Select is also quite good. Adaptive cruise control, together with traffic sign recognition and Lane Tracing Assist, is standard. Remarkable here: this version seems more or less comparable to the Active version of the Corolla, although it has to do without, for example, the 8-inch display and steering wheel heating. In fact, a heated steering wheel is only available in the sedan on the Corolla. The Toyota Corolla Touring Sports 1.8 Hybrid Active and the above-placed Dynamic cost € 31,095 and € 33,345 respectively.
Suzuki Swace
The Swace Style provides just a little more pampering. This € 33,800 version adds bi-LED headlights, parking sensors all around, keyless entry, mood lighting and an inductive charger to the equipment of the Select. The Swace Style Rear also has Cross Traffic Alert and extensive parking assistance. The equipment of this variant seems to partly correspond to that of the Corolla Touring Sports Executive. As a Corolla Touring Sports 1.8 Hybrid, this costs € 37,795.
Borrowing neighbor
Shortly before Suzuki introduced the Swace, the brand presented the Across in the Netherlands. Just like the Swace, this is also an existing model from Toyota. The Across is Suzuki’s version of the plug-in hybrid variant of the Toyota RAV4. In addition, the Suzuki Across gets the nose of the Toyota Wildlander, the RAV4 like the FAW-Toyota joint venture that sells in China. Suzuki must also comply with particularly strict CO2 legislation imposed by the European Union by 2021 in Europe, but cannot comply with it on its own. To avoid heavy fines, Suzuki has hooked up its Japanese partner Toyota.