Toyota Urban Cruiser Taisor: compact crossover without hybrid technology

We like to focus our news sights on areas far outside the Netherlands and Europe to see what is happening there in the automotive field. We arrive in India, where Toyota has introduced this Urban Cruiser Taisor. Anyone who is charmed by the appearance of the Toyota Urban Cruiser Taisor has been warned in advance: the car will not come to Europe. So that wallet can go back into the inside pocket.

The Toyota Urban Cruiser Taisor is an almost four-meter-long crossover that has so far only been presented with a mild-hybrid 1.0 Boosterjet three-cylinder and a turbo-free 1.2 Dualjet four-cylinder. Wait a second. Boosterjet and Dualjet? Certainly. The Toyota Urban Cruiser Taisor is not a Toyota at all, but a Suzuki Fronx on which Toyota has pasted its own front and logos. Just as is the case with the Fronx, the Urban Cruiser Taisor is built on the same variant of Suzuki’s Heartect platform that houses the Baleno, which disappeared from the Dutch market in 2019.

Speaking of the Baleno, that is also a Suzuki that Toyota has put its own badges on. Toyota sells the model elsewhere in the world as Starlet and Glanza. Anyone who thought that Suzuki only borrowed models from Toyota is very wrong. In the Netherlands, Suzuki sells the Across (Toyota RAV4) and the Swace (Toyota Corolla Touring Sports). Although there are no Toyotas for sale here that are secretly a Suzuki, there are plenty of them worldwide. In addition to this Urban Cruiser Taisor (Fronx) and the aforementioned Starlet and Glanza (Balen0), Toyota sells the ‘new’ Suzuki Celerio as Vitz, this Suzuki Grand Vitara as Urban Cruiser Hyryder, this Suzuki Ertiga as Rumion and until recently this Vitara Brezza as Urban Cruiser. And we haven’t even mentioned the electric ‘Toyota bZ2X’ that will soon be on the market. That car also seems to be based on a Suzuki and that Toyota is coming our way.