2012 Suzuki grand Vitara 3 door

Suzuki launched its first Vitara 20 years in the past, creating the world's first compact SUV and tapping into a new market for vehicles that ship true off-street efficiency with responsive, fun-to-drive on-road performance. Since then the fashionable and versatile SUV has steadily advanced and kept tempo with growing demand for good-wanting, versatile 4x4s which are as rewarding on the open highway as they're motoring off the overwhelmed track.

In creating the new flagship 2.four-litre Grand Vitara, Suzuki has consolidated the design and engineering qualities which have helped the mannequin enjoy such enduring success, whereas introducing an all-spherical improve in terms of engine efficiency, equipment specifications, safety, styling and all-spherical quality.

The result's a compact SUV that offers greater than ever earlier than: more power, more fashion and extra driving pleasure however with no adversarial effect on gas consumption or emissions.

The extremely specified Suzuki Grand Vitara 2.4-litre is accessible in three and five-door physique styles and the arrival of the 2.four Suzuki Grand Vitara three-door gives a singular offering within the SUV market, with no other producer at the moment offering this engine/body type combination.

At the coronary heart of the new mannequin is a 122kW/166PS 2.4-litre petrol engine (5-door slightly extra highly effective at 124kW/169PS). The unit makes full use of superior technical and design features to ship improved power and torque, with solely modest changes in gas consumption and CO2 emissions. The truth is, with 5-speed guide transmission, tailpipe emissions are unchanged at 208g/km for the five-door model (205g/km for Suzuki Grand Vitara three-door)The engine is also only marginally bigger in size, but it incorporates a series of features seen for the primary time on a Suzuki-designed powerplant. These embrace a balancer shaft, three-stage variable air consumption and a tumble control valve within the consumption ports to attain the absolute best gas-air mixture.

Recognising the life saving potential of digital stability systems, Suzuki is equipping the 2.four-litre Suzuki Grand Vitara as commonplace with ESP®, a part of a company policy to introduce the system progressively on all forthcoming new models and mannequin facelifts. ESP® uses selective wheel braking and controls engine output as necessary to stabilise the car if it detects understeer or oversteer situations which may presumably lead to total loss of control.

Additional safety measures have additionally been upgraded, most notably with the introduction of ventilated rear disc brakes and further shock-absorbing parts across the bonnet, wings and entrance bumper to scale back the risk of injury to pedestrians - a top quality that had already earned Suzuki Grand Vitara a really respectable three-star rating in impartial Euro NCAP crash testing.

Both the outside and interior have been given a mild facelift. On the skin there's a revised entrance finish therapy and new door mirrors with integrated turn indicators, whereas contained in the cabin chrome and wooden-effect inlays add additional touches of high quality, together with enhancements to the design and operation of a number of the dashboard controls, together with a new multi-information display and revised air con management panel.

The 2.four-litre model has a high standard specification together with an in-dash 6CD participant with MP3 compatibility, rear privacy glass and 17-inch wheels. Five-door fashions moreover function leather seats with front seat heating; High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps, cruise control, 18-inch wheels and electrically-operated glass sun-roof as standard.