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Suzuki Swift Leads New Car Sales in New Zealand Year to Date

Suzuki Swift Leads New Car Sales in New Zealand Year to Date

The ever-green Suzuki Swift hatchback is New Zealand’s top selling new car in the latest year to date sales as it notches up yet another record.

For the first time ever a Suzuki passenger car model has taken the number one position in January to July sales.
The record milestone comes as the popular Swift continues to attract increasing numbers of New Zealand car buyers.
With normal supply resuming for all colours and variants demand for the Swift saw July sales up by 66% over the previous month.

“Total sales of new Swifts reached 325 for the month, an impressive 59 per cent higher than the next best-selling model car,” said Tom Peck, General Manager of Marketing for Suzuki New Zealand.

“Swift is heading for a record seven years as the top selling small car in New Zealand and of course we are delighted that Swift is currently the best selling passenger car overall as well,” he said. “The new generation model launched in the first quarter of this year has built on the sales momentum of its predecessor.”

The international appeal of the model is reflected in New Zealand and Australia. More than one quarter of all Swifts are sold in Europe - more than in the Japanese home market – and the model is also extremely popular in India.

Swift’s local sales were largely responsible for elevating the Suzuki brand into third position in the new car market in New Zealand for July.

Several Suzuki models have posted solid gains in the first half of 2011, with three of its models recording their best month in June.

With the arrival of winter has come increased demand for the ubiquitous Suzuki Grand Vitara with its on-demand four wheel drive capability. Sales of the Grand Vitara in June were the highest month so far this year.

Both the 2.0-litre SX4 and Kizashi sedan models also racked up their best sales months for the year in June.
July also saw the best sales month for the stylish Alto model since its introduction adding to the good demand for small cars Suzuki’s reputation has been further enhanced by the results of a comprehensive survey in Britain. The brand emerged well above average in the latest Warranty Direct reliability survey of 35 motor manufacturers.

Frankfurt 2011: Suzuki Swift Sport Unveiled

Brethren as no surprise then that we want to report on concept hot hatches and ready-to-be-released ones too. This is even more relevant, as CT HQ England has just taken delivery of a 2011 Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart (a 1.5-litre turbo monster) which promises to make my week less depressing as I watch London turn into a flaming ruin of riots and yob culture. Tear.

Promising to be unveiled at Frankfurt Motor Show next month – which we will be covering live from Germany – Suzuki’s new motor sports a face-lift with sleeked back headlights, a larger black grille, lower front bumpers and a reclining roof which combine to give an even sportier feel than before. Twin exhausts and a roof spoiler complete the trimmings and make this a real competitor to the looks of the Cooper S.

Suzuki have told us that they will again opt for a 1.6-litre naturally aspirated powerplant governed by a six-speed manual transmission. This updated engine should be good for 136bhp and 160Nm of torque, which is an uprating of 13bhp on the previous version. 0-62 miles per hour will come in at 8.5 seconds with a top speed of 125mph – good enough to get your license torn up by our law enforcement friends.

To me, 136bhp just sounds a little lazy from Suzuki, especially from 1.6-litres of displacement. The Colt Ralliart manages to pack in 147 horsepower so in these troubled times where prices at the petrol pumps have never been higher, maybe it’s time for someone to tell the engineers at Suzuki to stick a blower onto their units. Any volunteers?

As usual, we will be providing you with a lot more images in the flesh and more information on the car when we touch down in Deutsche-town in mid-September, so until then, brace yourselves!

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