Category: Superminis 
Price Range: £8,995 to £10,845
Compact but roomy, smooth engines, tidy handling, lively diesel.
Ride can get fidgety, cabin trim devoid of padding, meagre boot, indicator bleeper might drive you mad.
This is a proper supermini-sized supermini, and good value for what you get.
The cars we drove were early pre-production examples, which is usually an excuse for carmakers to say the real ones will be better if the early cars are a bit flaky. But apart from too much of a sheen on the dashboard mouldings (to be addressed) and some rattles over rough ground in the more firmly sprung diesel, there was nothing wrong with these cars.
Every interior surface apart from seats and carpet is hard, though, including the top models' coloured fabric covering on the front door trims' central panels. The equivalent rear panels, and indeed the front ones on the cheaper models, are of plastic which is coloured and textured to hint at the fabric. That's impressively detailed cost cutting. It's all properly engineered stuff, although non-slip rubber inserts would be a good thing for the various open storage areas. As things are, phones and coins and other chattels will slide all over the place.
The petrol engines are new but it's hard to imagine they will be anything other than typically reliable. The Fiat diesel has a good record, too. Suzuki has installed many new robots in its Hungarian factory and build quality should be excellent.
