In March this year, the Toyota Urban Cruiser Xr was launched – and the Suzuki Vitara Brezza one month earlier. (We reported on the Suzuki back in April.) Then, on 18 August, Toyota acknowledged that, while the flagship Xr version was the focus of the local launch, the mid-range model, the Xs, offered an excellent value proposition for customers in this category.
The Vitara Brezza and Urban Cruiser are both built at Maruti Suzuki’s plant in Gurgaon in northern India.
What do we have here?
The Urban Cruiser Xs is a subcompact crossover and is the smallest dirt-road vehicle in the Toyota stable. From small to large, they are the Urban Cruiser, C-HR, Rav4, Fortuner, FJ Cruiser, Prado, and the Land Cruiser Cruiser 300. The Rav4 has all-wheel drive, but…