Suzuki Celerio price & specs - costs from £7,999

The new Suzuki Celerio – Suzuki’s new City car aimed at stuff like the Hyundai i10 – goes on sale in the UK in February 2015 priced from £7,999.

Suzuki Celerio (pictured) price & specs revealed for the UK

With the car market polarising to high-end and budget models – with the middle well and truly squeezed – it’s a good time to bring a budget city car to the market. Step forward the new Suzuki Celerio for the UK.

Revealed in India earlier this year, the new Celerio is now on sale in the UK and will arrive in Suzuki’s showrooms – and with customers, in February 2015.

Starting at just £7,999 for the basic Celerio SZ3 (and £1,00 more for the better-equipped GS4), the Celerio comes with a single engine choice, low CO2 and a choice of manual or automatic gearboxes.

The Celerio GS3 comes with AirCon, alloy wheels, DAB and B lutooth, but stumping up £1k more for the GS4 adds better alloys, electric windows, fogs, body colour mirrors and chrome grill.

Engine choice for the UK is just the 3-cylinder 1.0 litre that will do 65.7mpg and emits 99g/km, but from mid-2015 those figures will improve to 78.4mpg and 84g/km thanks to a new engine with Dualjet engine technology, and a new Auto Gear Shift (AGS) gearbox will also be available which will maintain the low emissions and decent economy of the manual.