4th Gen Dzire Is The Best Looking Dzire That Maruti Has Ever Built: A Design Walkthrough
Maruti Suzuki will launch the new 4th generation Dzire in India on November 11, 2024. Ahead of the official debut, several leaked pictures and videos of the vehicle have revealed almost all design details. The internet has already started talking about how good the new Dzire looks. Let’s now discuss it in detail, which even we think, is impressive, and try to cast impressions on its evolution over generations.
A recent video showed fresh inventory being unloaded from a carriage and being transported to the dealer yard. This revealed the entire design of the vehicle even before its launch. Our impressions are based on these images/ videos.
4th Generation Dzire: Design Impressions
The design of the fourth-generation Maruti Dzire is a strong departure from that of the third, or anything we’ve seen on the sedan yet, for that matter. It looks better than all three previous generations.
The design is now vocal about the car being wide. Many of its cues highlight the size. The front fascia looks all-new. It has a large grille that is finished in Black, and new LED headlamps. The front bumper comes with tiny lips and houses the circular fog lamps. The grille and front air dam get horizontal slats and distantly resemble the ones found on previous-generation Audi cars. There is also some amount of ‘Toyota-ness’ to this design.
Even the headlamps seem to have had the influence of yesteryear Audi A4 on them! They sure look good. Look at them again and you’ll also get to see similarities with those found on the Ciaz. The side profile would remind you of the previous Dzire.
It doesn’t, however, look as curvy and feels properly stylized. Most importantly, the 4th generation Maruti Dzire doesn’t feel like a ‘Swift with a boot’. This change is quite evident in the side profile. There is a degree of cohesiveness in the overall design and packaging.
A few glimpses of the rear are also out. The tailgate design would surely invoke Dzire vibes, but it would also tug in those of the Ciaz. And those tail lamps… Haven’t you seen them somewhere? You might get something similar if you chop-short the XUV 700’s rear lamps. The rear also has a full-width Chrome strip.
One shouldn’t be blamed for drawing distant visual connections to the Honda Amaze, looking at this sedan’s rear. We remember seeing someone come up with a comment on Instagram, that says ” The Dzire looks more Amaze than the Amaze itself!”
The internet has already started discussing the tyres seen on the stock cars. They look too thin for a car of this size and class. An Insta user even called them ‘Alto’s tyres’. The vehicle seen in this video seems to be a lower variant. The top-spec could have better tyres (we aren’t sure though).
The reason why Maruti has opted for these is obvious- mileage and emissions! Thinner tyres like these help boost fuel efficiency and indirectly keep tailpipe emissions under check. They could also contribute to making the vehicle feel fast, with their reduced rolling resistance.
Narrow tyres have their shortcomings for sure. They tend to feel less grippy on dry roads and deliver compromised ride quality and pothole-soaking abilities. You would already have a clue of these if you have owned a lower-spec modern Maruti car. Bringing the focus back, a set of fatter tyres would have looked great on the 4th-gen DZire and would have complemented the rest of the design well.
Maruti Dzire Design Evolution Over Generations
Maruti Suzuki is infamous for having made ugly designs. Even the Dzire used to be an ugly duckling in its first generation. It used to look as if someone, mostly an NRI (!), slammed a boot into the Swift, out of desperation to carry all the luggage for his air travel. Some disliked it, many hated it.
The second generation had a better focus on aesthetics, but only from the front fascia till the C pillar. The boot design offended the eyes of many like nothing else has ever. The design looked like the car was rear-ended by a Tata! (Who does it better?!) The chopped-off feel it had, was very polarising.
The third generation, however, was a relief. It was then that we finally got a good-looking Dzire, or as they say ‘a desirable Dzire’. The proportions, lines, surfaces and creases were all good and the car was handsome in flesh. But it still looked like a ‘Swift with a boot that looks good’
The fourth generation, finally is the best-looking Dzire ever, the most impressive Maruti design of recent times and a Dzire that’s totally let go of the Swift.