Maruti Victoris Just Days Away From Customer Deliveries: Details
Maruti Suzuki stunned us with the prices of the much-awaited Victoris. The ex-showroom starting price of 10.49 lakh has given it an aggressive positioning in the market. The carmaker has now revealed its delivery timeline as well. Deliveries will begin on September 22, 2025. This is also the first day of Navratri, and marks the beginning of the festive season, which is also the biggest shopping season in India.
Dealer dispatches of the Victoris are already underway. Interested buyers can visit the nearest Maruti Suzuki Arena showrooms to experience the SUV in person.
More About The Victoris
The Victoris has become Arena’s new flagship product. It shares many of its components with the Grand Vitara, including the platform and powertrains. It is a good-looking SUV with clean, confident styling. Key highlights at the exterior include LED headlamps, stylish 17-inch alloy wheels, LED DRLs, LED tail lamps with segmented connecting light bar, roof rails, and more.
The SUV has an upright stance and squared wheel arches. There is a strong focus on aerodynamics as well. One may even feel the overall styling to be slightly German car-like. The colour palette consists of 10 shades, including three dual-tones.
Inside, the layout and design feel premium and modern. There is a generous use of premium trims and soft-touch materials. Maruti Suzuki has packaged the SUV well. It borrows several of its features from the Grand Vitara that’s already on sale here.
The Victoris comes with a panoramic sunroof, a fully digital 10.25-inch driver’s display, a large 10.54-inch floating touchscreen with wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, PM 2.5 air purification system, ventilated seats, a head-up display, automatic headlamps, rain-sensing wipers, and more. The 64-colour ambient lighting setup has been integrated into the dashboard design.
In addition to these, Victoris also gets a bunch of ‘Maruti-first’ features like a powered tailgate with gesture control (and anti-pinch), level 2 ADAS, and a premium eight-speaker Infinity audio system with Dolby Atmos 5.1 Surround Sound.
The ADAS features are, however, available only on the range-topping 1.5L petrol automatic variant. The vehicle also gets connected car features and Alexa integration. We explained all the tech on this SUV in detail in a previous story.
The safety suite is quite comprehensive as well. It comes with equipped six airbags, ABS, EBD, 360 camera with blindspot monitoring, electronic stability control, all-wheel disc brakes, electronic parking brake and a tyre pressure monitoring system.
The ADAS pack offers features like adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist, automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, and high-beam assist. It was crash-tested by both Global NCAP and Bharat NCAP programs. The Victoris scored five stars in both cases.
Maybe Not For Enthusiasts
The Victoris is not here to impress enthusiasts with its powertrain mix. The 1.5-litre mild-hybrid petrol engine makes just 103hp and the strong hybrid powertrain has an output of 116 hp. The CNG version has just 88 hp on offer. These are well below the standards set by many of its hot-selling rivals.
The Seltos and Creta, for example, offer turbocharged petrol engines, which excel with their strong power and torque figures. The TGDi 1.5L turbo-petrol on these can make up to 160hp! At least on paper, these put the Victoris at a disadvantage of about 40-50 horses. Adding to this is the difference in torque outputs.
The new Maruti SUV, however, has a stronger focus on efficiency (the strong hybrid can return up to 28.65 kmpl and the mild-hybrid can give you 21.18 kpl) and value. It will sell well, courtesy of these.
Variants And Price Points
The Victoris comes in six broad trims and 21 variants. It offers three engine options- 1.5L, naturally aspirated mild-hybrid petrol (K15), 1.5L strong hybrid petrol, and CNG (which features an integrated underbelly tank). CNG variants start at Rs 11.49 lakh, ex-showroom. Strong hybrid variants start at Rs 16.37 lakh, ex-showroom.