I feel here is the right move by Suzuki, to give the taste
of Auto-transmission technology to Indian customers at affordable cost. They
claim to give the ease of driving an automatic - matching the fuel efficiency
of a manual transmission with its revolutionary AMT technology. Suzuki’s Auto
Gear Shift technology is based on electronic control unit which drives the
precision hydraulic actuator to control the clutch engagement and the gear
shifting at optimal timings mating to the engine sweat spots for optimal fuel efficiency.
Best part of this car is, that it provides manual gear shift
– like the paddle shift in high end cars, matches the fuel efficiency of a
manual transmission and the AMT enabled manual gear box did not add much extra
weight or cost to the car price like the regular automatics.
As the Indian car market (6th largest in the
world) is evolving, this introduction of AMT by Suzuki in Celerio will help the
buyers shift from pure manual to this semi-automatic transmission technology
with low differential cost of about 30-40K INR against the current delta of
other type of more matured automatics which add up anything form 70k-1L in the
cost.
It will give sometime to the good DSG/CVT based auto-transmission
systems to improve further on their fuel efficiency and then the delta of
moving from AMT to fully automatic technologies like (DSG/CVT) will further
reduced to another 30-40K INR - which Indian buyers might be interested to
invest in when they plan their next car after AMT powered Celerio or other cars
with similar technology which are expected to be launched soon in the Indian
market.
Thus as a strategy, to help Indian car buyers graduate from
old manual transmission cars to fully Automatic by Suzuki Celerio EZ-Drive is
a step in the right direction.
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