Toyota Urban Cruiser Taisor - Just A Fronx With Toyota Logos | Faisal Khan

Hi guys and welcome to another vlog, I'm driving this, this is the Maruti Suzuki Fronk, oops, the wrong key. I'm actually driving the Toyota Urban Cruiser Taser, whatever the name is, it's quite confusing. This is the Neo Drive and both the cars are actually identical, but Toyota has gone and copied the complete homework of Maruti Suzuki because this is nothing but the Maruti Suzuki Fronk with the Toyota logo. Anyways, the keys are also identical and I don't know how I ended up with one key from Suzuki and one from Toyota on this car, but yeah, they kind of messed up there. Anyways, coming to the car, they have actually made changes to the front end. So, basically with the Fronks now, or rather it looks less like the Baleno and more like the Grand Vitara, same is the case here, this Taser, Ticer, whatever it is, actually looks more like the Highrider rather than looking like the Glanza. So, what have they changed? They've actually given it similar looking DRLs as the Highrider here and the grille has been revised. In fact, this will remind you of the Innova Christa facelift probably and the position of this bar and all that is slightly different, but this is identical, the lights are similar to the Fronk, almost everything is similar to the Fronk or rather identical. There's no provision for a fog lamp here, there is no fog lights in this car, low beam, high beam, there's a front parking camera right here. In fact, everything else is identical, even the engine is the same. So, how do I open it? By pulling a lever inside. So, this is actually the turbo engine, Toyota has actually put its logo right there making it more efficient, just kidding, there is insulation right there, the engine bay is like empty, completely empty and they've made some revisions to the bumper as well, but at the end of the day, this is a Fronk and it looks like a Fronk, it feels like a Fronk, it is also having the same features like the Fronk. The length is around 4 metres, wheelbase is slightly more than 2.5 metres or something of that sort, they've actually changed the alloy wheel design, they've also changed the logo on the alloy wheels which is such a good thing, tyre size 195 60 16 and you get this black body cladding, you get a camera here and this is sort of a coupe-like design, so yeah, it definitely looks nice, only thing is the Toyota logo is out of place on this particular car. At the rear, again they've taken some effort to differentiate this car, so what have they exactly done? They have made changes to these lights, but they have not made changes to this light bar because of which this does not feel in sync at all, they call it Neo Drive, this is the V variant, you get rear parking sensors, you get four rear parking sensors, you get a camera, you get rear wiper washer, you get a shark fin antenna there, so yeah, in terms of features, this car is decently loaded yet it misses out on a few things, they call it Urban Cruiser, I don't know why Urban Cruiser has been slapped onto almost every possible car, the exhaust is hidden right there below and let's straight away open the boot which is just 308 litres, the bigger problem is that the loading lip is very high here, yeah, it's super duper high and the spare wheel is not an alloy, in fact, it's a smaller size spare wheel which I don't understand because it's 195-60-16, so yeah, smaller size for sure, 60-40 split has been given right here, straight away, let me just shut this, yeah, it has the Marcus MilkyBuild quality obviously, space at the rear is actually impressive, this is a spacious car and you get rear AC vents here, you get a USB-C as well as a USB-A charging socket right there which is a good thing, some storage space here, no magazine holder here but there is a magazine holder right there, scooped seat back, in fact, under-thigh support is not that great, space is decent right here, get this sort of a piano black finishing which is good, the dashboard is identical, there is no change done to the interior, the change has been done only to the exterior, that also chin to min to changes but you get a centre headrest here, so three adjustable headrests at the rear but no centre armrest, no sunroof, no digital dives, no ventilated seats, so a lot of features are actually missing which I would have expected at this price point, slight hump here, ISOFIX child seat mount, so everything is the same as the Fronks, yeah, 60-40 split which is good for carrying longer items, I think the glass area and all the glass and windows are also similar to the Baleno, anyways, let's get out because I kind of feel claustrophobic at the rear because it's not suited for someone as tall as me but I have to give it to them for the spaciousness, however, because of the sloping roofline, not that spacious somehow, yeah, space could have been better, you get a request sensor here which is something which which Hyundai does not offer and a lot of car brands are like, we'll only give it on one side, we'll not give it on both the sides, okay, indicator is functioning at the moment, there's a towing hook right there as well and I think it has a rain sensor, it has got cruise control, it's got a lot of features, door pockets are big enough, cheap switchgear because Maruti Suzuki does that obviously, lot of buttons here, engine start button and this is for the heads-up display, it actually gets a heads-up display which is very cool, obviously, the Fronks also gets it, so there's nothing new in that regard and there it opens, so instead of giving a heads-up display, they could have given something else, I'm just going to keep pressing this button, when I do that, you can see it changes but for starters, it's telling me that the door is open, yeah, it shows me so much information including a tachometer too, quite a few buttons here, if I press this view button, this thing will do a full spin right there, yeah, the camera quality is not that good, it does get a 360-degree parking camera which is a good feature to have, white coloured car, my car is not white, why is it showing me a white coloured car, so that's a bit of a conflict happening right there, let's press this button again, it does this full spinning thing, this is actually a 9-inch screen which is known as the Smart Play Pro Plus, lower variants actually get a 7-inch screen, this car gets 6 airbags, yeah, higher variants get 6 airbags and that's about it, the spinning stuff is stopped, meanwhile, it gets climate control, air conditioning system, you get a wireless charging pad, you get Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, both of which work wirelessly, glove box is also decent sized here, this moves ahead and behind, there's some storage space inside this also, chin to middle storage space, not much, you get cruise control, you get audio controls, you get phone controls here, the cluster could be better, that is a power and torque meter right there, yeah, and it does rev, this engine is actually quite nice and impressive, I really like it, but to browse through this particular cluster now, a digital display, I have to press this button right here, so it has a 40 volt mild hybrid system, so it's telling me what is the battery percentage, that battery is kind of useless, doesn't really help much, but then it is still there, yeah, it has become Neo Drive because of that, this Neo Drive, I don't know where it comes from, auto dimming mirror, nice, there's a mirror here along with the light again, nice, same is the case here as well and this light on the top, it's kind of cheap obviously, so let's actually turn off the air conditioning, you have a USB charging socket here, USB-A, you have a 12 volt charging socket right there, steering wheel is adjustable for height, I love the heads up display, I think it's the coolest thing in this particular car and let's get out of this menu because this screen is actually good, but the camera quality is not that impressive, that is the rear parking camera, I've got multiple modes for the camera as well, I can keep changing it, side view and all that, but a 360 degree view isn't that impressive, here it's telling me how the energy flow is working at the moment, yeah, because obviously, you know, it is going to save the world by being a hybrid, not really, anyways, let's listen to some audio, audio quality is okay, okay, it's not great, it's a six speaker system, I think there are two tweeters, one on each of the front doors and it has got automatic wipers as well, okay, there is a lot of spray here, which is obviously a good thing, but the car is the same, yeah, it's the same on the front, why am I even wasting my time making a review of this car, because I can actually, I'm just doing it and here there's not much to play around, you can just move stuff here and is there anything else, I can get into the settings part, I can change a few things here, get into this particular menu, get into car notifications and all those things, so you can make a few changes here and there, but yeah, that's about it, there's not much to play around with, I'm just like wondering what should I press, I think it has got voice commands and then it's connected car as well, but I want a sunroof, oh, thankfully there's a light in the centre, we're just going to keep it on the half thing, so the door light works as well and yeah, where's the rear centre armrest, why don't they add more features, I can't understand that, okay, let's rev it, the engine is the highlight, so let's start driving right away, all right, let's start driving, let me unlock the car, let me open the door, it actually shows me exactly which door is open, which is a cool thing to have, we straight away turn on the vehicle and there it is on, I turn on the air conditioning, this takes some time to load, the heads-up display is out right now, hazard lights are on into first gear, let me turn off the stop-start system because it's quite irritating, handbrake down, revving the motor, hazard lights off, revs to 5000 RPM, ESP is there, can I turn it off, yes I can, so I'm going to keep this button pressed and ESP is off and off we go, quite a lot of wheel spin, 6000 RPM redline which is quite early somehow and yeah, the engine is actually very smooth but gets quite vocal higher up in the rev range, this motor is tuned to Mintu, 1 litre 3-cylinder turbo petrol engine which produces just 100 horsepower and 148 Newton meters of torque, you know what is 100 horsepower, 100 horsepower was something Fiat offered 23 years back with a Palio 1.6, Maruti Suzuki and Toyota are waking up 20 years later and offering us 100 horsepower which is a big shame, however because of the light weight of this car, 1030 kgs, it's actually very peppy, so you don't really feel that it's slow, it's actually quite sprightly, 0 to 100 kilometres per hour takes approximately 11.2 seconds which is fast enough and the engine is actually very nice because it doesn't have a top end but it has low-end grunt, so it is torquey and then coming across this corner, I realised that the suspension is on the stiffer side, it does feel nice to drive because of the punchy nature and with the manual gearbox obviously, you're going to enjoy a lot, so this is a slick shifting, 5-speed manual gearbox and the clutch is also on the lighter side, you can get a 6-speed torque converter automatic gearbox which by the way comes from the Brezza, the same SN torque converter unit but the tuning is different obviously because the engines are different completely, now this is a turbocharged petrol engine which did duty in the Baleno RS long back and then there were no turbo engines from Maruti Suzuki, the Japanese really suck when it comes to offering turbo petrol engines but then the turbo engine came back later, now the rear seat ring if you do not put the seat belt on because there is no load sensor there which is a bit weird of a cost cutting, so irrespective of where the person is sitting or not, you have to buckle up at the rear, otherwise it kind of irritates you quite a lot, low-end lag is well contained, turbo lag is well contained, the motor is grunty lower down and I can feel the bumps because if you notice this, well it has a 48-volt mild hybrid system which does nothing at all, it's supposed to do torque assist, doesn't really do much of it as such, so fuel efficiency is decent because the car is light obviously and the gearing and everything has been tuned for efficiency and that's the reason why low-end punch isn't that great, so drivability is not that great and there's some jerkiness as well and that jerkiness is because they have really tuned the engine for just fuel efficiency here but still you don't complain much about it because this is a fun car to drive, 100 horsepower, 140 newton meters of torque, doesn't sound like much because simply it isn't, however in this car it, because the lightweight, it is actually punchy enough so you enjoy driving it, opt for the turbo petrol engine over the 1.2 litre K series engine because that produces 90 horsepower, doesn't have the turbo punch, not that this one has because there's no kick in the pants feel, power delivery is very linear, in fact there's a small step up in power but it never pushes you back into the seat because everything is so mellowed down here in the interest of fuel efficiency, turbo kick can't be felt ever at all, it's very meek in that regard, it's just very comfort going or comfort oriented or rather easy going, an engine in this particular car and gets vocal at around the mid-range and then obviously redline is very early, like 6000 rpm redline is nothing at all, what is wrong with you, the horn is also quite weird, I mean it's not that great but that's usually the case with Toyotas as well as Maruti Suzuki cars, so in terms of gearing, well I would say that it's actually a joy to use this gearbox, the 1.2 litre petrol engine comes with a five-speed manual, this is also five-speed manual, I don't know why they can't offer a six-speed gearbox and there is an AMT for the 1.2 litre naturally aspirated petrol engine, it's going to drop another cylinder soon, so yeah that's going to become a three-cylinder engine where the Z series engine actually comes in right there, now there is some hint of firmness, they've firmed it up and that makes it actually fun to drive this car, although the ride goes for a slight toss, so it does crash through quite a few bumps, however the handling is quite nice here but the steering doesn't offer much feel, I mean it weighs a better but doesn't feel that responsive in the centre position because there's a lot of slack here somehow, which is not that impressive, okay we're just going to turn on this particular thing which is showing the energy flow right now and thankfully Maruti Suzuki does not program its ESP to automatically turn on after a certain speed, which means that yes, yes, yes, you can keep it turned off completely, front wheel run or what will happen any which way, you're going to come to second gear downshift and punch open the throttle, not that it's going to really move any faster but yeah, it is actually fun to drive which means that even if you don't have the most power, you still can have a lot of fun because light weight really helps the cause here and makes this car very peppy and fun to drive, I'm going to change the heads-up display to the tachometer one, I'm definitely sure you can't see that at all but hey, why not try it either, so as I see it, this is basically the exact same like the Fronts in terms of the way it drives, drivability is okay, it doesn't have a top-end punch but turbo engine is the one to opt for, do not opt for the NA engine anywhere that NA engine is going, so if you really want history to your, by your side, just opt for it because then that Z series engine comes now, oh god, the Z12E, well it has even worse top-end performance, I don't know what's happening to the Japanese, they are known for top-end performance, not here because they're just so focused on fuel efficiency these days and that brings me to why Toyota is actually rebadging Maruti Suzuki cars, almost half of Toyota sales are coming from rebadged Maruti cars which is approximately 45% to be precise and that is only so that they can comply with the cafe norms and the emission norms and all that because the Innova and Fortune are largely selling diesel engines or rather with diesel engines and they are heavy gas guzzlers and they also emit quite a lot bigger cars, bigger engines and whatnot and that's the reason why they have to have Chintu Mintu cars just to average out the emissions and they opted to get Maruti cars to do this same activity, which is not such a bright idea because come on, this is like killing innovation at its peak, badge engineering is the worst thing you can ever do and you know who's encouraging Toyota to do it, you guys, by buying a Toyota car which has the Maruti Suzuki soul, you're just encouraging brands to not do any sort of innovation, so don't go and buy such cars because when you do that, brands decide why should we innovate, why should we put our head into developing our own car, when we can just simply take it from another brand and put our logo on it. Now I know, Volkswagen, Skoda also make similar cars like the Slavia and the Virtus but at least they go the long haul of designing it completely different, I mean the engine is the same, the platform is the same, lot of interior parts are the same, the doors are the same, in fact so many things are the same but you can't really make out that both are the same cars because they actually go and put an effort in terms of designing both the cars differently and I hope Toyota and Maruti also decide to do that because these cars are so similar, the Fronks and the Ticer, Tacer, whatever that is, that it just robs away the whole point of having two identical cars which brings me to the point of why get the first copy when you can get the original, well there's a reason to get the first copy which is this particular car, simply because the warranty with Toyota is better, Toyota offers a one lakh kilometre warranty with three years of coverage, meanwhile Maruti Suzuki offers a horrendous warranty of two years 40,000 kilometres, we should really go and make an uproar about Maruti's stupid warranty because that's too less, two years 40,000 kilometres is virgin for a car, so they really need to change that, I don't know why Maruti Suzuki is not doing it and when you extend it to five years then they'll give you one lakh kilometre extension, yeah that's it, one lakh kilometre coverage for five years, meanwhile Toyota when you extend it, it will give you 2.2 lakh kilometres, so the warranty by Toyota is just mind-blowingly phenomenal but I don't know how that is going to pair with such cars because these cars are made for Maruti Suzuki standard which is two years 40,000 kilometres, not the Toyota standard of three years one lakh kilometres, so yeah Toyota is going to spend a bit of money there but then Toyota is like still better than actually going and designing my own car because that's going to take me a lot of effort when I can have a shortcut, why should I put in more effort, so that is the Toyota way of thinking here. Anyways, I really like the fronts, I think the engine is very nice, it's punchy, the booster jet is super duper awesome, we need more power for sure, this 48 volt mild hybrid system is kind of hopeless, doesn't really do much and the brakes, well it does not get rear disc, there is a rear drum and braking is not that sure-footed, lot of tyre noise, hazards on. Alright, into first gear, time to launch, revving the motor, hazard lights off, the grunt is so much that there's crazy wheel spin all throughout which is amazing, now this particular car starts at 9.26 lakhs, goes all the way to 15.59 lakhs, all the prices are on road Mumbai, this particular variant, the top-end manual is actually priced at rupees 13.96 lakhs, so you pay 1.63 lakhs more for the automatic when compared to the manual, the fronts is cheaper, it starts 55,000 lesser when compared to the Tyser and the top-end variant is 35,000 cheaper, for this variant, the top-end manual, it is 34,000 cheaper with the fronts with all the same features, so why would you get the Toyota, it makes absolutely no sense at all, there are 14 variants available of this car, there are 16 variants available of the fronts, the fronts is the original but this car has the better warranty and with the Toyota logo, people think that the overall reliability will improve which will not happen because it is a Suzuki car underneath, it is engineered that way, it's light, plastic quality is cheap but it is actually a very nice interior, has plenty of features, slightly more features could have been better and the engine is the star of the show, this booster jet engine has won my heart because I absolutely love the booster jet, it is fantastic, what a motor, what a motor and what an engine and making quick directional changes, well, it doesn't disappoint in that regard, yeah, it's not an SUV, has better ground clearance when compared to the Baleno, you can just call it the jacked up version of the Baleno, however, the fronts is just an overall better package, yeah, it's cheaper and it's the original, so you rather get that only, now why would you want to get the Ticer, Tacer or whatever and encourage Toyota to not innovate at all, that said, I think when people will walk into the showroom, they will like this car, people who are clueless about cars, they look at this car and they're like, wow, a Toyota car for Maruti Suzuki money, wow, that's amazing, I should opt for this and I don't know if they ever realise this, but this is actually nothing but a Maruti Suzuki car with Toyota having zero input in it, okay, obviously, they have a slight input, they have designed the DRLs on this car, wow, what an achievement, so I'm going to do one thing, I'm going to launch this car once again because I absolutely love the way this car launches and it's so peppy, it's so much fun that I realise you really don't need 100 horsepower to have fun, although Fiat was giving us 145 horsepower six years back with the Punto Abarth, so yeah, horsepower numbers need to increase, I don't know why Maruti is stuck to under 100 horsepower because technically this is 99 horsepower, power is something where Maruti is like, I won't give, do whatever you want, oh my god, it's going to rain any moment, which is a good thing because we're going to launch it yet again, hazard lights on, hazard lights off, revving the motor and off we go, yeah baby, I love the wheel spins here, so you pay 19,000 more for the dual tone colour option, which is reasonable because almost all car brands are charging very similar money here and there are four variants, ESGV are the trims actually and the Neo Drive is basically for the mild hybrid, I like the fact that it feels super duper stable at higher speeds, the faster you drive, the better it is and I honestly feel the faster you drive, the better it is always because then you reach your destination sooner, which means you spend less time on the road, which means you get less distracted and whatever, just jokes aside, I like this car, I really like it but I don't like the Toyota logo on a Maruti car, I just feel it kills innovation, it's kind of pointless, just make your own car, even if Toyota relaunches the Etios again, the same car, exactly the same car, the same features, the same engine with the same design, I'll still give them more respect for that rather than cut, copy, paste, which they're doing right now unfortunately but because consumers like you are giving in to this and buying Toyota cars, such things will continue to happen, now if you like this vlog, make sure to give it a thumbs up, that's a like button and also subscribe to the channel, I will see you guys in the next video real soon and before we end, I wanted to tell you something, I keep forgetting, I don't know what's wrong with me today, so yeah, I wanted to tell you that Toyota actually has a TRD version of its Glanza in one of the Southeast Asian markets, which is absolutely bonkers because why don't we deserve all this in India, come on, give us the TRD version and if you do that, I'll be okayed for badge engineering to a certain extent but badge engineering has never worked, I'm talking about the Sunny and the Scala, then the Tirano and Duster, both of them, I mean, all the cars died a slow death, Pulse and Micra, same thing happened, so don't do that, it's not impressive at all, by the way, this car has a 37 litre fuel tank, which is small, like really small, I don't know how Maruti really gives such small fuel tanks, that's in the interest of fuel efficiency, now I'm in fifth gear, we're going to come to 100 kilometers per hour and at 100 kilometers per hour, the RPM meter is ticking at around 2500 RPM, so yeah, it's comfortable there without being too aggressive in terms of the revs and since I'm so against badge engineering, I'm going to change my stance a bit so that Toyota doesn't feel bad about me always being critical about their cars and I will say one thing, why doesn't Toyota go and launch the Toyota Espresso and Maruti launches the Maruti Fortuner because if that happens, then all this changing of logos is completely okay with me, you see, the respect a Toyota Urban Cruiser commands, that guy just moved out of the way, yeah, I didn't understand what is the logic of this Urban Cruiser, they want to just milk the Land Cruiser name or the Cruiser name, this car is not a cruiser, it's just the frogs, bye!