Face-lifted A-star debuts at Chengdu Auto Show

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Suzuki has taken the wraps off their face-lifted A-star at the Chengdu Auto Show in China. The car features exterior and interior styling changes. A redesigned front end that includes a new bumper, bigger air dams, new fog lamp housings with chrome surrounds, and a new and more prominent front grille makes it look a lot like the current Hyundai i10. The new headlamps’ lower portion has been reshaped while the top portion remains the same so that the car does not need reshaped front aprons and bonnet. 

Exterior changes at the rear of the car include restyled tail lamps while the rear bumper gets grooves at either end. A black plastic section stretches from the bottom to the centre to give the car a sportier look from the rear. 

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The tail lamps have the same dimensions so the body panels’ shape needs no alteration. The rearrangement places the indicator and reverse light in a boomerang shape at the centre of the tail lamp cluster. This means that there are two brake lights, one of which is likely to come on with the parking lights while the other serves as an additional brake light.

On the inside, the dashboard remains the same except for red inserts around the HVAC controls, above the glovebox and behind the steering wheel. Incidentally, Maruti Suzuki added some neat upgrades  to its entry level hatchback earlier this year. Considering the fact that the current model is exported from India as the Suzuki Alto and Nissan Pixo, don't be surprised if this face-lifted version makes it to the Indian showrooms sometime in the near future.