Suzuki Swace Estate

1.8 Hybrid Ultra 5dr CVT [2024.5]

If you know the Toyota Corolla Touring Sports, you’re familiar with the Suzuki Swace hybrid, too.

As mid-size estate cars go, they look very much alike – and that's because they’re pretty much the same vehicle.

Suzuki and Toyota formed a collaboration in 2017 and, last year, announced they would be working even more closely with one another.

It means some models they’ve produced are virtually identical, and the result is that, in some parts of the world, a car has a Suzuki badge. In contrast, the same vehicle in another country has a Toyota emblem instead.

The automakers are doubling up in some markets, though, resulting in two very similar cars ending up on the roads, including here in the United Kingdom.

The Toyota RAV4 and the Suzuki Across, for example, are more or less the same motor, too.

Now, two-and-a-half years after it launched, Suzuki has updated the Swace - a self-charging full hybrid – although, unlike the Toyota Corolla, it only offers the estate version, not the hatchback.