Toyota Glanza Is A Re-Badged Maruti Suzuki Baleno And It Has Been Spied Before Launch

Maruti Suzuki and Toyota¡¯s partnership will soon be visible in another form in India, as the former will be supplying its Baleno hatchback to Toyota for selling it under a different brand name. What¡¯s more, the re-branded car might make its way to the market soon, as models of it have already been spotted.

The re-branded vehicle will be known as Toyota Glanza and will be the first model to comes as a part of the Toyota - Suzuki alliance in the country. The company had already released a teaser of the upcoming car and the Glanza will be sporting some minor differentiation from the Baleno.

The recent spy shots of the car taken in a car park show the Glanza with a new grille and Toyota badge. The rest of the looks remain mostly the same for both the cars. We expect the interiors to be tweaked as well.

Toyota Glanza spy shot

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Toyota would expect the Glanza to garner good sales numbers for it, just as the Baleno did the trick for Maruti Suzuki, with close to 18,000 units being sold monthly in the country. This, however, might raise the question, as to which of the two will put the sales numbers in their wholesale record.

Toyota is also expected to make slight changes to the interior of the car. Apart from this, the cabin will largely remain the same. As for its variants, the Toyota Glanza is expected to be announced in two petrol options including Maruti Suzuki's 1.2-litre, four-cylinder K12 petrol engine and probably a Toyota's 1.2-litre four-cylinder petrol engine.

Maruti Suzuki Baleno (Image: Maruti Suzuki)

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The Glanza forms a part of an umbrella of collaborations between the auto makers. On the whole, the two firms are supposed to collaborate on technological developments like hybrid and battery electric engines, vehicles production as well as market development.

The two majors recently released the exact details of their partnership. The pact mostly revolves around Toyota¡¯s hybrid electric vehicle technology. While the vehicles shall come from the house of Suzuki, Toyota will be responsible for what powers them. It is a classic tech-for-product trade off. Suzuki saves on the ¡®Research and Development¡¯ cost, while Toyota gets vehicles to re-package and sell under its own brand name.