The previous Toyota Urban Cruiser allowed car buyers looking for an affordable crossover, an easy motoring and ownership experience. My colleague Sean Nurse reviewed the Urban Cruiser, and you can check out his thoughts here.
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It's worth mentioning that the Urban Cruiser was marked as the second product of the Toyota-Suzuki alliance. This generation of Urban Cruiser was based on the concurrent Suzuki Vitara Brezza and is nearly identical to each other. Here's everything you need to know about the Toyota Urban Cruiser. Suzuki and Toyota have been regarded as manufacturers that produce very reliable vehicles but does the Urban Cruiser resonate with that still? We'll make sure to check here.
Service Plan and Warranty
It goes without saying that it's essential to service and maintain a car as it's being used over its entire lifecycle, regardless of its reliability. Included within the purchase price of the previous generation Urban Cruiser was a 3-Services /45 000km service plan and a 3-year/100 000km warranty. You could also extend your service plan and warranty options through the extensive Toyota dealer network.
How reliable is the Urban Cruiser?
We've looked through general comments across South Africa and the Indian market, where this generation of Urban Cruiser has been sold for longer. We can confidently say that from our observations, provided the maintenance schedule has been followed, the Urban Cruiser is a fairly reliable vehicle with next to no major issues popping up. There have been reports of small rattles and lower fuel economy, but those cases are debatable and exceptions to the overall ownership experiences. If you're sold on a previous-generation Urban Cruiser after reading this, you can search AutoTrader for the latest used and new offerings. While you're at it, why not sell your current car quick and easy using our Instant Offer tool?
