The Suzuki Celerio is a hatchback city car produced by the Japanese manufacturer Suzuki since 2008. Originally a rebadged Alto/A-Star city car for some markets, the Celerio was made as a global nameplate and a standalone model replacing the A-Star in 2014. Suzuki unveiled the second-generation Celerio at the Auto Expo 2014 in India, after being previewed as the A:Wind concept model at the Thailand International Motor Expo in November 2013. The third-generation model was unveiled in November 2021. In 2023, the third-generation model was also marketed by Toyota in African markets as the Toyota Vitz. First generation (2008) Prior to being developed as a standalone model from the second generation onwards, the "Celerio" nameplate was first used for the rebadged Alto/A-Star in some markets between 2008 and 2013. Second generation (FE; 2014) The second-generation Celerio was launched in India as a standalone model with six variants. The diesel version of Celerio was introduced in the second quarter of 2015. The hatchback is currently available in petrol and CNG fuel options. The Celerio X is a premium variant of Celerio with a sportier look, equipped with AGS technology, Striking X graphic and grille design. The petrol engine is a Suzuki K-series K10B latest revision called K-Next (not same as Wagon R K10B, because Wagon R has compression ratio of 10:1 while Celerio/Cultus has 11:1). The gearbox is basically a manual transmission with a transmission control unit (TCU) that actuates the hydraulics to shift the gears. It was launched on the European market in the second half of 2014, having its European premiere at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2014. However, the British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand market (ceased being built for UK/IE market in 2019, 2021 for Australasia) were produced in the Suzuki's Rayong manufacturing plant in Thailand. The Australasian market model lacked a fifth seatbelt. The Pakistani version of the Celerio (Cultus in Pakistan) was launched approximately a year after Previous Generation of Cultus was discontinued due to low sales. Pak Suzuki launched Cultus in three variants: VXR, VXL and VXL AGS. VXR and VXL had major differences, VXR did not come installed with Airbags, Fog lights, Alloy wheels, Immobilizer, Chrome grille, Body Colored door handles and Wing mirrors, while VXL was offered with these features. later in 2020, Sat-Nav was also available on VXL models. VXL AGS was basically the Automatic version of the VXL variant.