On the inside, the Urban Cruiser is awfully similar to the eVitara, although there are a few minor differences.
The colour scheme is always grey and black (was Suzuki’s brown dashboard too exciting?) which creates a slightly drab atmosphere.
Luckily, the material quality is mostly good for the class, with the main touchpoints feeling well-screwed together. The massive expanse of gloss black on the centre console looks cheap and will scratch easily, however.
There’s a decent level of storage, with the cocooning floating centre console hiding a useful tray underneath.
The seats are comfortable, supportive and you sit up high for a good view out, so it’s a shame that the slightly off-centre steering wheel doesn’t offer nearly enough reach adjustment for tall drivers, making the driving position more uncomfortable than it should be.
The infotainment system generally looks and feels unfinished. It’s slow to respond, things that should be close to hand are buried in sub-menus and, in the case of the speed limit bonger and heated seats, a short animation plays before you can adjust them. The only saving grace is the small row of physical buttons for stuff like the temperature and the digital driver’s display, which is intuitive and pleasing to look at.
The 40/20/40-split folding rear bench slides back and forth to give you competitive rear seat space or boot space but not both. The boot is just 238 litres in size with the seats in their rearmost position, and while knee room in the back seats is good, head and foot room aren’t great.
Even in the seat’s foremost position there’s only 310 litres of boot capacity, and you would barely fit a toddler in the back at that point. There is a little underfloor storage and the middle seat is usable, however. There’s no frunk to speak of.
It could be an ideal solution for a couple who use the boot and rear seats mutually exclusively, but as a family car it doesn’t really work, especially because the dark rear is likely to be sickness-inducing.
Standard equipment is quite good but not necessarily better than in cheaper rivals. A heat pump is standard, as is adaptive cruise control, a reversing camera, that flexible rear seat system and LED lights.
Design trim adds the larger battery and more powerful motor, plus a heated steering wheel, heated seats and heated door mirrors. Excel adds a JBL sound system, a wireless pgone charger, a panoramic glass roof and a 360deg camera.
