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Suzuki's Celerio gets recalled over brake failure

City cars are quite popular as fuel and budget conscious buyers around the world, Suzuki - a company that practically floated on the success of its small cars are now faced with a recall as their new Suzuki Celerio - a affordable hatchback are said to be plagued with hidden brake faults . The Suzuki Celerio - also known as the Maruti Suzuki Celerio in India and Sri Lanka has also reached to markets in Europe and Oceania, The car , which retails for about $12500 has now been suspended in the UK  ,Ireland , Australia and NewZealand following a failure involving a 80mph deceleration test conducted by What Car magazine using two Celerios , and according to the test , The brake pedal became stuck in the fully depressed position and had no effect on the Suzuki's speed. No braking effort could be exerted by forcing the pedal up and reapplying it." , and therefore if such a situation does occur , the only way to stop the car will be to downshift the gears and yank the handbrake - wh...

MasHD Autonews - Suzuki launches new Alto Supermini

One of Suzuki's best selling supermini's just received a upgrade , the new Suzuki Alto brings a major change in design which now has a 1980's printer type grille and a boxy design with improved fuel economy of 37 km/l  and low emissions thanks to a weight reduction of 60kg which brings the overall weight of the car to 610 kg . The new car will come with a CVT with a electro-hydraulic clutch and gear shifting mode or Automatic transmission . Pricing of the car is still unannounced Written by Rakitha for MasHD Source - SlashGear