Badge-engineering
That somewhere is a Toyota dealer forecourt, and usually with a Corolla badge stuck to the back, because the Swace is (just like the recently revealed Suzuki Across SUV) a badge-engineered model, which allows Suzuki easy access to the lucrative European family car market.
It's all part of a deal, agreed last summer, that saw Suzuki and Toyota take shareholdings in each others' companies, and which will see these Suzuki-badged models built in Toyota factories.
Same hybrid engine
The Swace is, fairly obviously if you know your cars, a Toyota Corolla Touring Sports estate, but with Suzuki badges. It uses the same 1.8-litre hybrid powertrain as the Toyota, the same CVT automatic gearbox and gets the same practical 596-litre boot.
CO2 emissions start form 99g/km, depending on the model, and the Swace also gets the same Normal, Eco and Sport driving modes as its Toyota cousin.
Eight-inch touchscreen
Also on offer are a standard eight-inch touchscreen, with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, an active parking assistant, lane-keeping steering, active cruise control and a blind-spot monitor.
Final specs will be announced closer to the launch date. The Swace will go on sale across Europe later this year, but will take a couple of months longer to reach these shores. It will be interesting to see if it can make any inroads into the Irish market - we're traditionally estate-averse, but around ten per cent of the 3,400 Corollas sold so far this year in Ireland have been the Touring Sports model, so there's certainly a market there.
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