Award-winning Suzuki Swift hybrid a hit with 'young' drivers
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Suzuki's budget-priced Swift hybrid has just won a sixth major award.
With prices starting from £19,699, the compact five-seater flexible hatchback was named best supermini at the Fleet World Great British Fleet Awards.
Powered by an efficient 1.2litre 3-cylinder 82hp mild hybrid petrol engine, it offers money-saving 64mpg fuel efficiency, low 99g/km CO2 emissions, a top speed of 103mph and 0 to 62mph acceleration in 12.5 seconds and is available as a five-gear manual or CVT automatic with an all-wheel drive manual option, and in Motion or Ultra trim levels (a £1,250 step up).
The Swift's other five awards include Top Gear compact car of year.
And customers are proving fast-learners. So popular is the hybrid that specialist under-17s driver-training company, Young Driver, recently took delivery of the first of its 170-strong fleet of new Suzuki Swifts that will see youngsters aged ten to 17 given more than 150,000 lessons a year in the model, pictured here with early-learner Bonnie Booth-Radford, ten, of Solihull.
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