2025 Dacia Duster vs Suzuki Vitara

The All New 2024 Dacia Duster New Generation vs. Facelift Suzuki Vitara - Witch is the best in this Comparison Review?
A quick note regarding the Yaris Cross - it does not drain its battery reserve as such, rather the engine and battery/electric motors work in tandem to maintain charge and give full performance regardless of the battery state. You can never 'flatten' the hybrid battery in that respect.

On the Duster, we did hear some isolated complaints about the seat padding but the model was facelifted and updated last year with a new seat design. In our experience we've not seen this issue reoccur. We do not have an answer of the delivery time difference between the Duster and Vitara for your market, it will vary from country to country - but yes the Duster is the more popular car.

On the Vitara spare wheel: there is an issue with some Suzukis where if you use a space saver spare tyre and then go back to the full-size wheel and tyre it can cause error codes. This is due to the space saver being a slightly different diameter and confusing the systems. Forum posts suggest there is a procedure to reset the fault codes, however, so you shouldn't require a replacement ABS sensor.

Finally, both cars are perfectly able to run on 95 fuel too.

Should we buy a Dacia Duster or a Suzuki Vitara?
We live in Northern Europe where winters are long and full of snow and the rest of the year is rather rainy as well, so we would like to buy a small 4x4 for our family.

We do not want to spend too much, so our two main candidates are the Suzuki Vitara 1.4 Booster Mild Hybrid and the Dacia Duster 1.3 TCe 130hp, both with 4x4 and manual transmission. We might consider a small hybrid such as the new Toyota Corolla Cross (the Yaris Cross has a very small engine once the battery reserve is gone).

About three or four years ago some car journalists complained about the Duster driver's seat padding, as after a few months some of it was gone or thinned, so the vehicle was uncomfortable to drive for more than an hour. Has this problem been solved?

Regarding the Vitara 4x4, I was very surprised to read in the owners' review on this website that if you have to use the spare tyre, then the ABS has to be replaced and sourced from Japan. Was this an isolated case, or is it the standard situation should you have to use the spare (emergency) tyre?

As there are so many issues with deliveries of so many products nowadays, we are wondering whether it would safer to order a Duster rather than the Vitara, as we see many more Dusters in Europe than Vitaras. Would it be right to say that Duster's sales level is several times that of the Vitara's?

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[arpadferenczy]

in and outside the new duster is a very eye catching car, no doubt about it! the design of vitara except small changes, to small to be facelift worthy imho, is 10 years old. Not to mention the japanese pragmatism of using the same steering wheel in several models, in these case the wheel of the new swift would´ve been more advantageous, but no, wasnt necessary to implement it. I think a really fair comparison would be with s cross or better wait for the grand vitara announced for end of 2024 or early 2025. If i had to choose between a really nice car and a really reliable car ? I´m sure i´would stick with Vitara ;)

[keinerzuhause]

The Duster miss the Active Cruise Control and Panoroof, maybe put some money on top and look for the new Subaru Crosstec would be better

[decemvre]

Might as well close the Suzuki factory in Hungary at this point.