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If you’ve 25 lacs in your pocket for a 660cc segment car, you can have two options: a brand new Suzuki Alto VXL, or you can go with a 4-6 years old JDM Suzuki Alto Turbo Works edition. Now, both these cars target entirely different audiences.

In this blog, we’ll compare both cars and help you determine which type of audience you belong to.

Suzuki Alto VXL: 3 Million PKR (brand-new)

 

Suzuki Alto Works: 2.7 – 3.5 Million PKR (2017-2020)

Which Car is Best for Who?

If you don’t have enough time to read the whole article, here are the highlights for you:

Alto Works is good:

  • You need a car with overpowered acceleration and power
  • Need a low-budget turbo experience
  • Built quality and ride quality is your top priority
  • You have no issues in buying an accident car
  • Can afford high spare cost
  • Resale value is not an important factor

 

Local Alto VXL is good if:

  • You need a secure investment with good resale
  • Need a car with very cheap spare parts and with instant availability
  • You prefer to play safe and want a brand-new car
  • You can compromise on low-built-quality
  • Power and performance aren’t your main concern

Both Cars are Class a Different

We know that Alto Works and Alto VXL, both are class different.

One is a 5-6-year-old used JDM with solid build quality and impressive performance but expensive spares. The other is brand-new but has compromised build quality, lower power, inferior drive quality, and comfort, but cheap spares compared to it’s JDM option.

We’ve put this article on factors:

  • Spare parts and pricing
  • Resale value
  • Performance
  • Drive quality and technology

Spare Parts Availability and Pricing

Everybody knows that PKDM Alto has better spares availability along with cheap pricing as compared to Alto Works.

During the owner’s review of the Works variant, the owner said that if you’re lucky enough to find its parts in the local market, a single headlight costs a minimum of Rs.70,000. At that price, you can buy four headlights of the PKDM version.

Additionally, it’s a key part Turbo costs Rs.50,000, and if you’re too obsessed with performance, you can buy the upgraded Turbo for Rs.100,000, which produces a boost of 1 bar.

You can slap PKDM Alto parts on its body, including body coverings, taillights, side panels, and door handles will fit just fine. But remember, the Works edition has those oh-so-distinctive stickers that make it recognizable. So if you swap in the regular parts, you’ll have to compromise on precious stickers and cosmetic details that says “Works edition.”

On the regular Alto VXL, spare parts availability isn’t an issue, and pricing is affordable. The headlight cost Rs.18,000 and the tail lights cost Rs.9,000. If you get into an accident, each door panel costs Rs.20,000 (genuine and brand new); the Kaabli panels might cost less.

 

Resale Value

The PKDM Alto VXL has a better resale value than the JDM Alto Works. Now, we’re not going to declassify here that why JDM has a lower resale value than the PKDM one; it is what it is!

It’s not that Works will not sell in the market; it just might take some time to be sold, but it will have a lower appreciation percentage value than local Alto.

 

Performance

No match!

One is a Dyno tuned with a Turbo charger that produces 63 HP of power, and the other one is limited to 39 HP only. 

The 63 HP may seem completely inadequate, but with a dry weight of 700 Kgs only, the power-to-weight ratio is seriously insane, e.g., 0-100 in only 9 seconds, that’s even faster than stock Civic Prosmatec 1.5L.

 

Drive Quality and Technology

Again no match!

The drive quality of Works is far better than that of the local Alto. The road noise, cabin noise isolation and road grip on high-speeds is just up-to-the-mark on the Turbo one. On the PKDM side, you’ll feel an aggressive noise leak of the engine into the cabin with poor traffic noise isolation and not so good road grip above the speed of 80 Km/h.

The tech-wise, Alto Works brings you:

  • Heated side view mirrors
  • Push start
  • Digital climate control
  • 4-speaker set
  • Cruise control
  • Steering controls
  • CVT transmission

Our Opinion

This was just our opinion; both cars are value-for-money deals for a specific audience. Both serve their purpose to their respective audience, one is made for performance geeks who prefer power, BHP, torque and Turbo spools in a budget, while PKDM is good for those who want to play safe, don’t want to take risk their money and looking for a car with low spare cost and easy maintenance with good resale in the market.