---
title: "Suzuki Wagon R Stingray Resembles a Stampeding Bull"
description: "The new commercial for the Suzuki Wagon R Stingray effectively demonstrates its 'strong beauty.'"
date: "2017-11-24"
modified: "2017-11-29"
authors:
  - name: "Michelle Marus"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/michelle-marus"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/16345/suzuki-wagon-r-stingray-resembles-a-stampeding-bull"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Escalade"
  - "hybrid"
  - "Japan"
  - "redesigned"
  - "Stingray"
  - "suzuki"
  - "Wagon"
  - "Wagon R Stingray"
---

# Suzuki Wagon R Stingray Resembles a Stampeding Bull

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/11/gettyimages-532073250.jpg>)
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Even though [Suzuki](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/15078/this-creepy-body-kit-for-the-suzuki-twin-proves-god-is-dead>) ended American sales back in 2012, its vehicles are still popular in its homeland of Japan, where the automaker remains successful in selling millions of Wagon R cars. The redesigned Suzuki Wagon R and Stingray were unveiled earlier this year with a boxier look and reduced weight figures. The Stingray, specifically, received a prominent single-piece front grille with sleek, vertical LED headlights. Its bumper, unique to this model, seems to have taken some inspiration from the [Cadillac Escalade.](<https://thestore.thedrive.com/>) The interior is equipped with an all-new dashboard with a center-mounted instrument cluster and smartphone-like touchscreen infotainment system below it.

![message-editor%2F1511974094582-gettyimages-82999140.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1511974094582-gettyimages-82999140.jpg>)
*President of Suzuki Motorw, Hiroshi Tsuda, displays the company's Wagon R model. , *Photo By Tadayuki YOSHIKAWA/AFP/Getty Images**

This wagon is powered by a 660cc three-cylinder petrol engine that puts out 52 horsepower and 60 newton-metre (44.2 pound-feet) of torque. Aside from the standard model, the Stingray is also available as a hybrid form with an engine tweaked to deliver 66 horsepower and 98 N. m (72.2 lb-ft) of torque. A CVT gearbox comes standard on all versions, and all variants receive the option of either two- or four-wheel drive.

Check out the video below featuring a Japanese television advertisement for the 2017 Wagon R Stingray. The commercial presents the car as a massive, muscular bull that seems determined to charge its owner to death. If that type of marketing doesn't get the point across, I don't know what can. The ad is short, quick, to the point and leaves a lasting impression of the wagon.

https://youtube.com/embed/pfefNH3ju1Q

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