Used car guide · 2010–2011

Suzuki Alto Cruz buying guide: what to check

What goes wrong on a used Suzuki Alto Cruz, year by year: known faults from UK buying guides and what to check before you buy one.

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Pick the year

Most years have their own guide. The year is when the car was first registered (it’s on the logbook, or check the reg below).

20112010

What usually goes wrong with a Suzuki Alto Cruz?

Carbuyer says the Alto is simple with little to go wrong, and reports no common faults.

Source: Carbuyer: Suzuki Alto (2009-2014) reliability

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Where this comes from: MOT figures are the DVSA’s anonymised results for every MOT test done in Great Britain during 2025, grouped by the year each car was first registered. How many are on the road is from the Department for Transport’s vehicle licensing statistics. Known faults are from UK buying guides, in our own words, with links. How we score