The (pronounced "Crossbee") is a
crossover city car produced by the Japanese
carmaker Suzuki
is a Japan, Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, All-terrain vehicle, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard motor, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs ...
since December 2017 to be sold exclusively in Japan.
Overview
The Xbee made its world premiere at the
2017 Tokyo Motor Show. Although being similar in styling to the
Hustler kei car
Kei car (or , kanji: , "light automobile", ), known variously outside Japan as Japanese city car or Japanese microcar, is the Japanese vehicle category for the smallest highway-legal passenger cars with restricted dimensions and engine capaci ...
, they do not share the same mechanical parts. It uses the
HEARTECT platform that is shared with the
second-generation Ignis and
third-generation Solio instead.
The Xbee is only available with a
mild hybrid
Mild hybrids (also known as power-assist hybrids, battery-assisted hybrid vehicles or BAHVs) are generally cars with an internal combustion engine equipped with an electric machine (one motor/generator in a parallel hybrid configuration) allowing ...
powertrain coupled to a 6-speed
automatic transmission
An automatic transmission (sometimes abbreviated to auto or AT) is a multi-speed transmission (mechanics), transmission used in internal combustion engine-based motor vehicles that does not require any input from the driver to change forward gea ...
with paddle shifters. The
four-wheel drive
Four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, refers to a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously. It may be full-time or on-demand, and is typically linked via a transfer ca ...
model is also equipped with hill descent control, which limits the speed to a steady when engaged.
has t a powerful pickup
The
facelifted model was unveiled on 13 July 2022.
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