Polestar 1 Vs Maruti Suzuki Celerio - Price, Mileage, Specs

After the 2025 Model Year update, the Celerio gets 6 airbags as standard. The car also gets 3-point seatbelts for all occupants. While Maruti Suzuki were the first carmaker to promise offering 5x 3-point seatbelts in a car under Rs. 10.0 lakh (ex-sh) with their Fronx, Hyundai were actually the first ones to introduce this feature as standard in all of their cars — right from the Nios to the Ioniq 5. The Celerio is 2 years too late to join this party

The Celerio offers some phenomenal ARAI mileage figures of 25-26kmpl with the petrol powertrains and more than 34kmpkg with the CNG-manual powertrain. With the addition of 20% ethanol (a.k.a. sugarcane juice) in petrol, you can bet that you won’t get anything close to these mileage figures in your daily use. But they do paint a picture of a promise of respectable mileage figures in the real world conditions.

Like any other Maruti car, the Celerio also enjoys a simple variant lineup. This makes it easy for buyers to pick a variant based on their needs and budget.

The Celerio brings 3 powertrain options to the table — a petrol-manual, petrol-AMT automatic & CNG-manual. The strong demand for CNG continues to keep the Celerio in the race. Although, the CNG bi-fuel option is only available in the VXI variant, which is not all that well equipped.

The Celerio’s 1.0L petrol engine has been on sale for more than a decade and a half. This engine first debuted with the A-Star back in 2008 and you can rest assured that Maruti Suzuki have found and sorted out pretty much all of the bugs you can imagine. This makes the Celerio one of the most reliable cars you can buy at this price point.

Being a Maruti car, the Celerio enjoys the luxury of having access to the largest authorised service network in India with a reach that goes beyond metros, cities and towns as you can often find a service centre within easy reach of several villages.

Besides a wide service network, the Celerio has a few other advantages. For instance, the Celerio’s engine is also available with the WagonR, Spresso and Alto K10. Together, they sell in such large numbers that you can find genuine, first-party spares as well as 3rd party ones from reputable suppliers. Moreover, the enormous number of Maruti service centres makes it very to find a competent mechanic even at a neighbourhood garage. So, you can have pretty much everything that’s wrong with your car with ease and at competitive prices.

In this day and age of SUVs, the Celerio fails to meet the expectations of most buyers with its hatchback body style. However, it isn’t as low to the ground that you would have to take immense care of it on rough roads. 170mm of clearance is quite respectable and can go over most bad roads, rough patches and tall speed breakers.

Considering the base model the baseline for buyers interested in the Celerio, the higher variants seem to completely (or almost) justify the incremental cost over the base model. Usually, with Maruti cars, we have noticed that the base + 1 variant tends to do poorly in terms of value for money. But here, the VXI trim comes close to fully justifying the incremental cost with a 93% VFM score.