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Toyota Urban Cruiser EV arrives January 19—it's a rebadged Maruti e Vitara
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by Editorial Team· via India Car News · Jan 8, 2026

Toyota Urban Cruiser EV arrives January 19—it's a rebadged Maruti e Vitara

"Badge engineering in EVs is just admission that platform development costs are crushing profit margins."

— Revvly Take

Toyota's playing the badge-engineering game in India with the Urban Cruiser EV, a cosmetically tweaked version of the Maruti Suzuki e Vitara hitting dealers next month. It's a midsize electric SUV that'll compete directly against Mahindra's offerings in a market where platform-sharing is the only way to move volume. Same bones, different grille—the OEM playbook nobody asked for.

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India Car News · Jan 8

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