Inside, you’ll be able to really feel the place weight has been saved. The Swift has a pleasant sufficient inside however one made largely from more durable and scratchier supplies than the equal Polo. Crucially, although, the best way wherein the dashboard has been introduced is enticing to behold, with a sweeping, layered look, cream colouring and delicate pads on the doorways. It helps, too, that the switches you contact usually, just like the brushed-look local weather controls, are pleasingly completed and really feel constructed to final.
There’s quantity of ergonomic soundness to it, too: the controls for the lights (together with the foglight) sit on the left stalk, these for the wiper sensitivity on the suitable and there are separate local weather buttons and a soft-feel old-school handbrake.
There’s additionally a touchscreen, after all, and its graphics aren’t almost as nicely resolved as these within the Polo, however at the least you don’t want it for main driving controls or security features. Throughout our time with it, we noticed no software program glitches and the Bluetooth maintained a secure connection.
The lane-keeping help may be toggled by a button on the sprint, however the speed-limit assistant (which is obliged to default to on) may be toggled solely by way of a steering-wheel button and a visit pc stalk whereas the automobile is stationary.
This can be a cumbersome course of that you’ll doubtless tire of fairly shortly, not least as a result of there are button blanks on the dashboard and steering wheel that would do the job, and if you need to be stationary, that negates the benefit of avoiding placing it on a touchscreen.
We won’t fault the quantity of house inside, nevertheless, with ample entrance head room and a forward-pushed windscreen such a stretch from the motive force that you simply really feel set a great distance again within the automobile.
There’s sufficient head and leg room within the rear, too, and passengers over 6ft will be capable to slot in. It is comparatively slender however lots comfy sufficient for 4 (though it might seat 5 if want be).
The boot is from 265 litres with the rear seats down, which is nearly 100 litres smaller than the Polo’s however 13 litres bigger than the i10’s. With each seats folded down, house will increase as much as 980 litres. It has a helpfully deep flooring, loosely carpeted relatively than solidly based mostly, with house for an non-obligatory spare wheel beneath it.
