Rent Suzuki Ciaz 2023 in Dubai

Most budget sedans make you pick between a car you can afford and a car that actually fits your week. The Suzuki Ciaz 2023 is the exception to that rule. Rent it in Dubai and you get a boot that out-sizes several mid-size rivals, plus a back seat with genuine legroom, wrapped in one of the cheaper automatic sedans on the road. We deliver it to your door, home or hotel, usually within one to two hours of booking. The engine and the old-style automatic won't win any drag races, and that's fine, because the case for this car is what it carries and who it seats, not how fast it gets there.

What the cheap engine actually gives you

Under the hood is a 1.5-litre four-cylinder making around 104 hp and 138 Nm, sent to the front wheels through a 4-speed automatic. That's a real torque converter gearbox, not a CVT, and it shows in how the car drives. There's none of the rubber-band drone you get from a CVT under hard acceleration. The Ciaz just shifts, a touch more deliberately than a modern eight-speed, but in a way that still feels like a normal automatic rather than a compromise.

Around town at 60 to 80 km/h it's smooth and unremarkable in the best sense. On Sheikh Zayed Road it settles into 100 to 120 without strain when it's you and one passenger. Load up four adults and their bags and ask for a quick overtake, though, and the gearbox has to hunt for a lower gear before the power actually arrives. Plan the move a beat earlier and it's never an issue. That trade, a bit of patience for a much lower rental cost than a mid-size sedan, is the whole point of this car.

The boot and back seat that punch above the price

This is where the Ciaz earns its keep. The boot holds 510 litres, more than several sedans that cost more to rent, and it takes two large cases plus a couple of soft bags without anyone leaning on the lid to close it. That alone covers an airport pickup or a family's week of luggage without needing a second car for the overflow.

The back seat backs it up. The wheelbase runs long for this class, and it gives two adults real knee room behind two adults up front, not the knees-in-the-seatback squeeze you get in a cheaper hatchback or a budget sedan a size down. Three across the back works fine for kids or a short hop across town, less so for three adults on a longer run. It also comes with rear AC vents, something plenty of cars in this price bracket skip entirely, which matters more than it sounds like once the Dubai heat is involved.

At 1,730 mm wide the Ciaz still slots into a tight Marina tower bay or a mall's multi-storey slot without drama, and 170 mm of ground clearance shrugs off standard speed bumps and parking ramps. This is a front-wheel-drive city and highway car built for tarmac, not sand, so keep the desert plans for something else in the fleet.

Running cost, heat and the cabin

Suzuki's quoted combined economy sits around 15 to 16 km/L, which is a spec-sheet number from a lab, not a Dubai commute. In real traffic, with the AC working against the heat and that older 4-speed automatic doing more shifting than a CVT would, expect closer to 12 to 13 km/L. On the 43-litre tank that still works out to roughly 500 to 550 km before you need to think about a fill, enough to cover most of a week of city driving between top-ups.

The rental gives you 250 km a day, and anything past that is charged at AED 0.5 per extra kilometre, which covers normal errands and the odd day trip out of town without much thought. Salik tolls on your route and any RTA fines during the rental are yours to cover, same as on any car here.

A Ciaz left in a July car park heats up like every car left in the sun, but the front vents pull the cabin down fast once you're moving, and because it has rear vents too, back-seat passengers aren't just relying on air drifting back from the dash. It isn't a multi-zone climate suite, just a straightforward system that does its job, and at this price point that's more than most rivals offer.

Who should rent it, and who should size up

Rent the Suzuki Ciaz 2023 if you want a properly sized boot and a real back seat without paying mid-size sedan money. Two adults and two kids with a week's luggage, or two adults commuting with airport runs at either end of the trip, fit this car comfortably, and the running cost stays low the whole time you have it.

Size up if your week regularly means four adults with full luggage and fast highway overtakes. The modest power and the unhurried gearbox start to feel like work under that load, and a bigger-engined mid-size sedan buys you more margin on Sheikh Zayed Road. If you only need a car for solo city errands and want the cheapest thing to keep fuelled, a smaller hatchback beats it on price alone. For everyone in between, the Ciaz is a budget sedan that doesn't feel like it's cutting corners on space, and we can have one at your door within a couple of hours of booking.