India, Feb. 1 -- The Maruti-Suzuki WagonR was never a car that you ever called sexy. Back in 1999, when the first version of the car was launched, it came in as a response to the Daewoo Matiz and Hyundai Santro, and well, as far as looking like what it says on a package, the WagonR was a breadbox. The tall-boy design was there so that space could be maximised on a small platform. But practicality meant that you paid a price when it came to looks and both the WagonR and the Hyundai Santro were never lookers.

So three months after Hyundai brought the Santro back from the dead, Maruti has brought in the third-generation of the WagonR. While it might never have scored on looks, Maruti managed to sell over 22 lakh WagonR's in India in just ov...