Suzuki Swift Sport

Fifth gear Suzuki Swift Sport test drive

[@flyjayUK]

Still a cracking little car in 2021. Cheap as chips.

[@freddieparrydrums]

Gonna buy one for me first car

[@czlowiekmaly7924]

@@freddieparrydrums i have one for like 1,5 year now as a first car, absolutely love it

[@freddieparrydrums]

@@czlowiekmaly7924 That's fantastic, so many people are saying how good they are I have to get one. So unique and quite a rare sight too

[@czlowiekmaly7924]

@@freddieparrydrums they have pretty weak gearboxes so look for strange noises if you want go buy one

[@freddieparrydrums]

@@czlowiekmaly7924 Yeah j heard about crunching synchros. Most have been ragged too

[@ChrisWalker-hq5yr]

you know that feeling you get when you buy something youve been after for ages? well i bought this car in 2008 (2007 plate) and i still have that exact same feeling with this little car, suzuki honestly done there homework with this and i love it, the only problem is the fact that every colour has the same coloured sport seats but despite having a firm suspension this is a really comfortable ride and im still yet to have a real problem with this and its only failed 1 MOT (because of a stupid seatbelt that id torn when lugging things about) , would recommend this car to anyone and i even drove the newer model but for some reason i seriously prefer this one to the 2013+ model!

[@antoniofernandes9663]

I've got a little restless red one (an abloslute clone of the one on the video). After one year I still smile in it (despite its rattles that I have come to accept as part of its character). The one thing I really really like is that it is just a "normal" hatchback, but when you are just going mindless about your business and just leave that second gear for a second longer... vroooooom!

[@mikehunt5215]

Yes, they are not amazingly fast but they are fast enough to make you smile.

[@freddieparrydrums]

I’m gonna buy one for ,y first car

[@James-dn1hu]

Do u think this would still be a good car to own in 2022

[@pbmworld9933]

@@James-dn1hu definite yes.

[@niggel1238]

it is the same with comparing the topspeeds of cars. i mean who is interested in this but kids comparing their dreamcars. the most fun you can achieve with a sportscar is in a speed-area much below, for example on a narrow mountain road. only there a car bares, if it is quick, or not...

[@niggel1238]

@ianhuang: he reduces the so called "drag moment" or "drag torque" (i think this is the right word for it in english. in german it is known as "Schleppmoment") by hitting the throttle a little bit while shifting down. the suzuki is a fwd, but it is more important for rwd-cars, because if you shift down in high revs while you are hard on the brake it could start locking the rear wheels caused by the drag torque and the car gets unstable at the rearend (perhaps you turn)

[@ulysses4989]

Ok

[@niggel1238]

the fiesta st for example needs 8.4s. this time reflects that these 0-60-stories doesnt reflects anything. although the st is perhaps not the fastest car to 60 compared with opponents in the same power-range, anyhow it is one of the quickest of these cars on a track. so is the swift.

[@ulysses4989]

Interesting

[@mikers73]

This car could have saved Suzuki instead of investing money into the SX4 Sedan.

[@niggel1238]

??? perhaps you are at the wrong racetracks? the car is quite popular in the vln-series at the nürburgring and was quite good at the 24h-race on the nürburgring this year. it made a good 4th place in its class and was a long time an the second position (of course in its class). not bad for a racecar build of a new car. or type in above "rundstrecken swift" (this is a video of the old swift but very impressiv how it abandons few new civic type-r)

[@blacklordalex]

Dudes ..... 0-60 in 8,9 sec means 60 MILES per hour so that guys mom did 0-60 KILOMETERS in less than 7 sec .... SIMPLE!

[@niggel1238]

i mean this 0-60-times say nothing about how quick a car is on a racetrack. it is irrelevant if it does 0-60 in eight or nine seconds. nevertheless the car with 9s can be faster. e.g. your boxter is surely quicker, than an old american musclecar when it comes to cornering. the muscle car is quick to 60 but only on a straight line.

[@googboog]

btw 45 years was an exaggeration

[@hatamakoto]

pretty good for a 1.5L engine.

[@freddieparrydrums]

1.6

[@airbustan]

looks like a gtr from a far. :D haha

[@niggel1238]

only numbers. it means nothing...