Ciao everyone, here it's Marchettino and today we test a japanese hot-hatch, much sober but also very spicy,
let's test the new Suzuki Swift Sport!
You know I'm a big fan of hot-hatches and today I'm excited to drive the new Suzuki Swift Sport
and as first driving impressions I have to tell you it's good fun to drive, as you can see we're around winding roads and trust me I had good fun this morning!
The Suzuki Swift Sport is a car that costs 21.000€ and at this price you get a full optioned car, basically you don't have to spend more on it and for this money
you get a hot-hatch that has lots of features like a multimedia system with Apple carplay, sat-nav, rear camera,
not to mention the rear seats, here we have 4 genuine seats and a truly sporty look.
Well, the colour, needless to say I'm Mr.Soberty, I like it!
It's very endearing and pretty to look at, well maybe if you define it pretty you're a ricer like me but I think it's pretty!
In front we find a tiny a 1.4L turbo, for the first time the Swift Sports gets turbo and the power is 140hp and 230nm of torque.
Trust me, this is enough to make you smile around these corners!
One thing I like very much from this engine is that turbo lag is minimal, turbo is tiny but what I like is that 90% of the power is already available at 2500rpm!
This is a tiny and agile car, agile also because it's hard to believe but given the size and 4 seats, this car weighs just 975kg!
Just to make a comparison, my Abarth 500 which is tiny, there's less space inside, the engine is big the same.. it weighs 125kg more which is not a little, trust me!
Around these corners I like to push this tiny engine and move with extreme agility!
Out the corners the front tires slide a bit, these tires struggle to unleash all the power out the corners!
I told you, it's a tiny and enraged engine, I like this kind of tiny and pumped up cars very much because they offer much sensations!
Another I thing I like but I don't get, is the decision of Suzuki that decided to make available the Swift Sport only with a manual transmission for the italian market.
This transmission is not bad, here we have a 6-speed, maybe the gear stick is a bit long but gear changes are precise.
Also thanks to these pedals that are close enough each other you can play with quick gear changes and heel-toe.
By pushing the engine, maybe
what happened? - You must've pushed the cruise control! - Ok!
In this car there's so many features I touched a button by mistake and nope, I don't want the cruise control!
For 21.000€ you get also features like the adaptive cruise control, the car accelerates and brakes depending on the speed you choose,
the system that allows to keep the lane without the hands on the steering wheel, which I don't recommend you! - In fact it disengages itself after a while! - Ok it disengages!
And I was saying.. I don't remember what I was saying!
Anyway, let's move on!
Another positive side of this Swift Sport are the brakes because
they're very reactive and the car being so light the breaking spaces are short and even by slamming the foot on the brakes
the car is very stable and balanced, I can only dream of a breaking like this on my Abarth 500!
By pushing this tiny engine now I remember what I wanted to say earlier,
maybe something that Suzuki should have focused more is on the engine sound because
it's not the sound of a sports car, it doesn't engage and pushes you to redline the engine, this is a citycar sound and sadly
an option sport exhaust is not even available so you buy the car and you gotta keep it like this, or perhaps you go for an aftermarket exhaust.
But yeah let's say for being a fun sports car to drive, the fact it doesn't have an engaging sound, this is a let down.
The suspensions are not bad, I find them balanced, not too stiff for a daily driving and for a sports driving I find it pleasant because I can feel very good the road without
being too stiff to make me regret to have bought a sports car to daily use.
The seats are very comfy but maybe not enveloping enough, I'm not fat but while moving around these corners I feel they don't hold me perfectly.
if they were more enveloping, they would have been perfect.
Overal it's a very fun car to push, especially around roads like these!
I like this car very much, I like the ricey colour too, if we get closer we may look that many plastic parts have a carbon fibre look,
you may like it or not, personally I'm not a fan of fake carbon fibre but this effect make the Swift very sporty, we may see it
also here on the rear bumper, here the two exhaust tips that don't make any noise, what a pity!
With an in depth look at the interior I think it's very pretty, very young style!
Nicely done also for its price range, I like the display here on the dash, manual gearbox here.
Here we may see also the plastic with a red accent that fades and make the interior even more sporty,
Another interesting feature is this small display that allows to see many informations, by pressing the Info button
we may see lots of parameters such as
the pressure on the throttle and brake pedals,
here we see like how much throttle and brakes we're using,
how much boost we're using and also very useful, the temperature of the engine oil.
Features that are missing on my Abarth! Here we have the consumption
that maybe it's better not to look because if you push this tiny engine trust me that
it's easy to make 3-4km per litre!
So this is it, the new Suzuki Swift, very eye-catching, fun and engaging, I liked very much to spend a day with this little japanese box
and I thank Matteo very much for this test drive!
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