Suzuki SX4 Review

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• Pixel :
  January 10th, 2007 at 11:37 am
  
  

  designs cues lifted from a certain retro-British roadster.

  Not to be a pedant, but a roadster is a 2-seater with no roof. The Mini is many things, but it isn’t one of those.

• BimmerHead :
  January 10th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
  
  

  For the price, this looks like a great vehicle… probably the only compelling option for a new car in the same price range as a Honda Fit.

  I think I read that Suzuki may be doing a higher HP (perhaps turbo) version of this. (or maybe that was C&D being hopeful).

  Either way, Suzuki has a marketing challenge ahead of them to make this a success. I think most people have Suzuki off of their radar screens. This will hopefully represent a new Blip.

• nino :
  January 10th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
  
  

  Suzuki won the 2006 International “Super 1600″ Rally Championship for Manufacturers with this car and plans to enter this car in three World Rally Championship events in 2007 in advance of a full assault on the championship in 2008.

  The analogies with the Subaru WRX are appropo as Suzuki plans to offer a rally based version of the SX4 for sale in 2008.

  http://www.suzuki-wrc.com/e/index.html

• Kurt B :
  January 10th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
  
  

  I took a good look at all the SX4 models at a car show in Sept. Even the base model would make a great second car.
  “Torture beam” — loved that one Johnny.

  If you think this has Mini styling cues, you haven’t seen the “real” Swift.
  http://www.suzukiplusz.hu/m_arlista/suzuki-swift-nagy.jpg

• GlennS :
  January 10th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
  
  

  Not to be a pedant, but a roadster is a 2-seater with no roof. The Mini is many things, but it isn’t one of those.

  Even though I can read (understand) most anything written for general-public consumption, no other automotive site sends me to Google to look up words as frequently as this site does! I mean this in a positive sense: The authors & commenters language skills here at TTAC sometimes suprise.

  Example: pedant => Wikipedia says: “A pedant, or pædant, is a formalist or precisionist in teaching or scholarship. The corresponding female noun is pedantess. The term comes from the French pédant…or its source Italian pedante “teacher,” schoolmaster, pedant.”

  Who knew?
  (Not yours truly, obviously.)

  Anyway, I’ve been wondering if the Suzuki SX4 might be a vehicle to consider when my wifes’ 2000 Suabru wagon needs to replaced at some future point in time.

  Thanks for the review. :-)

• durailer :
  January 10th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
  
  

  Great review Jonny. You didn’t let the car’s inadequacies overshadow it’s selling points, given Suzuki’s design intent and market for this model. This car proves that you can have fun in a daily driver, all within a budget. I’m impressed that Suzuki gives us 3-mode AWD, pleasing design cues throughout, and a kit of creature comforts -all for $15k.

  I wonder if the “torture beam” could be dampened with the right tires -was it equipped with run flats?

• Jonny Lieberman :
  January 10th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
  
  

  It really does handle that well.

  Drive one. You’ll like it.

• fellswoop :
  January 10th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
  
  

  Hey GlennS:

  The real sense of “pedant” as used above is “pedantic”, meaning overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning/Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner… Often used to describe a person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary
  (wikki)

  Also, regarding looking stuff up, if you have or can get Mozilla’s free Firefox web browser, any time you come across a word (or anything else) you want to look up, you can just right click on it and a menu pops up with “search web for ____” which is a FANTASTIC feature.

  Rock on.

• Lesley Wimbush :
  January 10th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
  
  

  I just spent three weeks with the SX4 - two with the AWD, one with the base model FWD. Took the AWD waaaay up north through Sudbury and past Elliott Lake and came away with a great respect and fondness for its handling of rabbly twisty roads. 1400 kms in two days also left me with a deep appreciation of its meager appetite too - I spent less than $125 on that trip.
  The tall profile made it vulnerable to strong winds, had to keep both hands on the wheel on wide open major highways. Having seen pics of the Rally bred version, I can imagine it would handle really well with a similar drop kit.
  Of the two - the FWD had quicker throttle response and felt lighter.
  Totally agree with you on the need for sixth gear - I found myself constantly wanting to shift.
  Also… the turn signals are far too quiet. :))
  Great review Jonny.

• Jonny Lieberman :
  January 10th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
  
  

  Lesley brings up an interesting point or two.

  We don’t get a “base” FWD model — all SX$s in the US (she’s in Canada) are AWD.

  As far as fuel economy goes… I was driving around like a jackass 50% of the time (dropping the clutch) and moving at 80mph the rest (er… so maybe that’s 100%).

  I saw 24.2mpg

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