Suzuki Kizashi – Review

Suzuki Kizashi (source – 0-100.ro)

Suzuki is a brand synonymous with motocliclete, ATVs small, capable, and city cars. Therefore, Suzuki could not come to your mind when you think of a powerful family sedan and handsome. Kizashi is here to solve this!

Concept

Kizashi means in Japanese, that something great will happen. And Suzuki’s initiative to launch this flagship (flagship) is really great.

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To the disappointment of many, Kizashi was specifically designed as a vehicle for the brand image, that is a car that Suzuki did not even expect it to sell too many copies. The car is made ​​like a glove for the American market , with large engine and many facilities, but we Europeans, we can identify with her ​​sometimes.

Design

Car proportions are balanced and show a sporty elegance. As size is somewhere between Kizashi Volkswagen Jetta and Passat, but you can figure out from a poasta this is not a European car.

Behind the front of the car look like pagodas and Japanese – with their famous pyramid shape stacked on floors, with eaves turned up.

Technology, comfort and amenities
Suzuki Kizashi Interior (source – 0-100.ro)Sport version, as in test and can be ordered only in Romania, is packed with features. Everything is standard , including leather upholstery, xenon headlamps and 18-inch wheels. A minus is that navigation is missing …

Not only matter but when the multitude of equipment sit in a car, but how you feel it was designed and built. Kizashi excels here.

The seats are big and comfortable and the car’s armrest and all controls are where you should be. Steering wheel and shift knob and they fall right into the hands of the driver and rear passengers would not have cause to complain about anything.

Everything you see and touch the car as inspiration, in a simple Japanese style.

Suzuki Kizashi saying that equipment is top of the optionals and missing …

The only things you can still choose them are body color and combination-drive gearbox . Kizashi is available only for metallic paint and not have to pay extra for it.

In our country one option is available with front-wheel drive, combined with a manual gearbox with six gears, and a version with four-wheel drive and continuously variable transmission CVT, as the test model. Even if it has four-wheel drive car can turn into a front-wheel drive by simply pressing a button located on the left wheel.

On the road

The engine is one on petrol, 2.4-liter , naturally aspirated (no turbo). And from here things start to become sensitive …

Suzuki Kizashi (source – 0-100.ro)The huge engine develops 178 horsepower and a torque of 230 Newton-meter. Values ​​are not bad and in no way disappointing, but standards of modern gasoline engines are much higher.

Comes and beats the CVT transmission, which cuts a lot of engine performance. This can be seen in figures. Kizashi manual transmission is quicker to fix than a second version with CVT.

Even so, the Kizashi sedan remains a satisfying quick. The test car to 100 kph in 8.8 seconds and has an exemplary cornering behavior. Although it takes rather than comfortable, the suspension filters bumps very well and is very quiet. In combination with precise direction, the pleasure of driving a car like this even existed.

Kizashi the car would have been much better monetized by a more potent engine. Every time you feel like you’re driving the engine and transmission can not keep up with what the rest of the car can do. It’s like putting a heart in the body of an athlete’s heart.

Competitors

As I said, a model Suzuki Kizashi is located between classes C and D. Thus, taking into account the number of competitors is larger, but I will be looking at the most important: Mitsubishi Lancer , Volkswagen Jetta, Renault Fluence , Chevrolet Cruze , Skoda Octavia, Honda Civic sedan, Opel Astra sedan, Ford Focus sedan, Mazda3 and Toyota Corolla sedan.

Conclusions

Price copy of the images is 29,500 euros , including 24% VAT. Manual version with front wheel drive is only 3,000 euros cheaper.

With a turbocharged smaller, more efficient, and with a different type than the CVT transmission, Kizashi can even have chances in Romania and Europe, but until then this will remain Suzuki built a better car, but they buy very few, disadvantageous because of motorization.

Collected, a tax and CDW year amounted to 2,000 lei, plus optional CASCO insurance.

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