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Absolutely love my Kizashi. Not a fan of the CVT, but haven’t had any big issues. It is very funny when your passenger is expecting a shift and the RPMS are just sitting right under red line for as long as you hold your foot down. Not sure how many times I’ve heard people say it’s going to blow up or somethings wrong with my transmission. With the CVT being made of glass it can’t handle more than stock for power, and even then it slips when it’s being abused.

I have one right now in the United States. It’s epic. Gotta be careful with it but the Rockford fostgate is insane. Very comfy ride and very attractive. Turns heads :)

I loved this car too. As you said the engine department failed when it comes to the EU market. Yes, at that time Diesel was wrongly promoted as being the only ecological way to go (we all know better now) but not everyone was into diesel. A large portion of potential buyers actually hated diesels and preferred gasoline engines by far. The problem with Suzuki's choice was the size. A 2.4 liter engine was very costly tax wise and also much more expensive in running costs (tax, insurance, fuel...). One thing said is right, European buyers were and still are snobs, at least some of them. This means that an average person would not opt for an engine that is deemed to be luxury while being in a more "lot of car for your money" type of brand and car. If they would have offered it as a 1.6 or a 18 gasoline engine version they would have a lot more potential buyers. On the contrary of many parts of the world in Europe any engine as from 2.0 liter is considered to be more premium, more luxury. And buyers in these segments are extremely snobby. If it's not german or to a certain level Swedish then it's not worthy of their social status. In short they are so narrow-minded that they willingly pay 20-30% more, just for the brand name, even if the actual quality and reliability is lower (much lower) than what they pay for. Everything below the 2.0 size is considered more "socially acceptable", more down to earth, good for the common people...me...us thus. I think that Suzuki mainly failed because it wanted to climb up the ladder towards premium shit and that would simply not happen. It's against their roots of basic, reliable and affordable transportation products. And that's fine. Especially because Suzuki is a very wealthy company with loads of financial power, just because of this strategy. Never change a winning team they say or if it ain't broken, don't fix it and that is what they tried and failed at.

I remember the only thing noticeable about this car is that it used a japanese name. Other than maybe miata, I couldn't recall another japanese car with a japanese name. It made me think it got some real race cred for that reason.

half the case is poor understanding (mirrorglass for example, it`s electrochrome glass and this one is to be replaced) and other half poor maintenance... if you`re scimping on what has to be done, don`t drive a C6... how you pull the doorhandle says it for me... there`s a microswitch inside and that activates the doorglass to drop down, coupe style, give it a split second to be able to do it`s job... replace the doorcatch, done try cleaning/lubing the doorconnectors for functions not working buttons you can try to lube with siliconespray and a cloth around them engine diagnosis regards starting first

IMO europeans don't buy cars for reliability, they buy them to show off, there's a ton of peugeot 308's in my country, and they are beautiful, but none of their engines are reliable, specially the 1.2 petrol and the 1.5 diesel.

Kizashi Driver here. Afaik Suzuki had a deal with VW back in 2010, preventing them from licensing any more Fiat Diesel engines, VW was already angry because Suzuki licensed the 1.3DDIS and 1.9DDIS from Fiat. VW wanted to sell their own Diesel engines to Suzuki, which was apparently too expensive. German reviewers at the time were surprised about the engine choice in the Kizashi, they would have hoped for a TSI engine from VW, because of the partnership. In the end a court ordered VW to sell back the 19.9% shrares in Suzuki and the whole thing ended. All in all, the Kizashi is a great car. The worst thing in my opinion is the limited choice they gave you. Why do I have to take the CVT just to get an AWD powertrain ? They literally used the same 2.4l engine in the Grand Vitara with AWD and a 5 speed transmission. About the transmission, it was a JATCO CVT from Nissan. They even had to limit the max RPM to 6000 in order to protect the CVT. Normally the engine revs to 6500 where it will do around 188hp so the CVT model wasnt even able to make peak power. So people were right in avoiding the CVT.

The one i have soon has been sitting for a year in the elements. So it has a smell, sticky buttons, the radio doesn't work, etc. Small issues. Engine purrs like a kitten though

Damn french cars suck

1.7 cdti is one of the best engines opel ever used. my astra j is at 352.000km

Lol Fiat engines are a heap of garbage though and expensive to maintain. There are still quite a few Kizashi’s on the roads out here even today and they still look great. The biggest issue for them here in Australia were locally built cars at the time that were family size and were often available for the same sort of money and offered match larger engines. They also competed with the Toyota Corolla and even lower spec Camry’s price wise. The obsession with unreliable diesel engines is such a shame over there as Suzuki Swift are just petrol engines here and very reliable then as they are today. Sadly Australia is infested with front wheel drive cars today that are all just boring and samey.

Btw if you want something way more realistic than this, try cpm2.

i just want to say, on android - game UI looks normal (because android OS can work with any display proportions) and 3:46 you said the upshift throtle is better on left in apex racer, but you can change it in pixel car settings too, (or have an accual shiftstick) and i hate the automatic launch in apex racer because there is no reason for improving your reaction time apex racer graphics are good, but for me personally i do not hate them but yes apex racer has much more customization options and some more mechanic parts

I have one and its awesome

As a longtime Citroen owner, I have to say the C5 X7 and C6 are terrible, terrible cars.

Does anyone remember Drag Racer, the Flash game from 2006 or so?

ive played both and recently switched from pixel car racer to apex and im blown away

Thanks for the rec!

Owned one for two weeks in uk, cvt made a weird noise, diagnosed needed a replacement transmission, returned for full refund. It had the same problematic cvt as the Nissans at the time.

I have a 2.7 Exclusive, 2009. It has been fine but i like to keep it in god health. I have many C6 used parts if you are stuck for anything but i don"t use facebook or anything like that. I hope your car is now driving well.

You've got a car, take care of that car

It didn't get an optional V6 or turbo four. That alone doomed the car especially in the United States.

interestingly enough, the Kizashi was a great little car. The CVT’s seemed to hold up well and most the forums report this to be the case. I think the problem Suzuki had was they had a very small dealer network and people didn’t pay attention to them as a serious vehicle because of this. When Suzuki came to the states in the mid-1980’s no one knew them despite the fact they had been buying and driving them as GEO’s through GM’s Chevrolet division. My personal experience is Suzuki builds a car as fine as any Toyota on the market. The problem is they are not financially in the position to market themselves as such and no one here in the states knows who they are. The Kizashi, it should have been the car that put Suzuki on the map in the US. Unfortunately, they were too strapped after the whole SX4 debacle (the FIAT and Suzuki designed car) and the failure of the Aerio. Then GM (as partial owner) forced them to rebadge Daewoo cars and sell them (since GM didn’t want these crappy cars on their hands, but needed to sell them since they had just purchased Daewoo). This weakened the perception of Suzuki as being a brand of quality cars (as the Daewoos were complete garbage) and the Kizashi came in when the brand was struggling in this market. Within two years, they were gone from the North American market and most likely will never return. Once again, the good ones leave and the left overs raise the price for crap cars no one can afford. too the US car market!

It was neither here nor there. Besides, when you think about Suzuki, you think about tiny cars, mainly city cars, with tiny engines. The Kizashi wasn’t in a lot of people’s radar as far as mid size cars were concerned.

when the Kizashi was released, the mid size segment that it was aimed at, had grown in physical size, the Mazda 6, Honda Accord and Toyota Camry all got bigger, the Kizashi was now a Corolla/Mazda 3/Civic size car, it's why it didn't take off. Remember the Vitara was a decent size vehicle and was successful.

Car models become insignificant now, when the Chinese cars dominate the market, a final nail to all the conventional car makers, they all were looting a lot money from the middle class

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Former US based stinger owner here. For the first couple years I absolutely loved it but it started having reliability problems. It developed a loud hatch rattle that the dealer claimed they couldn't replicate. I was able to more or less fix it with a DIY solution I found online. After that the lower deflector ripped off several times. The dealer wouldn't cover it under warranty and I got tired of dropping several hundred UDS to replace it once or twice a year. That and it just handled poorly in bad weather. My house is up a gently sloped hill and a little bit of snow or mud made it impossible to get home. Eventually I traded it in for an AWD vehicle with some all-terrain tires.

Why did it fail? 3 reasons: 1. Bad marketing: Global car = Same car everywhere, same engine, CVT transmission all-over the world. Far too little things to make it feel..well, Europe oriented. 2. Bad choice of engine-transmission coupling: CVT with AWD and manual with FWD..."sheeettty" 3. I remember a test Kizashi 2.4 (manual) vs Octavia RS 2.0 (also manual. Octavia won easily because: - cheaper - faster (200hp turbo vs 188hp NA) - bigger interior - bigger trunk (and hatchback configuration) - fuel economy. And that is the answer...

The Kizashi was launched in India when we were buying the Maruti Suzuki Alto in 2009. I saw the poster in the showroom and thought that it will sell like the Swift, but it didn't may be because it was too costly for a sedan when compared with Honda City.

I have to remember that in Europe, the Honda Civic and Volkswagen Jetta are midsize cars, whereas here in the US, those are compacts. Honda Accord and Volkswagen Passat are our midsize cars, and the Suzuki kizashi was definitely considerably smaller than those when it went on sale here

I am in Canada and the Suzuki kizashi last until 2013 when actually Suzuki left Canada and the USA. I would have only gotten the manual transmission as not many people like CVTs. It's super hard to find these here now especially in the manual. I am a huge Suzuki fan as I had many of their cars in my lifetime

Must be easy to find parts at the junkyard. Always the right engine.

I remember when I first saw one and was like it’s a good looking cat just the wrong automaker and that shooting brake was very nice should’ve came out with that model

Well Opel in the GM era was good times

01:28 The Kizashi 2 SUV was drop-dead gorgeous. The shooting brake/hatchback wasn't bad either 01:23. Why wasn't one of these two chosen for production is a mystery. Imagine the Kizashi 2 with the same Toyota-sourced hybrid drive as today's Suzuki Across - the gorgeous compact SUV Toyota never had.

Suzuki make very fine bikes and cars but no parts and fragile electronics doom it

All about North America, and they pulled out!😊

This was a funky car, I was only a teenager couldn’t get my driver license yet, when I saw this funky coolish Suzuki I knew it was a flop I saw the interior and was impressed for its cost, it’s a shame Suzuki is out of the American market the little jimny SUV is pure coolness that would be in my driveway in a heartbeat but too bad not in US

Suzuki also tempered with the exhaust tests.

It would be better to refer to the county as North Macedonia, that's the official name.

Rumblings are more authentic. I prefer them to the scripted ones.

IMO, in the US, anything Suzuki sold here was unsuccessful not because they weren't reliable or stylish, but because the brand itself had such a tarnished rep from the Samurai in the 80s. Personally I thought the car was pretty cool looking- but no way would I buy a Suzuki- few dealerships, unsure of the reliability- and the SUV craze was in full force.

I freaking loved these

Great video, well the Kizashi was also a flop in the USA.

Ive never seen a suzuki with cvt 😮. In my country they keep using confentional automatic same as mazda

Australia here, It had a substantial, chunky well honed look to it in the same manner as a SAAB, still makes me look back when I see one... agree that the cvt was unfortunate and would have deterred me from a purchase.

Ramble on Sir

this car's grill looks like lexus car's grill

In the USA 2 big reasons HONDA ACCORD/TOYOTA CAMRY, and if you were gunning for an AWD midsize car it was just better to go with a Subaru Legacy I was like 20 when I test drove one and even being a person who had a Grand Vitara and a XL-7 grand vitara in our family it just didn't have the same feel.