Topic: CTC Review: Suzuki SX4

[mdxtasy]

Frame of reference is great as GD says....luggage space, passenger space, and heck, even parking it beside another vehicle gives a good visual comparison. 

[safristi]

Yap's so small he doesn't need ta lie down.............using a blanket eh....HOT WINGS!!!
   Sssssssss...!!!!!...yeah use an everyday object say a safety Pin or a match box...

[quadzilla]

Hey Wing, for what it's worth, I don't care if you shoot every car pic in an empty grocery store lot... I'm looking for good, big, clear pics of the car with as many details as possible.  One request though:  the luggage space pic would be even more helpful with something like a bicycle or another common object to give a relative reference of size.  Having never seen an SX4 in real life yet, I have no point of reference for how capacious that cargo area is with the seats flipped forward.  The Honda Fit ads with the seats moved forward show a bicycle enclosed in the back of the car and that really helps to define how usable the space truly is.

Great suggestion but how about just using a measuring tape? 

Using a bike is good but how big is the bike?  My g/f’s mtn bike on a 15” frame is much smaller than my road bike on a 58cm frame (still don’t understand why mtn bikes are in inches and road bikes in cms).

Anyway…keep up the good work.

[Loudpedal]

One request though:  the luggage space pic would be even more helpful with something like a bicycle or another common object to give a relative reference of size.  Having never seen an SX4 in real life yet, I have no point of reference for how capacious that cargo area is with the seats flipped forward. 

Good idea.   Golf bags and/or beer cases are good...  

[Giant Dwarf]

BTW, Loudpedal, I agree that it'd be a heck of a neat little package to have the SC engine it... or, as I mentioned to Wing earlier, even just throwing a small (quick-spooling) turbo on the stock engine and bumping the power to 180 or so would make it a great little machine for less than $25k

[Titanium48]

I think those rear seats places this car at the bottom of the list. They are raised to give more leg room but decreases head room and hinders the useable extra space.. This is beneath Suzuki enegeneering. Other then standard AWD, there are better choices out there.

Indeed, it is a bit dissapointing from the company that brought us the Swift/Metro/Firefly.  The latest hatchback has gained 25cm in length, 14cm in width, 22cm in height and packed on a whopping 430kg compared to the 1989-1994 5-door Metro.  On the inside, front headroom is up 2cm, rear headroom is down 1cm, rear legroom is up 8cm (but only 5cm of that is actually useable as front legroom has dropped by 3cm so the front seat occupants will be shoving their seats further back), front hiproom is identical and rear hiproom is up 11cm (why bother, it's not like it's enough to put 3 people back there without squishing).  Cargo dimentions are pretty similar as well, although there is a somewhat more height.  The Metro's hatch came within 5cm of bing wide enough to swallow a standard sheet of plywood, but judging by the pictures none of that extra 14cm of width made it's way to the SX4's hatch.  On top of all that, the price has doubled while inflation since 1992 has only been 30% (even energy prices are only up 60%).

[Radshark]

OK .. I gotta say it ...

Nearly everyone I've talk to think the "Wolf Boy" commercials are just plain dumb.  They might appeal to socially awkward kids .. but not grown ups with the cash to buy them.

If it was my call can marketing on this one ... if Suzuki keeps it up the "Wolf Boy" nonsense they just might shot themselves in the foot.  Frankly I think it overshadows a fairly nice little car.

The interior is quite nice and so is the drive.  However, it does feel like it needs another gear above 115+ km/h.

Oh .. and it's several thousand dollars extra for Canadians  - with less standard features.  Shameful


R.