Hot Hatch News & Reviews

New Suzuki Swift Arriving This Autumn

New Suzuki Swift Arriving This Autumn

The Suzuki Swift Sport is one of the best junior hot hatches currently on the market, so the announcement of a new Suzuki Swift is something to take interest in.Sadly there’s no official mention of a Sport model yet, with the press release just concerned about the mainstream models, but there are a few points of interest that suggest that a new Swift...

Suzuki Swift Sport N-Style Rally Edition

Suzuki Swift Sport N-Style Rally Edition

With stickers like this it has to be a limited edition! What you see here is the new Suzuki Swift Sport N-Style Rally Edition, a limited run of 500 cars that aims to celebrate the success of Suzuki’s Group N contender that’s been hurtling through forests in the Suzuki Rally Cup.Sadly there are no rally-derived performance enhancements, as the...

Suzuki Swift Black & White Special Edition

Suzuki Swift Black & White Special Edition

The Suzuki Swift Sport is still one of  my favourite hot hatches, and now the lucky Germans are getting a very smart special edition of the standard 1.3-litre Swift.From June 2008 a limited run of 1200 units of the “Black and White” special edition will be made available to the German market. As the name suggests this special Swift is available in...

Suzuki Swift Sport

Suzuki Swift Sport

My memories of the previous model Suzuki Swift aren’t great. A friend owned one back in my college days, and to say that it was cheap and nasty would be an improvement to its image. The doors shut with a harsh clang, the interior was made of the thinnest and hardest plastic I’d seen in a car and the noise was excessive. While the little engine loved...