From Suzuki...
After an impressive performance preview of Suzuki’s 2010 Kizashi at last fall’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas, the heightened fun (on closed course, with professional driver) continues with the debut of Kizashi’s concept turbocharged variant. As seen – beginning this month – with racer Tommy Kendall and his Speed Channel program “Test Drive,” this newest Kizashi concept morphs the intended definition of Kizashi from the Japanese – “something great is coming” – into “what might be coming next?”
In production form, the all-new Kizashi delivers a premium package and experience without the premium price tag, providing a unique blend of dynamic performance attributes and features more appropriate to the near-luxury sport sedan segment. The performance experts at Road Race Motorsports build on those performance attributes and near-luxury features with a host of mods designed to heighten the excitement factor while lowering the Kizashi’s lap times on any closed-course venue.
Road Race Motorsports, one of the chief suppliers of go-fast goods for Suzuki automotive enthusiasts, began the Suzuki turbo project with a pre-production Kizashi GTS. Boost is supplied to the stock heads and block by a 16G turbocharger, while temp is kept in check with Road Race Motorsports’ own high flow intercooler. Other adds on the hardware menu include custom fuel management, Road Race’s Sleeper blow-off valve, Velocity air intake and Extreme spray injector. The equal length turbo manifold is custom crafted, while the 38mm wastegate is supplied by Tial.
The enhanced power bumps the Kizashi’s already impressive engine to 290 hp and is connected to the track pavement via 19-inch Dunlops. Those are kept connected to the course by Road Race’s own sport springs, working in combination with Kizashi’s ultra-rigid unibody and all-independent suspension. High-speed stability is enhanced with the addition of a rear-mounted spoiler supplied by Delta Tech Engineering. The end result on the track – with either Road Race founder Rob Tallini, Tommy Kendall or the Suzuki enthusiast behind the wheel – is the need for speed suddenly and fully satisfied.
This was the SEMA version...
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uhhh... Is it wrong that I like this !?!?!?!
I really like it. VWish with that grille. If I was looking for a new vehicle I would check it out.
It's an amazingly gorgeous car in person. In fact the only thing I didn't like was its lackluster HP numbers. Not that its slow, its Z24 kind of fun. But ive outgrown z24 power. With this turbo and the awd on this car I would actually buy one of these.
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Chopped34 wrote:VWish with that grille.
The whole thing looks like a VW to me. At first I thought it may have just been rebranded.
fortune cookie say: better a delay than a disaster
Wow a Suzuki I wouldn't be ashamed to say I'd own, especially the red one after the ugly engine cover is removed.
I thought it was a good looking car until I sat near one at the mall a few weeks ago & looked at it for like a half hour. The darn turn signals are sticking out of the bumper, why? Recess those puppies! 290 hp would make me able to overlook that, maybe. It started to look really puffy or bloated or something to me, not so sleek like I prefer, but that's my thing. It's an okay looking ride.
Not bad, the red one looks like a 4 door cobalt
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PT cruiser looking hood. VW grille for the red one, still sweet though
silver one has the evo look to it.
either way, i still like it.
im gonna be different but i gotta be honest im not a fan of either
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I like it, but what a dumb name.
It makes me think of a Lexus IS. It looks nice.
It just weird cause is a Suzuki.
I must acquire, Lord willing one day I shall.
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Wow thats a Suzuki?
To bad they will always be like a bic lighter in my mind. When it runs out you throw it away and get a new one.
Second picture of the Silver Kizashi looks like an SRT4 with a different front end.
i'd buy one
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Its actually not to bad, minus those taillights. Im impressed
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I drive a silver car wrote:Wow thats a Suzuki?
To bad they will always be like a bic lighter in my mind. When it runs out you throw it away and get a new one.
no differece then ours cavs lol