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Filed under: Gadgets , Sedans/Saloons , Etc. , Hatchbacks , Suzuki Click image to enlarge Integrated nav systems are cash cows for the automakers. We've discussed this here before. While you can run to the local Target and buy a perfectly useful portable unit for around two-hundred bucks, clicking the nav checkbox on a car or truck's option sheet will probably run you ten times as much. That's painful. For the 2009 model year, however, Suzuki's looking to give shoppers some relief by making touchscreen nav standard equipment in the four-door SX4 Sport and front-wheel-drive SX4 crossover (the enclosed PR makes no mention of the 4WD crossover, but we're assuming that it also benefits from this). This makes Suzuki the first automaker to offer the feature as standard equipment in a sub-$16,000 vehicle. What a novel concept: using desirable equipment as the carrot instead of the stick. The flip-up unit, supplied by Garmin and dubbed "T.R.I.P", also delivers Bluetooth...
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Filed under: Concept Cars , LA Auto Show , Convertibles , Suzuki Click above image for high-res gallery of the Suzuki SX4 Makai concept Suzuki was obviously trying to tap into the So. Cal. culture of the LA Auto Show when it tasked Andry Specialty Vehicles to create the SX4-based Makai concept. After lopping off the roof, shaving the door handles and adding a NACA-like duct in the hood, they sprayed down the sedan in orange paint and accented it with the silver rollover hoop that provides another mounting point to attach a set of surfboards. LED running lights add some subtle flavor and 19-inch CEC wheels fill the widened wheel arches that frame four-wheel disc brakes with Rotora calipers. Although the exterior appointments are cool enough, our favorite feature is inside. Instead of fitting the concept seats - normally an ergonomic disaster - it looks like Suzuki made a trek to their corporate pool, plucked the chairs from around the frosted glass table and welded them inside. The results...
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Filed under: Motorsports , Hatchbacks , Suzuki A number of rumors began circulating the Web yesterday that contend Suzuki is in the process of building a homologation special out of its SX4 AWD hatch to take on the WRXs of the world. The idea was that...
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Filed under: Motorsports , Hatchbacks , Suzuki A number of rumors began circulating the Web yesterday that contend Suzuki is in the process of building a homologation special out of its SX4 AWD hatch to take on the WRXs of the world. The idea was that...
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Filed under: Motorsports , Hatchbacks , Suzuki Click the image above for high-res shots of Suzuki's WRC contender. Suzuki's newest entrant into the WRC may never grace the gravel if changes in car regulations take place earlier than anticipated. Originally...
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Filed under: Garage , Suzuki It's not easy these days to find a brand new car for less than $15,000, and if you're looking for all-wheel drive with that budget, your choices are severely limited. In fact, Suzuki says the 2007 SX4 is the least expensive...
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Filed under: Economy , Sedans/Saloons , Hatchbacks , Suzuki In memoriam: the Suzuki Forenza and its brother, the Reno , will shuffle off this mortal coil after 2008. Oh, how we barely knew thee - but we're not surprised. Both vehicles have seen a dip...
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