Suzuki Swift Test drive 5 doors 1996 - 2002 hatchback
Size matters
Even one who has never been abroad knows that in Europe there are full of small, compact cars. In Russia, the opposite is true. There are almost no babies on the streets of the capital, and among the foreign cars sold, class B, that is, with a length of 3.5-3.9 m, make up an insignificant share. What is a mentality? Folk rumor does not recognize a full-fledged foreign car, ...
A modest hero
Arriving at the salon after the car, I looked at it for a long time. And, I admit, I thought: why conduct a test drive of a car, which it seems that it does not make sense to write about (it has been made unchanged for several years)? Doubts were dispelled after the first kilometers in city traffic jams. Unstable appearance, modest salon, rubber 155/70R13, True, Michelin, 1300 ...
Nimble, like ... "Swift"
We continue to introduce foreign applicants for sympathy and wallet of domestic motorists. More precisely, that part of them, which can already afford the prestigious VAZ 2110, but increasingly escorts inexpensive foreign cars with a thoughtful look: why not? - As the French say. So, today we intend to change the top ten, but ...
Old horse
We met! We have already met the car as an alternative to Vazovskaya Ten (ZR, 2000, No. 5), he also got into the company of classmates (ZR, 1999, No. 9), and indeed, since his birth in 1983 he managed to make it pretty much to land On the pages of the car press. Nineteen years in production - unprecedented by current standards ...
Only "kids" go into battle
It's time to admit to move in a big city in a large car. Waiting for waiting in traffic jams. Suitable attempts to squeeze into the parking lot near the office. And the cost of gas stations ... If you want, you don’t want to, but you start to think about city transport ... or about a city car, small and economical. There were three of them. Purebred Korean Hyunde Excents, Hungarian Japanese ...
Kids
In the July issue, readers of the magazine have already met with inexpensive compact vehicles gradually gaining more and more popularity. Recall that then we were talking about Nissan Micra, Fiat Punto and Peugeot 106. Today we continue the conversation about representatives of the population of city babies ... This time, Suzuki Swift and ...