Suzuki SX4 sedan test drive since 2010 sedan

Feylifting Suzuki SX4

There is not a single reason to deny yourself the purchase of an updated Suzuki SX4. For the third month now I have been writing only about the restyling of crossovers. And, it seems, I'm starting to see. We will never get from Feyslift what we really need.


Restyling is not intended for motorists. It serves the priests of marketing in two hundred -dollar ties.

I want the machine to become more convenient after the update: for example, an automatic mode of lifting/lowering the glasses or adjusting the steering wheel by departure appeared, the devices were better read, the headlights shone brighter, the brakes were grasped stronger. But this has never happened yet. Money is spent on design. The pattern of fog headlights is changing. The lower edge of the bumper acquires a small bend, and a beautiful line appears on the seats. All this was a mystery to me, until recently they published crushing data. It turns out that Japanese automobile companies save $ 30 on one machine, simply depriving it of an automatic windows mode. With the output volume of 200,000 cars, you can put 6 million in a pocket! Can they refuse such optimization during restyling? Forget it. Faisilift Suzuki SX4 is just a quiet sneeze in the middle of the street at rush hour. Do not feel it.


I had to put it like this and with the help of a photographer. Innature did not work out


The crossed terrain for the SX4 is traumatic. Road clearance is small


The trunk is big if you moved to SX4 from Suzuki Jimny

Why not Qashqai?
Well, let's at least refresh our impressions of one of the most affordable crossovers. First of all, he is simple. And convenient if you are not tall. More precisely, if you do not have too long legs longitudinal adjustment of the driver's seat could be more. For luxury, forget the budget decoration, in full accordance with the price. But this machine weighs only 1,200 kilograms, so all the horrors of a heavy all -wheel drive are not afraid of it. Its creators did not fight overweight and a high center of gravity. True, there is no need to wait for the special smoothness of the passage, but the handling is intelligible, in some places even a delicious steering wheel is unexpectedly elastic, the rolls of the body do not interfere. Dynamic fitted runner. And the engine, by the way, is quite alive.


The salon is simple, but it looks nice. Even the imitation of aluminum is not bad


There is no doubt. Press Lock on the ground immediately, otherwise it does not go

Here are just four speeds for an automatic gearbox. But there is an opportunity to limit yourself to three. True, this is superfluous. In fact, everything that is needed in the city is to fix the automatic transmission selector in second gear. Delight sprinkles. I traveled just like that for several days. The consumption, of course, is selected for 12 liters (for a motor with a working volume of 1.6 liters, this is a lot), but what a dispersal sound! What maneuvers! I was able to overtake the minibus for the second time in 10 years !!!

Then the photographer and I moved from the asphalt. Rested on a clay hill. Slowed down. Come out. And we went back. The man who gave us the car for the test warned: if you scratch the bumper, I will be very offended by you. And he is right, with such an angle of entry Suzuki SX4 there is nothing to do on a crossed area. Only snow or sand.



Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 

A source: Magazine 4x4 [August /2010]