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  1. Hi, Would like to check if CM models ZC31S original audio system is able to connect bluetooth & play music. Thanks in advance !
  2. Hi guys, Starting the v2.0 of this thread, since the previous one is full.
  3. any 1 selling swift sport owner's manual?? thks in advance..
  4. Saw this on Facebook. Super daring Suzuki Swift. Anybody knows the owner? I wanna know how long it can last on the roads.
  5. [extract] Suzuki has unveiled a photo, one measly photo of the 2012 Suzuki Swift Sport to the world. This little teaser is ahead of its launch at this year
  6. The 2011 Geneva Motor Show also brought out concept cars that have a real chance of coming true. One of these cars is the Suzuki Swift S-Concept, a concept car based on the latest Suzuki Swift hatchback that had only made its debut at the end of last year in several markets around the world (but surprisingly not over at this part of the world). This little hot hatch concept is a preview to what the next Suzuki Swift Sport will look like. And it is pretty tasty, although it does look too similar to the outgoing model. You get the same sort of bodykit with that similar slightly more aggressive front end compared to the basic Swift. You also get a similar Canary Yellow color that seems to suit the Swift Sport well. It also gets interior trimming that is like the outgoing Swift Sport, especially the high backed sports seats (by RECARO) and a similar looking, albeit slightly tweaked interior. This shows that the new Swift is actually an evolution of the outgoing model rather than a total revolution. Well, if it ain't broke, why fix it? The Swift S-Concept is based on the 2 door hatchback form that is sold over in Europe and since the car is already on sale over there, this is the model Suzuki based the S-Concept on. I suppose it is pretty easy for you readers to imagine how the bodykit would sit on the 4 door Suzy that we would eventually receive. The only real change that I can see is that the car is very slightly larger than its predecessor and the only way you can tell this is from the wheel size used by the S-Concept
  7. Not too long ago, I paid my final tribute to a trusty friend on this blog. And like the saying goes, "out with the old, in with the new". As a replacement for my trusty ride, I will be welcoming a spanking new Suzuki Swift Sport some time within the next week. Now, the wisdom of buying a new car at record high COE prices or the debate over the Swift Sport are all topics that have been discussed on this blog. So, let us leave those topics aside. Today's post is all about the pre-car collection excitement that I have been experiencing. Now this is by no means my first ride; but, somehow, I am still feeling that same amount of excitement and impatience that I felt years ago when I was waiting for my very first ride. I am trawling the Internet for facts, info and potential modifications. I am mentally drawing up plans for all the stuff I intend to do to it. Lets just say that it is gonna be a pretty long Xmas wishlist that Santa will be getting from me this year! Honestly, words can't really describe this heady mix of excitement and impatience that is surging through me as I count down to car collection. I guess I really am a bit (or a lot) of a car freak! Well, anyway, I have been wondering if I am the only freak who gets this jumped up about collecting a new car. This is because when my Dad got his new car, he was a picture of calm. The 3 month wait didn't bother him one bit. In fact, his reaction when informed by the SE that his car could be collected earlier, his reaction was "So fast?". And I am guessing that his attitude is probably the predominant one among Singaporeans. The car is more of a transportation tool and is just like buying a household appliance. Nothing particularly exciting about it. Even less so, if you already have a car to use. Or does it have to do with how much you desire the incoming car? So here's my question to all you readers, which camp do you belong to? Freaks or utilitarians? In the meantime, I am off to continue the (agonizing) count down to my car collection. Until next time!
  8. I love Alfa Romeo. Every time I see one passing by I will always do another take at it as these cars ooze character from every body panel. The first time I sat in an Alfa I was very, very young. This was sometime in the early '80s. My uncle had a Alfa Giulia 1300 super and it was an awsome looking car. It looked nothing like the square boxes that most sedans looked like during that period and it sounded totally throaty every time my uncle blipped the throttle. Nowadays, Alfas sound a little subdued, but they still ooze character from every panel as they are like a nicely fitted Italian suit. Even though some days you have to pray whether the Alfa would function perfectly instead of some electrical gremlin or some mechanical anomaly that would suddenly plague it for no apparent reason. So I recently drove the Alfa Romeo Mito. In terms of looks and styling this car is a successful mix of retro and modern touches. It is a premium 3 door supermini based on the Fiat Punto Grande chassis. It is designed to compete with the BMW Mini, the soon to be released Audi A1 and somewhat with its Fiat group stablemate, the Fiat 500. According to most people, the styling is derived from the limited run Alfa Romeo 8c Competizione. To me it looks pretty successful, especially when you pair it with either a red car, black dashboard and tan seats or a white car, black dashboard and ox-blood coloured leather seats. Both on Alfa telephone dial style 17 inch rims and it looks like a million dollars. That being said, only Italians design with such flair and it shows in the Mito. It looks good for such a small car. Now after ogling at its looks you get inside the car and find that it looks pretty sensible. There is a key which you use to turn the engine on. No start button or keyless fob but your basic key. You adjust the seat and steering (which only adjusts for height and not for reach) and then find out that it is pretty decent. No ergonomic errors (long armed short legs driving position) like in some Alfas of old. There is enough headroom for six footers in the Mito and everything seems to be in the correct position for spirited driving. There is also dual zone climate controls. But in a car this small, it is a little redundant as it seems too small to use split air-conditioning. Of course, spec-junkies would like this fact. The material used for the interior is a mix of leather for the seats, steering wheel and the plastics used are of higher than usual quality found it your average supermini. But, that being said, I find the interior only slightly more upmarket than the Punto Grande which the car is based on. The point here is that after the stunning exterior, you only get a decent interior. Of course this isn't as bad as you think. As being a supermini and not a luxury GT it is still built to a price point. Now we come to the all important fact of driving the Mito. This is where it goes downhill. According to the specs sheet the car I drove had the 1.4 turbo charged 4 cylinder with 155ps and 230nm of torque driving through a 6 speed manual gearbox. A Q2 torsen based limited slip differential is there to help out this Front Wheel Drive car in corners and on acceleration. The usual ABS, EBD and stability control functions are also included in the car. It also has a DNA switch, D stands for dynamic, N for normal and A for All Weather. This adjusts the throttle and steering responses of the Mito. So with all of these tech and driver's aid, it drives terribly. Terribly? Yes, that's what I said. I started in normal mode and basically found the steering pretty fast in that N (normal) mode but too light to my liking. The throttle response was decent but one surprising thing was that on a sweeping downhill off cambered corner it felt unnerving as the tail felt like it was ready to pitch me and its tail into oncoming traffic. I was going at 80km/h at the time and I basically flicked the steering wheel like I usually did on most of the cars and it wanted to oversteer due to the quick steering response. But this was in N mode. I was expecting quicker steering in the Dynamic (D) mode and was slightly surprised by its behaviour. After few more kilometers in N, I switched to D, and upon accelerating you could feel the electric steering weighting down a little and the throttle response much more frantic. In this mode things are still not much better. The reason for this is that while throttle response is good, meaning that the engine lets loose all of its 155ps sooner than in the other modes (0-100km/h in 8 secs), and its steering is faster than before it still feels unsorted. It was so unsorted through another downhill sweeping corner in 5th gear at around 100km/h that I was left in disbelief. The car understeered worse than a normal Suzuki Swift would and the fact that it had an LSD (the Q2 system), and large (for its size) 215/40/17 tires on the car made the experience even more disappointing. It could be because I should have been on 4th, but again, in some of the cars I have driven heavy understeer wouldn't have happened at that speeds. It could be the stability control kicking in too early. But this surely distracts from the driver having any driving pleasure. It made 155ps feel so uncontrollable. Never had 155ps and 230 Nm felt like it was so ready to overwhelm its chassis. You would never find a problem like this in a Swift Sport (sublime chassis control) or even the Alfa 147 (which rolls in corners but doesn't do understeer like the Mito at the same speeds) or on any 200bhp front wheel drive Audi/VW. So after using two of the three settings, I find out that it may oversteer without your knowledge but it also may understeer like crazy So I ended up trying the A (All weather) mode for the final few kilometers. Somehow I liked this setting. The steering feels nicely weighted (like in D mode) and the throttle subdued like the N mode. This somehow makes the car seem decent. As if this setting is meant to extract the most grip from the chassis, even though it only changes throttle and steering settings. The car seems most settled here and this is the setting I'd use most of the time if I bought it, or till I really get used to the car's idiosyncrasies. Of course if you're a decent, read as slow most of the time, driver then the Mito would be good for you. Cruising down Orchard Road or the Marina area it'll play its part as a stunning picture perfect little car. Cruising down the North South Highway it'll also play its part as a long distance tourer as it does not have a rock hard ride and the engine is pretty subdued most of the time (not as gruff as Alfas of old or even the 1.6 in the old 147 but due to it being a turbocharged engine, it is quieter as the turbo drowns out most of the exhaust note). After driving the car I was disappointed. It looked fabulous, but it drives like someone suffering from bi-polar disorder. At one time it wants to kill me at low speeds, the other time it doesn't want to kill me at high speeds. It cannot make up its mind on whether it wants to be sporting or not. So in conclusion, it is beautiful to look at, bi-polar to drive and because of this fact it is still an Alfa , a flawed gem. Maybe too flawed for me to actually yearn for it. So if I was looking for a small supermini, I may go for the Mini Cooper S or the cheaper Suzuki Swift Sport. What can I say? I'm a handling freak and this car does not give me my daily dose of it.
  9. Someone mentioned Suzuki? I have to honestly say that the current Suzuki Swift Sports is a mighty fine supermini. The first time I drove it I was slightly taken aback by the slightly rubbery steering feel and the slightly high up sitting position. But the more and more I went back to the same corner with the Suzy things became much clearer. This little hatchback is really good. This was a car that reminded me of the time when hot hatches were small dainty cars with responsive and revvy engines coupled with handling to boot. Classic hatchbacks that come to mind are the original Mk1 and Mk2 VW Golfs (surprise, surprise), the 4th Generation Honda Civic EF, the CRX EF (in some ways), the original Swift GTI and the Fiat 130TC. A notable new mention would be the BMW Mini Cooper S. Some of these cars were 'hot' long before some of you started to walk and they are in some ways the quintessential hot hatches. They were light, nimble small cars that had slightly powerful engines stuffed under their bonnets. Note that I said light, nimble and small. Cars like the Mk 4 and Mk5 Golf GTIs became a 30 something year old guy suffering from middle age spread around the tummy but due to some weight lifting and bulk, had the bhp and torque to still throw a punch; somewhat. Ergo the Swift Sport reminded me of the good ol' days. One of the important facts of a hot or slightly warm hatch is affordability. The Swift Sport epitomizes this fact and when you add the all important point of handling, it's a done deal. This is the only small Front Wheel Drive (FWD) hatchback that I tried which would allow its tail to wag upon trail braking into a corner or the fact that when you lift off mid corner the nose would tuck in and its rear would follow through. It was unnerving at first because most of the FWD cars that I had driven lately seemed happy to understeer early on if you entered a corner a little too fast. I then realized that this was a car where anyone didn't need to spend tons of money on tuning the suspension to chuck the car about. While the steering was slightly rubbery and springy, always wanting to straighten out, it was precise, quick and had feedback & feel, making any corner an opportunity for the driver to go for it. The only other affordable car that will handle like this is the Proton Satria Neo, but you'd suffer from a serious lack of headroom and the overall lack of quality if you bought one. Unless you were a hobbit and have never seen or felt better grades of plastic before. If you wanted a car that you felt you could trust while attacking the apex of a corner, you'd want a Swift Sport. Due to the short wheelbase and the tire at each corner of the chassis you would feel that when you point the little car into a corner and before you know it, you're at the apex and powering through it. But if you're the kind of person who's not used to the car, I'd suggest taking time to learn the handling before going Banzai. If you didn't, you might shock yourself when it does what it does best, which is take a slightly drifting attitude at high speeds. Forget gadgets like launch control, traction control or even mind control. This car is pure, old school fun. The drawback to owning this car is the fact that the 1.6liter 125bhp engine is merely adequate due to the 1100kg curb weight and a 0 to 100km/h time takes about 9seconds. Give it another 25bhp you'll be grinning like crazy 100% of the time instead of 90% of the time when you're driving this car. The other drawback is that it has a small boot. But how many times a year do you use it to carry things? Or do you even go on drive-to holidays? So if you're looking for a decent warm to hot little car, buy the Suzy even though it has been around for awhile now. Do not buy Nissan Latios or Hyundai Vernas. Because if you do, you're just buying transport, and not fun. However, if you decide to save some money and buy the basic 1.5liter or 1.3 liter models of the Swift, the handling is pretty much the same but understeer sets in early and the tail refuses to wag about like the Sport. Maybe its safer for novice drivers too. I suppose the understeer is due to smaller tires (185/60/15 over 195/50/16) on rims one size smaller and narrower (15inches over 16inches). Shock absorber setting also differ but I do not think by much. The plus side is that the steering somehow feels less rubbery, without the slightly more aggressive self centering effect probably due to less rubber on the road. It is still a fun car to drive nonetheless.
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