Category: Suzuki

UNUSUAL CARS MODEL GUIDE Featured image: Vauxford, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; locally hosted. The Suzuki Wagon R+ brought Japanese tall-car thinking to British buyers before the idea became normal. Its upright body, short bonnet and wheels pushed towards the corners created remarkable passenger space from a tiny road footprint. The second-generation European model…

UNUSUAL CARS MODEL GUIDE Featured image: Spanish Coches, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; locally hosted. The Suzuki Baleno GSR 1.8 was an understated late-1990s warm hatch: a light three-door body, a chain-driven twin-cam engine producing about 120 bhp and almost no visual theatre. Sold officially in Britain after the Baleno facelift, it offered brisk…

UNUSUAL CARS MODEL GUIDE Featured image: Rudolf Stricker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; locally hosted. The Suzuki Liana was a tall, practical family car whose name stood for “Life In A New Age”. Launched in 2001 and sold in Britain as a five-door hatchback and four-door saloon, it combined a roomy cabin with compact exterior…

UNUSUAL CARS MODEL GUIDE Featured image: Rutger van der Maar, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; locally hosted. The Suzuki X-90 was the sort of car only the 1990s could have produced: a two-seat, two-door mini-SUV with a separate chassis, selectable four-wheel drive, a removable glass T-bar roof and a conventional boot. It reached the…