One of my first gigs ever involving a racetrack was working as a cone monkey for an SCCA autocross my junior year of high school as a volunteer deal for the JROTC I was a part of. It was a simple trade-off: I would shuttle cones for half of the day, the other half of the day would be spent riding shotgun in whatever seat I could wedge myself into. After spending the morning running myself stupid in the heat and sunshine at Bremerton Raceways, the clouds moved in, the weather cooled and I went on a few entertaining laps in a wide variety of cars, including a very new Mallet C5 Corvette, a six-speed swapped B-body Impala SS, and a couple of hot 5.0 Mustangs. But one car that really stuck out wasn’t V8 powered…it was a red Suzuki Swift, the kissing cousin of the Geo Metro that I had spent my formative years making fun of. It wasn’t particularly loud or overbuilt, but it was laying waste to just about everything that stickered in under $90,000. The owner of a Dodge Viper was getting angry, and the owner of a Ferrari 550 Maranello was actually saying that he would leave if he got spanked by the little red rocket.
Which leads to this white Swift. If you ever wanted to know just how far you could take the most 1990s economy car, here you go. This thing sounds wicked, absolutely on point. It corners better than it has any right to, and it hustles quite nicely for a 1.3L mill. This is a fully prepared track toy, and it’s making a case for going onto Craigslist and hunting down the first example that isn’t a rusted shell…
You can watch the whole video below, or you can skip to 6:20 to get to the car lapping the track.
Ha ha ha! – “Pissed” in England means extremely drunk and that car sounds like its had a few pints!
A cool Suzuki Swift? YEAH! It sound great
Shorts, no sleeves and kickin ass!