Yep…with three dogs a car might come in handy sometimes…I’m buying it together with my girlfriend…I wouldn’t have bought one myself alone. She had her heart set on one for a long time…and would have bought it with or without me…so I decided to help her. I have some regrets…but it’s a good car and is winning many “Car of the Year” awards so…I don’t feel too bad. Plus my girlfriend is a really awesome human being…and she deserves to have something nice for once.
I had a Polo which I bought with my roommate…but he started driving the shit out of it…not to mention crashing it…and I just let him buy my half from me…since I didn’t use it much.
I won’t be using this car much either…but my girlfriend wanted to buy a car with or without me…and like most Taiwanese she doesn’t make much money…so I wanted to help her with it…plus I think it’s kinda cool being half owner of such a nice car .
Personaly I newer understod why people buy that car, but I look forward to the rant we will get here together with a vid about the fist bumb or scratch.
Personaly I newer understod why people buy that car, but I look forward to the rant we will get here together with a vid about the fist bumb or scratch.[/quote]
It’s one of the most popular cars of the year…why not buy it? I saw a stock Swift on the race track in Longtan the other week…he was holding his own.
I don’t care about cars…you can scratch it…dent it…shit on it…I won’t complain. Cars are dog transportation tools in my eyes.
Well my one pence is that the Swift is a great car aside from its poor rear space for both seating and storage. It’s really nice inside though with a lovely smooth dash and good dials. I also like Suzuki very much in terms of value for money as I worked on Suzukis for a number of years, and can say that they have few problems and yet many advantages. The last generation Swift had a 1.0 litre 3 cylinder model and easily managed 50 MPG or above and I was amazed at its endurance too. I drove one of the little lawnmowers from the south to the north of England non stop with my foot to the floor the entire way, screeming its engine and averaging about 90MPH between third and fourth gear. I still got 45 MPG and the car just wouldn’t die. I presently own a Suzuki Solio and I think that it is another design wonder of the folks at Suzuki, winning record sales and design awards. It’s shorter than a Nissan March yet has more interior space as well as clever and numerous storage functions and a very versitile seating arangement. The rear seats fold down flat leaving a great space for plenty of dogs, or if you’re more like me, tons of big stuff from B&Q. The rear door even doubles as a shelter from the rain when opened, leaving a space underneath to boil pots of tea and food. I have camped with it on a few occasions too.
Getting back to the Swift though. It has great looks and has been designed and redesigned over a few generations now. It’s older brother was a fantastic 1.3 GTI and would beat the pants off of any small hatch I ever raced. Girls love it, guys love it, and although the new Swift is much heavier than its older predecessor and can’t easily provide the same buzz as the older version, it more than makes up in creature comforts such as climate control, front and side airbags, better seats and far better plastics. My gripe with the Swift as with many other new cars though is that because of its lovely smooth fitting, flush dashboard, there is a severe limit to the option for changing out the stereo, and that is a crime on a hatchback that looks as fine as the Swift does.
I really like the looks of the Swift. They look like the cretin who designed the Solio saw a new Mini one day, came off the crackpipe for a couple of weeks and designed something that actually looks like a car.
[quote=“Mordeth”]Yep…with three dogs a car might come in handy sometimes…I’m buying it together with my girlfriend…I wouldn’t have bought one myself alone. She had her heart set on one for a long time…and would have bought it with or without me…so I decided to help her. I have some regrets…but it’s a good car and is winning many “Car of the Year” awards so…I don’t feel too bad. Plus my girlfriend is a really awesome human being…and she deserves to have something nice for once.
We got ourselves one of these too - the gunmetal grey colour. I like it a lot - OK so it’s not very macho but I’m very happy with it. Economical, comfortable, a decent drive, plus it doesn’t look like a shed on wheels (Solio) or a kid’s toy (March etc). Good choice!
Congrats on the new wheels! Ok, now while you’re at it, you’ll need a new 1.6 engine from the Swift GT along with the 6 speed gearbox. Bolt in a Vortec supercharger on that baby and watch it fly!!
Seriously, a friend of mine has that setup above and it’s an amazing drive.
I had an '89 Swift GTi. It had a twin-cam 16v 1.3L if you take the reciprocating mass out of the suzuki sidekick/Prince it strokes it to 1.6L. I added cams, header, chip, and throttle body… damn that was a fun car. I’d love to play with the new ones. It looks like there’s going to be a nice aftermarket for it.
The colour of the car has been such a headache. My girlfriend and I bought it together (more her car than mine to be honest) and her favourite colour was my least favorite and vise versa. She ended up agreeing to my favorite colour…but then I felt guilty since the car is mainly for HER. But she insisted that whe would get used to my favorite colour…and I truly think it is the best choice…it’s easily safer than any of the other colours.
~~ the best colour for the swift is white ~~ with black rims, and some carbon goodies
congrats on the car… have considered a swift myself, but the current ride is a much better choice for me considering the family - the swift is a nice car, but too small for my needs -_- oh well, for fun i still have the bike, so no complaints there.
I need some help guys. My girlfriend’s friends and family are telling her that we are getting ripped off because the shop didn’t give us any additions for free.
I went by the shop and he explained (for the 2nd time) that this is because he’s giving us such a great deal on financing. Which is 3 years, no money down, no interest. And yes…that’s great…but I noticed that they have a sign on the wall offering 2 years, no interest, to anyone who just walks in off the street. So the only thing he is giving us extra is one year’s worth of interest…and that being the final year would have less interest considering the larger part would already be paid off…you still with me?
So since we are paying asking price 538k…and the only privelage we’ve been offered is the 3 years, no interest deal…which you truly can’t get at any other dealer…we went to one other and talked to someone who worked at a third.
Anyway…does that seem about right? Oh…and we went in and bought two cars at the same time (her friend)…that should also be taken into consideration.
I should also mention that he is offering us extras at cost…which counts for something I guess…like there is one option that lists as 35k and he said he’d let us have it for 27k…and my girlfriend says he should give it to us…meanwhile I tried asking for free window tinting and he wouldn’t even do that much…but I’m starting to repeat myself.
It is to be expected that someone is going to tell you that you are not getting enough ‘free stuff’. I hear that kind of stuff all the time. Someone is always there to tell you that you have been ripped off.
Truth is that the salesman has a budget to work from and he can get you some extras for ‘free’ if he is getting the price he wants from the sale of the car. I bought a new VW Bora and it was also free financing and we got some great free junk. We also paid sticker price and the best free thing we got was the window tinting that was not the color I had asked for. But he told me the one I wanted was too expensive and with the budget he had he could not give us the baby car seat and the tinting I had wanted.
Anyway. If you are happy with the car and shopped around to get the best price don’t listen to those people who are so quick to tell you that you should have gotten lots more free stuff.
That sounds good to me. I’d far rather have that extra interest-free year than a free fucking roofrack or tinted windows or whatever.
If I were you I’d get crotchety on their arses – invite them not-so-politely to go down there and haggle you a better deal, since they’re OBVIOUSLY SOOOOOOO much better at it than you.
I’ve heard that shit SO many times here. For pretty much every big-ticket item I’ve ever bought here. It’s like a kneejerk reaction – “Waaaaaah! Tai gwei lah! You should ask for special price, blah blah fucking blah.” I just tell 'em “Fuck it. Why bother? I’m a wealthy man. I don’t care. I’m happy to pay extra if it means I don’t have to argue over a couple of grand like a penny-pinching fucking hayseed from the sticks.”
M<y most recent was my sis-in-law, who told me a guitar I’d bought was far too expensive. Not that I’d paid too much money for a guitar, you understand, but that THAT PARTICULAR guitar wasn’t worth what I’d paid for it. “How many gits have you ever seen up close, sis?” I asks her. “Well, none.”
“How many times have you been shopping for guitars? Compared prices?”
“You can tell it’s too expensive. Look.”
“You are a dull-witted lump of pond life who’s never dragged her sorry slimy buttocks any further from Wuqi toward even the most primitive of civilization than the Shalu swampland in her entire life and yet you have the GALL! The sheer, unmitigated GALL, to attempt to advise me on ANY aspect of the way I order my life? Begone, thou fetid toad!”
Well, I might have worded that last part slightly differently.
Fuck 'em. The price sounds pretty good to me. Enjoy the car. Make sure you take up smoking for the next time you see these know-it-all “friends” so you can ostantatiously light your cigs with NT$1,000 bills (use a colour photocopier – I’m not THAT stupid!).
I’m gonna chime in here since my family is in the car business…
The car industry at the moment is at a low. Mordeth, you could have held the cake and eat it at the same time… without a napkin even. Suzuki Swift sales have been good but not that great. I have never paid full price for a car even when it was financed. The least the salesman could have done was to give you lots of free stuff. There has to be a balance. In a financing deal, the bank pays the car company the full amount financed in cash so they’re not losing out on the interest… the bank is but that’s their problem and not yours. Ok, now add in the fact that you bought 2 cars at the same time and you had a perfect opportunity to really gouge the salesman. The correct strategy here would have been to go to other Suzuki dealers and shop around. I’m willing to bet that if you had rejected his deal, he would have called you within 2 days to offer you an even better deal.
Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh but that’s my view on car purchases and my view only… all disclaimers apply…
No, problem. We went to other dealerships…none could offer 0% interest on the total price. None. The guy who we dealt with was the owner…I think. And the bank wouldn’t lend out 538k without getting something in return. I’m guessing Suzuki has to pay them 10-20k for the deal. The bank would be losing money otherwise.
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