Spied: 2010 Suzuki Kizashi
August 30, 2008 by Alborz Fallah
Hiding under yards of heavy black vinyl, padding and netting, is the all-new mid-sized family sedan from Suzuki: the Kizashi!
Although the name may (or may not) change, we suspect the later, this is the production version of the concept that made its world debut at the New York Auto Show earlier this year.
Obviously toned down a bit from the sleek concept, the Kizashi will be built in Sagara, Japan, and will arrive at dealerships in Australia in early 2010.
Suzuki is pitting the Kizashi up against Toyota’s Camry and – in the U.S. – the hot selling Chevrolet Malibu, therefore it was no surprise to find a few of the Chevys out testing with the Kizashi prototypes.
Power-wise, we’re expecting the base model to be equipped with a ~120kW 2.3-litre 4-cylinder engine, and the top-of-the-line Kizashi will be powered by a 3.6-litre V6 (with around 220kW) mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission.
One Suzuki engineer recently told CarAdvice that the Kizashi will be available in higher specification as an All-Wheel-Drive, pitching it as a competitor to the Subaru Liberty.
Suzuki Australia will be bringing the Kizashi 3 concept (pictured) to the Sydney motor show later this year.
Will Suzuki break into the mid-sized market with the Kizashi?
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That concept is so good. *sigh*
What’s with the 4wd mirrors on the prototype?
Still the exhaust openings look like they might have made the transition from concept to showroom.
The swift is an enormous hit and this could do it again.
*****PRIMO!*****
These normally black covered-mules got me thinking.
If the manufacturers sent out the final product in white colour NOBODY would even notice it!!
It would work, trust me on this, seen 1 Japper they all look the same, tar-n-feathered from the same batch!
Cheers
F-0
You’re a moron F-0. If you want to accuse cars of all looking the same try muscle cars from the 70s, or modern American sedans, or better yet, the Porsche 911, the same for 40 years. Don’t come out with some mildy racist rubbish about Japanese mid size sedans all looking the same.
That concept is a fantastic looking car, if enough of the design ques are carried over easily the best looking in the class.
If you were looking to hide a car in plain sight, hit it up with a ridiculous paint job, auto salon style. Debadge it and run the stereo at full volume, everyone would just think it was a heavily modified show car or the like, in dark purple covered in stickers and the like it would be impossible to see the body lines properly.
Running a white car is the worst thing you want to hide it. White accentuates all the body lines of the car, so a photographer would great an excellent shot of the car and all its features.
i was told white and black hide body lines/contours?
either way, Kizashi3 concept is stunning, and i could only hope the production variant resembles it almost identically (like BMW did with the X6 and M3)
Don’t own a black car, but white is superb at accentuating a car’s features. Put a car without body lines in white and it looks boring, but if the surface of the car is contoured, like most modern cars or sports cars and it highlights those features.
I think vey-ron may have been referring to the white/black chequerd pattern camoflage, it causes an optical illusion that makes it difficult to see the contours of the body work.
I’m a little bit excited about this one, i think its going to be pretty good!
No rear leg room much? that door is soo short. Cannot imagine someone more than 6′ tall sitting comfortably in the back.
Will have to wait until official interior images are avaliable to confirm my belief.
About time they made a move.Suzuki deserve more success.
Proportions look great, but I’m not convinced yet. Swift has been a big hit in the market but the quality’s not really there – they present well when new but get surprisingly loose after a couple of years, and remember what a dog the Baleno was. Hopefully Suzuki will get it right with an upmarket sedan, because they’ll only get one chance.
Yeah totally agree with ya mainwaring. But the Swift’s rep has dragged Suzuki up with it, so I think this is the deal that seals it. The missus wud be looking for a car by then, so we might drop by a Suzuki dealership.
For F-O
Primo is actually Italian for first, not second.
Captain Mainwarning – i actually didn’t think the baleno was that bad, it was never the best small hatch on the market, but i thought it was an acceptable small car transport and i was under the impression that it was also quite a durable little car aswell.
From the pictures it looks like the concept may have been toned down a lot, rather than a little. I hope not, it could be really good.
Suzuki make great motorbikes – they should stick to what they are good at.
Stevo (or should that be STD?) they are Japan’s forth largest car manfacturer. (by volume and brand value).
and top 4 for motorbikes. you were saying?
Stevo just likes shooting down based purely on the location in which they are built.
i would’ve really liked to have seen them kept the lights, (head/tail) also the side mirrors because now from what you can see it looks like a regular vehicle, i love suzuki, i own a 2006 top of the line fully loaded suzuki verona, i hope it looks/rides/has more to offer than my verona, i was going to trade up for the 09 genesis, until i seen the concept suzuki kizashi 3, but judging by the pics i can see the genesis purchase is almost inevitable, suzuki, show me something/change my mind