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Written by Ollie Kew
As you know, Top Gear"s got a Suzuki Swift Sport to live with for a few months. Here"s one of the interesting questions it raises: would you rather have a cheap, simple car, or a more expensive, equipment-laden car? No, seriously. Not a trick. Not a rhetorical question. Is having loads of toys on board really all it"s cracked up to be, in a fundamentally plain, easy-please-me warm hatch? The sheer philanthropic quantity of equipment the Swift Sport chucks in your direction for 18k looks ace in the brochure, but I"m not convinced. Exhibit A: the radar-adaptive cruise control. It"s a primitive system, startled by cars moving into my lane ahead, braking hard then surging uncomfortably when the idea is to, well, cruise. As a result, I barely use it. The throttle pedal is already lighter than stepping on a helium-filled marshmallow, so it"s not as if ankle-ache is a worry on a long journey.
Date written: 16 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14068
As you know, Top Gear"s got a Suzuki Swift Sport to live with for a few months. Here"s one of the interesting questions it raises: would you rather have a cheap, simple car, or a more expensive, equipment-laden car? No, seriously. Not a trick. Not a rhetorical question. Is having loads of toys on board really all it"s cracked up to be, in a fundamentally plain, easy-please-me warm hatch? The sheer philanthropic quantity of equipment the Swift Sport chucks in your direction for 18k looks ace in the brochure, but I"m not convinced. Exhibit A: the radar-adaptive cruise control. It"s a primitive system, startled by cars moving into my lane ahead, braking hard then surging uncomfortably when the idea is to, well, cruise. As a result, I barely use it. The throttle pedal is already lighter than stepping on a helium-filled marshmallow, so it"s not as if ankle-ache is a worry on a long journey.
Date written: 16 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14068
