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What's this "slowing down" nonsense?Originally Posted by clutch-monkey
It's stupidly light, and yet it's still not at all fast, this troubles me. Surely a 4 banger that makes respectable amounts of torque could be fitted? As a general rule of thumb, if motorcyles make more torque than you're car you may have a problem.
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Get this. It should be heaps of fun as long as it's in good condition and the money is right.
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why? you can uprate the existing engine, and it's not like it really needs the power, being a kei class car and all.
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Sometimes you can have more fun going 40 than 140.
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There are upgrades for the Suzi including transplanting a Hyabusa engine in them, the original engine is turbo charged and that could be tweaked for more power as from what Ive read the chassis is very good
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Confusing average and peak speedIt's stupidly light, and yet it's still not at all fast, this troubles me.
Having driven this and a Beat, they can maintain a higher corner speed than most cars around.
Personally it's MUCH more fun and challenging to make a car fast on twisties than it is on a straight bit of road.; Any monkey can push a throttle to the floor
Unless you dont' weigh much more than it and you've better traction with 4 flat tyres than two round onesAs a general rule of thumb, if motorcyles make more torque than you're car you may have a problem.
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it's you're money if you want it buy it realy doesn't mater what anyone here or anywhere else think's, life to short to worry about other people's opinion's when it comes to car's.
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it didn't even occur to me that he might have been referring to something elsecornersstraight line speed is irrelevant in this car...
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Ok, I am in Adelaide, Australia and these two Suzuki Cappuccino cars are in Melbourne, Australia but I can now afford either car.
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