What car should I buy next?

[BlackOctaviaRS]

The only real negative thing I have seen in a review is that the Luxury version comes standard with a sunroof which does restrict headroom apparently. They were suggesting that Suzuki Australia may pull the sunroof off the standard features list and make it an option.
Suzuki's are generally incredibly reliable liitle cars (and motorcycles for that matter) but I don't think that the market percieves them as anything other than budget so I suspect resale on the first couple of years worth of Kizashi's could be low which could actually make for a bargain second hand purchase for my daughter in 2 or 3 years.
They have come a long way from the 360cc twin cyclinder two strokes that I first drove in the early 1970's.

I agree about the sunroof thing - I'm quite tall, and sunroofs end up being very restrictive on head room for me. I sat in a Kizashi yesterday, and the head room with the sunroof bothered me a little. While I was at the dealer though, the dealer showed me a Kizashi sport, which has just been released - AWD, bodykit, different 18" wheels. Looks good, and not bad value at $43k driveaway

(Sorry guys, not trying to hijack the Skoda forum - I do love our RS )

[anthony]

I test drove one before replacing my Jetta with the Euro,prefered both the Jetta and the Euro .
Looks a bit like the Jetta from the front.

[Brycem]

If we are seriously comparing Suzuki with Skoda matters have taken a turn for the worse...........................

[bobski]

haha - you get a lot of kit and its a similar sized vehicle with pretty good fuel economy... You never know until you drive one!

[seangti]

If we are seriously comparing Suzuki with Skoda matters have taken a turn for the worse...........................

lol, brand snobbery.

I do somewhat agree that people shopping around are less likely to be thinking Suzuki, Skoda (and VW) as competitors. The suzuki would compete more with the holden, ford and potentially mazda equivalents. But that's just my purchase behaviour/mentality.

Though I do like the suzuki, just would struggle to handover the money for one. Second hand I reckon could be a great buy.

[dArK5HaD0w]

Looks a bit like the Jetta from the front.

same here!

i could've sworn it was a "facelift" jetta when i first saw the kizashi pictures!!
i almost bought a jetta tfsi, so i got a bit excited when i 1st saw these images, before finding out it was a kizashi!!

[Brycem]

I come from a market where you can't give Suzukis away. Then again the same could be said for Subaru and other brands which sell well here. I just can't get my head around it. Suzuki are the poor man of Japanese manufacturing and in my view have been well and truly usurped by Hyundai and Kia's latest efforts.

[bobski]

If I was worried about resale I wouldn't have bought a Skoda.

Yeah, well you'd need to have a look at the i45 if you were shopping in that bracket. However, sometimes manufacturers come out with good cars when the rest are crapolla. Mind you, the latest Swift wasn't a bad bit of kit when it was fresh in the playground. Suppose it depends what you want. I'll always take a car thats fun to drive than a toyota (for example ).

[BlackOctaviaRS]

Oh well, just read the latest Wheels - they compared 6, Accord Euro, i45 & Kizashi - Accord Euro was judged best. Kizashi got bad raps for its speed and handling.

Back to looking at a golf GTI now...not that I'm complaining :-P

[bobski]

What model Kizashi was it? I've read reviews raving about it's ride - maybe let down by the handling?

The sport seems to have AWD, but no extra power? Their website seems a bit patchy and doesn't yet have complete specs for the sport. But from what I can tell, same engine, but AWD... ie, more weight?