Cutest. Car. Ever.
Behold the Suzuki LC -- a concept car the company released this year. It's an update of the 1955 Suzulight, Suzuki's first-ever automobile that launched the firm. As Automobile Magazine describes it:
The LC microcar has space for only two people inside its two-door, 10.5-foot-long body. The split-level cabin with plaid seats is decidedly minimalist, but the detailing throughout the car is fantastic. Suzuki's three-cylinder, 660-cc minicar engine is under the hood. It's just the car for zipping through Tokyo's crowded streets.
I want one this instant. I had long planned to buy a Nash Metropolitan, a squat little 1950s car that looks precisely like this one, so I could do a cross-country road trip in it. But then I discovered that, alas, most Metropolitans have a top speed of about 50 mph, which would rule out much interstate driving. I bet an LC could break 60 or 70 mph, though!
(Thanks to El Rey for this one!)
Posted by Clive Thompson at July 03, 2006 08:22 PM
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Posted by: inscrutable_chicken at July 4, 2006 5:14 PM
are you listening to me, Suzuki Marketroids?
"Suzulight" is WAY cooler and fun-sounding than "Suzuki LC." Change the name of this car -- now -- or suffer my wrath!!
Then send me one as payment for saving your job. :)
Posted by: bud at July 4, 2006 7:31 PM
inscrutable_chicken, that Figaro is gorgeous! I want one of those too.
Bud, yes, migod, Suzulight is an incomparably better name.
Posted by: Clive at July 6, 2006 1:40 PM
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Hi Clive,
this is pretty cool but is very reminiscent of the Nissan Figaro that was made in the early nineties. You can see it here - http://www.iobjects.co.uk/figaro/figaro.html
Posted by: inscrutable_chicken
at July 4, 2006 5:14 PM
are you listening to me, Suzuki Marketroids?
"Suzulight" is WAY cooler and fun-sounding than "Suzuki LC." Change the name of this car -- now -- or suffer my wrath!!
Then send me one as payment for saving your job. :)
Posted by: bud
at July 4, 2006 7:31 PM
inscrutable_chicken, that Figaro is gorgeous! I want one of those too.
Bud, yes, migod, Suzulight is an incomparably better name.
Posted by: Clive
at July 6, 2006 1:40 PM