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2009 Suzuki Sx4 Rally Car on 2040-cars

US $9,000.00
Year:2009 Mileage:28650
Location:

Littleton, Colorado, United States

Littleton, Colorado, United States
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For sale is a 2009 Suzuki SX4 sport all-wheel drive that has been converted to a street-legal Rally look-alike car. It has navigation, keyless entry package so you don’t need a key to unlock or start the car, seat warmers, nice fog lights, and a 6 disk in dash CD changer.

It has the following features:

RRM turbo kit, dialed in at 11psi.
RRM intercooler in front bumper facia
RRM-installed fog lamps in front facia
RRM custom boost gauge pod, left of the dash
RRM Sill extensions
RRM custom front bumper facia, carbon-fiber look
RRM custom vented hood, carbon-fiber look
RRM-engineered springs and Tein dampers
RRM-engineered slotted rotors
RRM rear bumper facia
RRM-sourced Suzuki motorcycle rear-view mirrors
RRM rear anti-sway bar
RRM roof fresh-air vent (blocked off)
NRG Innovations steering wheel
Custom exhaust, with Magnaflow rear muffler
Manual boost control.
Rear wing painted to match the rest of the car.
Roof-rack removed
Odyssey battery remotely located under passenger seat.
Matched set of lightly-used of Hankook i-Pike snow tires

The car was sent to Road Race Motorsports in LA for conversion.  Some years before, this shop was hired by Suzuki to convert some SX4s for car show display – to check market reaction to a gussied-up hot-rod SX4.  After doing this work for Suzuki, they decided to make some of these for privateers, since they had done the development work on the turbo system, suspension, and body work.  I think they have done at least four cars for customers, mine is the second one they did.  RRM is just great on the service aspect, I would highly recommend contacting the gents there for anything. The body has a custom-made carbon-fiber-look vented hood and front bumper facia.  These parts are light, as is the custom rear bumper facia.  I purchased the rear wing and had them incorporate it into the finished car.  I had them remove the roof rack and paint the black stripe down the roof, clear to the rear bumper.  Suzuki motorcycle mirrors are mounted to the doors.  RRM-designed sill extensions are mounted beneath the door longitudinals.  I put on the rally mudflaps.

Under the hood is the stock SX4 engine with a RRM-developed turbo system, putting out a mild 10-11 psi of boost – but way stronger than the stock engine!  RRM designed the exhaust manifold and the intercooler plumbing.  The exhaust has a high-flow catalyst, and ends in a Magnaflow muffler hung under the rear end.

The suspension is a real strong point here.  I told RRM that I wanted it stiffer, but not a teeth-rattling 200% of the stock rates, but at 115-120% of the spring rate and damping rates of the stock springs and dampers.  They nailed it.  With the addition of a fat rear anti-sway bar, this car handles like a go-cart with suspension.  On a snow-packed road, it is heavenly!  The car has 4 hardly-used snow tires on it. All the rotors have been vented.  I used it as a Winter car only, in the off-season it sat garaged with a battery maintainer on it.

The interior is stock and virtually brand new, with the exception of a NRG Innovations steering wheel and a boost gauge on the left side.  The red button on the left side of the steering column is the horn.  It has always been garaged.  I have mounted an Odessey 12v battery under the passenger seat.    The car has 28600K miles on it. The air conditioning was removed to save weight since this was a winter car, but I have all the parts needed to put it back.

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Suzuki reopens India plant post-riot with police outnumbering workers

Fri, 24 Aug 2012

Suzuki's plant in Manesar, India builds cars for Australia, specifically its Alto small car. Or at least they were building cars before violent worker riots forced the factory to close. The plant has been idled for five weeks as a result of worker violence that led to the death of one manager and 95 injuries. The riot was spurred over a labor dispute - specifically, a gulf in salaries between temporary workers and their salaried counterparts who earn triple the contract workers' wages.
According to reports, on Tuesday, the factory re-opened with more than 1,200 police officers stationed around the plant. The staff of actual workers at the plant numbers just 75 currently, meaning the police force greatly outnumbers Suzuki employees.
The number of employees will eventually grow to 300, and the officers will run in shifts of 100 at a time, but the initial disparity of workers to police is meant as a show of force to the more than 500 permanent and 500 temporary workers who were found to be involved in a July 18 riot.

Larger SX4 to lead raft of new or revised Suzuki models

Thu, 30 Aug 2012

A few weeks ago, we showed you what is likely in store for the next-generation Suzuki SX4, but What Car? now has some insider info of what might be in store for other products in the aging Suzuki lineup... at least in the UK.
When the official design sketch of the Suzuki S-Cross concept was released, Suzuki said that the concept car would be a C-segment crossover, closer in size to the Grand Vitara, and going up against some higher-volume rivals like the Ford Kuga (Escape) and Nissan Qashqai (similar to our Rogue). The Suzuki Grand Vitara is also due for a redesign, and both models will likely be on showroom floors together, with the Grand Vitara acting as the more rugged alternative to the hatchback-like SX4 replacement. Not much is known about the new Grand Vitara, but a new satellite navigation system is expected to debut in the SUV and eventually spread into other Suzuki models.
Suzuki will start selling the new SX4 and Grand Vitara in the United States this fall, and these two new crossovers should be a welcome addition to the company's diminutive U.S. dealer network that has been starved of product since the early 2000s. Automotive News adds a little gloom to this topic by pointing out that, after the introduction of the new SX4 and Grand Vitara this fall, American Suzuki has no new products planned through the 2015 model year. Suzuki dealers in Europe are more fortunate, as a refreshed version of the Jimny (formerly known as the Samurai here in the States) and an all-new Alto will both be joining the lineup.

Next Suzuki SX4 spotted again

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Thanks to a sketch of the Suzuki S-Cross concept, we can already see the styling direction that the next-generation SX4 will take, and Suzuki is still hard at work on the production version of the car as evidenced by this latest batch of spy shots. These photos look almost identical to those captured back in July, but we see a little more detail at the rear of the car and get a better idea of the next SX4's proportions.
With the baggy camouflage lifted up at the rear of this prototype, we can see that the SX4 replacement has a very Mazda-chic look to it with downward-angled taillights that stretch into the liftgate. Aside from this, the big news is that we're finally getting a sense of the new SX4's size. Suzuki's press release attached to the Paris-bound S-Cross sketch said that the SX4 replacement would be growing to the compact segment rather than being a subcompact like the current car. Recent reports indicate that the next version of this car will be sized closer to the Grand Vitara, and in these pictures, you can definitely see how much the car has grown.
Still unknown is when we can expect to see the production version of the new SX4, or what will be inside it (available turbo power?), but hopefully Suzuki will not delay things like it did with the Kizashi and its numerous concepts.