1993 Suzuki Cappuccino Limited: Regular Car Reviews

nice Miata hey there stranger is it alright if I pretend to know what you got there this is a 660 CC turbocharged three-cylinder 5-speed front-engine rear-drive miniature sports car with a modular hardtop a single rear reverse light fake wood grain interior and levels of smugness that can only be measured in kilometers per hour our CR has driven the autos a Maisie won the Honda beat and now with the Suzuki cappuccino our ABC trilogy is complete of all the three K cars the cap is the fastest now I'm being a little unfair because this cappuccino has had some work done bigger turbo forged internals bigger injectors a new tune from mine's which is a tuning company in Japan which brings the horsepower to over 100 Brandon the owner isn't sure of the precise horsepower because he hasn't gotten a chance to put it on the dyno yet all the work was done in Japan when Brayden was stationed there in the service he just got back to the US like a few months ago and he's in college now so getting correct numbers on the dyno that isn't a priority for him right now but while stationed in Japan this was Brandon's daily the lower taxes that go with Kei cars make it an excellent daily especially when you aren't required to go that far from base here in the US people think this is a Miata the front at a glance looks like an NB mx-5 and it's small and curvy and clearly Japanese so what else could it possibly be in fact while filming this an older man came up with his digital point-and-shoot and said may I take a picture of your car sure said Brandon thank you click my wife loves Miatas and none of us had bothered to correct him I mean he approached the car from the right side the right hand inside steering wheel was looking right at him but no the auto Suzuki cappuccino the official car of every guy you hate but don't actually know anything about it all started in 1987 Suzuki was planning to recreate a sporty reputation for the company collimating in a project car that made its debut at the tow Motor Show inside of just two short years designated the SX 3:06 production of the cappuccino began in October 1991 and was available for sale in Japan one month later on the promise of affordability style and performance of the fifteen thousand one hundred and thirteen cars produced in its first two years thirteen thousand three hundred and eighteen stayed in Japan that year because we know of New Zealand's ability to just kind of gimme-gimme-gimme it was a car whose performance was as consistent as rock radios mission to make you hate the Red Hot Chili Peppers and people in North America wanted a taste but they had to wait sure people will take one look at this thing and assume you tried to order a Miata off of wish but this isn't a car for those people the ones who care about appearances this is a car for people in the market for a good time without having to call the phone number on the truckstop glory hole to find it the driving dynamics are fantastic the card noses in instantly power comes on at about 5,000 rpm 7200 rpm is the go spot and with a larger turbo it feels like the little three cylinder wants to infinitely spin as if as if you'd see the top of Doug dimmadome hat before you see the end of a caps rev range [Music] ed yeah I missed third again [Music] but 100 horsepower is the beginning of the danger zone for a cappuccinos transmission this five-speed doesn't really want to handle this kind of power according to Brandon 130 horsepower can break this tiny gearbox the turbo right now is making 17 and a half PSI and singing through a cheap copy of an HKS blow-off valve a-one of Brandon side project for this car is to take that blow-off valve out and put in a combination one so he can just choose whether he wants to go choo choo or suitable here's a photo of our friend Don he's 6 foot 4 the top of the roof comes up to his belly button here is a picture of a cappuccino parked next to a Mini Cooper S and makes the mini look like a Denali the roof comes off in three pieces first the sides come off turning the car into a t-top and then the middle comes off turning it into a Targa then the rear glass folds down and you have a full convertible these little rollover bars are not standard Brandon put them on he said they will make you less dead in the event of a rollover each of the roof pieces go into a scissor okay bag and then go into the Suzuki trunk which means you have no rear storage unlike the Honda be a cappuccino does have power steering you can one-hand it around the parking lot when we were driving around even with the top down in winter no less cappuccino doesn't stand out no one was looking at us even with the BOV chirping and the car swerving around within its lane dodging potholes so why would you own a cappuccino which commands a price now in the united states of ten thousand dollars it doesn't even perform the look of me job that the beat and the az1 does so why do you want a car that no one cares that you're driving well because you care more about driving than you care about being noticed a cappuccino is for someone seeking their own coronary nirvana they want that more than other people's eyeballs even the layout of the instruments the curve of the gauge cluster the HVAC radio and shift knob all of these our Miata esque but this is way more goofy than a Miata you're gonna get clobbered you're gonna get run over you could die out here the heartbeat of America Chevrolet every moment you're awake because you're swirling head is your first line of defense against the emergency room motorcycle riders you know what I'm talking about and that's why I think the cappuccino is the most dangerous of the ABC cars because of its mx-5 likeness the AZ one and the beat our pattern interrupts drivers see our different shape refresh refresh refresh cache allocate additional system resources to visual processors identify assess respond but when they see a cappuccino its identify Miata non priority allocate minimum resources next task it's easy to imagine being offended that people don't recognize your cappuccino for what it is after all no one goes through the trouble of getting a car like this to have it be mistaken for something else but cars are sort of like the messages they often convey about who we are they get lost in translation it's like getting angry and writing a song to blow off steam but when you play it at cafe 210 West the content of the lyrics get drowned out in the noise of an enthusiastic crowd who don't really care about the message they just want to hear music you see a Suzuki cappuccino you don't care about the background or what the owner has to put up with you just want to drive it yourself or take your picture with it or admire it from afar which is about 10 feet because to most people it almost doesn't matter what this car is and it's like that angsty ridden song you can play the same four chords to shout a message into the void but sometimes it's easier just to let your frustrations go than to try and correct everybody but I can't stop admiring the design just make everything smaller everything really smaller I mean look look at the emergency brake I'm aware I'm wearing a glove but the handbrake disappears into my palm and the shifter look at this it's two fingers dainty oh the shifter is good but I put the Honda beats shifter above the caps the cap shifter is is very good but the beat is better because of superior Honda slickness other modifications include a strut tower bar a hot air intake not really an issue because it's a turbo and the air is getting hot anyway and the intercooler is cool at that even though the intercooler is only about the size of an oil cooler it still works this car also has period HID headlights and I was giggling at the jo-ann fabrics gold heat shielding on the battery box in the AC lines until Brandon said that the new tune is generating just enough heat through the headers that some plastic parts were getting all like fruit stripes gum gooey the adhesive reflective gold is a stopgap until he gets some time to heat wrap the headers and he might have to take the engine out to do that what could it mean what could it be this is definitely Cessna 150 closeness in here the cap does have a center armrest but you're not gonna use much of it but if you take this car to a car show plenty of people are gonna know what it is hell we had a cappuccino at our RCR meeting the united kingdom hash tag cove crew but whenever you have a car this ostentatiously aberrant this unorthodox to the limited scope of provincial eyes eyes that will never see parasite because their eyes that hate reading subtitles then you're in for an ordeal because for every person who knows what this is you'll have a dozen people who make incorrect guesses and you can try to correct them but some people are strangely defensive about having their car knowledge question and before long you end up with a bunch of swollen belly armchair auto mechanics gathered around your cappuccino eyes blazing with judgment like an automotive council of ricks okay sure this is just one scenario a hypothetical scenario and it likely happens to far fewer people than you'd think although I'm sure someone in the comments will have a car show horror story of their own detailing how they got judged one time and feel free to share it we're all friends here but the main takeaway is that a car like this can never live a life of virtuous anonymity because the cappuccino is just here to make you feel good in a way it inspires a certain enthusiastic hope a giddiness that you might have missed because society has spent so much time drilling cynicism into your brain and telling you it's the key feature of adulthood rather than the bug it's okay to enjoy things even things that other people don't understand there's nothing childish about hope there's nothing childish about fun there's nothing childish or naive about truly believing that being good will lead to a good life and there's nothing childish about being childish sometimes as long as you're having fun responsibly who cares what other people think who cares if other people think that a cappuccino that you paid a premium for is Amiata you can play the same four course of shout a message in the void because you know that you can rebuild every single thing that you destroy so let them go they say they complaining if you do it in a song but maybe it's complaining if you've done it all home but who say what's right when you're the patron saint of frogs almost then the year will start anew then the year will start anew then a year we'll start anew [Music]

Channel: RegularCars

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Length: 11min 39sec (699 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 09 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Redbulldildo]

I hope some of the importers around me see this and bring over some Cappuccinos, I'm desperate for one but I don't want to deal with bringing it over.

[u/RamblingMutt]

Oh man the test taking car from Grand Turismo!

[u/TheSexyKamil]

God-dimma-damn that's small car

[u/Philo_T_Farnsworth]

@5:11 -

So why would you own a Cappuccino? Why do you want a car that no one cares what you're driving? Well, because you care more about driving than you care about being noticed. Cappuccino is for someone seeking their own cornering nirvana. They want that more than other peoples' eyeballs.

I can totally relate to this. I drive a Miata because I fucking love driving it. It's a pretty car and I get a comment here and there. But I really don't care about that sort of thing. Style is just a bonus.

[u/ToastyMozart]

Oh man, been a while since I heard the announcer voice lines from Half Life 2.

^{Identify. Assess. Re-spond.}

[u/apandya277]

That tach...it goes to 12000....why?

[u/tomaszwyka]

nice little car :)

[u/Typically_Wong]

Did they drive over the bridge from beetlejuice? Driving death trap over the death trap.

Fucking love this car

[u/JuicyPro]

Suzuki doesnt really make any nice vehicles, like unless you get a Hayabusa, your the big gay if you get a gixxer 1000.