VIDEO: Suzuki Kizashi concepts in the round and on the road
by Dan Roth on Mar 13th 2008 at 7:26AM 
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Suzuki is said to be unveiling the Kizashi 3 at next week's New York Auto Show, so we thought we'd refresh our memories about the Manga-styled Kizashi 1 and 2 concepts we saw at the Frankfurt Motor Show and Tokyo Motor Show. There's still no information about what powertrain (we've heard talk of a V8) or platform any car derived from the Kizashi concepts would ride upon, but we like where Suzuki's going with the idea. We expect that the Kizashi 3 may be nearly production-feasible, from what Suzuki has to say. Does this mean there's a sports sedan in the offing for Suzuki? Possibly. Or not. For a taste of what it might be like to see one of these cars actually out in the wild, we've turned up some videos of the concepts riding around in a digital world, posted after the jump.
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LBuzzer 8:08AM (3/13/2008)
Nice, but the Kizashi 2 lacks originality. It would only really stand out if released as-is since every other manufacturer tones down their concepts for production (save the few production-ready "concepts")
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SPG 9:28AM (3/13/2008)
If produced, that front end treatment would make it stand out quite well.
Unless parked to the upcoming refresh of the Aveo hatch that is.
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calebe 2:38PM (3/14/2008)
I like #1, #2, not so much.
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withaj 11:56AM (3/13/2008)
I would take it over an x6 anyday.
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Andre 12:48PM (3/13/2008)
Maybe it's me or the poor quality video but quite a few scenes in the 2nd video of it running around look like CGI..
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Dan Roth 12:53PM (3/13/2008)
Both videos are entirely CG
Ashish 3:29PM (3/13/2008)
so Kizashi is the sedan/4dorr hatch version and Kizashi 2 is the CUV?
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alienonmar 12:18PM (3/19/2008)
Awesome car!
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