9th Feb 2015, 18:10

Yeah, still no problems and I have 63K on it. I have even backed into a ditch and she clawed her way out with no mechanical issues afterwards. It has to be the best well rounded car I have ever had. It has seen snows bad enough to curb pick-ups, and has handled them rather easy.

18th Jun 2015, 02:26

How is your Suzuki?

18th Dec 2015, 16:30

Nearing 80K and I have done more driving than I would have ever thought. I work on aircraft and have moved a lot over the last few years. I used to drive from Missouri to central Kentucky on holidays; that was an 8 hour drive. Then I moved to Eastern PA and that was a 12 hour drive. Now I am in Ohio and it is around 4 hours. So the car has done a lot of driving and has never broken down.

The only thing is the battery started boiling over, but that was an easy fix.

There is a sound occasionally during take off, but nothing seems wrong power delivery wise.

The transmissions is the same as used by the Altima. I believe those haven't been the most reliable, and if anything would be the weak link. Otherwise I really love this odd little car. It is not very powerful or sporty, but it is or was more so than a lot of the competition at the time. It doesn't excel at any one thing; it just does many things good enough to make you happy.

I have put it in a ditch and it clawed its way out. I have driven in snow that had left many SUVs and trucks stranded.

It does great on long trips. The transmission is seamless during trips. The seats are really comfortable. It gets decent mileage, although that bar has risen lately.

To sum it up, many people missed out on a great car and probably overpaid for something worse.

28th Mar 2018, 00:20

Checking in with 110,000 miles on it. Only problem is it eats bulbs. I have replaced enough 6 or so low beam bulbs. The design is irritating to just change a bulb.

I guess though that's pretty good considering everything else works fine.

28th Mar 2018, 08:04

Are they by chance H7 bulbs? If they are, it isn't the only car which blows bulbs. I owned a 96 Audi A4, a Mitsubishi Galant V6, and now a BMW 316TI; all have been blowing H7 headlamp bulbs every so often.

10th Jun 2018, 19:17

Yeah I think. I have bought the best ones and used that gel also. It's just a stupid design to change the bulb. You have to pull the front off for the driver's side. Still for nearly 120K that is not a huge problem.

29th Nov 2019, 01:21

Checking in at 137k miles. I just gave it to my mom after getting a truck, but for a year I drove out of state and back for work.

17th Jul 2020, 19:32

I enjoyed following this thread. Seems the Kizashi was a good car that never got the audience it deserved. Suzuki cars never had much of a following in the USA...

11th Aug 2021, 14:05

Yep excellent car. I even bought a Suzuki SV 650. I was commuting to WV from Ohio twice a week for a year or more. No problems whatsoever. Got a cheap Chevy Silverado and gave the car to my mom. She loved it so. I actually borrowed it for a couple months because my airport does cheap commuter flights and the Silverado is horrible at turning so parking sucked. Still working flawlessly.

I used the SV to keep mileage off the truck. I put 9k in a year to a year and half on the SV. Same old Suzuki durability. Never put it on a tender, just fire it up and let it idle for 30 minutes every month or so. It also experienced a lot of weather.

24th Nov 2022, 13:14

Yes, it's a shame that Suzuki struggled during those years, but it seems that they might be one of the most financially stable manufacturers world wide. I think they remained in the black when others were in the red. That car was and still is excellent. I never had any recalls done to it, because I was always getting the notification later due to traveling all the time and I sort of didn't want to mess with success. It has never malfunctioned except for a battery that went out in the weirdest fashion. I have never seen a battery that would be fine for a few days then be bad again. I thought it was electrical. My batteries always got weak and chose to die in winter. It had a window switch stop working, but now it's working again so I guess it's good. That's pretty much the only problems in 10 years of use. It's only at 150k roughly, but that's because I got the motorcycle and then a truck and put miles on them instead.

The biggest complaint and partially why I chose to use the truck instead was comfort and not because of the seats or anything. The vast space in a full size truck is less smothering, better storage, and the biggest thing was other vehicles. In a full size truck SUVs aren't as likely to crowd you, and if they instigate an accident you will like fare better than them. The main factor though is that thanks to crossover galore, everyone has LED lights and fog lights that shine straight in your window no matter the distance, and the side mirrors, which are massive on the Kizashi. That was one of the most irritating things about driving that car. Between space, size, and being above the SUVs LEDs, the truck was just more relaxing.

Mind you this is almost a non-issue for 20 minute drives, but stay in there for 3+ hours and those things start pissing you off.