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This Center-Seat Suzuki Swift Race Car is Blowing My Mind
This Center-Seat Suzuki Swift Race Car is Blowing My Mind-December 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:12

Big name Japanese tuner HKS has been making lap records its thing as of late, mostly with a mega-powerful/mega-light Toyota 86. But it’s also built up a with the same ethos and it is extremely awesome.

The little guy has a full carbon widebody kit and is even center-seat, all while it’s still a wee front-drive hatchback.

With the inimitable Nobuteru Taniguchi at the wheel, HKS is gunning for a 55-second lap of Tsukuba , which it declares “a phenomenal time for FF vehicles” in its charming video description. Earlier this year the FF lap record got set in the 56s by .

Anyway, good luck, plucky Suzuki.

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