#Suzuki Cappuccino

[radracer]

Suzuki Cappuccino

#Suzuki Cappuccino #modified #stance #tuning #retro rides #tuner #slammed #street #imports #lowered #jdm #kei car #roadster #fitment #static #kyusha #shakotan #rhd #convertible

[seat-safety-switch]

My neighbour down the block has a little black dog named Pickles. We don't know what breed Pickles is, and it's a little weird that your mind immediately went to questions of racism. What Pickles is, is sizeist. Pickles will bark at anything smaller than himself. Toddlers. Cats. Other dogs. The opening box office of a reactionary revenge thriller. You name it.

For years, I've been listening to this small dog threaten to open a can of whoop ass on anything that is even a few microns tinier. It would be hypocritical of me to consider "excessive noise" to be a sign of bad neighbourdom, considering I'd been driving cars with holes in the muffler big enough to park another car inside. Unfortunately, things had come to a head recently, when I saw Pickles bark at and traumatize a pre-schooler. It was time to teach that dog a lesson.

One of my friends, who will not be named in writing, owns an import/export business. She specializes in importing cars, specifically, from Japan. One of the things Japan specializes in is extremely tiny cars. I figured that if I drove by Pickles slowly enough, he would decide to bully my diminutive motor vehicle. With Japanese reliability, I knew in my heart that I could simply circle the block for a few hours until he learned the folly of overbarking and decided to just go for a nap instead. Call it exposure therapy. Call it an excuse to play with a Suzuki Cappuccino for an afternoon. You're probably right, either way.

After a few hours of drifting corners with my tiny turbocharged shitbox (and only occasionally driving over lawns,) Pickles did indeed cease his sensory assault and go to nap on his shitty dog pillow. The neighbourhood fell silent. Revenge had been served, for a child too young to even worship said revenge. And I got to spend an afternoon blowing 14-inch Princess Auto trailer tires into nothingness. I'd say we both won.

#suzuki cappuccino #small dogs named pickles

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

Suzuki Cappuccino :) or other baby roadsters

Oh, I had a post in the chamber about exactly that! :D

So, Japan is pretty densely populated. Let's put it this way: one reason the Tokyo metro area couldn't do a huge and extremely weird cultural exchange where every citizen trades place with someone from Australia, Belgium or Slovenia, is there aren't enough Australians, Belgians and Slovenians combined to do that. So you can imagine it would be pretty advantageous to public life for people to drive small cars - hence the popularity of kei cars, a car class with huge tax benefits and tiny engine and dimensions limits. Those limits, positively minuscule when they were introduced to push bike makers to use their parts to make small cars, eventually increased to a 0.66L engine size and the dimensions below...

...and in the late 80s there was a "gentleman's agreement" whereby no one would make a kei car more powerful than 64hp, similar to the other gentleman's agreement whereby they agreed not to make cars with more than 276hp - which they cleverly addressed by equipping more powerful cars, like the Skyline GT-Rs, with unusual little devices called lies.

But now it's the 1990s -contrary to popular misconceptions- and Japanese businesses and customers have a problem: what the fuck do we do with all this money?

To truly convey the desperation with which cash was being thrown around like primate feces, Mazda created FIVE sub-brands (Amati, Autozam, ɛ̃fini, Xedos, and Eunos, brand under which they sold the Miata as Eunos Roadster) AND gave the SIXTH sub-brand M2 separate headquarters - these headquarters. In Tokyo.

M2 only ever made parts and some fringe prototypes, the most it produced were three Eunos Roadster-based limited versions - they cost twice as much as the original (and for good reason - one of them used leather deemed too expensive by the only other automaker to ever use it, Rolls Royce), but because economic bubble, they were so sought after they had to set up a lottery, Andrea was telling us, and as he got to the uber-limited production numbers (a combined 780), he explained that, since of course they were only sold in Japan, there were only five in the whole of Europe. He then raised his finger and, in one of the greatest flexes I have ever witnessed, pointed it around his huge, Miata-packed shed, counting "one, two, three, four, five".

S'yah, it turns out the world's biggest Miata collection is just owned by Some Guy in the middle of Italy, and if your kid ever gets dumped it is a wonderful place to take him to cheer him back up. Thanks, dad.

So clearly, this was a point in time where even people with no need nor wish nor space for a large second car, or a large car at all, could still be interested in a sportscar, thus spawning some briefly-lived but oh-so-brightly-burning kei sportscars, nicknamed ABC.

One of them being, indeed, the Suzuki Cappuccino.

Please remember, this car is positively lilliputian. It's 3.30m long. For the yankees in the audience, that's just 0.03 football fields. Here are some fun size comparisons.

The engine was front-mid and turbocharged...

...the roof was a fun puzzle that allowed you to have a T-Top coupe (with just the sides off), a targa (with the top part of the roof removed but the rear pillar of the roof still in place) or a spider (by folding the rear pillar and window down)...

...and it was NOT exclusive to Japan, with 12% of units being sold in the UK!

But since this was clearly asked by someone quite familiar with its generalities, some less-known quirks for the geeks:

It was the first kei car ever with double wishbones all around

The indicators changed between JDM and UK versions so if you've got the latter finding spares is 10 times harder

The hood release is in the glovebox and the fuel release is in the center console storage - the latter locks with a different key than the ignition uses, so if you hand just the latter to the valet you can keep them from siphoning your gas, but I'm yet to hear whether that also goes for the glovebox, so stay tuned for updates on whether you can also keep them from siphoning your washer fluid

Air gets to the engine (well, to the turbo) through the frame. Like, it gets into the frame, it travels inside the frame, and then gets out and is filtered. Now, you may ask yourself why they would do that.

While most cars had front disc brakes at the time, the less effective but cheaper drum brakes were usually used on the rear, which was fine since when a car brakes weight transfers to the front so the front wheels are the ones that get more grip and can thus brake harder anyway - so not only do you not need the rear wheels to have the same stopping power, you don't even want them to, because then the rear wheels would lock up before the front ones even got to their full braking potential. So when the Cappuccino got four wheel disc brakes, like every other car with four wheel disc brakes, it didn't put four discs of the same size all around. Unlike every other car with four wheel disc brakes, however, they put the bigger ones at the rear. A friend who owns one called the brakes "not amazing".

Then again, let's cut them some slack, it was the second kei car ever with four wheel disc brakes! Second, yes, because the Cappuccino was not the first kei-sized sportscar.

So, remember how with Ferrari, the last car to be signed off by its founder was a mid-engined, rear-wheel-drive, manual, record-setting, no frills two-seater sportscar? Well, the Japanese being famous overachievers, that goes for Soichiro Honda's last two.

Supposedly, Honda decided that its F1 engines hadn't kicked Ferrari's ass enough, so they set out to build a car as approachable, reliable and daily-life-friendly as a Honda yet faster through both straights and corners than a Ferrari. Or a Lamborghini. Or a Porsche- you get the idea. Thus, the NSX, seen here next to it is its test driver, tuning consultant and enthusiastic owner Ayrton Senna, best known for driving the car on the left into three championship wins, a bunch of "Greatest Of All Time" debates, and a wall that killed him.

But if your second-to-last car is a two seat, mid-engined, rear wheel drive sportscar with Pininfarina design, a 40mm short-throw manual, and a redline past 8000RPM, what do you do for your last one? Easy! Another!

This little bowl of pint-sized cuteness is the Honda Beat, and yes, that interior is not just factory, but was the only pattern available. Still, if you think the interior is the most outlandish part of this car, you haven't heard it.

Again, this engine was outsized by two Coke cans and the car it's in is no bigger than the Cappuccino, and you already know how... ah, screw it, let's show you a size comparison anyway.

Some geek facts:

It was the first mid-engine monocoque (as in not body-on-frame, not un-shark-like, you pervs) spider ever made! There were some targas before, but never a full-on spider

The stereo was custom to fit in the super-narrow center console between the two asymmetrical cabin spaces so the cassette slot has the same cute little Beat logo as the "Open Air Motoring!" branded floormats!

Gathers celebrated its 20th anniversary with a new touchscreen radio for it that is now uber-rare and uber-expensive

It had two trunks, which is lovely, except that the rear one had the battery and optional CD changer conspiring against you and the front was literally inside the spare tire, so it's good that you could also get a rear rack!

The rear rims are bigger than the front!

With how much cooler this is than the Cappuccino (sorry, friend who owns one) it's quite the shame Suzuki decided not to go forward with the mid-engine layout their kei sportscar development started with. At least, Mazda sure thought as much, asking Suzuki to please keep working on that idea and make a mid-engined kei sportscar for them to sell under their brand for the youth, Autozam. And thus we have the ABC - C for Cappuccino, B for Beat...

...and A for AZ-1. Think of how cool life was in Japan back in the day that this was a car for the youth.

Fun facts:

IT HAS GULLWING FUCKING DOORS

The spare tire was mounted in the front compartment but it jammed the steering wheel in your chest so they sent owners a little bag and asked them to please put that tire behind the seats

GULLWING FUCKING DOORS

Suzuki sold a few of them themselves as the Cara

G U L L W I N G D O O R S

Sadly, it joined the party (JapaneseEconomicBoomfest, that is) just when it was ending. Hell, the Beat was sold for six years ('91 through '96) and two thirds of Beats sold are 1991s. That's how hard recession hit Japan right when the AZ-1 came out, which indeed sold a fraction of the other two.

But fear not: after decades, Honda blew the dust off the kei sportscar idea in 2015 with the gloriously sexy S660.

It did cease production last year, but at least it left the Japanese used market a kei sportscar with the modern amenities we (and by we I mean you spoiled pussies) cannot do without, like steering wheel controls and *squints* HDMI.

Oh by the way, remember how I said I was going to post about the Cappuccino? Well, it was because someone posted a picture of one with aftermarket taillights.

Guess what car was next to it when this picture was taken. Guess.

WRONG.

"What? Where was this?" At a Fiat 500 meeting, of course. And then people wonder why I love Japan so much.

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

#fun fact about ayrton senna: when he was 25 he started dating a 15 year old! #what else can be expected from the man behind the quote “if you don't go for a gap that exists you are no longer a racing driver” #kei cars #M2 #miataland #suzuki cappuccino #honda NSX #honda beat #autozam az-1 #suzuki cara #honda S660

[hirocimacruiser]

Berry flavoured coffee. Or is it bubblegum? Suzuki Cappuccino

#suzuki cappuccino #Kei car #Suzuki kei car #JDM

[crownmoto]

#suzuki cappuccino #jdmcars #jdm #skylondamotorclub #kei car #sfbayarea

[timetochaing]

#suzuki #suzuki cappuccino #cappuccino #volk #vintage car #kei car #k car #keijidosha #turbofan #grey

[silhouettehistory]

Michio Roadster SilhouetteHistory

Silhouettes of Suzuki Cappuccino as roadster, targa and coupe.

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#silhouettehistory #suzuki #cappuccino #suzuki cappuccino #kei car #roadster #targa #coupe #sports car #japanese cars #car #silhouette #history

[thehardcas]

[Gran Turismo 7] Fly! Mighty Cappuccino!

#gran turismo #racing #suzuki #cappuccino #suzuki cappuccino #kei car #ridge racer #Youtube

[tofupowar]

Cute little Cappuccino we saw last year at Nikko. Really impressive driving for car only a little bit bigger than rc model

#suzuki #suzuki cappuccino #cappuccino #jdm #ea11 #ea21r #keicar #drift #drifting #driftcar #nikko #nikkocircuit

[furminouwu]

‼SKETCHBOOK COMMISSIONS FINISHED‼

A huge thank you! to the fabulous people who purchased a slot for their cool rides!🔥💖

This was my first time ever doing commissions on Twitter and it's been so much fun working on each one and I'm excited the for the next batch coming soon 👀...

Slot 1️⃣:

(@808_BroPupChee)'s Beach bum Myers Manx buggy soaring through the sand🏖.

Slot 2️⃣:

@leggy2fast 's Golf MK4.5 enjoying the Canadian forest roads around the Emerald Lake.

Slot 3️⃣:

(@DriverEd01)'s Nissan Skyline R-34 cruising at top speed on the Autobahn🛣.

Slot 4️⃣:

(@SuperaMach)'s minty A70 Supra tearing up the hot desert asphalt- slideways!👌💚💨

Slot 5️⃣:

(@player965347) is a seasoned Hotwheels enthusiast and saw fit to hotlap the MS-T Suzuka around the Suzuka GP Circuit! 🏎.

Slot 6️⃣:

From Suzuka to Suzuki, this shrunken little roadster is sweet looking, snappy, delivers power smoothly and addictively.

Just like Cappuccino!☕

For (@player965347) once again.

Slot 7️⃣:

(@WheelerTyveris) is the proud owner of a cult classic; The VW Rabbit GTI (north American MK1 Golf GTI), now these have rectangular headlights that are more aerodynamic than the European version but G.Giugiaro's quad lamps are just much cooler looking👌.

Slot 8️⃣:

And last but definitely not least, (@cobaltwolff)'s friend has this gorgeous sunset orange Honda S2000 tuned and track-day ready, and today's track is none other than BrandsHatch and its steep paddock hill T1.

#car art #car sketch #furryartist #original art #traditional art #my art #artists on tumblr #art commisions #twitter artist #Simca 1000 #Lancia Delta #Myers Manx #Golf MK4 brazil #Nissan Skyline R34 GTR #Toyota Supra MK3 #HW MS-T Suzuka #Suzuki Cappuccino #Golf MK1 #Honda S2000

[twilighthomunculusart]

For the two of you who actually care I swear this project isn't dead, i've just been busy and getting inspired on other things but i swear i will finish the ones i have planned one day

the hard thing about this project is that my art style improves as it takes ten million years to finish which makes me want to go back and redo everything else

tohru should be next, then the todo school. just gotta work out their au versions

#initial d mecha au #initial d mecha stage #au #initial d #sakamoto #cappuccino #suzuki cappuccino #sakamoto initial d #anime #mecha

[crisicsgames]

Guarda "Gran Turismo 7 CAPPUCCINO SCAPES CASE STILE GASSHO PS5" su YouTube

#GranTurismo7 #suzukicappuccino #AutoUsate #StileGassho #Gameplay #PS5 #youtubegaming

#gran turismo 7 #Suzuki Cappuccino #Scapes #Case stile gassho #GAMEPLAY #ps5 #Youtube

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

hmm. conversely, most ADHD car?

(A dab o' context for y'all, this ask came hot off the heels of my most autistic car post, hence the "conversely".)

Well, when I read this, I had nothing. But then I thought about it a little, and suddenly, I continued to have nothing.

But you already know that, dear asker, because you're in the blog's Discord server which I turned to for suggestions. And in fact, you chipped in yourself with not one but two picks, first of which the fifth generation Ford Mustang!

So, pray tell, what brings my elementary school self's favorite car ever ever into this list?

uhh from like a cultural view its an unfocused and hyperactive car with a reputation of not going the way people want (see: crowd meme)

Oh, come on, are we really still not over that stereotype whereby late model Mustangs are owned by people both too eager to show off not to leave a car meet flooring it and too inept to actually keep it under control when they do?

Well, I guess to get over it it'll need to stop being true.

But also, being so much of an exhibitionist as to cause physical pain is not about ADHD at all!

Anyone I invite at my house gets bored to tears with a tour of my every possession...

...but not because I have ADHD!

Actually, you know what? That may really be it now that I think about it. Well, anyway, your submission is funny enough to earn a pass even if we don't see eye to eye on this anyway.

How about your second, though?

alternatively: late '90s to early 2000s tuner Civic, for the same reasons

While he included this picture, he advised to use a worse example, so I took the liberty to present you a historical picture.

I say historical because this picture was the definition of rice, the textbook example. If Wikipedia had a page for "rice (automotive)" it would feature this picture, probably second behind that blue early 90s Civic which in hindsight we were all wrong about and was actually sick.

Did you know this was made by a teenager out of metal? I'm digressing.

Friend of the blog (well, pillar of the blog at this point) @demoness-one agrees and suggests:

Honestly riced out clapped out honda civics did come to mind also But i feel like the car that most represents adhd is probably one that isn't finished lol Abstract concept of a car

But she wasn't the only one to vote for her own cars, as friend of the blog and Saturn SL1 owner @chevyventure posted a simple but effective contribution:

zero executive function between those eyes

Not as simple as friend of the blog @brick-enthusiast's, however, who just posted a Suzuki Cappuccino without comment.

In respect of that approach I will not comment either.

However, it's time to make my pick too, as in the process of writing this post I finally understood the assignment, and thus came up with something.

What's ADHD? As this blog demonstrates, sometimes it's being hyperfocused on something exciting, much to the detriment of things that actually matter in daily life. Sometimes it's said focus earning amazing results that seem disproportionate to one's means. Sometimes it's taking comfort in the routine, in deeply ingrained habits and tradition that still have to constantly be actively enforced as conscious choice. Sometimes it's being darty, shooting from point to point with speed other minds can't even keep up with. Sometimes it's having too much energy to contain. Sometimes it's... being loud? Oh really! I thought I was just being Italian!

And if you've read my 100th post, you'll know a car that fits that description to a T. (And if you haven't, click on here before reading on because you really want to.)

Indeed, what could be a better pick than a car that's stayed the same for nigh on seven decades in its devoted preservation of its ability to dart around like nothing else on the road, a car so perfromance-focused the comfort spec is the one that gets windows, a car not one bit less deafening than legally required? What could be a better pick than the Caterham Seven 620R, the literal world record holder for spinning around in circles?

And also just look at it.

If you're wondering about the number plate, it was made to celebrate its Lego version - yes indeed!

And if you can believe it, people still gifted me clothes for Christmas.

Links in blue are posts of mine about the topic in question: if you liked this post, you might like those - or the blog’s Discord server, linked in the pinned post!

#ford mustang #honda civic #suzuki cappuccino #caterham seven #demoness-one #chevyventure #jettacar #brick-enthusiast #lgbt cars #once again I will use the tag for something that cannot remotely be called a sexuality just because it kind of fits the theme of the series

[hirocimacruiser]

Suzuki Cappuccino

#Kei car #Suzuki Cappuccino #Suzuki

[okosen]

#suzuki #cappuccino #k-car #track ready #jdm

[understeerking]

Garage Limit customer cars

📚: Auto Works

#jdm #hks #greddy #apexi #cappuccino #suzuki #660cc #keicar #touge