Michael Daly <michaeldaly_at_home.com> wrote .... ....." The Geo/Swift/Firefly/Whatever versions of the Suzuki car are a "peanut" car in my mind. Not suitable for highway driving and hauling lots of gear. " ..... I absolutely don´t agree with you. I own a 1991 Suzuky Swift 1.6 GLX, and I´m very proud of it. I bought it used 3° hand 3 years ago, with 85000 km rolled by. In these 3 years I´ve added 110000 more. As I also love whitewater I have to drive to the "Andes" mountains for the closest rivers and this is 1000 km away from Buenos Aires, where I live. I go 2 or 3 times a year there. And my last 2 holidays were planned to be in tents, travelling with my two 30kg SHARK ( Nordkapp like ) seakayaks on the roofrack. In each vacation trip I made about 6000 km, with the back seat and trunk completely loaded, including highways, regular roads, mountain stony or dusty roads, sometimes at 4000 m height and even some off-road at all. It never broke up during a trip. I drive at 130 km/hr with the kayaks atop or at 160 km/hr empty what I consider fast enough. But if you like the speed the max-speed is about 195 km/hr and accelerates like hell, even when it is a sedan not-sport version. But I have to recognise anyway that the car is only comfortable for 2 people when travelling this way. I didn´t harm the roof but I´m using an original Suzuki roofrack designed to carry only 30 kg., remember I load it with 60kg. Man, if this is not OVERUSE, it surely is ABUSE ! I personally find HONDA cars even better quality than SUZUKI. The civic is bigger than the swift so maybe more comfortable. You Americans always preferred bigger cars so maybe the accord is better option. All of them are stronger than they look like. Best regards.- Fernando López Arbarello uktkayak_at_interar.com.ar *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jan 28 2000 - 16:33:26 PST
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