From the best-selling Swift, still being manufactured today, to the legendary Cappuccino and the affectionately-named SC100 “Whizzkid,” these are the best sports cars

Suzuki

ever made.

People don’t generally equate Suzuki with sports cars—especially in the US, where the manufacturer hasn’t sold a car since 2012. Today, if you’re going to put “speed” and “Suzuki” in the same sentence here, you need to include “motorcycle” in there somewhere, but that wasn’t always the case.

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Does Suzuki make sports cars?

Not currently—though Suzuki and Toyota are jointly developing a mid-engine sports car scheduled to debut in 2025 that could bring them back into the market they vacated in 1998 when they ceased production on the Cappuccino.

The US market is unlikely to benefit from this partnership as the marque has no plans of reentering the American auto market, but European buyers can barely contain their excitement. Both manufacturers have teased the prospective new model as an entry-level car that balances performance with affordability to appeal to a larger market.

While buyers wait for the automakers to unveil their new concept, let’s take a look at some of the sports cars Suzuki has treated us to over the years.

1977–1982 Suzuki SC100

Suzuki first manufactured the Cervo—a sport-tuned kei car—as their successor to the Fronte Coupe. Rebranded as the SC100 for the UK market, drivers quickly began calling this sports minicar the Whizzkid.

The Cervo for the Japanese market featured a rear-mounted 539 cc inline-three-cylinder, two-stroke engine with a four-speed manual transmission that was strangled by emissions requirements that dropped its power to a mere 28 horsepower (yes, you read that right) and limited its top speed to 75 mph.

Retuned for the UK market, the Whizzkid came equipped with a rear-mounted 970 cc inline-four-cylinder capable of developing up to 50 horsepower and with a top speed of 89 mph. The zippy little Whizzkid gained minor classic status in Britain where demand always outstripped supply.

1991–1998 Suzuki Cappuccino

The Suzuki Cappuccino represents the automaker’s attempt to return to the market it abandoned in 1982 when production on the Whizzkid ceased. The Cappuccino was initially designed solely for the Japanese kei car market and debuted for the 1991 model year. Advertising for the Cappuccino emphasized style and value, along with the dream of owning a two-seater sports car.

To meet the exacting standards of kei-class cars, the Cappuccino was equipped with a turbocharged inline-three-cylinder 657 cc DOHC engine with an output of only 63 hp and a top speed of 87 mph. It may not sound like much, but it was more than enough to make this one of the most popular cars on the Japanese market.

1983–present Suzuki Swift

First generation Swifts were really nothing special, but with the second generation launch in 2010, the Swift quickly (swiftly?) became the brand’s best-selling vehicle on the market and remains there today. It even had a brief foray into the American automotive market, though you probably knew it by another name—or names.

Perhaps you’ve heard of the

Geo Metro

? Or the

Chevy Sprint

? Perhaps you even drove one of these compact cars. Both of those are just Swift’s in American outfits. In any case, you probably don’t think of the supermini or subcompact as a sports car, especially when you take into account that it was powered by the same simple, tiny motor—a 1.0-liter three-cylinder engine—that is, until the third generation.

Debuting in December of 2016, the third-generation Swift used a lighter platform and has been equipped with a variety of larger, more powerful engines. The Swift Sport, for example, debuted in 2017 features a 1.4-liter turbocharged K14C Boosterjet engine capable of developing 140 horsepower for a top speed of 130 mph. We’d say this engine makes the car a bit more deserving of its name.

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A history of the Suzuki sports car

The SC100 Whizzkid, the Cappuccino, and the Swift make up the totality of Suzuki’s sports car history, and they preface a potentially exciting future. No major details have been released regarding the mid-engined sports car concept the team are currently developing, but speculations suggest it would be a successor to the iconic Toyota MR2.

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