While the 185-horsepower I-4 wants to rev, a sloppy six-speed manual mucks up the delivery. Though Suzuki claims it developed the Kizashi on the Nurburgring, our judges remained solidly unconvinced and savaged it for an odd mix of ... as if they switched chassis on the engineers at the last second," says Markus, which certainly might be the case. The Kizashi was to be built on the G6/Aura's platform, until GM killed off Pontiac and Saturn and updated the Epsilon platform. ...
