The average Joe has trouble figuring out it's a Suzuki, let alone Kizashi or trim level.

I think that's the sound of it locking the steering column. If you had a key, turning it back toward you and removing it mechanically locks the steering, out cars have to do it with an electric motor.

Wow, not a lot left to say after KuroNekko got done. All the claims of fancy spark plugs are bullcrap, no plug is going to give you more power or economy. Kizashi comes with iridium/platinum plugs which last 60K miles. You could take them out, clean them, put some anti-seize on the threads and re-in...

Nice, that's beautiful. Welcome to the club.

End your misery an go buy it! :) THIS ! called again the next morning (already on the road an hour) only to find out it had sold the night before. Okay, you drove 100 miles. Inconvenient, and disappointing, but it's not as if you got to Denver and found out. Going from Texas to North Carolina is mu...

Make them give you a sweet trade in on a Kizashi with a real transmission. The whole idea of a CVT sounds like voodoo and gives me the willies.

To my knowledge, the steering is 'drive by wire'. No real mechanical connection to the steering rack via the steering wheel. Servo/stepper motor 'gearbox' so to speak. No, that would mean if the power went out you'd have no steering at all, no one would build a car like that (nor would they be allo...

That sounds pretty normal to me for AWD CVT, confirms that it is the in town driving which is messing you up most of the time. I get about 32 mpg in those conditions but I've got a FWD 6 speed.

I doubt that, it's probably just temperature.

I don't think there's any non Ethanol fuel available in the States except for farm or marine stores.