Tag: Suzuki
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Get to Know this Homemade Geo Metro Pickup
That’s right, folks, 1997 represented the end of a glorious run for GM’s often-confused, import-based Geo brand. Does that make this a collectible? Probably not – especially considering the continuation of the Metro as a Chevrolet product for several more years. Today’s feature, however, isn’t really about brand heritage, it’s about yet another tiny hatch…
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Modified 1988 Suzuki Samurai with VW TDI Power
First, this is an older TDI engine; so don’t assume VW will buy it back! With that out of the way, we think this is a great swap idea. Anyone worth his or her weight in compost knows that the often-disrespected Samurai is an amazingly capable off-roader. Adding torque via a turbo-diesel is, we think,…
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Rear-Wheel Drive, Manual and T-Tops: Suzuki X90
We’ve featured a few X90s in the past because, frankly, we can’t pass them up. The X90 is perhaps the least likely vehicle to have made some level of mass production in the last twenty years (give or take). While we’d love to have one in the Oddimotive stable, we have to confess that the…
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Highly Customized Suzuki X90
Because the Suzuki X90 just wasn’t weird enough on its own, this one has been modified into a wanna-be off roader. Despite the 39-inch super swampers, the seller advises that this car is for “sunny day driving, or mild to moderate off roaring.” The sunny day warning relates to the complete lack of a top…
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Two-Stroke Pre-Samurai
Long before the Suzuki Samurai graced US shores, Suzuki offered the LJ. The Samurai was considered basic in the 1980s and this was just as basic in its day, featuring a 0.5L, two-cylinder engine. Off-road capability was always part of the story, though. This example is a (possibly more rare) tin top version and…
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Turbocharged Rotary in a Suzuki Samurai!
The Samurai gets no respect among automotive pseudo-enthusiasts, but it gets lots of respect among those who know it’s a truly capable off-roader. Interestingly, it seems people sometimes want to convert them into street-only machines. We previously featured a V8-equipped, RWD Samurai – call that the redneck path. Today’s feature car is more the sport-compact…
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Another Oddimotive Grail Find: Ex-Red Bull Suzuki X90!
Who doesn’t want a Suzuki X90 with Red Bull provenance? That was a rhetorical question, as we know everyone wants one. The good news today is that this is one of only so many surviving examples and that it still has a trunk converted to a big cooler. The bad news is it seems these…
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Part 1999 Chevy Tracker, Part Plane
It’s an age old question: what happens when a Cirrus SR22 light aircraft and a 1999 Chevy Tracker are combined? Here we have the answer. The reserve was not met on this auction, but the phone number of the seller is available as long as eBay keeps the listing around; so a deal can be…
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Eleven Suzuki X90s in One Sale!
This seller, who seem to still have the “Baja X90 with rear seat” previously featured here on Oddimotive, is now offering now fewer than eleven X90s in one lot. Sadly, only one stock photo is included… See ad text for details. What can we possibly add to this? Actually we can add that we’re a bit…
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Paint job worth more than car? 1985 Chevy Sprint
Sadly, this is not the cool little Sprint Turbo – this is a plain-Jane Suzuki Switft wrapped in Chevy badges. What’s interesting about it is that is has a rather non-shitbox paint job. Okay, it’s not amazing, but it calls attention to itself, which is something base model Sprints don’t usually do. Would you drive…