Had the new Swift nearly a week now, so far only put around 100 miles on it but very pleased with it so far, display is saying its averaging 61mpg just around town, happy with that!

New engine is a peach, very quite and smooth, honestly can't tell its only a three cylinder, one thing I have noticed about it is the absence of a external exhaust manifold, cat bolts straight onto the head.

Really like the colour ( cool yellow, probably not for everyone but I fancied something a little brighter), I've taken the time to get some protection on the paint and wheels with the upcoming autumn and winter.

Inside some of the reviews mention some of plastics are a little hard and scratchy but I don't know about others but I don't sit in a car and rub the interior, it's actually a nice place to be, the infotainment is easy to use, plenty of physical buttons for controlling the heating and major functions.

A few observations: The seats are rather narrow and do wrap around you, I find them.lovely and supportive but they probably wouldn't suit a larger person, I'm physically distinctly average size wise.

There's no height adjustment on the passenger seat, wife's not bothered and loves the heated seat but it's seems a strange omission.

The front end looks a little unfinished to my eyes and unless there built into the headlights and I've not found the button there doesn't seem to be front fog lights fitted?

Being a new modern car there are a lot of bongs, beeps and pings giving various warnings of change of speed limit, exceeding the posted speed limit etc most of which I've manged to turn off.

More updates as the mileage increases....

Edited by paul 1963 on 30/09/2024 at 09:48