They suck at safety ngl, the Indian version we have here looks like the one which is imported there and these when tested by gncap got 3 stars which ain't amazing tbh
Damn, it took THIS long to dethrone Tony. It takes a 2018 mom nugget to beat an ancient nugget that runs on basically anything, and the fact that it also takes a red nugget to beat a red nugget is just funny to me. Good stuff as always, sir Wade. Hope you're getting better.
All jokes aside about mum’s nugget, servicing your mum’s car yourself is a super wholesome thing to do for her. Clearly a lot of love in the Dank family ❤️
Especially when he employs her to run the business stuff, so she can use her background (massively overqualified, apparently) to help out and also relax a little without a stressful job. IIRC he also GAVE a motorbike to his step dad so they could ride together, which is the most awesome thing ever
Like deer here in the states. When one runs across the road there’s several more following behind. One ran into the side of a stopped car and took off leaving a big dent.
@@FrankTimms-cs5hlin the UK, much like in the US, deer populations are getting out of hand- they even stray into towns every spring and end up strewn across ring roads in various states of dismemberment. Eating venison is good for the environment.
As an Indian who has seen Suzuki (or Maruti Suzuki here) cars all over the country, I was expecting this would smash the fuel efficiency scores as Indians love saving fuel, and this car is quite popular amongst the average Indian car buyers. Great to see the Baleno smashing the aussie roads too! 🤘🏼
@@LanaaAmor ?? baleno is not an upper middle "caste" car...it's a shite car. An upper middle class car would be something like the toyota innova or the mahindra xuv or the vw polo or the tata safari or the skoda slavia, the vw virtus. Those sorts of cars
@@LanaaAmorThat's just not true, an elite would be the CLS or something. I see Scorpio Ns everywhere here in a suburban city, it's definitely not elite.
Mate,You will get a lot of Indian viewers on this video because this are like THE most sold nugget in India and people here love this things. Suzuki's are just so reliable, efficient and cheap to maintain, that people buy it despite the indian variants having questionable safety rating and build rating. Overall, a good city car
Man Wade is the best employer ever. He services his employees' cars for them. That's incredible benefits. My employer doesn't even think I deserve to get medicine if I'm sick.
@@cheezyvidsYeah, his father has unfortunately passed away. I wonder if Wade is an only child. Sounds like it...but maybe we can get a look at James' nugget? He's a family man, there has to be some journies and stories James has put on his vehicle.
@@gabrielmalta1962could just buy a fit or something. But yeah Suzukis have a charm to them. I had a manual wagon R (Google it) as a rental and man that thing was fun. Fit a whole cut up tree in it too
Mum’s ride came in and schooled the whole lot. Tony in the corner not even able to show his face. Even Roos don’t faze her. Nice job hooking up Mum, she deserves it ❤
As someone who drove old nuggs like the literal "le car" (renault 5) in the 90s in the Netherlands where cars are hyper-expensive, this one's a luxury supercar in comparison! TWO side mirrors, stereo that doesn't sound like an alarm clock, more horse power than an actual horse. Ya don't even have to turn the wipers by hand!
My very first car was an R5 (as they're known for short in England). It was one of the last RHD ones built and was 12 years old with 42k on it when I got it for £420. Absolutely loved that car, put 10k on it in just over a year but then the gearbox borked. Needed a car for work so I scrapped it rather than fixed it, the few that are left sell for £6k+ now!
Just picturing Wade loosing a hudcap while driving down the road made me laugh. The best part is how that happened on one of the better nuggs in this channel. XD
Watching you turn right through the rotary (roundabout, traffic circle, etc) just broke my brain so hard. I always thought I could adjust to left hand drive easily, but now I'm not so sure
It feels weirder on video. In person it's a pretty easy rule, you always keep the side with your steering-wheel closer to the centre island of the roundabout. (Btw driving on the left hand side of the road is confusingly called RHD, because the steering wheel sits on the right hand side of the cabin. So LHD would actually be a US, Europe, etc model!)
Having driven LHD all my life in the united states it’s the shifting of a manual using the opposite hand that takes some getting used to. When I bought a RHD JDM Subaru kei pickup I always had to focus a little harder on the shift pattern. Having never driven in a RHD country yet I would imagine one would have to constantly remind themselves everything is the opposite of what they are used to.
You never doubt the Indian built nuggets. My dad drove a 2012 Suzuki SX4 for 11.5 years and put 250,000 kms on it in urban India. It still drove like an absolute dream till the moment we sold her last week!!!
Seeing James so cleanly pull out that drain plug just made me audibly go “Wow!”. I’ve dropped the plug in the oil so many times😭😂 I’m able to catch ‘em most of the time but I’ve done enough changes to drop that thing plenty. James. Truly the professional.
@@abdulkhujliwal786 Suzuki exports are somehow better than Indian-built, since they are stricter on regulations + can sell it for a bit more expensive so less cost-cutting measures. I can say the same for the Suzukis I have seen in Mexico and US (though they're like super rare in the US).
Not gonna lie, theres something immensely charming about basic economy nuggets. Their design focus is as follows: get you, a few mates, and some stuff from one place to another while sipping fuel. End of list.
I know people, especially a lot of car folks, like to rag on modern engines and cars being more complex for the sake of being complex but I think this really demonstrates just how far cars have come in the last 20 years. And that's not even taking emissions controls and ride quality into account.
A lot of it's just Luddite stuff too, like how they'll complain about computer-controlled ignition timing despite it being way more reliable and lower maintenance than a spark distributor.
@@ToastyMozart Or how they claim their car will run forever, 2 weeks later they're in the shop because their "much more reliable" manual transmission is having problems again, yes this is a very targeted comment to someone who I know who also won't read this, but man if you are reading this, stop lying to yourself you can't drive manual, this is the 3rd time it is in the shop this year for the same problem
My 14 year old swift with a 1.3l i4 engine will do about 6.0l/100k on the highway on a good day, meanwhile my dads 8 year old 2.4l i5 beast does maybe 6.5l in the same conditions. Bigger engine, almost the same usage (allthough let's not talk about city traffic)
I have to say, after you drive some old nuggets with no power steering, no aircon and bad suspension, it feels like heaven when you drive a modern car. Good to know mum nuggets keep getting better
as dude of tall stature i much prefer my skoda superb, things just perfect for my needs. And it excels at country road/Autobahn cruising something i often do But if you are a person of normal stature and living more in the city? Man those small hatchbacks are the shit
Very much a city car. It’s got so much off the line power. I’m a big train person (love me an EMD 710) but damn that thing’s little engine gets me excited. So much fun!
@@CoffeeOnRails My Superb is the exact opposite. The 1.8 4 Zylinder is still a old shool turbo meaning no power until the pressure builds and then it goes. Great for Overtakes on the autobahn or a country road
My mom and dad actually had the same car, before they got a Seat Mii electric. And to see that your mum's still driving it absolutely made my day. (The lil sneeze at the end of the video was absolutely class as well. Literally looks almost brand new, with kanga scratches and everything)
Yeah the rev limiter in park is mostly a modern thing (even in manual cars), this is probably the only car on the channel that has it lmao. I guess its to stop kids hard launching it from a stand still and completely shockwaving the torque converter/clutch.
Wouldn't it make more sense to neutral drop an automatic car if one wanted to "launch" it, instead of starting in park? Like if you were able to rev to 5k and try to get it into drive from park, wouldn't it just catch reverse on the way down?
@@flurpoid both of them are awful for the torque converter, what you really want to do is be in gear but with the brakes on while you're revving-up. Handbrake if proper manual, if it's an electronic handbrake you'd apply it but then keep your foot on the actual brake pedal to keep it applied until you let go.
I have been watching your channel for a while, but never expected this. man I own this fkn nugget IRL in india. Same red color too. Hate it but love it. Fuel efficiency is off the charts! In the Manual gearbox, 5th gear at 35-40kph no problem. 17+kpl (5.8L/100km) no issues when the fuel tank is light IN THE INDIAN TRAFFIC. Every upshift is at 1400-1500rpm. This thing sounds like an EV at times. Wew. Literally had to get rid of that "quality battery box" when replacing my dead battery earlier this month. Surprised it shrugged off that Kangaroo. Just search for any crashes involving this lil' tin-can and you'll be horrified. Man those stock RIMs were so good lookin. You made an abomination. Thanks, I'll be getting rid of my car ASAP
@@lvhdmya4807 yeah but they did have the Baleno RS, which had 1.0 turbo petrol! I wish my dad bought that instead, but hey it's still somewhat fun regardless
@@nickrustyson8124 Tony was old fashioned even in the 80s, I'd honestly call him 50s engineering! In the west, most cars like Tony (tiny, first-time car, post-rationing, with the multi-stroke tiny engines and so on) were built in the 40s and early 50s. Tony's body shell is definitely a bit more modern, but the engine is really still postwar type tech. And that's not a dig at Soviet Poland. The VW Beetle and Citroën 2CV were also sold well into the 90s in Western Europe and were very popular first-time cheap-running cars, and they were also 40s/50s engineering with some facelifts! I'm not categorically sure how the Fiat Nikki compares to the postwar Fiat 500, but that's also a 50s design with a simple rear-engine and a cute modern body shell. I'm pretty sure the engine was more modern than in the Nikki though. Fiat were really good at making these things, and they kept iterating on the formula rather than selling the same car like VW and Citroën.
“Mum's nugget” is better than my 2014 Rio, and even it has some upgraded features from the base model (power windows, I think that’s it. No cruise, no Bluetooth radio)
I have the facelifted version of the Baleno. Great fuel economy, excellent tech for the price and is capable of driving at (definitely the speed limit)km/h while feeling like it's not about to disintegrate.
My 2019 Baleno remains quite content cruising along at 130km/h (the max speed limit in the Northern Territory) for hours but the fuel economy drops off a bit at those speeds.
Welcome back, Wade! Glad to hear the voice is returning after being sick. Don’t see too many Suzuki vehicles on the road here in the US (at least in the rural Midwest), but that’s the kind of nugg that would be perfect for my daily commute to work and back. May need to keep my eyes open for Suzuki hatches in the States.
My sister in law owned one for a while, was a nice little car and really economical. Definitely didn't go very quick, but perfect for a teenager at the time.
@@joebot86 that’s what I suspected, as the few I have seen looked to be older models. Glad my “economy” options are limited to things like the Honda Civic (of which I already own one) and other subcompact/compact cars that are seemingly more expensive than they need to be.
That's the equivalent of 59mpg, holy hell. Did you secretly unplug two of the spark plugs? EDIT: and these things are officially rated at 5.1 L/100km, or 46mpg. This is one efficient nugg right here.
Haha, it feels even wilder in UK MPG because then 4L/100k is 70 freaking MPG! It's probably because most of this test route is on fairly large roads, where the official rating comes from a mix of stop-start city driving and this type of driving. Being able to get an extra 25% over the rated efficiency if you hypermile it on fairly smooth-flowing traffic is not at all uncommon with these modern tiny turbos. Edit: I’ve been told that the engine in this car isn’t even turbocharged, which is even more impressive! Not sure if that’s just a turbo-less option that exists or if this exact model 100% doesn’t have it, but it’s impressive either way.
Used to work for a multi franchise dealer that carried Suzuki up north. Had a '18 Baleno just like the mum nugg out on loan for a customer getting their Ranger repaired (lol Fords). Coming through a roundabout they got T-Boned by a 79 series dual cab with a 5 poster doing 70km/hr through the centre of town. The little Baleno took it like a champ, everyone inside got out without a bruise, and it even would've driven back to the dealership under its own power if the cops hadn't called the tow truck. Suzuki know how to build a nugget - tough, economical, and just enough cromulence inside to make you appreciate the little things.
“Mum didn’t get a big crossover SUV, she got a normal stinkin’ hatchback” hats off to your mom for not getting more than she needs like 90% of Americans 🫡
Wade: I'm so *mad* that freakin' Tony is winning at something! How do I knock that idiot off the top spot? Hang on.... * dials phone * "Mummy can I borrow your nice, little, modern, fuel efficient car?"
Tbh the nugget is cute. We have a 2nd gen in India now, and i think that the new one looks better than the first gen. Australia is like the best place for Suzukis.
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Sure, you're laughing at Tony now, but ya gotta r'memba mate. *Tony can run on almost anything!* I'd like to see Mum's Nug run on Kerosine
It is so sad to see that the copypasted bot comment has gotten more likes than the original
@@slavboii420 What? I found a bot comment that had *less* upvotes than mine, there's one with more?
@@Enderdragon91I mean, you got the pin so even if there is a bot comment with more (couldn’t find it myself) you’re winning!
@@Enderdragon91 Run thiojoe's program and it will report them
I want to see how well Tony does on the Litre board with all these different fuels.
Mums nugget is perfect
Phrasing it like this sounds dirty
Nugg
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Y'all are wrong for that fr, but funny so I'll just laugh with yous all
They suck at safety ngl, the Indian version we have here looks like the one which is imported there and these when tested by gncap got 3 stars which ain't amazing tbh
It's really cool your mom has a pet snake. I know dogs like Frank are more popular, but I've always been partial to reptiles myself.
I thought Frank was a cat, that's me told!
@@bottletopgirl You're both wrong, frank's a teacup moose
@@LambdaMiscellaneousnah Frank's a fish
@@RandomAussie-sz6oznah Frank's a turtle
Damn, it took THIS long to dethrone Tony. It takes a 2018 mom nugget to beat an ancient nugget that runs on basically anything, and the fact that it also takes a red nugget to beat a red nugget is just funny to me.
Good stuff as always, sir Wade. Hope you're getting better.
THE ORKS WE'RE RIGHT
@@gagejohnathan9641RED MAKE IT GO FASTA WIT BETTUH FEUL ECONOMY
@@gagejohnathan9641them Mek Boys really do know what they're doing
Everyone knows red cars are just better. Better fuel econmy, better grip and they're faster.
Source: I own a red car.
The moment a modern Prius appears on this channel is the moment the leaderboard is forever unbeatable.
Hank is the cutest little guy :)
I love him, he needs his own vid
Casually waiting for the Hank ‘N’ Frank Show
He's a little nugget himself 🐶🖤🤍
The lore expands
hes a dog not a guy 🙄🙄
1.4 litres? Almost as big as an F1 car! Real power right there mate!
You know what they say, the remaining 900hp is in the final 0.2 ltrs
What? Only 1.6 litres? And they dont blow up? What is this sorcery?
@@thecompanioncube4211 Our 1.6s only make 75hp :(
@@som3body3 over 12k RPM, very high pressure turbo, very tight tolerances
@@PPedroFernandesNot count MGU-H & MGU-K, those electric motors help a lot by adding few more horsies
I love that you just turned your mum's service into a tax deductible 😂
All jokes aside about mum’s nugget, servicing your mum’s car yourself is a super wholesome thing to do for her. Clearly a lot of love in the Dank family ❤️
His mom sounds like a very sweet lady, and very supportive of Dank. Gotta love it
Especially when he employs her to run the business stuff, so she can use her background (massively overqualified, apparently) to help out and also relax a little without a stressful job. IIRC he also GAVE a motorbike to his step dad so they could ride together, which is the most awesome thing ever
Finally, a genuine Kangaroo ramming vehicle
Kanga rimming was right there
Any car driven in Rural Australia for long enough will become a kangaroo ramming vehicle. They have zero road sense, around sunset is the worst time.
Like deer here in the states.
When one runs across the road there’s several more following behind.
One ran into the side of a stopped car and took off leaving a big dent.
@@FrankTimms-cs5hlin the UK, much like in the US, deer populations are getting out of hand- they even stray into towns every spring and end up strewn across ring roads in various states of dismemberment. Eating venison is good for the environment.
The next thing to do is see if Tony can win a point back in the kangaroo test
Polish engineering vs Australian wildlife
Both Tony and the roo have to be running on vodka at the time
Front impact will most likely stop around engine bay.
A kangaroo would probably delete Tony.
@apocalypsecod only one way to find out, buddy
Oh my god I love Hank what a handsome gentleman he looks so polite !
AWWW 'An Hank' does looks cute... I wonder if it's what our pal Danky THOUGHT he'd get when buying his Dog - 'Frank'? 🤔😏🤣🤣🤣
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As an Indian who has seen Suzuki (or Maruti Suzuki here) cars all over the country, I was expecting this would smash the fuel efficiency scores as Indians love saving fuel, and this car is quite popular amongst the average Indian car buyers. Great to see the Baleno smashing the aussie roads too! 🤘🏼
Baleno is an upper middle caste car in India. Also the Indian version is much worse and has a smaller engine.
@@LanaaAmor ?? baleno is not an upper middle "caste" car...it's a shite car. An upper middle class car would be something like the toyota innova or the mahindra xuv or the vw polo or the tata safari or the skoda slavia, the vw virtus. Those sorts of cars
@@arjunarun3033 they're elite caste cars and don't sell much.
@@LanaaAmorThat's just not true, an elite would be the CLS or something. I see Scorpio Ns everywhere here in a suburban city, it's definitely not elite.
@hypapoorean where did you get caste from bruh..
Hands up who missed the Dynamic Aussie Duo of James and Wade
sorry m8 i had to put me hands down to comment
@@davidtaylor-iw9khm8 ya silly goof you could have one hand up and one hand down to type this out
@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire one of them is busy.
@@bitterjames excuse me you're doing WHAT while watching garbage time??
@@bitterjameswere you admiring mum's nugg?
The sneeze transitions are easily the best on TH-cam.
That’s a fact
Mate,You will get a lot of Indian viewers on this video because this are like THE most sold nugget in India and people here love this things. Suzuki's are just so reliable, efficient and cheap to maintain, that people buy it despite the indian variants having questionable safety rating and build rating. Overall, a good city car
Man Wade is the best employer ever. He services his employees' cars for them. That's incredible benefits. My employer doesn't even think I deserve to get medicine if I'm sick.
The nugget family is growing! Can't wait to see Dad's Nugget!
i think he’s mentioned once that his dad died in his teens
uhhhhhhhhhhhhh about that
We need more nuggets!!!! Lol😂
@@cheezyvidsYeah, his father has unfortunately passed away. I wonder if Wade is an only child. Sounds like it...but maybe we can get a look at James' nugget? He's a family man, there has to be some journies and stories James has put on his vehicle.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley didn't we get to see james' nugg (with that bright red pulley) when tony got introduced?
Man I really appreciate how you are appreciating the car we make here. Love from India
It does sound like a really decent car. Wish Suzuki sold them in my country, I think they could do well depending on the price
@@gabrielmalta1962could just buy a fit or something. But yeah Suzukis have a charm to them. I had a manual wagon R (Google it) as a rental and man that thing was fun. Fit a whole cut up tree in it too
same, this has been our very first moment across the dankverse. makes me so happy.
Happy to see a baleno on the channel!
@@gabrielmalta1962they are actually very affordable. Atleast here in india
Mum’s ride came in and schooled the whole lot. Tony in the corner not even able to show his face. Even Roos don’t faze her. Nice job hooking up Mum, she deserves it ❤
As someone who drove old nuggs like the literal "le car" (renault 5) in the 90s in the Netherlands where cars are hyper-expensive, this one's a luxury supercar in comparison! TWO side mirrors, stereo that doesn't sound like an alarm clock, more horse power than an actual horse. Ya don't even have to turn the wipers by hand!
My very first car was an R5 (as they're known for short in England). It was one of the last RHD ones built and was 12 years old with 42k on it when I got it for £420. Absolutely loved that car, put 10k on it in just over a year but then the gearbox borked. Needed a car for work so I scrapped it rather than fixed it, the few that are left sell for £6k+ now!
The Nugg Genes clearly run in the family. What an outstanding machine. Welcome back!
We need to see the James nuggs
Just picturing Wade loosing a hudcap while driving down the road made me laugh. The best part is how that happened on one of the better nuggs in this channel. XD
that was the first thing i noticed lmaooo
WADE
It's so nice to see a car owner actually putting the money time and care to properly own a vehicle
Watching you turn right through the rotary (roundabout, traffic circle, etc) just broke my brain so hard. I always thought I could adjust to left hand drive easily, but now I'm not so sure
It feels weirder on video. In person it's a pretty easy rule, you always keep the side with your steering-wheel closer to the centre island of the roundabout.
(Btw driving on the left hand side of the road is confusingly called RHD, because the steering wheel sits on the right hand side of the cabin. So LHD would actually be a US, Europe, etc model!)
Having driven LHD all my life in the united states it’s the shifting of a manual using the opposite hand that takes some getting used to.
When I bought a RHD JDM Subaru kei pickup I always had to focus a little harder on the shift pattern.
Having never driven in a RHD country yet I would imagine one would have to constantly remind themselves everything is the opposite of what they are used to.
@@kaitlyn__L I always mix that shit up lol
You never doubt the Indian built nuggets. My dad drove a 2012 Suzuki SX4 for 11.5 years and put 250,000 kms on it in urban India. It still drove like an absolute dream till the moment we sold her last week!!!
Damn that's incredible for a Maruti. What's the new ride you're replacing it with?
Wow WE HAVE INDIANS HERE
@@IbbiAhmedwhy yes
EXACTLYY @@IbbiAhmed
and that sold!? 💀
- M U M - C A R -
Seeing James so cleanly pull out that drain plug just made me audibly go “Wow!”. I’ve dropped the plug in the oil so many times😭😂 I’m able to catch ‘em most of the time but I’ve done enough changes to drop that thing plenty. James. Truly the professional.
4:45 wade went full Top Gear there 💀
Hank looks very comfortable in Bruce 2 😂
I DEMAND MORE HANK CONTENT
AWWW 'An Hank' does looks cute... I wonder if it's what our pal Danky THOUGHT he'd get when buying his Dog - 'Frank'? 🤔🤣🤣🤣
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This car is hella popular in India. Very reliable, spacious, and cheap to run.
But has an absolute shitty build quality.
@@abdulkhujliwal786 Suzuki exports are somehow better than Indian-built, since they are stricter on regulations + can sell it for a bit more expensive so less cost-cutting measures. I can say the same for the Suzukis I have seen in Mexico and US (though they're like super rare in the US).
@@suobset they are super rare in the US as suzuki doesn't sell cars in the US anymore
@@themuffincat You still see some that make their way from Mexico and get re-registered.
@@suobset What would a new Jimny go for in the US?
I can see some old ones still in the $10-$15k price range.
no matter how much ya do to that car, I choose to believe that Wade is still his moms fav nugget
the car leaderboard really reminds me of the one they had on top gear for their track waaaaaay back in the day. its a neat addition for sure
Gotta love that Top Gear-style Litreboard.
YUPP
As someone who lives in the midwest US, I can relate to the kanagroo damage. There's deer everywhere here and people hit them all the time.
You have no idea how proud it makes me as an indian to see an indian made car in Dankpods to be praised by the dank himself. 🇮🇳
Not gonna lie, theres something immensely charming about basic economy nuggets. Their design focus is as follows: get you, a few mates, and some stuff from one place to another while sipping fuel. End of list.
I know people, especially a lot of car folks, like to rag on modern engines and cars being more complex for the sake of being complex but I think this really demonstrates just how far cars have come in the last 20 years. And that's not even taking emissions controls and ride quality into account.
A lot of it's just Luddite stuff too, like how they'll complain about computer-controlled ignition timing despite it being way more reliable and lower maintenance than a spark distributor.
@@ToastyMozart Or how they claim their car will run forever, 2 weeks later they're in the shop because their "much more reliable" manual transmission is having problems again, yes this is a very targeted comment to someone who I know who also won't read this, but man if you are reading this, stop lying to yourself you can't drive manual, this is the 3rd time it is in the shop this year for the same problem
My 14 year old swift with a 1.3l i4 engine will do about 6.0l/100k on the highway on a good day, meanwhile my dads 8 year old 2.4l i5 beast does maybe 6.5l in the same conditions. Bigger engine, almost the same usage (allthough let's not talk about city traffic)
@nickrustyson8124 Mate just wants a cereal box gearbox, and the prize inside is a bunch of neutrals 😂
I would die for Hank
We need to see a Nugget dedicated to winning the litreboard at all costs. Stripped interior, dedicated aero, etc.
I have to say, after you drive some old nuggets with no power steering, no aircon and bad suspension, it feels like heaven when you drive a modern car. Good to know mum nuggets keep getting better
This gives off the same vibes as mums 2020 Fabia. Tiny car. Hella efficient. Super well equipped.
The perfect car.
as dude of tall stature i much prefer my skoda superb, things just perfect for my needs. And it excels at country road/Autobahn cruising something i often do
But if you are a person of normal stature and living more in the city? Man those small hatchbacks are the shit
Very much a city car. It’s got so much off the line power.
I’m a big train person (love me an EMD 710) but damn that thing’s little engine gets me excited. So much fun!
@@CoffeeOnRails My Superb is the exact opposite. The 1.8 4 Zylinder is still a old shool turbo meaning no power until the pressure builds and then it goes. Great for Overtakes on the autobahn or a country road
My mom and dad actually had the same car, before they got a Seat Mii electric.
And to see that your mum's still driving it absolutely made my day. (The lil sneeze at the end of the video was absolutely class as well. Literally looks almost brand new, with kanga scratches and everything)
man the top gear style fuel economy board just makes me think that this is the worthiest successor to that amazing show
Yeah the rev limiter in park is mostly a modern thing (even in manual cars), this is probably the only car on the channel that has it lmao. I guess its to stop kids hard launching it from a stand still and completely shockwaving the torque converter/clutch.
Also noise regulations
@@or2kr yeah true
Wouldn't it make more sense to neutral drop an automatic car if one wanted to "launch" it, instead of starting in park? Like if you were able to rev to 5k and try to get it into drive from park, wouldn't it just catch reverse on the way down?
@@flurpoid im pretty sure the rev limiter also applies to neutral
@@flurpoid both of them are awful for the torque converter, what you really want to do is be in gear but with the brakes on while you're revving-up. Handbrake if proper manual, if it's an electronic handbrake you'd apply it but then keep your foot on the actual brake pedal to keep it applied until you let go.
Hank is a handsome lad
something about the phrase "firing up mum's nugg" rubs me the wrong way lmao
5:22 POV: your kidnapper is extremely passionate about fuel economy
I have been watching your channel for a while, but never expected this.
man I own this fkn nugget IRL in india. Same red color too. Hate it but love it. Fuel efficiency is off the charts! In the Manual gearbox, 5th gear at 35-40kph no problem. 17+kpl (5.8L/100km) no issues when the fuel tank is light IN THE INDIAN TRAFFIC. Every upshift is at 1400-1500rpm. This thing sounds like an EV at times. Wew.
Literally had to get rid of that "quality battery box" when replacing my dead battery earlier this month.
Surprised it shrugged off that Kangaroo. Just search for any crashes involving this lil' tin-can and you'll be horrified.
Man those stock RIMs were so good lookin. You made an abomination. Thanks, I'll be getting rid of my car ASAP
We get the 1.2 here in India, right?
@@lvhdmya4807 yeah but they did have the Baleno RS, which had 1.0 turbo petrol! I wish my dad bought that instead, but hey it's still somewhat fun regardless
the fact that your moms nugget, which is like 3 times more car then tony absolutely smashed tony is absolutely amazing, hahahah
Hey that's the power of 20 years, (It's more like 40 years) of technology development does
@@nickrustyson8124 Tony was old fashioned even in the 80s, I'd honestly call him 50s engineering!
In the west, most cars like Tony (tiny, first-time car, post-rationing, with the multi-stroke tiny engines and so on) were built in the 40s and early 50s. Tony's body shell is definitely a bit more modern, but the engine is really still postwar type tech.
And that's not a dig at Soviet Poland. The VW Beetle and Citroën 2CV were also sold well into the 90s in Western Europe and were very popular first-time cheap-running cars, and they were also 40s/50s engineering with some facelifts!
I'm not categorically sure how the Fiat Nikki compares to the postwar Fiat 500, but that's also a 50s design with a simple rear-engine and a cute modern body shell. I'm pretty sure the engine was more modern than in the Nikki though. Fiat were really good at making these things, and they kept iterating on the formula rather than selling the same car like VW and Citroën.
@@kaitlyn__LNiki is practically a slightly modernised 500, so the engine is also just an evolution of that iirc
“Mum's nugget” is better than my 2014 Rio, and even it has some upgraded features from the base model (power windows, I think that’s it. No cruise, no Bluetooth radio)
Its almost like a modern economy car has a lot more fuel efficiency than an old rebuilt nugget lol
Is it me, or Wade almost went into microphone testing guy voice while trash talking poor Tony at the end?
kudos to your mom for having normal car and taking care of said normal car like any normal human being should
I have the facelifted version of the Baleno. Great fuel economy, excellent tech for the price and is capable of driving at (definitely the speed limit)km/h while feeling like it's not about to disintegrate.
My 2019 Baleno remains quite content cruising along at 130km/h (the max speed limit in the Northern Territory) for hours but the fuel economy drops off a bit at those speeds.
My friends Baleno 2019 model with 5 people sitting in also reached 130KMPH and it was nice and stable even at that speed. Quite a good car it's.
I like how the Literboard looks like the Top Gear celebrity timer score thing 😂
Having Wade back feels just right
Welcome back, Wade! Glad to hear the voice is returning after being sick. Don’t see too many Suzuki vehicles on the road here in the US (at least in the rural Midwest), but that’s the kind of nugg that would be perfect for my daily commute to work and back. May need to keep my eyes open for Suzuki hatches in the States.
My sister in law owned one for a while, was a nice little car and really economical. Definitely didn't go very quick, but perfect for a teenager at the time.
They haven't sold cars in the US for over 10 years, good luck!
@@joebot86 that’s what I suspected, as the few I have seen looked to be older models. Glad my “economy” options are limited to things like the Honda Civic (of which I already own one) and other subcompact/compact cars that are seemingly more expensive than they need to be.
I’ve got a 2010 kizashi, it’s a great nugget
The Suzuki Samurai was awesome.
I appreciate the top gear style magnetic leaderboard
As an Indonesia person, i can confirm that we have seen this car everytime we go outside 😂
I reckon a cool series will be reviewing other people‘s cars also great to see you back again
I would be keen on seeing James X Trail
@@germaineliew2012 hell yeah
Australian regular car reviews
Would give my left nut to see a collab with RCR
@@trainman05matthewb.65 australian nugget reviews
That's the equivalent of 59mpg, holy hell. Did you secretly unplug two of the spark plugs?
EDIT: and these things are officially rated at 5.1 L/100km, or 46mpg. This is one efficient nugg right here.
Haha, it feels even wilder in UK MPG because then 4L/100k is 70 freaking MPG!
It's probably because most of this test route is on fairly large roads, where the official rating comes from a mix of stop-start city driving and this type of driving. Being able to get an extra 25% over the rated efficiency if you hypermile it on fairly smooth-flowing traffic is not at all uncommon with these modern tiny turbos.
Edit: I’ve been told that the engine in this car isn’t even turbocharged, which is even more impressive! Not sure if that’s just a turbo-less option that exists or if this exact model 100% doesn’t have it, but it’s impressive either way.
Had to scroll for a bit to find this. Thanks for doing the math.
Both the cars efficiency and wades driving here are impressive
6:55 my raisin roundies!
I love the new Litreboard look. Really throws the whole warehouse vibe into top gear
I own one, can confirm its a certified nugg.
Tony will always be the winner of our hearts
Yes for the staffy 😊 ultimate nug dog.
the us air force fight song really adds to the ambience of this video
Glad you’re back and doing well! Always great to see more nuggets.
The dynamic duo Wade and James
IDK WHY but im happy to see this lil guy ..who is common sight on indian roads
😂
The love of family and love of nuggs is a wonderful thing. Hank is good too.
Interesting to see how far engine tech has come. Take that Tony, you'll be remembered.
P.S. Need more Hank now, please.
P.S.2 Welcome back!
P.S.3: *ps3 boot sound plays*
The legend returns for his throne..
The undisputed champion: a regular modern car.
mums old suzuki is good but ive never seen someone so happy over a suzuki baleno
I never thought I'd see the day an Indian built car would make it's way to Dankpods but I'm glad one did and I'm so proud!🇮🇳
When we needed him most, he returned.
Such good kids. Mum is proud.
Used to work for a multi franchise dealer that carried Suzuki up north. Had a '18 Baleno just like the mum nugg out on loan for a customer getting their Ranger repaired (lol Fords). Coming through a roundabout they got T-Boned by a 79 series dual cab with a 5 poster doing 70km/hr through the centre of town. The little Baleno took it like a champ, everyone inside got out without a bruise, and it even would've driven back to the dealership under its own power if the cops hadn't called the tow truck.
Suzuki know how to build a nugget - tough, economical, and just enough cromulence inside to make you appreciate the little things.
As an American, I scratched my head for a good couple seconds trying to figure out what the heck that was
Most commuter cars on the road throughout Asia are about this size.
Looks like a Nissan Sentra. Same headlights and hub caps
@@0554joe Look up Suzuki Swift.
What a neat little nugget
I love every single one of these videos, always makes me smile. Please continue to make more!
Can't believe you were able to fix the kangaroo dent, you dont even need James to make these videos anymore.
7:13 it made sure to loose a hub cap for that extra fuel economy and obliterating Tony 😂
ALL HAIL THE MUM NUG
The economy board now looks like the old top gear star in a reasonably priced car board. Respect!
I absolutely love the top gear style nugg leaderboard
your vids never fail to make me smile. just the humor and how genuine you are with every video makes something in me happy
Always a good time for Garbage Time, glad to see you back
“Mum didn’t get a big crossover SUV, she got a normal stinkin’ hatchback” hats off to your mom for not getting more than she needs like 90% of Americans 🫡
Frank and Hank, Like mother like son.
Wade: I'm so *mad* that freakin' Tony is winning at something! How do I knock that idiot off the top spot? Hang on.... * dials phone * "Mummy can I borrow your nice, little, modern, fuel efficient car?"
More hank required 👍🏻
video idea: rate a chicken nugget
Litreboard may be the best, most complex pun I've had the pleasure to encounter.
AWWW 'An Hank' looks cute... Is that what you THOUGHT you'd get when buying YOUR Dog 'Frank'? 🤔😏🤣🤣🤣
😎🇬🇧
We definitely need more Hank content! Love the boy
can tell they're related, wade has Frank and mum has Hank, and they both are nuggetheads.
Man, a nugg that can out-"An Car" the "An Car"! Mum's Nugget is impressive!
Tbh the nugget is cute. We have a 2nd gen in India now, and i think that the new one looks better than the first gen. Australia is like the best place for Suzukis.