Suzuki Cappuccino Review: The Little Kei Sports Car That Makes a Miata Look Huge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
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Our host takes you through the details of this charming kei car, the Suzuki Cappuccino, offering a comprehensive rundown that delves under the hood, checks out the surprisingly spacious trunk, and explores other kei cars like the Honda Beat. It's also her first time driving right-hand drive!
Tune in as Alanis shares her journey of driving a RHD vehicle and her experiences behind the wheel of Suzuki's mighty kei car.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
00:29 CARS & BIDS!!!
00:44 Changing Things Up
01:19 Suzuki Cappuccino Rundown
03:09 How Many Alanises?
03:34 Under The Hood
04:13 The Trunk Space
04:57 Getting Inside The Cappuccino
08:11 Alanis Learns How To Drive Right-Hand-Drive
10:09 Driving Suzuki's Mighty Kei Car
12:23 Outro
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I was SO nervous to do RHD for the first time, so naturally, I recorded it for all of you.
What a fun car! Thanks for watching, everyone
It looked disorienting to be doing some of the stuff with your opposite hand. I’d be really overwhelmed.
Right hand drive becomes second nature so fast. For years I commuted in a lhd manual, daily driver was a rhd manual, and family car was a lhd auto...lol... And drove a rear wheel steer forklift at work and manual racecar for fun.
You do such a great job in your vids. Please do more!!!! :) BTW I just noticed you are wearing an Egyptian cartouche necklace? Does it have special meaning?
Love the shirt! my favorite color
It's was my daily driver for 20k back then , thanks for the video alanis !
Doug is the kinda guy that loves hearing Alanis refer to he as "her boss".
I hope Alanis gets her chance to review a Mighty Boy someday.
ME TOO
Is it really called that? Or is it a fun nickname?
Yesh, please & thank u 🙏🥹
@@ShazeemKhan I had to check that one out and yes it is called that and has a Wikipedia page. I wasn't surprised as the equally sillily named Suzuki Whizzkid was sold here in the U.K.
@@AlanisKing lol how lame would it be if Doug gets a Mighty Boy on Cars & Bids and says "okay we will do a review of this car, who shall I get to do the video?......Kennan it's all yours".
All jokes aside, I hope you can review one. I've never heard of that car before, would be cool to see.
9:34 "There's something about doing it with the other hand that is SOO freaky!" I won't lie. I laughed out loud at that comment!
There is nothing quite like Alanis' enthusiasm. Love it!
Aw! Thank you
7:20 that laugh is insane haha
Hi Alanis - Here in the UK we drive RHD like our friends in Japan. I own a VW California camping bus which is LHD and my daughter wanted to borrow it for a camping trip to Scotland. She drove LHD manual shift for the first time in the biggest thing she'd ever driven... Her face was much like yours - Fear and fun 🤓
Fear and fun!
Thanks for sharing!
This is one of my dream cars. This, my Jimny and a Suzuki mighty boy- it’s the perfect three car garage!
I’ve watched pretty much all of your videos, this is a weird intersection of interests for me lol
Agreed!
@@reflex8698 same here! Great to see you, Calum!
Bro- those all fit in a 1.5 car garage, feel free to fill the ither half, lol
@@jacobfritz8158fine, a Suzuki super carry then!
Nice to see Alanis show more of her personality here. Delightful.
With zero context, I’d think Alanis was the size of Game of Thrones actress Gwendoline Christie standing next to this car.
It's hilarious actually
When I first got my Honda Beat I had no issues instantly converting to RHD. It just clicked for me. Never messed up the shifting, never messed up the turn signals, never messed up the mirrors… it was just natural.
I had so many people exclaiming how they thought it must be so difficult to drive because everything is backwards. People whom I know personally and are all great drivers. Many times I told them how easy it actually is. Because of that many people wanted to give it a try which I had no problem with.
This is how I learned that people’s brains are often wired VERY differently.
Some people were like me and it just instantly clicked. Some people could not grasp how the turn signals and whipper stalks were flipped (and she was from England where they drive on that side?), some people could not grasp using their left hand for shifting, and some people could not understand that the shift pattern WASNT backwards. They kept going to 1st instead of 5th and 5th instead of 1st. Worst though (somehow worse than the person who couldn’t shift) be could not get it though his head that he had to still drive on the right side of the road… his brain kept telling him that he had to be close to the center of the road so be was just positioning himself right down the double yellow so he could be where he was in a normal car. He COULD NOT reprogram his head to do otherwise.
Needless to say I don’t really let people drive my car now unless you can prove you are actually competent.
"This is how I learned that people’s brains are often wired VERY differently." Yep. I've found similar down the years. LHD/RHD doesn't really bother me(I learned and drive on LHD). A couple of minutes and I'm fine. Driving on the "other" side of the road takes a little more initial concentration, but again after a while I'm fine. However and like you some I've known just never really take to it. As if it's far more hard wired in their brains?
I know what you mean about indicator stalks. In RHD land many Japanese made and certainly JDM import cars have the indicator stalk on the right, but many if not most European cars don't(I suppose because they're designed as LHD from the start), so that could explain that British woman's confusion, if all she had driven before were Euro built Opals/Fords/BMW's. A friend of mine, who otherwise is a _very_ competent driver had a loaner car when his was with his mechanic, but it was a Japanese car and for damned near all of the three days he drove it every time he came to a junction his wipers would go on first. 😄 Then again, another friend of mine drives BMW's so that's never an issue as they don't use indicators anyway... 😜
@@MrGrentch My first two cars were Fords. A 1974 MK1 Escort then a 1980 Capri. For some reason they had the indicators on opposite sides.
@@MrDuncl You just took me back in time Mr D. 🙂
My dad was a Ford man and I learned to drive on his 83 Capri. I loved that car. Only a 1.6, but it was "Irish spec" so small engine because of our taxes, but with Recaro seats, pale metallic green, stripes down the side, a clock, mechanically adjustable mirror(only in the driver's side, no need to go mad) and a rev counter. Oh yes, _Fancy_ 😄 _Fantastic_ gearbox, near perfect driving position and lovely (manual) steering too. Practical too with the hatch. It was sold on in the mid 90's(I still regret that), but was still alive in 2003, so maybe it's out there somewhere... A friend's dad had a Mark 1 Escort, another had, and actually still has a Mark 2 RS2000. A car with a big heart and one of the most successful rally cars ever.
Tbh i can't recall where the indicators were on the Capri. I _think_ they were on the left. Ours was built in Cologne, maybe the Brtish built ones were different? I do remember after a couple of other European brand cars getting into my first Japanese(import) car and initially having to remember the indicator stalk was on the right.
These days I'm still kinda old school, as my daily is a Japanese import Honda Integra Type R from 1998 and has been since 05(almost by mistake😄). And in many ways harks back to that Capri; coupe, Recaro seats, _fantastic_ gearbox, near perfect driving position and yep, practical too. Though the Capri's rear seats were actually usable by adults. Well... small adults. And it's a lot quicker.😁
@@MrGrentch I suspect the difference was that the Escort was made in the U.K. while the Capri was made in Cologne. Yes the back seat was very useable. I once had six in the car (four in the back) for a short journey. My 1980 pre-dated rear seat belts. A car that I have driven recently which reminded me of the Capri was a BMW 420. Nothing like as practical though. I once easily fitted an unassembled single pine bed complete with mattress in the Capri.
Espresso would be a better name for it - small but powerful
Alanis just found her almost perfect car. If it only came with LHD.
Thanks for another fun and cool video Alanis! Happy new Year!
Happy new year! Thank you!
She just says: “ I’m 5’8 and ½.” Doug: “ I’m 6’2 to 6’3”!! Got’a love it
I didn't expext such a nice interior TBH. My fave of the K cars seen so far
Sat in one a while ago must say it is a serious car, while sitting their my cousins 944 came to my mind. Shifter, Pedals, Materials all of good quality, almost as good as the porsche.
@@Senzenfrenz waw
That is awesome! Lucky you. I always love a 944, for it to give you that vibe, says something, eh. The only 1 i sat in was a Dihatsu, Copa, I think?
I'm amazed that Alanis' hips fit on the seat of Suzuki Cappuccino.
Logistically you're not wrong
I love the name of the car, suzuki knew everybody was crazy for coffee house culture, and cappuccinos, so they just went ahead and went with the trends.
Bring me the Kia Cortado!
One of my dream cars
he is not small , he is practically sized and i am sure that he has an amazing character
What a great one! Thanks! 👍
It's lovely, like a mini-Dodge viper.
thanks for another fun vid - other than the overall size, the 2 stage roof and how easily it stows is the most important part of this car, you don't need to be 6'4 with a doug wingspan to work that top like some other cars - too bad it wasn't high lighted here
Thank you for watching!
I own a Nissan Figaro and thought it was small.. then I parked next to a Cappuccino😂 The cappuccino is tiny next to the Figaro and oh so cool.
Kei cars are everywhere in the PNW. We have importers here that will show you what's coming up for auction and you can choose cars and they'll bring them in the U.S. for you. Easy peasy!
When I moved to Ireland many years ago and drove a car there for the first time, it was a riot believe me. Now all these years after, back in Spain I always remember that with a grin in my face. Anyway, I wasn´t the cutest person driving one of the cutest cars like you just did. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALANIS and as always much love from West Spain ❤
HAPPY NEW YEAR thank you for watching!
So cool!!
What a cute little car, great video.
Thank you for watching!
Coming from the UK, I got the same experience driving a left hand drive car in the UK. It was a Mercedes SLK, so it wasn't a really big car, plus it was automatic. I got through it OK
I've only driven LHD on holiday in the USA. It was it being an automatic which I found the most unnerving. I had hope to have a practice around the hire car companies car park but they had parked it right by the exit so it was straight out into Boston traffic sitting on the left of the car with a large brake pedal almost where the clutch should have been.
A few days later we encountered a roundabout or circle. No problem to me, while non local Americans were sitting there exclaiming "what the heck".
Does anyone know what taillights and headlights those are????
I’ve only lived in LHD countries but I’ve driven RHD a few times (in RHD countries). Always automatic but I always look in the wrong spot for the rear view mirror 😂
I feel this brings us one step closer to a Suzuki Mighty Boy review
It does
Driving right drive isn’t hard, I’ve done it many times. Driving right hand drive in a country designed for left hand drive is incredibly difficult and mind bending.
Honestly shocking to see how small this car is when Alanis is standing next to it.
It's TINY
Too bad no Alanis uses K car in the drive thru😂. Definitely a fun video 🙂
Next time!
This whole car is likely 0.5 Alanis Units Cubed … great review!!
Educational and HIGHLY Entertaining!!
Pure joy. Alanis' reviews make my week. If you and the hubby come to Kennebunk Maine let me know and I'll buy you guys dinner. 😊
Omg! Thank you
Good job!
Thank you!
You look like a Nordic warrior next to this lmao ur like 5 feet tall but you look like 6ft
Is that really garden hose under the hood? I looked closer at the ad, and it says GARDEN. Not saying it doesn't work, but maybe there's a regular radiator style hose that would fit that better?
That's what was installed on the car when I imported it from Japan, works just fine so haven't changed it
Alanis is so nerdy and adorable, Doug found his long lost sister.
I had a dice with one of these on the M11 motorway in the East of England..about 1997. I was in my Alfa 164 QV 3.0l. I only shook him off at an indicated 140 mph...I sht u not...
Your enthusiasm is infectious. Please never lose your excitement for the far corners of the automotive diaspora!
I own a 1996 Suzuki Cappuccino and a 2016 Toyota Rav4 and can honestly say i pretty much NEVER drive the Rav4 !! The Cappuccino is perfect for daily driving, plenty fast enough in any situation, easy to modify for more power if you want it, cheap to run, reliable, and can order any parts i miggt need from Japan though parts are getting expensive as this car is becoming more sought-after.
If anyone plans on getting one id go for the later model as mid 1995 onwards the motor was an all alloy, timing chain (not belt) and has 17% more torque which is massively noticable.
yes. interesting car.
It sure is!
Hell yeah.
She is a giant
Are the pedals normal in a right hand drive or are they reversed, too?
Normal, so shift with left foot and hand
oh my god I need one of these so bad
So if they made an espresso, would that be a smaller but faster vehicle?
They really could have taken this concept and ran with it.
Nice.
First time seeing an experienced manual driver re-learn how to drive a manual 😂
Nice ❤
Thanks 🔥
Your giggles and laughter totally made my lunchtime a great time 😂 TY
Aw! Thank you
Can I get a little sugar with my cappuccino?
To have an ideea how it is to drive RHD as a LHD driver, try to eat your stake by swapping the fork and knife in your hands...😊
it's funny watching you get freaked out by right hand drive having only ever driven right hand drive and never even sat in a lhd driver seat
Hahahaha
I worked at a body shop for 10 years in the late 80's early 90's I have driven. A few right hand drive cars its really not that big of a deal. I thought driving in the center was much more bizarre experience to be honest.
I drove a kei truck and yeah the hardest thing to get use to witch is suprizing once you start driving it is the rear view mirror. Freaky. And I kept banging my right hand against the door panel when it was time to shift the manual transmission.....oops um, left hand! Ya gotta take the halfs of your brain and swap them around of sorts driving one of these cars.
Wow
When I saw it was a cappuccino I was like this car is so Alanis and low and behold…
LOL
So does Doug assign you all cars to review or do you get to choose?
I choose what I drive (in Texas), but the Cappuccino was a last-minute shoot in LA, so this one was picked by our content department. I got the assignment the day before and was like: "OK! RHD tomorrow!"
'sips cappuccino' ☕
You should put in the title with Alanis king, because anything with her personality I will watch
That is so kind! Sometimes there's not room, but sometimes there is. I'll add it in if/when I can : )
Thank you so much for the reply, It sincerely made my day!! I remember when you first made videos you would always have with “and with Alantis King “ and honestly now when a Cars & Bids video is posted and I get click baited when it’s not you haha I’m sure you see the stats with how long fans stay on the whole video with you vs with other broadcasters haha spreading positive fan girl vibes but it’s the truth. I can only watch you or Doug
That car is narrow enough it should be forgiving for first time RHD.
Is the Suzuki Cappuccino right hand drive?
Measuring something with body length is very Smoot of you
I have half a dozen Kei cars, they are stupid fun.
They are a blast!
The golf shirt with the cars and bids log makes its appearance. Looks like Doug pried open his wallet.
I really don't think my brain could remap to RHD.
You can! I didn't think it would be easy, but it actually was for me
Just saying but this is my favorite car
and anyone is supposed ot care?
@@slowery43no
No! You did not attempt to fit in the trunk, so you are officially canceled. Get back in there and do what you were put on this earth to do! 😊
Probably the BEST car to try right hand drive for the first time on.
inb4 the other comments
Incidental music????
"It's surprisingly tight." That's what she said. 😂
Hey now!
One of these with around 200 hp would be a hoot
Alanis is the type of girl to risk her own life to film videos for us.
So true
Love the Bubuki Bappabbino
OMG
That driving part was awful I really liked it
I'm 6' 5" and I want one so badly. Talk me down.
Infinite headroom!
You could probably re-enact the scene from the Simpsons with the tall man going after Nelson Muntz. "Do you find something comical about my appearance when I am driving my automobile?"
The hardtop IS removable
Alanis , I really enjoy your reviews...
Go Alanis !!
Thank you!
First!
🥱 Wow first !. How exciting for you, 👦 your mommy must be so proud of you ?.
This whole review is what she said
Get Doug to review that red Kia forte 😅
I remember sitting on a suzuki cappuccino and comparing it to a nd miata, when I sat on the nd miata, for some reason the nd miata feels more claustrophobic, I dunno why 😂😂😂
Alanis is so awesome and genuine. Love her videos
Thank you so much!
As a Honda guy I’d really like to drive the beat. The cappuccino was in the famous initial d. It was a formidable car on the touge in that series. Also fun fact for Alanis once you drive a few more jdm rhd cars it’ll really confuse you driving a rhd British car because the turn signals are on the traditional side. Weird 😵💫
Yess King go off!!!
Nice video, good presentor. Keep her around.
Thank you!
Such a shame I'd never fit in one
Sorry, I can’t. Keenan was enough of stretch. You spoiled us Doug
Sucks to be Americans here in Canada we only have to wait 20 years to import vehicles we can bring in a much larger selection of vehicles and buy and drive these vehicles 5 years before you guys will ever see them on your roads
It's 15
Do you know why the conjoined twins moved to Japan? So the other person could drive..............
A little dramatic, are we??
""sports"" car
I like Ken but he is drab with much less personality than Doug.
Imagine Alanis being thrown off by rounded and curved things behind her
I gave her 3 months, just too annoying. Bye.
Thanks for letting us know.