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SUZUKI FRONX: FRIENDLY ON THE EYE, POCKET AND GREAT FUN WHEN YOU WANT IT TO BE

- Mark Jones

Our long-term Suzuki Fronx has been anything and everything to anybody who has used it over the past six months. It's light and easy to drive, the infotainment and controls are simple to use. It's light on fuel, and its peppy enough, especially in manual guise to keep you happy. And it's this very topic that brings me to a second update with my time in the Fronx.

It was not a planned outing, but I had to be at our Gerotek test facility to get some data from some serious high-performance machinery in the form of Porsche's Cayenne GTS Coupe and Audi's RS Q8.

And for fun, we bet on the times our Suzuki Fronx would run if put through our test programme. Our department head, Jaco van der Merwe, said the Fronx will get there in 12.8 seconds, Charl Bosch, our tamed racing driver and digital guru, threw in 12.5, and I optimistically said 12.2.