{"id":444595,"date":"2010-03-18T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/18\/suzuki-germany-releases-special-nurburgring-edition-swift-sport\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:28:00","slug":"suzuki-germany-releases-special-nurburgring-edition-swift-sport-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444595","title":{"rendered":"Suzuki Germany releases special N\u00fcrburgring edition Swift Sport &#8211; sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/economy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Budget<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/euro\/\" rel=\"tag\">Europe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hatchbacks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hatchback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/suzuki\/\" rel=\"tag\">Suzuki<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/suzuki-swift-sport-rock-am-ring-edition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/websuzuki-swift-sport-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><small>Suzuki Swift Sport &#8220;Rock am Ring&#8221; edition &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>When you think of<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>the N&uuml;rburgring, and what cars come to mind? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/911\">Porsche 911 GT3<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/m5\">BMW M5<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/gt+r\">Nissan GT-R<\/a>? How about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/suzuki\/\">Suzuki<\/a> Swift?<\/p>\n<p>Now the Swift &#8211; especially in Sport guise &#8211; is one of those hot little hatchbacks we wish was offered for sale in North America, and we may well get our wish with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/22\/spy-shots-americans-meet-the-next-gen-suzuki-swift-youll-be-d\/\">the next-gen model<\/a>. But in the meantime, is it really worthy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/15\/word-of-lexus-lfa-nurburgring-track-edition-emerges-from-japan\/\">a N&uuml;rburgring edition <em>&agrave; la<\/em> Lexus LFA<\/a>? Well no, not really, but hold your horses there a minute, because the Suzuki Swift Sport &#8220;Rock am Ring&#8221; edition isn&#8217;t about speeding around the road course. It&#8217;s about the music, man.<\/p>\n<p>Every summer &#8211; in case nearby residents weren&#8217;t annoyed enough by the noise &#8211; the N&uuml;rburgring plays host to the &#8220;Rock am Ring&#8221; (Rock at the &#8216;Ring) music festival, and Suzuki is one of the biggest sponsors. So to celebrate the arrival of this year&#8217;s rock-fest, Suzuki&#8217;s Deutsch subsidiary has released this special edition.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of semi-slick tires and strut braces, the Rock am Ring edition Swift gets a Clarion infotainment system with a 6.9-inch color display, 30-gig hard drive, iPod connectivity and upgraded speakers. Oh, and the requisite special badging, of course. For our part, we&#8217;d blast some of our most spirited driving music, flog it around the track and make sure to add one of those Nordschleife stickers to the package.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/suzuki-swift-sport-rock-am-ring-edition\/low\/\">Suzuki Swift Sport &#8220;Rock am Ring&#8221; edition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/suzuki-swift-sport-rock-am-ring-edition\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/suzuki-swift-sport-5_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/suzuki-swift-sport-rock-am-ring-edition\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/suzuki-swift-sport-4_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/suzuki-swift-sport-rock-am-ring-edition\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/suzuki-swift-sport-3_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/auto.suzuki.de\/auto\/live\/suzuki.html\">Suzuki<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/18\/suzuki-germany-releases-special-nurburgring-edition-swift-sport\/\">Suzuki Germany releases special N\u00fcrburgring edition Swift Sport &#8211; sort of<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:28:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/18\/suzuki-germany-releases-special-nurburgring-edition-swift-sport\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19401461\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/18\/suzuki-germany-releases-special-nurburgring-edition-swift-sport\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Budget, Europe, Hatchback, Suzuki Suzuki Swift Sport &#8220;Rock am Ring&#8221; edition &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery When you think of the N&uuml;rburgring, and what cars come to mind? Porsche 911 GT3? BMW M5? Nissan GT-R? How about a Suzuki Swift? Now the Swift &#8211; especially in Sport guise &#8211; is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}