I love these small hot hatches. Back in the mid to late 80's I worked for VW/Audi, PSA dealership when Golf GTIs, 205 GTI's etc where flying out the showrooms...my job was visiting body shops and insurance assessing damage and supplying parts. Personally I went for the ohhh so awesome MG Metro Turbo. Where it lost out on the top end speed it made up for on the back roads of Cumbria, When I drove with my mate in his Astra GTE he used to make me go in front as he could keep up no problem at all as he was faster but if I was behind I seemed to be constantly up his arse pushing him and he hated it! I'd love another Metro Turbo, but the truth is I'd never drive it like I used to and that's how they need to be driven....like you stole it from the Mafia and they're chasing you 😂😂😂

Bought it back in 2003.brand new, still own it and I love it to bits 😁 Been everywhere and done everything. Everyday use, long trips, I tracked it a few times and it was killing way more powerful cars in a tight course. Gave and received chase with anything on twisty mountain roads, I even took it off road on a spring trail with the Vitara Club. It's been an absolute hoot and totally unbreakable, only standard servicing and consumables. Roomy, with enough vertical glass for a huge aquarium, sips gas like a monk sips tea when you want to. It will die of age with me... I'll have to disagree though with the statement that it's not fast. From a stand on good tarmac it shoots off like it was thrown from a catapult 😄

Guy Wilks drove the Ignis to win the JWRC category in 2004,he just made it with his age to drive for Suzuki. I remember it well when i worked for Suzuki and still got the promotion/advertisement board we had in the showroom. Such an underrated quick car. The Toyota Yaris T Sport was a close rival & competitor.

Much love ❤️ And respect 😎 Keep up the good work love the channel & you're honesty in everything you do! ♥️👍

Used to know a scrap merchandant who rally crossed one of these back in the day in Germany. Stripped out and race prepped nothing could catch it or beat it, won every race I ever watched. Amazing little car…

Cracking little ' Devon ferrari" You won me over with Fish net recaros👍 I bet if a local farmers son or daughter ,born and bred in the Holsworthy area had one, it would be a blast from Bude to bideford😇

A mate had one a good few years back (In silver) James and loved it to bits....Me, I thought it a tad noisy, but as you say fun!.... Can't get much for that amount of cash, will become collectable I think.

Swift looked the part though this doesn’t 😂 * that said I have watched your channel from the start and you are an amazing personality and your decency towards your customers is an example to all

Hi Chops a reply to your question on yesterdays video..Iv only started car trading around a year ago..so no commercial premises yet still trying to get by with a few flips I make slowly progressing in getting better cars never got a loan so doing everything with my own personal money so it’s a bit harder when you only got a limited amount but we all start somewhere, hopefully things start picking up and I get my own commercial premises soon, hard work pays off so I need to make sure I put more effort into my business in order for it to be successful. I deal with a lot of categorise vehicles which delays the process in getting cars ready for sale

I love them. Loads of fun. I've had a few! Glad the original wheels are still in place. A few folk swap them for heavy 16" aftermarket toss and ruin the handling.

Those cars are amazing. I had two back in the early 2010s. The 1.5 M15 engine is a slightly higher tuned version (110hp) of the 1.5 engine from the Suzuki Swift 1.5 GLX (102hp). So you'd imagine it less fun than the Suzuki Swift Sport 1.6 (123hp). Wrong, these cars were set up properly and the engine revs much happier. The gearing is shorter and close ratio and the suspension in these blows away the Swifts. Cracking little cars and becoming quite rare.

Cool as hell that little Suzuki, seats a real throwback to the 80's. Quarter the price of a 106 Rallye and the plastic bits won't come off in your hands when you touch them! That's the car the Seicento Sporting should have been

My wife had the 1.3 model 5 door and it was a good car as she had it 8 years and went trough the mots with hardly any cost and only sold it because of the grandchildren fitting in it with comfort I there car seats and ours had no rust at all.

What a brilliant little car James and underrated, a fraction of the price of any of the very desirable Peugeot Ralllyes. Honestly, having seen how few are about someone will grab a really rare fun little car for a bargain price.. I’m tempted

think your spot on with what you say, lots of fun at a much cheaper price piont with less "coolness" hopfully your right and the value does start going up since unique cars like this are more likely to stay on the road that way

I have a 2001 1.3 GL...nippy thing and it does love to be revved...it does have a surprising turn of speed once you get it off the line as well.

Hey James - lightweight wheels aren’t so much about the overall vehicle weight, they’re to reduce the unsprung weight which results in better handling 👍🏻

Owning one now for almost a year its amazing how well this thing corners it is genuenly amazing it isnt the fastest but still its quicker then most cars i encounter the one drawback is head gasket isues at a mileage of about 130000 miles however if ur handy enough for about a €100 u have a new one in and up u go u bought urself another 130000 miles but it really drives nice

I bought my 8ry old son (a budding mechanic) an ignis to to learn the basics for 300 quid with 50k on the clocks since he's had it he's serviced it had it motd its now fitted with touchscreen,cameras hid headlights led bulbs all round spot lights and is a cracking little motor I havent driven my own car in a month now im enjoying the morning commute in the little pocket rocket and saving a packet on fuel costs

Love it. It looks like a whole load of fun in an easy-to-live-with little package. Brand snobbery aside, what's not to like?

a nice wee Sunday night extra thanks mr chops

Looks standard an apprentice at work had 1 and loved to tell everyone about his Recaro seats lol, looks fine for £700

My Colt 1.1 is lighter 920kg lol but only has 75bhp still fun though and the Ignis must feel quick with a good power to weight ratio like it has

I'm a big fan of these. Nice sort of boxy, chunky Tonka Toy styling and decent revvy engine in a small package. What is not to like?

Two-tree years i had hard decision to make - to chose between ignis sport or yaris ts - and i go with the yaris because the body parts and parts in general are more easy to find. From what i found back then the cars are in the same class and almost identical.

Such cool little cars, I used to own a few years ago. It was black with front fog lights

Very interesting insight into an otherwise vanilla like car. Im impressed. Hope to see it - post buffing! Any more stories from James in the big chair?

Looks fun and nippy,it's in pretty good condition overall and should sell quite quickly I reckon 🤙👌👍

Great little thing, love it

Lovely little hot hatch 👍😀Sure that's the same dash I had in a Wagon R years ago 😂

I have an 05 ignis 4grip 66000 miles gone through last 4 mots for no work required very economical and very nippy after 3000 revs

It's all about power to weight ratio... and actually gaining pleasure from actually having to "drive" the thing to get the performance from it. I owned a BMW 750i years ago... the Citroen Axgt I was also running at the time was more of an "ultimate driving machine".

I’m a real fan of these hot hatches back in the day I had a Nissan Cherry turbo that thing was a fly machine

£700 is a bargain all day long, so much for so little. Fun, reliable, running cost, kind of fun looks and some of the coolest seats ever. What's not to love about it!?

I had one of these about 12 years ago a great little car I used drive it like I'd just stolen it and it was absolutely bulletproof

Hi could you please put a link for the stuff that you use for the black plastic thanks

Good video, you'll soon become the countries premier obscure warm hatch dealer.

Interesting little car, looks like it will tidy up well. Hopefully it will be a profitable flip. Also, is there a micra video coming? I noticed the bonnet was up on one of them :)

Rover Metro 16v GTi for me although you'd be lucky to find one these days and definitely not for this money. Failing that if I could get my 91 Mini Cooper back on the road I'd take that. This looks like fun though!

Very much in the spirit of 1980s hot hatches. I would take one of these any time over today's bloated and soul-less equivalents.

Also James try to buy a Suzuki Alto Turbo ,they are Japan import only but i had one way back in 2009 and they are the most fun , think Original 60s Mini Cooper but with like 100bhp scary fun

Reminds me of my first car, a Yaris T-Sport. For a slightly more robust feel, try the mk6 fiesta zetec s. Our 2008 zetec s has been built proof, and a hoot to drive! I would like to buy this but I have absolutely no need for it!

Had Suzuki Ignis Sport 1.5 4 grip = 4x4 5 door very good fun Miss it Wish i kept it.

Wee pocket rockets, both my boys had them so much fun.

Would love a shot in that! Looks like a great B road blaster

If I had my new job a few weeks early, I'd be so temped to get out of my swift and into that.

Nice car, I have had that dry rot on Dunlop tyres that were not that old. No alternative but to replace, but not with Dunlop! . Should polish up well Should you retail it

Cracking little car 👍👍❤️

I’d swap it for my 2012 Polo any time, at least then driving to work and back would be more fun ! Will it run on bio ethanol ??? If I was a dealer I’d want to keep all of these interesting cars… 😅

Rare car now. Cheap fun, not a lot else you can get with that power to weight ratio at that price.

This car would make a pretty good stock hatch championship car! A lady i know has one and i thrashed it round the other day.....FAST little bugger!

The N/S headlight looks newer than the O/S! Not replaced due the a minor accident was it?

I hope you checked the subframe and behind the plastic sill covers and wheel arches.

Proof again that Suzuki's experience with bike engines makes some cracking revvy cars. Be better in yellow like the WRC cars. 55 reg so presumably quite a late model since the Mark 2 Ignis arrived in 2004. Now if you could find a Daihatsu Mira Gino Avanzato.....

Hi James, take it on a track day before you sell it. Also it makes a perfect entry level track car for who ever buys it.

I love mine I’ve had it for over 2 years now and bought it with 41,000 on the clock and paid £950 for it .

I would polish it up and get it in really good shape and use it as a track car like you did the swift and maybe someday soon itll be worth more money

Widening the track on that Ignis is proper commitment from Suzuki

What a superb car! How on earth do you not end up keeping these pocket rockets? I would be hopeless!!

Nice one!

You should try the fiesta ST150 there well fun

Wolf in sheep’s clothing! Impressive stats! Looks like a wee car for going to the supermarket in! Who would have ever knew

I take it that there's no update on the little white VW Up or hole 🕳 in the roof Micra?? Love the little red Ignis though!!

Not going to necessarily say better, but you've got to try an MG ZR with the 1.8 lump. They have no business being so fun. They even managed to pull off the 1.8 in the 75 so imagine what it's like in a 25/ZR! Even the 1.4 is nippy and very revvy. Just a little bit plain. They still have 103bhp which is pretty high for a 1.4 The 1.8 is about 120 Or you've got the ZR160 which is on my bucketlist. A tuned 1.8 giving 159bhp and about 170nm torque in a car that weighs not much more than 1000kg! Use your imagination for the rest They're getting hard to find but a decent ZR160 is still less than 3 grand

Maybe paint the door mirrors black?

I had 2 1.3 vvt petrols. Absolute loved them. They dont rust like the rustwagon golf and passat since the used the same steal at the time. Only downside for me was the speakers in the dashboard. Only problem i had between both my ignis was crank sensor (common problem). Would love an ignis sport as weekend thrasher for the countryside.

👍👍👍👍

What kind of profit would an average dealer look to make on a £15000.00 car?

Try a Clio 172or182.

Awesome i just bought a 2003 Renault Clio 172 cup for £1000 and my god it's fun

I don't like the engine. The 1.3 gti was better. The 1.5 doesn't rev and has no torque under 3,5k . Maybe reprogramming the ecu can fix that, but the air intake is tiny, so that migh have to be adressed too and then there is the ignition,.... it should be right from the beginning. Suzuki knows, how to do tiny hot-ish hatchbacks, they kinda screwed it up with this one.

My most favourite car ever had 3 P.S red ones go faster

OHHH I LOVE ME AN IGGY SPORT.

‘Shoe horned’ rather than ‘horse shoe’d’ the 1.5 engine in..👀

Shuv a turbo on it chopper

When I saw £700 I thought I will get on the phone about that, then I saw its up for £2500

fun when it's on cam

Looks like a Volvo estate at the back.

Afternoon

ye,great car for somebody.

A little Bobby Dazzler.

thats got to be minging with rust underneath

It's kinda impressive that the new suzuki swift sport isn't that much heavier than that ignis. The ZC33S weighs 975kg, and it has all the modern safety equipment including all the radar based stuff as standard.

Keep it don't sell it. 👍👍

Gear Shift knob not genuine and the Toyota 1.5 engine is great and some came with the white wheels and you had to pay extra for Suzuki Silver alloys which i had on mine and i think look better.

Why it's so cheap 🤔

Does fun any come cheaper?... you what?

You will never get a better little hot hatch because its a Suzuki it will outlast any European crap and it is reliable although in the UK cars do rot fortornatly l live in Australia and oldder Japanese cars don't rust my 25 year old toyota hilux has not rusted and it is left outside

That'll sell in no time to a member of the baseball cap wearing wearing younger set........

No James you are not a small car dealer you are a very big car dealer

Oh come on, you've had me trawling Autotrader for a Swift Sport (disappointingly tame and expensive for a recent model), now you bring this to the table! An Ignis is for pensioners...does not compute... malfunction! Fatal error! I hope you're happy...😞

For goodness sake get a proper mic in the car! You've been doing this long enough now!!

wouldn't want to crash at 115mph in that? RIP to all occupants

No thanks.