The Suzuki Cappuccino is a Kei-class car in Japan, which means that it is a tiny car by anyone’s standards. Japanese limits for the Kei class mean that the Cappuccino is only 129 inches long and 50 or so inches wide. Even the 3-cylinder engine is tiny, displacing only 657 cc. Turbocharged and intercooled, its official horsepower figure is 63 hp. Total weight for the car is 700kg with a 50/50 weight distribution.
As we have seen previously, imagination has very few limits when it comes to owners’ visions of what their cars can be like and this Cappuccino from Fighter Engineering in Japan has turned out to be an extreme example of what Suzuki’s Kei-class car can be. The Japanese tuner has stroked the engine to 800 cc and reworked the turbo system so that it now produces 205 horsepower. Every other part of the car has been upgraded, from the 16-inch wheels and 4-piston brakes to the stripped out and lightened body with carbon fiber hood and dashboard. A piggyback ECU has also been added and interior shots reveal a rollcage to stiffen the tiny body. Compared to other cars featured in this blog, the horsepower rating for this car is still low but with the 700 kg body further lightened, imagine the power-to-weight ratio of this tiny car. It should be a lot of fun to drive.
This particular pocket rocket’s performance figures would be very interesting to see with a performance calculator if we had its current weight and an e.t. figure for the quarter mile.
Video of the car on the dyno.
See the source article here.
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