Swift still sporty with more beef

For 12 years and across two generations, the Suzuki Swift Sport has been a darling of automotive critics and beloved by a die hard clique of dedicated customers. It’s a warm hatchback, not a hot one, that majors on old-school driving fun, over and above lap times or furious acceleration up against a stopwatch.

It has achieved this enviable reputation through one basic tenet: keep things simple. The Swift Sport has always been ...