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Additional Description: This is not your ordinary Suzuki Samurai! This hard-to-find collectible classic features a Suzuki Trail Tough off road suspension system w/Epicurus off road shocks, C4 Fab custom rock sliders, XRC/Smittybuilt performance bumper with 9,500lb. winch, Toyota front Straight Axle swap, locking front hubs, new ITP custom drivelines, and BFG Mud Terrain T/A's. And the most impressive upgrade, a fuel-injected engine with headers and an Optima battery. This Suzuki Samurai needs nothing and is ready to rock! There is no better way to social distance than in this beefed up Super-Samurai! It's time to go tackle any Black Hills trail you desire and have an absolute blast doing it! The Suzuki Samurai, a vehicle revered for its off-road ability but ridiculed for its twee proportions and rather third-world driving dynamics, occupies an odd place in automotive culture. To this day, the Samurai retains legions of loyal fans, and yet it is featured in Richard Porter's Crap Cars, summarized with the line, "It would have been more fun to be attacked by an actual samurai." What we have here, then, is a controversial machine. And controversial machines can make for compelling collector cars. Although Suzuki sold more than 200,000 Samurais in the United States-it was a rebadged version of the global Jimny, the modern version of which is most excellent-finding a clean one can present a challenge. The Samurai's glory days are at nearly three decades behind us, and the years since have generally been unkind to a vehicle that was always regarded as a disposable object of off-road abuse. It's not damning with faint praise to say that the Samurai is far better to drive than I expected. The ride is not bad (at least on smooth pavement), and the unassisted recirculating-ball steering exhibits little of the on-center slack common to larger trucks of the era. The 1.3-liter four-cylinder certainly isn't a powerhouse, but it feels perky enough around town. The sensation of speed is heightened by your exposure to the elements and the five-speed manual gearbox, which is your ally in keeping the little four-banger in its sweet spot. Perhaps you wouldn't want to drive 200 miles on the highway, but remember that a 1980s Wrangler wasn't a paragon of sophistication, either. The Samurai's real virtues aren't revealed until you take it off-road. We pull down into a muddy track paralleling a train yard, and the Suzuki has no problem picking its way around obstacles that have obviously stymied othe4 Cylinder Engine ( I ),4WD Type - part time,5-Speed Manual,Front seat type - bucket,Front wipers - intermittent,Power brakes,Removable roof - soft top,Roof-mounted lights,Upholstery - cloth,Wheel diameter - 15 inch,Wheels - steel