TeamSwift

I know these cars are really rare in the states . Ive only seen 4 ever including the one I own. I figure we could use this thread as sort of a GT registry. Please put your state and if the car is operational . ill start

Frank in Burtonsville MD 1992 Swift GT

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92 Swift GT , 94 Metro 4 door 376k miles , 87 Samurai G16A very modified

Houston Texas 1989 GTi last year Registered 1994.
and one 1994 Gt. My daily driver.

1989 GTi 77000 original miles 3 owner car. Currently registered.

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Cars and Harleys

I know knuckles has 4 GTI/GT ...mapleridge BC
Locjaw has one .... Oregon
I have own 6 since 2010
and currently driving a 89 GTI auto with 165,000 and drive it almost daily
and have one 89 GTI minus the shell in boxes ..Washington state
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Massachusetts. 1993 Swift GT. Running like a champ as a 50 mile/day commuter.

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1993 Swift GT

1994 Swift GT Registered in Wahiawa HI, User J_Swift lives near me and says he also has at least one shell and a ton of parts, but I'm not sure if either is ever going to move again. One other GT is rumored to be driven on the island, but I've never seen it.

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http://www.teamswift.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=57216

Boston, Massachusetts.
I have a 1989 swift gti white registered.
I have seen a black one in a town nearby.

So we will give it the benefit of the doubt and say it's around 15 that have read this and posted. That's incredible I would think there would be more . well 16 If you count the really clean one I saw on chraigslist in Philly .

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92 Swift GT , 94 Metro 4 door 376k miles , 87 Samurai G16A very modified

OMG .. you need to learn research modalities .. you are only using a basic website that caters to a small sample of owners (demographics) .. and you are trying to use this to justify your conclusion ...

I saw two whilst only a short time in San Francisco .. I would guess neither visit this site ...

And the biggest part .. there is a whole full worl outside of your limited USA demographic that you have excluded ..

There would most likely still be thousands still in the USA and more up in Canadia (yes that is what our moronic ex Prime Minister called it) and then in Europe and the Asian Pacific you could add still more ..

You need to take your narrow eyes and expand them ... (You also have Mk1's Mk2's and Mk3's to take into consideration) and I would put your 3cylinder Mk1's into this class as they are equivalent ..

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You are correct . but I wouldn't even think there are 100s left in the USA . I know they are like civics in other places in the world .I follow instagram users in Argentina and they have a whole gang of gti cars.

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92 Swift GT , 94 Metro 4 door 376k miles , 87 Samurai G16A very modified

I have two:

89 GTI, Daily Driver, 93 GT Under Rebuild.

My buddy who lives near me also has two one he is building that is nuts and one that he wrecked because it was nuts.

Marietta, GA

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89 Suzuki Swift GTI
15" Lancer OZ Racing Rims
Custom Trailing Arms by Dethbrd
Boxed Rear Control Arms
Super Pro Poly Bushings
Genie Header
Nissan Intake Manifold
2 1/4" Exhaust
Turbine Tech Underbody Brace
Honda CRX Front Brake Calipers

I'm thinking probably between 250-300 still in the US.

More in Canada.

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1991-GTi: JE 75mm 11:1 pistons,Ported head, Single UD pulley (OCC),Sandros chip,Aluminium flywheel,3tech 222/365 cams, Cultus headers,Cultus IM,50mm tb,Crane cams adjustable cam gears,Apex suspension, 4.39fd GB.
1989-GTi: 3Tech 210/340 Cams,Cultus IM, B&G springs, TD04L turbo, Apexi SAFC, Suzukird UD pulley, Circuitse7en dual boost controller, AEM wideband, AEM water / meth injection kit, HKS bov.
2001-Altezza AS200: Stock.-sold
2003-EVO7 GT-A
Aruba "one happy island".

I have a 92 GT. I am always looking on Craigslist for additional Gt(i)s, and they do pop up every couple months. I would say a lot more pop up in British Columbia Canada. I wouldn't even have a ball park figure for how many are left. Too many variables to even get close.

wow Neo_mk1, the whole point of his post was asking about them in the USA.
They weren't popular here and only had a 4 year run.

I have a 93 white swift gti, I keep meaning to start on it...sell it...butcher it. I cant bring myself to do it
Bought and registered in 2006, haven't driven more than 500 miles since then

wheels, cams, chip, headers, SR20 throttle, MSD, 2.25" exhaust (don't mean to offend anyone since ONLY the USA uses inches )

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1993 Swift gt

I'll try to give him your English lesson tomorrow when he stops by the house.

Probably the result:


Moderators........

It's ok I have tough skin and we have had limited runs on many cars styles here in Oz as well that mean small numbers compared to the big sellers.

An example to this is the Mk1 GTi 1986 - 1988 supposedly the only figures we can get is that an importer (ATECO) brought in approx 200 of these cars in those three years .. so does that mean only approx 200 of these are here in Oz? No the number after we found out other companies also imported the cars (eg Mayfair Motors here in Qld brought in about the same number) so the numbers are far much bigger than what people had believed.

If it had of only been the first number of 200 - then I have owned/sold or stripped around 10 of these so that is 0.5% of all the cars imported and that is in a very small circle.

The biggest threat to our Mk1 GTi is not age or young drivers (or those that think these pocket rockets are indestructible) yes they have decimated the numbers, but it is now the other older car enthusiasts such as Morris Mini, other Suzuki owners (4WD) and the racing fraternity who are grabbing the 'donor' cars for bargains just to use the great Twin Cam motor as a replacement for their crappy engines. The Mk1 is the most popuar as it is the easiest to change over and has the vacuum distributor and simplest ECU

This threat is now spreading to the later model Mk2/3 GTi's

The numbers in the USA for the GT/GTi would be an interesting fact to find exactly how many were imported -and how many have crossed the northern border from Canada. Then you could do some calculations as to how many still exist.

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Honorable (USA spelling) Moderator passed this way yesterday.
He's a pretty decent driver with plenty of nice visits left on his trip.
Totally forgot to mention anything English.

The guy is big, so I'm glad it slipped my mind.

89 gti, white. driven once or twice a month. cams, chipped, 2.50 '' exhaust
stripped a 89 gti a few years ago

I have seen two others in town-one red, the other black.

I have seen more gti /t3 cars in bc

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89 1.0 turbo firefly
2"exhaust,no cats/resonator
3 tech 6*gear
3 tech turbo grind cam
3 tech cylinder head/w/port,polish,blend,oversized s/s valves
gti brake swap
89 white gti twincam....need I say more?
92 metro aka ''blue lump of coal''
92 white metro lsi vert
91 blue chevy sprint (gas sipper)

There's 4-5 in southern Ontario

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93 Swift GT White 3Tech cams, Sandro's chip, Lightned flywheel, Genie exhaust, Cultus header, Intrax springs.
08 Civic Wife's car

[quote="Fiffle"]wow Neo_mk1, the whole point of his post was asking about them in the USA.
They weren't popular here and only had a 4 year run.

The vert had a 4 year run. The GT was sold for 6 years.


Ken..........

Yeah, 1988-1993 in gt trim. My bad

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1993 Swift gt

1989-1994 is the years built for USA


Ken.............

Fairfax, VA
white 1994 GT with 180k miles
ex-Texas car
daily driver

I have 3 of them.

One red, one faded red with no transmission, one black.

The black one is a Canadian car.... don't know how it got licensed in the states.

I have not seen any in my area, I got two of mine from the Seattle/Tacoma area of Washington state.

I am in the Eastern Washington area. One of mine came from a guy who bought it from a car lot in my area.

I see one or two of them come up for sale yearly in the Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington area.

Based on this I would think there are several thousand in the Northwest USA.

Local to me !!! Woooo

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92 Swift GT , 94 Metro 4 door 376k miles , 87 Samurai G16A very modified