I cannot stress this enough: you need to see the official promotional video for this car. It will take four glorious minutes.

See, I found this gem within seconds of looking for it, because my recommendations are that good — this clip has fewer than 1,800 views, and it has been on YouTube for 13 years. Feast:

How’s it feel to see things that few others have? That our shared experience of watching a Suzuki C2 prototype promotional video has brought us closer together — let me slip that silk blindfold off and take you on a journey motivated by a 1.6-liter, twin turbocharged V8 with 250 horsepower.

This combination seems off: ‘1.6-liter’, OK. ‘Twin turbos’, what? ‘V8,’ are you having a laugh?

No, and I found a second promotional film with photos of the engine:

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