Suzuki has come up with a winner with this new Kizashi. Go ahead and say it: Kizashi!

Drive the Suzuki Kizashi back to back to back with the Honda Accord and the Toyota Camry and the different experiences are a revelation.

This is the Kizashi's 2.4-liter inline four engine

That’s not to say that the styling of the Kizashi is not nice -- it is. Slightly edgy nose, uncluttered body-lines and large -- for its size, trunk.

You sit in the seats and not on them, comfortable and supportive, matched by an elegant and simple center console with large well-labeled control buttons that do not require a PhD to operate.

Here's a solid look inside the Suzuki Kizashi.

That's not hard to do if you sacrifice back-road mid-range grunt or top-end power, but that is not the case here as the sweetly matched CVT automatic knows just how to react to throttle inputs and this puppy has seriously long legs. Tap it at five, forty-five or seventy-five miles per hour,  and it will respond with instantaneous, smooth power.

Like any solid automobile, the Kizashi comes with a handy trunk!

After weeks of really hot and fancy cars, the kids were not excited about the Kizashi, and like most kids, used the word “boring".

But, hey, what do they know!

However, they reported that they had plenty of headroom in the back. That the back-seats were neither deeply dished nor vertical, but rather laid-back and comfortable with plenty of room for five aboard.

From the side -- a car's toughest angle to appreciate -- the Kizashi looks solid.

The biggest revelation about the Kizashi was the power of the engine and the perfect shifting, the great overall balance and composure of the car.

The second was the fuel consumption. The Kizashi was pushed into a slug through kid-commute duty, combined with several massive traffic jams leading to the Caldicott Tunnel. Despite being pushed into the lousy local traffic duty and a blast to weekend events, the Kizashi made it clear that it could easily break into the low/mid-20s range for around town and turn in about 30 miles per gallon out on the freeway.

Once again, from the front -- and let's face it, it's a strong point for the Kizashi!

Anything not to like about the Kizashi?

It’s too bad the front-turn signals are perfectly positioned to be mashed by the first clueless imbecile parking while texting on the phone. Any maneuvering in a sloppy way by that beater car in the space next to you will see them crunching the exposed lens.

Suzuki makes great pianos, motorcycles and one really nifty car. Older Suzuki-built, but domestically rebadged cars have shown great longevity and low operating costs. Add to that the recent AutoPacific Survey of 42,000 new vehicle owners showing that the 2010 Suzuki Kizashi has the highest satisfaction among all newly purchased or leased vehicles.

Build it and they will come. The market has taken notice. The Kizashi is well-engineered, uncomplicated and fun to drive. It is also priced quite a bit lower than the mainstream Asian offerings when you look at the features that most people actually want. There is nothing truly fancy about the Kizashi, and that restraint is to be admired.

The Kizashi is simply a great, comfortable and nimble Q-ship built for flying down any road under the radar.