SUZUKI’S top-spec Swift has been in a class of its own since arriving a dozen years ago, sitting just below established baby hot-hatch leaders like the Volkswagen Polo GTI and Ford Fiesta ST, to provide plenty of budget-baby fun.

And that ethos still applies with the 2018 Swift Sport, the third-generation version boasting an all-new chassis to go with the box-fresh body, as well as one of our favourite small-turbo engines in living memory.

This should be good…