12 minutes ago, Offski said:

Worth buying a nearly new or slightly used one of the old ones, an Automatic one if you can find one.

Same space and same ability, and just fit suitable wheels / tyres.  No snagging faults, or long waiting lists. Rev the nuts off it... KISS.

 

 

 

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-video/video-range-rover-svautobiography-vs-suzuki-jimny-road-battle

The thread was first posted when Autocar were putting a Jimny up against a Defender that is no longer available.

But the Jimny @ 89" wheelbase was built to almost the dimensions of a 88" wheelbase Land Rover

 & given the Part Time AWD.   You do not put them in 4x4 on good surfaces with good traction.....

Land Rover missed a trick not building the same 

but letting others do smaller than the 93" LR  4x4's.

 

 

 

Edited 25 September, 20187 yr by Offski

Thomas must surely of noticed when he looked at the Transfer Box shifter that the car is not a 'Classic standard  All Wheel Drive permanent'  as he first said, & they never have been.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 6 October, 20187 yr by Offski

Ferrari,Focus RS mk3 man goes for new Jimny in Spain.

 

 

Order waiting times probably going to be stupid as all the 'Lifestyle buyers' get orders in.

It will be good down the line as there will be plenty nearly new and hardly used ones about soon enough.

 

There is a great demand on the current Jimny's and people wanting bargains and there are not that many to be had let alone as a bargain and especially Automatic ones, i hope the new automatic ones come through quick enough they will be the better ones to have.

Only issue is what the actual prices will be in the UK.

 

 

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This will be the better car for those needing AWD and maybe just with one vehicle.

More expensive but with as much ability and more space.

 

Plenty of choices about with the current models and bargains to be had and the Autoboxes are very good.

 

 

 

 

Edited 8 October, 20187 yr by Offski

 

From what i have seen the air intake for the air box is still high on the inner wing taking in from high in the wheel arch, but that surely has the mods now making wading safer.

Many will still be wanting a snorkel fitted though, and axle breathers.

Autocar today.

 

The new Suzuki Jimny:

Suzuki’s UK boss Dale Wyatt says it has had 4500 people sign up on its website as “interested” in the new Jimny, a first for the brand. That’s 150% of the previous model’s best annual volume. The problem for Suzuki is going to be the number it can build, because demand in Japan has been “staggering”. Wyatt is looking at 1100 cars in the first year and then 2000 per year thereafter.

Looks like he needs sacking, 

only "4,500" and all these Magazine and Social media big ups, publicity, hundreds of thousands spent on Motoring Journalists trips and entertainments and he thinks 

saying in Autocar part of the Haymarket Media Group that there are 4,500 signing up as "interested" & after all the Emails Skoda GB have put out.

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/suzuki/jimny/104261/new-suzuki-jimny-sz5-2019-review

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/reviews/suzuki-jimny-2018-uk-review/ar-BBPm9HN?ocid=spartandhp

Eventually they will mention that the OEM tyres are crap and narrower and taller than the ones that the Jimny has had for 19 years, but that were  also crap Bridgestones.

Some journalists might think of adjusting the tyre pressures to use on the road and say what they were handed over the New Jimny set at and what they let them down to.

Autocar has this video of the Jimny vs the Land Cruiser  

Eventually they will get Automatic Jimny's to Test and Review then see how the new one really is so much better as an Auto rather than a manual on and off road just as the last Jimny was over 18 years.  They never really ever reviewed or tested Manual vs Auto over the past near 2 decades.

 

 

 

Edited 17 November, 20187 yr by Offski

There is NO logic to fuel prices, when I used to live near to the Fawley refinery near Southampton the local "knowledge" was that the closer a fuel station was to the refinery the HIGHER its prices were

 

Any "reasons" offered by the oil companies and fuel stations for their prices are IMHO no more than bull***t.

I think you found the wrong thread.

 

But as it is the New Jimny's actual fuel consumption and WLTP / RDE figures will be interesting.

I suspect this has something to do with Suzuki having on the 195/80 R 15 Bridgestone Dueler / Eco / Rubbish tyres as OEM.

3 hours ago, Offski said:

I think you found the wrong thread.

 

 

 

Petrols his name and Petrols the game (that worked so much better in my head) 

 

^^^ 2 Grown men and both are motoring journalists so pull into a filing station and check the tyre pressures.

Think about the tyres and would 205/70 R 15 maybe suit the roads better. or 205/75 R 15 even 215/70 R 15 All Terrains.

(& proper 195/80 R 15's for Mud etc.)

 

 

 

Edited 22 November, 20187 yr by Offski

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/suzuki/jimny/100543/new-2019-suzuki-jimny-suv-uk-prices-revealed

 

 

 

Too expensive IMO for an Automatic new Jimny.  Nothing like the prices Auto Express where guessing at earlier this year.

Just last night Suzuki GB had no prices on the website for the Jimny just TBC same today..

http://cars.suzuki.co.uk/new-cars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 22 November, 20187 yr by Offski

I read that tested on the NEDC the C02 g/km is 154 for the manual and 170 for the automatic.

 

Waiting to see what they have with the WLTP.  Crazy VED band maybe. 

It's astonishing how a few tweaks of the cars styling has produced one of the biggest 'gotta have cars' of the year. The number of young people who will desperately want this aspirational lifestyle car will be enormous compared to what the car was designed for. Although you could argue the car, as most cars are,  was designed to sell numbers. It is an astonishingly cute thing and I'm sure that will sell more vehicles than it's off road credentials. 

 

It's been a good year for Suzuki over here by the looks of things. Vitara sales are decent and as I posted elsewhere, my PCP Vitara has £4K of equity in it after 3 years! beats most of the cars I've PCP'd over the last 20 years and as a percentage of purchase price, it tops the lot. Their entire range is pretty well received and the new Jimny has caused a huge stir in the motoring press. I know Suzy are HUGE (caps for extra effect  ) in India, but perhaps they might one day be a mainstream brand over here? 

At last showing what some might need it to do.  Not some motoring journalist setting off around a course where they are not liable to 'fail' on.

 

I forecast a lot of Accident damaged and written off / rolled New Jimny as people think the car can do anything.

All the gear or they think they have but really no idea.

 

** An Automatic Jimny.**

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 22 November, 20187 yr by Offski

There is something about the Video above that suggest the chap who has just bought the new Jimny is probably the demographic that will be most keen to get one. 

 

I still have happy memories from my yoof of bombing about off-road in a Lada Niva. Great little vehicle (rough engine though)