RE: New Suzuki Jimny leaked
Discussion
Kmoosa said:
Good point, but maybe the Vitara would be the more likely to draw interest from a potential Jimny buyer?
I doubt it very much. You wouldn’t walk into a Ford dealership to look at a Mustang and drive out in a diesel Fiesta. Anyone who does, simply wasn’t there to buy the Jimny in the first place. em177 said:
It seems like this is the timeline:
- Build lots of hype: have no cars for sale
- Wait for hype to die down: have cars for sale
Seems a bit silly to me.
When I spoke to Suzuki, they basically blamed the demand and lack of cars on fact that the public wanted to buy it - Build lots of hype: have no cars for sale
- Wait for hype to die down: have cars for sale
Seems a bit silly to me.
The exact words of the Suzuki sales manager to me:
“Blame the Americans and Asian market. They’ve all gone mad for it. Wanting to stick bodykits on them and make them look like G Wagens and all that kind of thing”
I asked if he thought that Suzuki should have known there would be demand for a new model and made sure there was plenty of production capacity, but he just shrugged at me and made it obvious he wasn’t interested in discussing it.
Lord Marylebone said:
When I spoke to Suzuki, they basically blamed the demand and lack of cars on fact that the public wanted to buy it
The exact words of the Suzuki sales manager to me:
“Blame the Americans and Asian market. They’ve all gone mad for it. Wanting to stick bodykits on them and make them look like G Wagens and all that kind of thing”
I asked if he thought that Suzuki should have known there would be demand for a new model and made sure there was plenty of production capacity, but he just shrugged at me and made it obvious he wasn’t interested in discussing it.
The jimmy is not even sold in North America, so that's that excuse out the window.The exact words of the Suzuki sales manager to me:
“Blame the Americans and Asian market. They’ve all gone mad for it. Wanting to stick bodykits on them and make them look like G Wagens and all that kind of thing”
I asked if he thought that Suzuki should have known there would be demand for a new model and made sure there was plenty of production capacity, but he just shrugged at me and made it obvious he wasn’t interested in discussing it.
300bhp/ton said:
I doubt it very much. You wouldn’t walk into a Ford dealership to look at a Mustang and drive out in a diesel Fiesta. Anyone who does, simply wasn’t there to buy the Jimny in the first place.
Must just be me then! I would have got a Vitara Boosterjet had the Jimny not been available. Having said that I may still get the Vitara as an addition due to its greater suitability for longer distances, so appreciate its a vehicle which fits different purposes for some. However I would have been happy with either, so it's perhaps not quite as cut and dried as you think for everyone out there.Kmoosa said:
Must just be me then! I would have got a Vitara Boosterjet had the Jimny not been available. Having said that I may still get the Vitara as an addition due to its greater suitability for longer distances, so appreciate its a vehicle which fits different purposes for some. However I would have been happy with either, so it's perhaps not quite as cut and dried as you think for everyone out there.
Nothing ever is.However, I suspect that a significant proportion of Jimny owners/buyers or potential ones. Would buy such a car with their heart, not their head. i.e. it is something they "want" rather than "need".
300bhp/ton said:
Nothing ever is.
However, I suspect that a significant proportion of Jimny owners/buyers or potential ones. Would buy such a car with their heart, not their head. i.e. it is something they "want" rather than "need".
Completely agree with that, they do seem to have stirred up emotions in a few people. However, I suspect that a significant proportion of Jimny owners/buyers or potential ones. Would buy such a car with their heart, not their head. i.e. it is something they "want" rather than "need".
One thing to think of is that if it's the company wide emissions / EU fines situation is accurate, then regardless of production capability and sales planning they can't import any significant number of vehicles full stop.
Kmoosa said:
skyrover said:
Until we leave the EU anyhow
Well you'd hope so, but the chances of us not having to align with them those regulations are pretty slim!Leaving an arrangement that tried to limit the amount of CO2 from vehicles is not something to be celebrated.
Lord Marylebone said:
Kmoosa said:
skyrover said:
Until we leave the EU anyhow
Well you'd hope so, but the chances of us not having to align with them those regulations are pretty slim!Leaving an arrangement that tried to limit the amount of CO2 from vehicles is not something to be celebrated.
Lord Marylebone said:
To be honest, I don’t see why anyone would want to NOT be aligned with regulations that enforce lower emissions.
Leaving an arrangement that tried to limit the amount of CO2 from vehicles is not something to be celebrated.
Depends if that arrangement was responsible for increased emissions of other nasties, as we've seen over the last decade or so with diesels. But that's a Pandora's box for the EU and Climate change threads. Leaving an arrangement that tried to limit the amount of CO2 from vehicles is not something to be celebrated.
Point is, if the real reason the Jimny isn't being brought here in numbers is down to the fines, I think (hope) it could make for interesting residual values over the next few years!
That's the thing though. Compare it to something like a Fiesta of similar value and it would lose in almost every metric, apart from maybe off-road ability. But from what I can tell people making the buying decisions are not reading what car and which magazine. They're judging it looks and price.
There's no logical reason why £100k G Wagons should be selling either.
There's no logical reason why £100k G Wagons should be selling either.
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