My daughter bought a new passenger Jimny in Australia, uses it for off road and camping. Jimny owners are very similar in their passion for the car to us Series Landy owners
The 1.6 petrol on the old suzuki swift sport (to 2012 I think) was a great engine. Always thought they should have put a turbo on it and went from 5 gears to 6 and that little car would have been amazing
Congratulations - have one myself, in silver too. Brilliant little vehicle for where I live. Do have a look at the aftermarket stuff, plenty to improve/personalise A vehicle I’ll be keeping
Congratulations on the Jimny! I didn't realize they were still manufacturing them, but there are loads of vehicles out there that we don't get to see in the US. Have fun with it. That should be a great daily driver, especially with the excellent fuel mileage.
Thank you! Yes I think we only got something like 400 of them this year, so they are around but remain an uncommon sight. I really hope that they expand UK sales in the future. I'm getting nearly 42mpg at the moment, no complaints.
I agree in that it would be great to see a back to basics, British built vehicle along the same lines, though sadly I think JLR's market is now a world away from that of the new Jimny. I know these are popular but they are not selling in huge numbers at all, hence the very small number that have been imported to Britain, quite a niche vehicle in reality. I really hope they decide to keep selling them here, I feel the Jimny is the perfect vehicle for our roads, year round.
These Jimnys are selling like hot cakes in Australia, when released they were selling for A$26,000 on road drive away, wait lists quickly blew out to many months. Suzuki seeing a winner have been bumping the price up steadily, they now sell for high A$30's and still are moving as fast as they can be imported. Owners of the early units have been selling their second hand cars for more than they paid for it new. The Jimny and its grand father Sierra have always been very competent reliable light 4wds. Getting the job done easier and cheaper than huge heavy fuel guzzling wagons. A good practical car that with a set of more off road rated tyres will go anywhere.
Glad you are happy with it. I parked my swb series 3 next to one of these recently and there are definitely similarities so its no surprise that you are the 2nd Land Rover you tuber I follow who has bought a Jimny. Should be the perfect companion to WRD. Looking forward to future updates on both.
Very impressive vehicle. We were looking at a 2024 Jeep Compass recently but the price tag at about 40K USD was rather prohibitive. Especially now that we are retired. There are zero used ones to be found. They don`t last long on the lots, sold often in one or two days. And they are ridiculously high priced even so. This one suits you well.
The cost of vehicles has become rather frightening! Not really so very long ago I bought my first car new off the dealer forecourt for £6k... how things have changed. It was affordable to work for that, I think the last Fiesta's were about £22k for a basic model when they stopped producing those. Outrageous!
Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed mine mate, sadly sold a few years ago for no good reason, but I suppose we all do that from time to time 😅 Is the 1500 still a VVT engine like the older 1300 ?
Very much enjoying it so far, it's really good to finally have the daily driver that I want. I've no idea if it's a VVT engine, will have to do some reading.
I know they stopped doing "saloon" Jimnys because of emissions regulations, but I have seen a few with four adults on board and I don't think rear leg room was a priority! Surprised they didn't delete the side windows when it became a commercial model though. Cheers
I think you can actually get panels to replace the windows if you want to, personally I quite like the visibility and it's quite light in the cabin too. TBH I think these make so much more sense as a light commercial, it's certainly far more useful to me.
