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MARCH 29 - APRIL 4 | 2019
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2019
Suzuki Jimny
AFFORDABLE FUN: Cute as a button from any angle, Jimny would sell on looks alone, but there’s a lot more to it than simply its styling.
By Ewan Kennedy No one else builds a low-cost, small, genuine 4WD. The closest vehicles come from Jeep and Land Rover, but they are out of the Jimny’s price class. We’ve just spent two weeks in a brace of new Jimnys, one a manual the other automatic. STYLING I must admit being wrong when first sighting new Jimny in the metal at the Queensland launch, feeling that it was just too boxy. But after seeing it on the road and watching the attention our test Jimnys got from passers-by I’ve fallen in love with it.
The interior features a neat old-style dashboard, but it’s bang up to date with big easy-to-read instruments and a sensible infotainment screen. INFOTAINMENT The touchscreen housing somehow manages to look both retro and high tech at the same time. Even at a price that’s under $25,000 you get a 7.0-inch touchscreen, satellite navigation, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The audio system does hark back to the days of the just superseded Jimny, with only two speakers and sound quality that really should be better, let us call it part of the charm.
POWERTRAIN Power comes from a 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine with 100 horsepower (75 kW in Aussie numbers) and 130 Nm of torque. The torque peak is at a relatively high 4000 rpm, but it feels fine from about 2000 and there’s a nice spread of grunt in all normal driving ranges. The engine sits in front of either a fivespeed manual or four-speed automatic. See the Driving segment of this review for more comments on this. All four wheels are driven by way of a transfer case with 2H, 4H and 4L modes that are selected by a lever on the centre tunnel.
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SUZUKI Jimny is quite simply the most talked about vehicle on the planet. Forget the multi-million-dollar, ridiculously-overpowered vehicles just unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, the cute-as-a-button Suzuki is the one that is dominating car-nut conversations everywhere. Since the first photos of the Jimny were released Suzuki dealers have been bombarded with enquires from potential buyers, some dangling cash in front of them as they walk into showrooms worldwide. In our home state of Queensland you might just get one before Christmas, but don’t hesitate… Suzuki Jimny simply has no competition.
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