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uzuki has uncovered the updated version of its Vitara small SUV, revealing limited details of the new model that is expected to arrive on Australian shores sometime next year.
Revealed in UK-market specification, Suzuki will replace the overseas Vitara’s entry-level 86kW-156Nm 1.6-litre aspirated four-cylinder engine with the 82kW-160Nm turbocharged 1.0-litre three-cylinder donk as seen in the Baleno and Swift. However, Australian versions are likely to retain the 1.6-litre unit, with Suzuki Australia general manager Michael Pachota telling GoAuto the aspirated engine had been well received by customers, and worked well with the Vitara locally. The fate of the top-spec 88kW320Nm 1.6-litre turbo-diesel engine is a different story, with the UK market dropping the oil-burner and Australia a good chance to do the same, with the majority of sales coming from the aforementioned 1.6-litre and 103kW220Nm turbocharged 1.4-litre petrol unit in Turbo variants. The brand has kept exterior styling similar to the existing version, but has replaced the two horizontal grille louvres with vertical ones, while also
FACELIFT: The updated Suzuki Vitara small SUV features new styling, safety features and equipment. making some tweaks to the lower grille. New chrome inserts have gone in around the foglight surrounds, and the grey trim on the front of the bumper
has been replaced with a black design. Headlight design looks to remain virtually the same, while the tail-lights score LED technology. Suzuki says new alloy wheel designs
will be available, as well as two new paint colours. Inside, the updated model will get soft-touch materials on the upper instrument panel and a new colour cen-
tral information display for the instrument cluster. Suzuki has not gone into detail as to what other features will be offered on the new Vitara, but says the new model will gain active safety features as standard on top-spec versions including autonomous emergency braking, lane-departure warning, lane-keep assist, traffic sign recognition, blindspot monitor and rear cross-traffic alert. Through the first half of 2018, Suzuki has sold 2560 examples of the Vitara, down 20.7 percent compared with the same period last year, but still enough to be the second best-selling model for the brand behind the Swift light car with 4364 sales. The Vitara still comfortably trails the best sellers in the small SUV segment, behind the likes of the Mitsubishi ASX with 9899 sales, Mazda CX-3, 8815, Subaru XV, 7330, Nissan Qashqai, 7213 and Honda HR-V, 6763. The current fourth-generation model first went on sale in September 2015, with the range being bolstered with turbo-petrol and turbo-diesel variants at later points. Pricing, further specification and concrete timing will be announced closer to the model’s launch.
Mazda introduces range-wide five-year warranty Mazda Australia has increased its warranty program by two years, introducing a five-year/ unlimited kilometre warranty on all new vehicles sold from August 1 this year. Previously, the car-maker offered a three-year/unlimited kilometre warranty for all vehicles, bar the BT-50 pickup, which came with either a two-year unlimited kilometre or three-year/100,000km warranty. Mazda’s move follows both Holden and Ford, which upped their respective programs to five years and unlimited kilometres earlier in the year. The Japanese car-maker now joins other manufacturers such
as Honda, Hyundai and Skoda in offering a five-year warranty. All those still fall short of Kia with its seven-year/unlimited kilometre backing, while American EV specialist Tesla goes even further with eightyears/unlimited kilometres, to go with a separate eightyear/160,000km deal for mechanical and electric parts. Mazda topped the JD Power survey for customer satisfaction in aftersales service for mass-market brands last year. It scored 835 points out of 1000, beating Hyundai, 831, Kia, 829, and Mitsubishi, 825. The JD Power survey focused on five areas of dealer
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ART IS... An emu called ‘Tchingal’. Horsham district artists Claudia Haenel, left, and Nichola Clarke pose with the giant head of emu Tchingal, which will feature with other puppets during Horsham’s Art is... festival. The festival starts on Friday and ends on June 12. Largescale puppets created behind Horsham’s Up Tempo Cafe will be part of a Tichingal: Stories of Wotjobaluk Country performance at Horsham Town Hall on June 12. As well as giant puppets, the performance will include interactive animation. The theatre stage will be shared with Aboriginal elders, actors and students. Sydney arts company Erth, animator Dave Jones and sound artist Robbie Millar will join artists and students under directors Ken Evans and Rebecca Russell for the dreaming story. Picture: DEAN LAWSON
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Victorian Farmers Federation vice-president and Murra Warra farmer David Jochinke said conditions had primed much of the region for good results, but recovery from last season’s disastrous harvest would depend on what happened later in the year. “It will all come down to spring again,” he said. “This has been one of the more
promising starts to a season in regards to rain and forecasts. “Kaniva has probably missed out a little but as a general rule everyone else across the region has had good rain to either get their crops established or to sow with confidence.” Widespread late autumn rain, heavy in some areas of the Wimmera, Mallee and Grampians, represents a potential trigger for the region to emerge from two dry and poor growing seasons and drought conditions. But Mr Jochinke was cautious in his predictions of what might lay ahead. “After the past two years, anything other than what we have had would
be good. The past couple of years have been a real kick in the guts, and we don’t what anything like that to happen again,” he said. “The feeling at the moment is positive and there is cautious optimism, but no one is getting ahead of themselves. A lot of people are hurting, carrying physical, financial and mental scars. The whole district needs to have a solid season. “The hope is that we can have at least an average harvest and then follow on with another average year. “The problem is not having enough breathing space for farmers to get ahead and that in the long run can be
very demoralising. While we have had a couple of good rains, the moisture profile is nowhere up to what we’ll need come spring. We are looking for either a very wet winter or a kind spring.”
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Mr Jochinke said many farmers were closely following weather forecast modelling and hoping predictions of an average to slightly wetter-than-average winter came true. “We are basically looking for a solid average year where it rains in winter and then rains again during a nice mild spring,” he said.
Mr Jochinke said most broadacre farmers across the region had either finished sowing or were nearing the end of their sowing schedule. A Despite the drought conditions across the region, state and federForecast al governments confirmed their long-term faith in western Victorian farming earlier this year when they announced funding for a multi milIN THIS ISSUE • War on obesity • Warracknabeal reunion • Football-netball previews lion-dollar Wimmera Doppler Weather Radar Project. THIS SUNDAY The project will eliminate rain radar black-spots and provide farmers with Sunday, June 5, a greater chance to make agricultural10am to 1pm decisions based on ‘real-time’ forecasts. BY DEAN LAWSON
Victorian farming leader has described damp conditions across the region as the perfect start for a promising growing season. Victorian Farmers Federation vice-president and Murra Warra farmer David Jochinke said conditions had primed much of the region for good results, but recovery from last season’s disastrous harvest would depend on what happened later in the year. “It will all come down to spring again,” he said. “This has been one of the more
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promising starts to a season in regards to rain and forecasts. “Kaniva has probably missed out a little but as a general rule everyone else across the region has had good rain to either get their crops established or to sow with confidence.” Widespread late autumn rain, heavy in some areas of the Wimmera, Mallee and Grampians, represents a potential trigger for the region to emerge from two dry and poor growing seasons and drought conditions. But Mr Jochinke was cautious in his predictions of what might lay ahead. “After the past two years, anything other than what we have had would
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