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Originally Posted by Thilak29 I wonder if increased global demand will push Suzuki to move some share of manufacturing to India which would eventually result in India launch inevitably. |
I can only refer to the situation in Germany, which is sort of crazy.
There were 25 000 orders placed by the first quartal of 2019. Germany has an allocation of 5 000 cars. Of which very little had been delivered yet. Waiting time had grown to infinite. Last of the 5 000 customers that had placed their orders will be served in early 2020. Customers, that came afterwards WILL NOT GET THEIR JIMNY because there are only 5 000 units coming to Germany.
This is getting way out of hand, as customers go after USED demo-cars form dealerships sold for as much as 25% over market price on the internet. SUZUKI Germany has sent a memo to their dealerships, that the ordering process for Jimny is to be abolished. NO MORE ORDERS.
There are still 20 000 people who had placed an order and will never see their car.
Why?
WLPT: The new CO2 exhaust measures dictate, that the whole portfolio of one manufacturer may not exceed given levels: small cars, economy cars, premium cars etc. Suzuki builds economy cars and as such may not exceed a given amount of CO2 production. Jimny is not aerodynamic, has no start-stop system or hybrid module, no direct injection or turbos. Also no tall gearing or other tricks to artifically fake a lower fuel consumption score/CO2 score during the WLPT testing procedure.
And so, every Jimny sold here means, that SUZUKI needs to sell at least 10 much cleaner small cars to stay below the crazy limits set by the eco-norm. And so 5 000 Jimnies for Germany it is... People here reimport these form countries with lower demand like crazy. They reimport from countries, which haven't even introduced the car yet. And force a sell-out there.
The reason for such strong demand in Germany is, that there are no small offroads available and there is a lot of forester/hunter jobs and enthusiasts in Germany driving 4example: old Jimny, Samurai, 90s Vitaras, short Pajeros and even Lada Nivas looking for a better work tool. Jimny has a great legacy of 20 years in Germany, with no known weaknesses aside from RUST PROTECTION and POWER, which both get solved with the new JB74W Jimny.
A little sidenote: German market experiences delays longer than neighbouring countries ALTHOUGH Jimny got introduced first in Germany. The reason is, that ONLY GERMAN CARS get special UNDERCARRIAGE RUST PROTECTION. Germany is known to use very strong chemical mixture to melt snow on roads. For the last 2 years, there had been usage of chemical solution, capable of melting snow and ice in temperatures as low as -17°C, where normal salt never would have helped.
These chemicals naturally also react with metals and enforce oxidation process. So this is the reason that Jimny in Germany travels from the docks to a workshop, where it gets partially disassembled and covered with wax.
My car smelled of burnt wax for at least 3 000 km. Problably wax was also applied to parts of the exhaust system.
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Originally Posted by volkman10 |
I have put together the MANUAL TRANSMISSION data in this small simulation:
You can look up top speed per gear and usable peak torque in various gears in the XLS sheet that I made.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sx66qaef8u...%20EN.xls?dl=0
LOW GEARS 1LOW and 2LOW are below 1HI.
Between 1HI and 2HI, there are 3LOW and 4LOW.
5th LOW is shorter than 3 HI.
The official TOP SPEED is lower than 5HI And 4HI theoretical top speed - so the car won't reach fuel cut-off limiter in any gear higher than 3rd HI (Aerodynamics?).
In comparison to our family´s short wheelbase JK Rubicon 2.8 CRD Manual 6g, the low transfer gear is quite high with 2.002 ratio on the Jimny.
Rubicon´s LOW is almost twice as low as on the Jimny. With Jimny, you can not really think of rock crawling, the pace is too fast and you use clutch way too much. Jimny does things fast and profits from the lightness though, so successful climbing over rocks can still be acheived, it just needs some decisive driving input and determination. The relatively hight low gear ratio also prevents owners form using bigger tires on the Jimny without going through painful process of changing axle ratios.