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Year:1992 Mileage:104078
Location:

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

General Details

  • Approximately 104,000 miles (166,000kms) US import so the speedometer/odometer is in miles

  • Black

  • Convertible

  • 4-cylinder 1.3TBI Fuel Injected

  • Manitoba Safety Certified until 24-Jun-14

Recent Repairs

  • New valve cover gasket

  • New shocks front

  • New shocks rear

  • New muffler

  • New tail pipe

  • New Daytime Running light module and lights (added to meet Canadian standard)

  • New windshield guide for soft top

  • New side rails for soft top

  • New MAP Sensor

  • New distributor O-rings (fixed common oil leak)

  • New trailer wiring

  • Full synthetic gear oil in Transmission and Transfer case

  • Refurbished ECU

Other Information

  • Seats look new or recovered (see picture)

  • Carpets look new

  • Paint really good in most areas

  • Rocker panels were replaced

  • Very reliable starting in cold. Started every morning our most recent very cold winter despite not having any kind of block heater.

  • In 1992 this vehicle was no longer sold with a rear seat in North America. I acquired a rear seat for it (see picture), but it appears a previous owner tried to install a seat or did something odd with it as the bolt holes that should be there are mangled so I have not been able to install this rear seat.

  • With a full (33%) discount from MPI my monthly insurance fee is a mere $48 when licensed as a truck

Issues

  1. Some rust (see pictures). Nothing unsafe. A few problem areas (see pictures) but really not bad for a 22 year old vehicle

  2. Erratic idle when warm. Does not affect drive-ability, it just isn’t smooth. A vacuum leak perhaps?  Air valve?

  3. Ironically while it starts perfectly when cold, even when extremely cold, but one has to press the gas pedal down a little to get it started when it is warm. I believe this is related to the erratic idle previously mentioned. It has always been this way for the entire year I’ve owned it but never affected drive-ability once I got used to it.

  4. Needs replacement radio antenna if desired.

Auto blog

Larger SX4 to lead raft of new or revised Suzuki models

Thu, 30 Aug 2012

A few weeks ago, we showed you what is likely in store for the next-generation Suzuki SX4, but What Car? now has some insider info of what might be in store for other products in the aging Suzuki lineup... at least in the UK.
When the official design sketch of the Suzuki S-Cross concept was released, Suzuki said that the concept car would be a C-segment crossover, closer in size to the Grand Vitara, and going up against some higher-volume rivals like the Ford Kuga (Escape) and Nissan Qashqai (similar to our Rogue). The Suzuki Grand Vitara is also due for a redesign, and both models will likely be on showroom floors together, with the Grand Vitara acting as the more rugged alternative to the hatchback-like SX4 replacement. Not much is known about the new Grand Vitara, but a new satellite navigation system is expected to debut in the SUV and eventually spread into other Suzuki models.
Suzuki will start selling the new SX4 and Grand Vitara in the United States this fall, and these two new crossovers should be a welcome addition to the company's diminutive U.S. dealer network that has been starved of product since the early 2000s. Automotive News adds a little gloom to this topic by pointing out that, after the introduction of the new SX4 and Grand Vitara this fall, American Suzuki has no new products planned through the 2015 model year. Suzuki dealers in Europe are more fortunate, as a refreshed version of the Jimny (formerly known as the Samurai here in the States) and an all-new Alto will both be joining the lineup.

Japanese motorcycles moving into forced induction

Sat, 30 Nov 2013

While turbocharging and supercharging may be nothing new in the automotive industry, motorcycle engines are almost always naturally aspirated. But even that's beginning to change. At the Tokyo Motor Show last week, two major Japanese companies showed off new forced-induction motorbike engines.
Kawasaki rolled in with a supercharged four-cylinder motorbike engine. It offered little in the way of details, disclosing only that the turbine blades were developed in-house to withstand the heat and vibration of spooling up at motorbike speeds.
Suzuki is taking a different approach, however. Its Recursion concept bike packs a turbocharged 588cc two-cylinder engine with a turbocharger and intercooler. The compact package churns out just under 100 horsepower and 74 pound-feet of torque, packaged into a motorbike that weighs just 384 pounds dry.

2019 Suzuki Jimny First Drive Review | Internet darling, real-world riot

Thu, Sep 27 2018

FRANKFURT — Imagine a Mercedes G-Wagen hit with an incredible shrinking ray, and you'll not be far short of the new fouth-generation Suzuki Jimny, last sold in North America in the mid-1990s as the Samurai. The resemblance is astonishing, but there's enough of the Land Rover Defender, Toyota FJ, Honda Element and Jeep Wrangler in there, too, to keep Merc's copyright lawyers sitting on their hands. Cute as a family of otters in your bath, the new Jimny's proving the social-media hit of the fall, with online fan clubs starting, splintering and re-forming as they argue over which of the six new body colors is their favorite. Yet Jimny's no style pony. That lime green 'Kinetic Yellow' color might be the ultimate urban accessory, but it's formulated to make this tiny utility stand out in bad weather and on building sites. And in a world of fragile multi-clutch-based all-wheel-drive crossovers, Jimny is the real deal: body-on-frame construction, coil-sprung solid axles with three-link location at the rear and a panhard rod at the front, and a transfer-box set of crawler gears. And with entry, exit and breakover angles and ground clearance to rival that of a mountain ibex; this is a proper all-terrain automobile, just at five-eighths scale. It all started of course with Hope: the Japanese Hope Motor Company. Its OM360 was a 1960s Lilliputian take on the World War II Willys MB Jeep. Suzuki bought the design from Hope, and relaunched it with a new engine in 1970 as the first Jimny. Through three generations and 48 years, Jimny's been called variously: SJ; LJ; Farm Worker; Samurai; Gypsy; and Sierra. It's been rebadged as a Mazda and a Maruti, and has sold a total of 2.85 million across 194 countries, including at one time America, though the company pulled out of the U.S. car market in 2012. The outgoing third-generation Jimny had lost its way with a bland, wind-cheating design. The new Jimny is back to basics. Shortened by 1.2 inches, it's now 143.5 inches long, 64.8 inches wide, 67.9 inches high and runs on an 88.6-inch wheelbase. These bonsai dimensions are dictated by the Japanese Kei car, a size and taxation class aimed at tight urban spaces. The new car also gets a stronger, cross-braced ladder frame under the separate body isolated on eight rubber bobbins.