Newbie - is the Jimny for me??

Halford wrote:
the wife had a w reg 3dr RAV (sold it last year) and with winter tyres, she never once needed 4wd in the bad winter's a couple of years ago - cracking comfy, fast, good cornering solid reliable cars - her's was the older style which was the same as the Jimny with selectable 4wd.

The Mk1 RAV4 has permanent 4wd, which is why it is a good cornering car. The manual version has an electro-pneumatic centre difflock, worked by a push switch on the dash. You only need this if you get stuck with one wheel spinning. The auto has a hydraulic difflock worked by the transmission controller.

The MK2 (from 2000) has a viscous coupler as well as a centre differential to provide a limited slip function.

If the OP wants performance and roadholding, with a bigger vehicle, there are many alternatives.

facade wrote

The Mk1 RAV4 has permanent 4wd

wondered why it was so good :whistle:

Please don't just go and buy a Jimny just because of what you have read about them on this forum, as said above go out and have a good tests drive first and not just two-minute down a flat road outside the car dealers find a rough track and give it good test drive.
You will find the Jimny uses a lot more fuel than the ford Ka so you will need fill it up a lot more times.
Don't get my wrong, on this forum we all love :kiss: our Jimnys so if you do get one you will be very welcome.
500 MILE OUT OF ONE TANK MUST BE A WORLD RECORD.

Be prepared for rust. I must admit I was feeling a bit down yesterday looking at the holes starting to appear in the rear floor pan. Why did I buy this! But I do love it really!

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Genuine 500 (well, closer too 450) miles from one fill to the brim (too the filler). Thats with road tyre's and my 50 mph cruising speed and using nothing more than the engines torque. Zero'd the trip the day I picked it up having just filled it, refilled it about 5 days later and had covered just over 450 miles. No joke!

Pretty much all standard cars will do 400-450 miles on one tank if driven carefully, even my old prelude. I can get near 600 on a good day in my works transit. All I do all week is drive up and down the country, cover up too 800-900 miles per day! You start too get quite good at saving fuel!

As said above, the Jimny is a very utilitarian vehicle compared to some other small 4x4's. If you want a truly capable small 4x4 then the jimny is pretty unbeatable for the money, but the performance comes at a cost. If you want something with the road performance of a car, then there are a lot of other better vehicles to choose from.