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The Jimny smile maker

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19 Oct 2018 20:49 #196878 by kirkynut
I've been using my Jimny more often these days for transport as I quite enjoy it, my 2 year old boy likes to ride in Daddy's Tractor and it doesn't do a vehicle good to not be used.

For those not familiar with it, here it is:



It has become quite popular as I plod about. I can be heard before I'm seen as those Malatesta Kaiman tyres hum along. This its self causes people to look round.

I took it to Tesco to do the weekly shop last set of rest days and slowed for a chap to cross the zebra crossing in the car park. He stared at me and smiled, slowing as he crossed and waved at me. He kept looking at me after he'd crossed and I looked at him, trying to work out if I knew him. I didn't know him but as I passed him he said to me through my open window "cool car!".

Today I was taking my little one to my parents for dinner. It was school kicking out time, so a dual carriageway outside a secondary school queued for a roundabout as all the kids used the crossing. Some way back from the roundabout two fire engines started to approach on blues and twos from some distance bebind. To help them get through as no-one else had noticed them I sounded my claxton horn and flashed my main beams with driving lamps to get the attention of those in front and drove most of the way onto the verge central reservation. It worked and the traffic parted early for them. Once they had passed, a lady in a car next to me looked up at me with a beaming smile.

Driving past the Senior school, then an Infants/Junior school a number of young kids waved and smiled at the mini monster truck with howling tyres.

Now you I don't get any of this in my BMW. The Jimny is just great fun!

Kirkynut

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19 Oct 2018 21:24 #196880 by sniper
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Puts a smile on my face every time I drive it, loveable little car that can be an old ladies shopping trolley or a Paris-Dakkar contender....

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19 Oct 2018 21:34 #196881 by Scimike
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I tend to find they have a claiming effect on people. They can't be described as fast, so as I meander upto the speed limit and just plod along people for the most part are just happy to follow. In my old BMW/VW every day was like a race.
So I got rid of the BMW / VW and got a Jimny, a vehicle I wanted in my head for a number of years but never purchased due to its performance figures. It joins our just for fun 1960 Series 2 Land Rover and 1986 2CV, but as our daily drive and tow vehicle for our teardrop caravan.

Every journey puts a smile on my face and my wife loves driving it also. I enjoy working on it rather than shelling out £££££ to dealers and garages just to keep the tech laden modern junk on the road. The VW was the final nail in the coffin for me and modern junk, it had multiple DPF, Sensor, canbus and emissions scandal issues.

I am not going to say they are for everyone, but they do make me smile and thats all that matters. :laugh:

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20 Oct 2018 03:22 #196884 by Lambert
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Due to drying times and other things I have been relegated to the Cherokee most of this week. The smile on my face from driving Ermintrude the 5 miles home last night still hasn't faded even this morning. I love my car.

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08 Nov 2018 19:58 #197481 by kirkynut
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Another smile made today with a big thumbs up from a guy in the passenger seat of a car as I got out onto the main road from mine this morning.

It really is a fun for all car!

Kirkynut

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08 Nov 2018 21:01 - 08 Nov 2018 21:03 #197491 by Max Headroom
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Scimike wrote: It joins our just for fun 1960 Series 2 Land Rover and 1986 2CV, but as our daily drive and tow vehicle for our teardrop caravan.

I enjoy working on it rather than shelling out £££££ to dealers and garages just to keep the tech laden modern junk on the road. The VW was the final nail in the coffin for me and modern junk, it had multiple DPF, Sensor, canbus and emissions scandal issues.


Scimike, I had no idea you had a 2CV as well - another hugely underrated car in my opinion. I'm very envious.
I had a Plums & Custard one some years ago and regretted selling it. It was superb in the snow and got me about when others were stuck; I'd have another one anyday!

I'm 100% with you on being able to work on your own cars etc and not having to shell out for huge garage fees because of all the overcomplicated computerised modern krapp attached to it.

I sold a fabulous SAAB convertible for this Jimny of mine; and while I really miss the wonderfully comfortable SAAB seats, the hugely powerful smooth ride, and fully open-topped motoring, I love the Jimny for my shorter commute and it's rugged very capable nature.

I would like to think that Suzuki can keep the "New" Jimny simple and as user-friendly to work on. If they ever make a convertible variant - I will be very tempted...

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