anyone with a suzuki vitara

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are they any good. im going to look at one on sunday, my ka isnt really suitable for going up and down a rough and very bumpy track so i need a small 4x4 with a small ish engine, and a suzuki vitara 1.6 sounds perfect, anything i should be aware of.
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a friend used to own one.I drove it around the fields a couple of times and I have to say I found it most unstable on corners to the point I felt it was going to tip over. They are ok as a small on road car providing its not a windy day but I doubt I would feel secure enough to take it off road up bumpy tracks.
 
i feel like that in my ka sometimes haha! i have heard they are unpradictable on wet roads.
 
who makes fourtraks, i have driven one of those before, it was a shed though lol. very old.
 
i dont have a trailor licence
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but i do want a tow bar to drag harrows round the school. dont know if the one im looking at has a tow bar.
 
They are a 'Hairdresser's Car' in the same way that Mk3 Escort Cabriolets used to be - all flash and no dash
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They are unstable, no good for towing, expensive to maintain and just generally nasty IMO.

..But this from someone who drives an Isuzu trooper that resembles a large mobile guinea pig hutch - full of crud, leaflets, hay etc. Mind you it goes anywhere and pulls anything, bit like having a tank.
 
I had a soft top vitara for my first car.

It was a bloody nightmare and after the initial buzz of owning a car wore off I couldn't wait to be rid of it.

It was unstable on corners and if the roads were a little bit wet then it was just bloody frightening. Horribly expensive to maintain for what it is, expensive to insure, too light to be any use in terms of towing etc. Too small to cart much around in.

I hated driving it on the motorway because it had a really high centre of gravity and anything heavy going past it would make it shake like hell.

IMO step away from the Vitara
 
Ive got a new Grand Vitara DDIS, the diesel 5 door, it was very good in the snow, i had no problems getting to the farm, i tow my richardson trailer with my cob in and it tows lovely. Its very stable, it does not roll around corners, i bimble around in it no problem! Insurance is very reasonable too.
So go have a look... you have nowt to lose!!
 
the grand vitara has a lower centre of gravity and is built far more solid than the vitara is. If it is a grand vitara then go take a look but if it is just the vitara I wouldn't bother personally.
 
I dont think OP is about a grand vitara, if it is then I'm sorry because they can tow. The older bech buggy type ones cannot.

I looked into them and tbh I felt they were a crock of [****]. I'd much rather get something like a fourtrak, not very pretty but they are complete workhorses.
 
no not grand vitara, just looked at fourtraks in the soutwest and there is only two and one is spairs and repairs. i know the previous ower before the current owner and she said that with my style of driving. (sensible
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) i should be ok. gona have a look at some reviews to. thanks for the advice guys!! will take it into acount.
 
I've had two - the first being an '56 Grand Vitara 1.6 VVT+ and have just exchanged it for an '09 Grand Vitara 2.0 Exec. Never had any problem with either of them. Sorry, don't tow with it as have a lorry.
 
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I dont think OP is about a grand vitara, if it is then I'm sorry because they can tow. The older bech buggy type ones cannot.

I looked into them and tbh I felt they were a crock of [****]. I'd much rather get something like a fourtrak, not very pretty but they are complete workhorses.

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agree with everything said!! I love my fourtrack - on my 3rd!! absolute workhorse that got me off many a showground trailer, cob and all without having to wait for a tow!! One day I left several executive chelsea tractors stuck in mud awaiting a tow and my good old fourtrack just dug in and towed us all out!! <font color="yellow"> </font>
 
my mate has one exactly for the reason that her old car wasn't coping with all the bumps of country life and absolutely loves it. quite expensive to tax i believe but cheaper than most 4x4s.

have you considered an suzuki jimny? they're the jeep ones. Not 4x4 but its higher so would avoid bumps. (yes i'm a suzuki geek lol!)
 
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