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Old January 16th 06, 02:38 AM
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ant wrote:
Richard Henry wrote:

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http://kaos4x4.com.au/pages/suzuki/sierra.htm

These blokes service my Suzuki, and I've seen most of these monsters
"in the metal". We call them sierras.


Raising the center of gravity? Yeah, that'll help.


You should see the axles on those things. The can climb over rocks and stuff
and not fall over.
We didn't get the epidemic of Sierras falling over that they got in the US.
Not sure why.


Stupidity of American drivers? Actually I thought the body style
was far better in what you call "Sierra" and what we called
"Samurai" than in later offerings.

One of the things that happened was that "Consumer Reports"
put out a "special report" detailing their findings on the
potential tip-overs for this vehicle. I never read the report,
but just the fact that it was published was enough to kill
the public's interest in the vehicle.

I noted in an earlier post that my son had rolled his Tracker.
He actually did a barrel roll begun by a ditch, was going too
fast and had had a couple of drinks. You tell me the cause.

They are pretty popular, although now they are Jimnys.


?Jimny? Do you mean Jitney?

I'm thinking of getting them to drop a more lively engine into the Vitara,
when the current carburetted one starts to conk out. It's getting pretty old
(12 years). Still going fine though.


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