lookin wrote:.....great example hyundai there was a time nobody wanted a hyundai
lol....still don't ever want one. Had a 2011 Tuscon AWD rental for a few days. Not impressed. Overall, it just seeemd 'cheap' and tinnie. Didn't feel well made nor did it seem that it was going to hold up over the long haul. Interior materials are nicer in our SX4. Too much road noise. Driving it made me miss my Kiz AND the CVT. Not that it was a bad vehicle, just wasn't impressed and not for the coin they're getting for it. The cool hill decent feature worked really well on a very steep, loose gravel off-highway access road I needed to navigate down.
I certainly don't think it is only American Suzuki which is on the hook for the warranty, I could be wrong, but I doubt that I am wrong. Someone may want to look at the warranty documentation.
In the Daewoo case cited, it appears the dealer got off the hook when Daewoo went bankrupt. I don't think the dealers are contractually on the hook for Suzuki warranty either. But I doubt very much Suzuki is going to go bankrupt.
In sum, I remain confident about the nature of Suzuki's warranty commitment.
2010 Kizashi SLS FWD Gray; 2013 Grand Vitara 4wd red; 2012 SX4 blue; 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV black
Suzuki is actually a very large company, so Suzuki itself won't go bankrupt. Thats not to say Suzuki NA won't close down. There have been previous instances (fiat, renault, etc.) that have sold in the states before and pulled out of the market due to low sales. Not too sure about all this, but this is the time we bond as Kizashi brothers and share resources and parts. With the right guidance, most things can be fixed at home over a weekend, with parts bought at a low cost online.
Strong yen has hit Japanese exporters, with the makers building vehicles in the U.S. taking a bit ess of a hit. Suzuki also got hit with India strike and tsunami. Here, the overall results appear to be getting more positive. In that context, steady U.S. Kizashi sales at 500 units per month appear relatively strong.
It sounds like any fault lies with management at Suzuki...I had a house full of relatives this week from California, Virginia, and Montana...they all raved about my car and wondered why they haven't seen any.
But management had not provided an explanation, he said, for suspending the use of the company’s Facebook and Twitter accounts — marketing tools with very low operating costs.
Not sure why we have to believe everything written in a paper, even if it is reproduced by a NYTimes blogger (and then reproduced as such in the paper). The Suzuki facebook page is alive and well:
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