Land Rover Defender vs Suzuki Jimny - Series 28: Episode 2 | Fifth Gear
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- First broadcast in 2019, Series 28 of Fifth Gear is on CZcams for the first time! The Suzuki Jimny is a cheap and capable off-roader, a proper utilitarian vehicle. Since the production of the Defender ended in 2016 the Jimny has been in a market on its own. Now there’s a new Jimny and at £15,000 it’s around the same price as a good second-hand Defender. But which is best for your hard-earned? By working as farm vehicles we’ll find out which one is the most practical, capable off-road and well put together.
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"Land Rover; Creating millions of home mechanics for over 65 years"
😂😂
70% of all Land Rovers are still on the road today. The other 30% made it home.
If you come out to your Land Rover and there's no oil leak below it, it means it's the pan is empty.
Lovely comment 😂 even the late queen also works on a Rover BTW 😂
I got a Landrover hat at a farmers market once. Hung it on the hook at home, the next morning there was puddle of fluid under it.
Meanwhile in Australia and most otherplaces (not UK)..
The Toyota Landcruiser is still the undefeated king
The Jimny is something the Defender will never be. Actually reliable.
Just try my Def td4 then, you’ll be surprised. But no, you just howl with the wolves
I wish Suzuki will make a Bigger Jimny, with the same proportions as the Defender 3dr...
Even better land rover should make a defender based on the old defender with basic features
They are - supposed to be coming next year.
@@corgi_leonberger7233 +1 and it's gonna be a 5 door. They're building it to that they can launch it as a practical car here in India
They had a full-size SUV planned at one time to be the big brother to the Grand Vitara, XL7 is still a compact SUV 3 rows or not.
Suzuki is definitely known for its lightweight chassis's.
Lookup: Tokyo motor Show suzuki concept's.
I wish we could get the new Jimny in the US.
I’ll take both! The Defender and the Suzuki!
Rediscovered 5th gear after 10 years.
Lovely
HAND BUILT (by a bloke with only one hand) !!
And half a functioning brain😂
When did Tiff Needell leave 5th Gear? It's my first time watching it for over a year, first time I've watched without Tiff. BTW that clip with Jason Plato jazzing on the Brabham BT62 is a very good watch. It's such an exciting car. I really hope it doesn't get classed out of racing in the endurance series.
BT62 result was a 1st place btw, first time since 1962 that a Brabham driven by a Brabham took the podium 👍
Epic 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😎✌❤
Suzuki has priced the Jimny at $28,500MT/30,000AT USD ($38,500/40,500CDN) here in Costa Rica. As good as the car is, in it's limited way, it's not worth that much. And yes, I'm aware of the high import duties imposed.
True. For $30,000 I can get a fully loaded 4x4 Hilux with diff lock thats better than the Jimny in every single way.
@@motorpolitan8884in off road? No. Hilux does not have the same performance as a jeep. Jimny is a jeep, its characteristics and chassis speak for themselves and its weight and HP ratio is great. Manual Jimny on off road doesn't owe anything to anyone. In this video the Jimny is automatic and had motorcycle tires, for God's sake.
The best 4x4 by far
This is a very enjoyable episode. Thanks for posting.
My son found this problem hauling his rack car in an 8.eX20 enclosed trailer with a Porsche Cayenne. The car's a great hauler, but too narrow to see behind the trailer. He compensated by installing a camera above the back door and relayed the feed to a console on the dash. That became his mirror.
How the gearshift in the Landrover is wiggling around during the slow country road drive 😂
Reversing with a tow is a driver's abilities, not the car's capable ,hahhaha
A Jimny is more comparable to a Series Land Rover, not a Defender. Series Land Rovers go further than most modern tucks, but Jimnys go even further with their LSD and they are actually reliable.
Very old repeat
I love Fifth Gear. With a "TIMELESS" and original cast of amazing testers/reporters. Thank you.
Unlike some other large car site editors we can't relate to.
Thank you
The horse box test is a waste of time as the Jimny couldn’t legally tow that on the road in the UK anyway. It may be excellent off road and utilitarian but there’s no point having a tow bar on it.
The landrover is simply taller, the Jimny wins, hands down
I haven't actually counted it out but he was only like 20 seconds slower in the jimny pulling the trailer, and he had to have lost more than that in the reversing...
Actually expected the Land Rover to be much faster
Landrovers are slow cars. Only 20% more power than the Jimny but 50% heavier...
@@thebubaloomonkey Yea but the torque is more important when towing. I just expected they wouldn't have to make the test unfair to make the LR win.
@@deejayimm not really. More torque just means you can do the same stuff at lower rpm, but in a race who cares about low rpm?
@@thebubaloomonkey People towing trailers
@@deejayimm but you've already observed that the car with 3x the amount of torque didn't pull the trailer any quicker...
Great content
28mpg is thirsty in UK? 😅😂😅
They use imperial gallon in the UK. So 28 mpg (UK) is about 23 mpg in the US.
I got Jimny and I went through a river deeper than that one with no problem but some water in it like the Defender 🤣
Hate the defender in this video, I prefer the Jimny, however there is a new defender now and that one I love.
then you get a Lada Niva... cus u take it through that pit any day for fun without worries.
Doing that would be supporting murderous Moscow regime
@@TheKitMurkit I'm good, it's just a car.
Besides the amount of proxy wars America started the past 50 years and turned shit for the worse, is more then they done good.
Putin over old Sleepy or fatty orange all day lol
Is there any left? Land rover everytime out last any other car or 4x4
300mm wading depth on that Jimny? Are you serious? The BMW X5 is over 500mm
The defender is not the series. Why do Brit’s make that claim?
Land rover car for Old man 😂😂😂
Jimnys top speed is over a 100 mph.
In this choice Jimmy is a winner on reliability grounds as it starts on a button somet which LR is unable to do even when factory new..😕
I’ve had both of these cars. Defender is better hands down!
Certainly not .. they are unreliable poor performers
Hola que medida son las llantas del jimny?
Funny the jimny lost where it should have won, it's much more capable than the defender when it comes to off roading.
Not with those tires and locking diffs.
If the defender had similar tires and open diffs I might agree.
Is that a joke
The defender is much better off road you clearly have never gone off road
@@deejayimm A standard Defender just has a centre diff lock. The Jimny is part-time 4wd. It doesn't have a centre diff and doesn't need a centre diff lock. So the Jimny in 4wd has the same traction as a Defender with the C-diff locked.
As someone with both, there are places where each excel off-road but I wouldn't say one is overall better than other. However the Jimny is always more fun.
38 years ago i towed a fully loaded 13 ton truck with blocked wheels uphill with a 1.3 l Samourai. Give me the Jimny any day, Reliable and you don't have to carry a ton of metal with you for nothing
dreamer
@@ramblingrob4693 I did it. Wasn't easy but that little thing managed it
Love for both cute
Is Vicki BH a vampire? She never ever seems to get older!
I'd buy a new 90 Defender tomorrow if they still made them, my last one, a Td5 was totally reliable for the 13 years l owned it (from new) sadly a rusty chassis was its downfall!
What about the Ineos Grenadier?
@@aussiesam01 lt's too big, a 2 door version might get a look in.
@42:21 what is Johnny looking at?😅
The Jimny is the pick of the two but both are second grade 4X4's.
Land Rover Defender anyday, it’s not about performance, it ‘s about character
The Suzuki Jimny is way too bouncy I get motion sickness in one everytime and i don't get car sick unless I'm in a Jimny.
ive had my new defender for 6 months - 10,000 km and its absolutely perfect. The old idea that land rovers are very unreliable are now officially over with the new defender. Its made in Slovakia and is just as good as most other manufacturers. Stop with the old hat....
To call a car reliable after only 10kkm and 6 months of usage is setting the bar really low. Come back in a couple of years at least.
@@lucasbim had mine 2 years, (new 110) 25000 miles, used everyday as a van, tools and crap in the back, then it’s the most comfortable refined car the wk ends. been perfect, best vehicle I’ve ever had, and actually saved loads of money as don’t need separate van
L322 Range Rover all day everyday.
You see plenty of old land rovers stil about
Suzukis have washed down the drains
Prolly cause it's Europe g in NZ old land rovers are pennies cause they can't last 3 days. Old suzukis go for 4-5x the price
There's heaps of old suzuki in Australia and NZ and Asia man, maybe travel a bit beyond your little Isle 🤣
@@Dudelydogg yes but I don't live in Asia
I'm in the UK rust with Japanese cars is not good
Also they look cheap have small engines the plastic looks cheap
Remove the badges you can see we're it's made it all comes down to cost how much fuel it uses
My land rover is V8 petrol 12 mpg it's a jack of all trades convertible 7 seater
I can change to hard top if I wish (I have) tow far more than a suzuki
And I'm not sat looking at cheap metal & plastic with a litte 4 cyl engine
If that was in the uk left outside like i do with the land rover it would fall apart with rust and wouldn't be worth welding up
Well that's more horses for courses then isn't it? Land rovers don't last out in hot dusty countries which is why you never see any in the outback here (or anywhere really far from civilisation either incase you breakdown). Rust is a problem on basically all ladder frame chassis vehicles though, and essentially all old vehicles in the UK due to winter salt gritting too, the land rover doesn't have any special protection that regard compared to other cars and anything you would do to protect it you could to to any other car too, so pretty moot point there. Saying its not worth it to weld a brand new suzuki or a 10 year old one even is also patently ridiculous, no less worth it then welding a 30 or 40 year old land rover, get over yourself mate, you sound absurd.
@@Dudelydogg will a Japanese vehicle rust moor in a damp environment than a land rover
Even with the poorer metal they use now japanese in the uk rust badly suzuki mitsubishi toyota and I've welded all of those the metal is not good thin yiu blow through with the welder you don't see 25 years old even 20 year old driving in the uk
My land rover is 60 years old
You will not see Japanese in the uk last that long unless it has been used or its been imported from a warm climate
The land rover will carry more people or weight, tow more
And outlast any Japanese vehicle
It was voted in the uk the best vehicle of all time
NOT some silly little suzuki
The jimny will be scrap in ten years or before
The land rover will last 25 years and then you can buy the parts to rebuild it, the suzuki parts will be unavailable and not worth rebuilding
probably VERY wrong
@@TheHolan no very right
I've owned a series 2 land rover 31 years its still here
All the other 4x4s that experts suggested for me to buy instead are long gone scrapped like suzuki or lada or Toyota
You said it, rebuild it…. That’s all you do with landrovers a continued life of rebuilding and rebuilding..
@@Incountry yes but you get 25 year's use once you do, then you can do it again
Suzukis won't be anything left to rebuild
And why would you bother with a pretend 4x4 suzuki
@@adamwort7160
I guess the Suzuki LJ’s don’t exist….
Sphere leaks as seals are junk
The Tdi & TD5 engines all eat head gaskets and require replacement several times in the engines life
Front & Rear diffs leak
They need at least one chassis swap
Electrics, well what can I say
Corrosion to the body in every orifice
Destroy outriggers with corrosion
Centre drums cables need changing regularly as they always stretch out
The ball joints on the draglinks are junk as they need replacing every couple years
The steering box leaks endlessly even after a rebuild
Switch gear fall apart
YOU WILL DIE IN A COLLISION
Noisy
I can go on and on…. Reason I know this is all factual, two reasons first I know couple of independent workshops in Somerset UK who specialise in them and the vehicle inspector (MOT guy) at one of them I know well, he’s always failing their safety inspection, secondly a sibling of mine is a franchisee holder of JLR here (US) and the work they get is endless..
On the other hand the Suzuki LJ’s, Daihatsu LF’s (still exist and still on the highways) and all of the Japanese 4x4s are superior to the cheaply made, cheap component poor finish, substandard in safety and of course the BIG one, reliability in everyway says something….
You’re right about rebuilding after 25 years and doing it again, but how many times must you continually repeat yourself..?? If you start with shit*you’ll keep ending up with shit*…. Yes, Land-rovers are shit* but they make my sibling very wealthy as well as every retailer of Landrover parts as people as yourself will be returning on a regular basis…
Vivè La Landrover…..
The car show that actually takes an interest in cars.
Hola que medida son las llantas del jimny?
Creo que sean 15''