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The Advertiser
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- Automotive
- The Advertiser
Suzuki Jimny deliveries halted in Australia
Suzuki Australia has issued a stop-delivery order for the Suzuki Jimny five-door with immediate effect, with dealers across the country instructed by the automaker to cease all deliveries of the iconic compact off-roader until further advice from the automaker's head office in Japan. Attracting a cult-like following, the Jimny is Suzuki Australia's best-selling model, more than doubling the sales of the Swift hatch, the Japanese small-car brand's next most popular model so far this year. It's also one of the more popular entrants in the light SUV segment, in which it competes with the Mazda CX-3, Toyota Yaris Cross and Hyundai Venue. In a dealer bulletin issued on Friday (July 25) and seen by CarExpert, Suzuki retailers were instructed to stop all deliveries of the Indian-built Jimny XL five-door – not the Japanese-made Jimny three-door – including showroom stock and warehoused vehicles, with no specific reason issued. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. "We haven't told any customers to get off the road, so it's not a safety concern," Suzuki Australia managing director Michael Pachota confirmed to CarExpert. Speaking at the launch of the Suzuki Fronx, Mr Pachota said the stop-delivery order will continue for the foreseeable future and played down the impact it may have on dealers and customers. "We were informed by Suzuki Motor Corporation, as we have been informed in the past about other products as well, that they constantly review quality control everywhere in every plant," he said. "Based on an operational error, they've decided to do a hold on sales, just to review that, investigate that. They're going to let us know when we can switch back on." The specific reason for the stop-delivery order was not disclosed, but Mr Pachota suggesting several possibilities for it. "We've done this from time to time with different products," he said. "It could be as simple as someone, you know, finding a nut on the floor in the factory and going, oh, what's this from?" The current Jimny attracted significant waiting lists – as long as 18 months – when the fourth-generation was launched in Australia in 2019. Year-to-date, local sales of the Jimny – three-door versions of which are set to bring a safety upgrade to match the five-door in early 2026 – are down 7.3 per cent, and the cessation of deliveries should see that figure grow. Among other models in its lineup, Suzuki Australia confirmed in February 2025 that the three-door Jimny didn't meet newly introduced Australian Design Rules (ADR) outlining specific technical requirements for autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems. At the time, it said investigations were underway into making the popular off-roader compliant and that its "position on this product" had "yet to be confirmed". Sales of the Jimny, along with other Suzuki models that fell afoul of the new ADR, have continued as the automaker secured sufficient stock complied before March 1, 2025, when ADR 98/00 came into effect. The Jimny XL is understood to be unaffected by the new ADR because it features a stereo camera instead of a forward-facing monocular camera, allowing it to offer both adaptive cruise control and night-time pedestrian detection. MORE: Everything Suzuki Jimny Content originally sourced from: Suzuki Australia has issued a stop-delivery order for the Suzuki Jimny five-door with immediate effect, with dealers across the country instructed by the automaker to cease all deliveries of the iconic compact off-roader until further advice from the automaker's head office in Japan. Attracting a cult-like following, the Jimny is Suzuki Australia's best-selling model, more than doubling the sales of the Swift hatch, the Japanese small-car brand's next most popular model so far this year. It's also one of the more popular entrants in the light SUV segment, in which it competes with the Mazda CX-3, Toyota Yaris Cross and Hyundai Venue. In a dealer bulletin issued on Friday (July 25) and seen by CarExpert, Suzuki retailers were instructed to stop all deliveries of the Indian-built Jimny XL five-door – not the Japanese-made Jimny three-door – including showroom stock and warehoused vehicles, with no specific reason issued. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. "We haven't told any customers to get off the road, so it's not a safety concern," Suzuki Australia managing director Michael Pachota confirmed to CarExpert. Speaking at the launch of the Suzuki Fronx, Mr Pachota said the stop-delivery order will continue for the foreseeable future and played down the impact it may have on dealers and customers. "We were informed by Suzuki Motor Corporation, as we have been informed in the past about other products as well, that they constantly review quality control everywhere in every plant," he said. "Based on an operational error, they've decided to do a hold on sales, just to review that, investigate that. They're going to let us know when we can switch back on." The specific reason for the stop-delivery order was not disclosed, but Mr Pachota suggesting several possibilities for it. "We've done this from time to time with different products," he said. "It could be as simple as someone, you know, finding a nut on the floor in the factory and going, oh, what's this from?" The current Jimny attracted significant waiting lists – as long as 18 months – when the fourth-generation was launched in Australia in 2019. Year-to-date, local sales of the Jimny – three-door versions of which are set to bring a safety upgrade to match the five-door in early 2026 – are down 7.3 per cent, and the cessation of deliveries should see that figure grow. Among other models in its lineup, Suzuki Australia confirmed in February 2025 that the three-door Jimny didn't meet newly introduced Australian Design Rules (ADR) outlining specific technical requirements for autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems. At the time, it said investigations were underway into making the popular off-roader compliant and that its "position on this product" had "yet to be confirmed". Sales of the Jimny, along with other Suzuki models that fell afoul of the new ADR, have continued as the automaker secured sufficient stock complied before March 1, 2025, when ADR 98/00 came into effect. The Jimny XL is understood to be unaffected by the new ADR because it features a stereo camera instead of a forward-facing monocular camera, allowing it to offer both adaptive cruise control and night-time pedestrian detection. MORE: Everything Suzuki Jimny Content originally sourced from: Suzuki Australia has issued a stop-delivery order for the Suzuki Jimny five-door with immediate effect, with dealers across the country instructed by the automaker to cease all deliveries of the iconic compact off-roader until further advice from the automaker's head office in Japan. Attracting a cult-like following, the Jimny is Suzuki Australia's best-selling model, more than doubling the sales of the Swift hatch, the Japanese small-car brand's next most popular model so far this year. It's also one of the more popular entrants in the light SUV segment, in which it competes with the Mazda CX-3, Toyota Yaris Cross and Hyundai Venue. In a dealer bulletin issued on Friday (July 25) and seen by CarExpert, Suzuki retailers were instructed to stop all deliveries of the Indian-built Jimny XL five-door – not the Japanese-made Jimny three-door – including showroom stock and warehoused vehicles, with no specific reason issued. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. "We haven't told any customers to get off the road, so it's not a safety concern," Suzuki Australia managing director Michael Pachota confirmed to CarExpert. Speaking at the launch of the Suzuki Fronx, Mr Pachota said the stop-delivery order will continue for the foreseeable future and played down the impact it may have on dealers and customers. "We were informed by Suzuki Motor Corporation, as we have been informed in the past about other products as well, that they constantly review quality control everywhere in every plant," he said. "Based on an operational error, they've decided to do a hold on sales, just to review that, investigate that. They're going to let us know when we can switch back on." The specific reason for the stop-delivery order was not disclosed, but Mr Pachota suggesting several possibilities for it. "We've done this from time to time with different products," he said. "It could be as simple as someone, you know, finding a nut on the floor in the factory and going, oh, what's this from?" The current Jimny attracted significant waiting lists – as long as 18 months – when the fourth-generation was launched in Australia in 2019. Year-to-date, local sales of the Jimny – three-door versions of which are set to bring a safety upgrade to match the five-door in early 2026 – are down 7.3 per cent, and the cessation of deliveries should see that figure grow. Among other models in its lineup, Suzuki Australia confirmed in February 2025 that the three-door Jimny didn't meet newly introduced Australian Design Rules (ADR) outlining specific technical requirements for autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems. At the time, it said investigations were underway into making the popular off-roader compliant and that its "position on this product" had "yet to be confirmed". Sales of the Jimny, along with other Suzuki models that fell afoul of the new ADR, have continued as the automaker secured sufficient stock complied before March 1, 2025, when ADR 98/00 came into effect. The Jimny XL is understood to be unaffected by the new ADR because it features a stereo camera instead of a forward-facing monocular camera, allowing it to offer both adaptive cruise control and night-time pedestrian detection. MORE: Everything Suzuki Jimny Content originally sourced from: Suzuki Australia has issued a stop-delivery order for the Suzuki Jimny five-door with immediate effect, with dealers across the country instructed by the automaker to cease all deliveries of the iconic compact off-roader until further advice from the automaker's head office in Japan. Attracting a cult-like following, the Jimny is Suzuki Australia's best-selling model, more than doubling the sales of the Swift hatch, the Japanese small-car brand's next most popular model so far this year. It's also one of the more popular entrants in the light SUV segment, in which it competes with the Mazda CX-3, Toyota Yaris Cross and Hyundai Venue. In a dealer bulletin issued on Friday (July 25) and seen by CarExpert, Suzuki retailers were instructed to stop all deliveries of the Indian-built Jimny XL five-door – not the Japanese-made Jimny three-door – including showroom stock and warehoused vehicles, with no specific reason issued. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. "We haven't told any customers to get off the road, so it's not a safety concern," Suzuki Australia managing director Michael Pachota confirmed to CarExpert. Speaking at the launch of the Suzuki Fronx, Mr Pachota said the stop-delivery order will continue for the foreseeable future and played down the impact it may have on dealers and customers. "We were informed by Suzuki Motor Corporation, as we have been informed in the past about other products as well, that they constantly review quality control everywhere in every plant," he said. "Based on an operational error, they've decided to do a hold on sales, just to review that, investigate that. They're going to let us know when we can switch back on." The specific reason for the stop-delivery order was not disclosed, but Mr Pachota suggesting several possibilities for it. "We've done this from time to time with different products," he said. "It could be as simple as someone, you know, finding a nut on the floor in the factory and going, oh, what's this from?" The current Jimny attracted significant waiting lists – as long as 18 months – when the fourth-generation was launched in Australia in 2019. Year-to-date, local sales of the Jimny – three-door versions of which are set to bring a safety upgrade to match the five-door in early 2026 – are down 7.3 per cent, and the cessation of deliveries should see that figure grow. Among other models in its lineup, Suzuki Australia confirmed in February 2025 that the three-door Jimny didn't meet newly introduced Australian Design Rules (ADR) outlining specific technical requirements for autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems. At the time, it said investigations were underway into making the popular off-roader compliant and that its "position on this product" had "yet to be confirmed". Sales of the Jimny, along with other Suzuki models that fell afoul of the new ADR, have continued as the automaker secured sufficient stock complied before March 1, 2025, when ADR 98/00 came into effect. The Jimny XL is understood to be unaffected by the new ADR because it features a stereo camera instead of a forward-facing monocular camera, allowing it to offer both adaptive cruise control and night-time pedestrian detection. MORE: Everything Suzuki Jimny Content originally sourced from:
NZ Herald
3 hours ago
- Automotive
- NZ Herald
More than 400 roaming stock incidents reported in one year on Tairāwhiti roads
'I've almost hit cows on three occasions in the last three years, all in the same spot... between the area around Nūhaka, and Iwitea to Wairoa,' Connell said. As well as stock, he said he has also seen a countless number of goats 'mowed over by everything in the middle of the night' between Gisborne and Hawke's Bay. Connell provided Local Democracy Reporting with dashcam footage from his vehicle, showing him nearly hitting cows in Wairoa last week. 'I was also towing a heavy-laden trailer, so it was just by chance that I managed to squeeze them between the two that were on the road.' There were another eight to 10 cows on the side of the road, not shown on the video, he said. 'Cows are herd animals; once one of them is drifting, the whole lot's going.' He believed accessways, gates, and fences on the main highways should be reinforced or improved. 'I'm in commercial vehicles nine times out of 10, but if you were... in a little bl***y Yaris or a Swift... you're not walking away from hitting... a ton worth a cow, especially if you hit it at 100[km/h]'. NZTA Hawke's Bay and Gisborne systems manager Martin Colditz reiterated its call to farmers to help 'avoid their stock becoming a statistic on our roads'. Property owners or farm managers should be mindful of their supervision, regularly check fences, and take extra care when moving stock on roads, he said. Colditz said NZTA Waka Kotahi was carrying out an inspection of SH35 and would work with the council to engage with property owners. They were also exploring how they could manage and enforce increasing occurrences of wandering stock, especially on SH35. 'Wandering stock on our highways presents a risk to life, so please report them as soon as you can, either by calling 0800 4 HIGHWAYS, or 111 where there is an immediate risk to safety,' said Colditz. Waka Kotahi worked closely with the GDC, which had a delegation to enforce stock control on the region's state highways via the Stock Control Bylaw (2017). There were 186 instances of contractors being called out to deal with wandering stock (horses, sheep, deer) on Tairāwhiti state highways between May 2024 and May 2025, according to NZTA. This included 157 callouts on State Highway 35 and 29 on State Highway 2 north and south of Gisborne. On local roads, GDC animal control team lead Ross Hannam said the council received 271 'requests for service' regarding the issue from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. 'Waka Kotahi have contractors to deal with stock on state highways,' Hannam said. The council had received four requests for services for both SH2 and SH35, which were dealt with as quickly as possible, according to Hannam. He said the first thing the council did was remove stock from the road to make it safe. If the owner was known, they would contact them. If they couldn't contact the owner, they would impound the stock. 'The big problem is horses within the city and townships up the coast. There are a lot of horse owners that don't have any land to hold their horses,' he said. 'Any stock not claimed is auctioned off. This is mainly horses, and there are two or three per year.' He said the council issued fencing notices to repeat offenders. The council could not issue infringements under the Animal Control Act and bylaws. Federated Farmers Gisborne-Wairoa provincial president Charles Reynolds said farmers must be vigilant about fencing. He said he had no information on whether the issue of wandering stock was worsening in the region. Wandering stock was a bigger issue up the coast north of Tolaga Bay along SH35, he said. However, Reynolds believed incidences of livestock on roads were low relative to the hundreds of kilometres of farming fence lines in the district. The vast majority of farmers were aware of the safety threat to motorists – and their animals, he said. Storms and landslides that took out fencing were a known issue. 'From time to time, gates may be left open by mistake, or by visitors to a farm. Trees and large branches can fall on fences, damaging sections and enabling animals to escape,' Reynolds said.
Time of India
11 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Online frauds cheat investors with fake luxury goods scheme, 8 arrested
Noida: Eight members of an online fraud racket that lured people with promises of becoming millionaires were arrested on Sunday. The accused operated via Google Meet, convincing targets to invest Rs 1.5 lakh by purchasing fake luxury goods like gold, diamonds, and watches. Payments were collected during the meetings, often in dollars or bitcoins. When investors failed to make profits, they were pressured to buy more products and even offered fake loans to continue investing. Those arrested include Vidhan Dagar (27), Kaushik Dagar (31), Tapas Dhara (28), and Ganesh Bera (23), natives of West Bengal; Satish Shaw (29) of Jharkhand; Kalpesh Raju Bhai (23) of Gujarat; Gurvinder Singh (29) of Ludhiana; Gurdeep Singh (39) of Punjab. All of them were residents of the Bisrakh area, Greater Noida. You Can Also Check: Noida AQI | Weather in Noida | Bank Holidays in Noida | Public Holidays in Noida Ten laptops, five tablets, 13 mobile phones, a cheque worth Rs 1 crore, 30 ATM cards, four watches, and a Swift car were recovered from their possession. According to Greater Noida's additional DCP Sudhir Kumar, a man named Pravin Kumar Pal registered a complaint stating that he and his cousin had been duped out of a large sum of money by an online business. Acting on the complaint, Ecotech-1 police traced and arrested the accused. Ecotech-1 police station in-charge Arvind Verma said the accused worked for a Dubai-based online company, commonly known as QNET/VIHAAN, which lured people in "get-rich-quick" schemes. The company was already under investigation in Delhi, Rajasthan, and Meghalaya. Explaining the gang's modus operandi, Verma stated that the gang held webinars on Google Meet and made the targets pay Rs 1.5 lakh to join the company. The targets were sold products such as gold, diamonds, and watches, and were told to resell them for bigger profits. In most cases, the victims did not receive the products. Those who did found them to be of substandard quality. "The accused now face charges under sections 318(4) (cheating), 351(2) (criminal intimidation), and 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the BNS at the Ecotech-1 Police Station," Verma said.
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marc Maron Reveals the Cost to Use a Taylor Swift Song — and the Mutual Celebrity Friend Who Helped Him Get Access
The comedian and podcaster used Swift's 'Bigger Than the Whole Sky' for his soon-to-be-released stand-up special Marc Maron said getting the rights to Taylor Swift's music doesn't come without a hefty price tag. The comedian and podcaster, 61, spent major dollars in order to use a specific song from the pop star's catalog for his upcoming stand-up special, he revealed on the July 25 episode of Vulture's Good One podcast. Licensing Swift's song 'Bigger Than the Whole Sky' — a bonus track on the 3am Edition of her 2022 album Midnights — cost about "$50,000," Maron said. He added that he felt he needed the specific track for a pivotal moment in his HBO special, Marc Maron: Panicked, so he reached out to a mutual friend, Jack Antonoff, for help. 'I know Jack Antonoff enough to text him — and he's the co-writer on that song,' Maron explained. 'I said, 'I don't know what's proper or how to do this, but we're running out of money on this thing. It's probably going to come out of my pocket. Is there anything you can do about this song or talk to Taylor?' ' Maron said Antonoff, 41, advised him to go through official music licensing channels, and he was ultimately able to get approval to use the track. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! 'It was doable,' Maron said, adding, however, that the tens of thousands of dollars only covered the use of one minute of the song. 'I would have gone over the minute, [but] it would have been more money,' he explained. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Maron said he doesn't know if Swift, 35, has heard the specific joke in the special that her team signed off on, but he was 'manifesting' that she would indeed like it if she did — for the sake of his project. 'It had to happen,' Maron said. 'The real fear [was], like, [if] she doesn't let you use it, and then what do you do? You can't do the bit on the special.' While Maron didn't reveal the content of the bit in question, he has spoken about Swift's music — and his journey to becoming a Swiftie — in the past. 'I'm an open-minded guy, and I like music. I [wanted] to try to figure out what it is about Taylor Swift that everyone never shuts up about," he said on a May 2023 episode of his long-running podcast, WTF with Marc Maron. Maron said he ended up listening to Swift's Midnights album on a hike, and he was impressed with what her heard. 'I'm like, 'Alright. I get it.' It's pop music, but it's not dance music [and] it's, sort of, emotional. There's a lot of longing and sadness and isolation and processing these overwhelming feelings of melancholy," he recalled. When previously discussing the new special, the comedian said, per Deadline, that he felt like 'this is the best work' he's ever done, adding, 'Everything came together." Maron's latest creative endeavor comes two years after his last HBO special, the critically acclaimed From Bleak to Dark, which explored grief and the experience of losing his partner, filmmaker Lynn Shelton, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Marc Maron: Panicked premieres on HBO on Friday, Aug. 1, at 8:00 p.m. EST. It will also be available to stream on HBO Max. Read the original article on People Solve the daily Crossword
Time of India
14 hours ago
- Time of India
Illegal weapons recovered from Lawrench Bishnoi aide
Ludhiana: More than 10 days after Khanna Police arrested Ravi Rajgarh, a close aide of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi , from Doraha area with an illegal weapon, police recovered four pistols and magazines on his disclosure. Police said that during questioning, he said that he gave Rs 25 lakh to Lawrence's brother, Anmol, to facilitate his international travel. Khanna SSP Jyoti Yadav said that on July 16, a police party was patrolling the area near the link road between Doraha and Rajgarh village when a Swift car was stopped and checked. She added that the driver was identified as Rajvir Singh, alias Ravi Rajgarh, a category B gangster from Rajgarh village in Doraha. Police said that a search yielded a .45 bore pistol with seven live cartridges from his waistband. On July 16, police filed a case against him under relevant sections of the Arms Act. Police said that the accused was also wanted in another case dated April 9, 2025, under attempt to murder and Arms Act sections and was arrested in that case as well. They added that the case was registered for a shootout over land possession at Chankoiya Khurd village on April 8. Upon interrogation, Rajvir Singh said that he supplied four illegal .32 bore pistols along with cartridges to be used during the altercation at Chankoiya Khurd village. After use, the weapons were returned to him and he hid them at various locations. Police said that the four weapons were recovered from him during police remand. "Ravi Rajgarh has around 15 previous FIRs registered against him for offences including murder, possession of illegal weapons, fights, and various other crimes. He remained lodged in different jails," said the police. MSID:: 122953875 413 |
