CA calls for Suzuki test speed up
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• The Consumers' Association has called on Roads and Traffic Minister Peter Bottomley to speed up the Department of Transport's plans for testing the Suzuki SJ413 and SJ410. The association has conducted new tests on the 4x4 Suzukis which, it claims, show them to be "inherently unstable".
Commercial Motor understands that tests on the Suzuki models are currently being conducted by the DTp's Transport and Road Research Laboratory.
In the meantime, the Consumers' Association is keeping up the pressure on the DTp to suspend sales of all 4x4 Suzukis following its latest tests of the vehicles including the "Jturn" test, used by a number of manufacturers. The association claims that the Suzuki started to roll over at only 32km/h (20mph), whereas none of the vehicles it has tested so far has threatened to roll over, even at 64km/h (40mph).
Chairman of the Consumers' Association, Rachel Waterhouse, has written to Bottomley saying: "The instability of Suzuki SJ models is a serious public safety hazard, and we regard this delay (in publishing test findings) as unjustifiable."