New Jimny waiting list

Trust this thread isn't going to turn into a 'shoot the messenger' session. Always interested in learning from a different perspective and commission based sales always focuses effort into where reward can be gained - nought wrong with that!

Where we can all agree is that demand and supply appear vastly out of kilter this year. Can understand Suzuki GB not wishing to import too many cars until they have a better idea of what volume of new Jimnys the UK market can sustain year on year. Of course that assumes that Suzuki Japan views the UK market as more important than some other international markets from a profit and profile point of view?

I understand us salesman don’t have a great reputation but some of us try our best.

This is just as frustrating for us as is is for the customers. We have a great product and really want to get it out on the roads and make a living doing so currently neither is happening from the Jimny.

Issue for uk and Europe is market share it just isn’t big enough for them to warrant building another factory out of Japan to build more.
And just 2000 units for 2020 in my view is also too small but it is what it is will have to see what progresses. Profit wise not sure on that Suzuki are doing very well with quite a few of their models.

I think it’s just market share and purely the fact the Japanese Factory is flat out and barely can produce enough.

Last question if i may, and thanks for being on here, your clearly a straight shooter and i appreciate your time.

So what defines a big dealer? (who will get the max number of motors). I was told its not based on size of dealership but rather the location?

Thanks again.

No problem happy to answer what I can.

Purely based on the number of cars they sold the year before. So it’s quite unfair really some dealers obviously have larger target bases to go at.

Big dealers who did the most numbers get 5 per quarter. Smaller dealers get 2 per quarter.

Defiantly not location otherwise we would be getting 5 per quarter.

What was the point of a website asking people to register so they could be given priority when cars became available, and then ignored them? It was all done based in the size of dealership. Suzuki aren't coming out of this very well.

I think the idea was to really build the jimmy up which it really has done very well. But I honesty don’t think it was expected to be as popular as it has been and we underestimated the popularity.

The ignoring thing I’m not sure what happened. Can only go off our experience as far as we are aware whoever signed our to us locally we were passed the details and had to arrange test drives, but we have had some customers say they didn’t get contacted we certainly haven’t ignored people the leads just didn’t come through not sure where the problem developed.