2019 Jimny - Real Life Experience + Feedback

Another few hundred miles clocked up over the past few days. Loaded the Jimny up with 4 full sized adults and went across the country from West to East and return. Bizarre fact of the trip was average fuel consumption of 42mpg - so the additional weight appears to make no difference to fuel consumption. What was evident though was a feeling that the Jimny felt more 'planted' on the road in high wind conditions with the extra weight aboard. The vehicle continues to attract attention with several folk taking pictures of it - even as they overtook us on the motorway. So if you like driving about incognito and behaving like a furtive fugitive - the new 2019 Jimny in Kinetic Yellow is not the car you should choose. Late night driving on country roads once again confirms that the front lights are absolutely superb and the only negative comments within this household, relate to the operation of the front seats - which irritate users big time when retrieving people or goods from the rear. Another first was seeing two other Jimnys on the road - although neither was the current model - so the new model still appears to be 'rarer than hen's teeth'.

Well the Jimny has clocked up a few more miles on 'business' use this week. Mainly pottering up the motorway and dual carriageway to another site where I have a project to progress. Result is that fuel consumption has increased to 43 mpg sitting at 55 - 60 mph in 5th gear. Still getting a lot of attention from folk that haven't seen one before - interestingly Land Rover owners seem drawn to it by a strange magnetic like force. Still zero defects to report and even after a few hundred miles of driving in filthy weather, the Kinetic Yellow doesn't look as dirty as I might have expected. I will endeavour to give it a thorough clean this weekend.

...And I still haven't seen one in the real world

Heheh

you're on - I'll be there in five mins

Very depressed today - clocked up 1700 miles on the odometer with an average fuel consumption since taking delivery of 42 mpg. Seeing other new '19' plate cars on the road reminded me that my 'new' Jimny is now an 'old' Jimny - maybe I should be trying to offload it?

On the other hand I will need to contact the dealer this week and see about booking it in for the 'free' 2000 mile check over. Don't think that should take very long as I've yet to identify a single item that I would describe as a manufacturing defect or warranty claim.

You've actually seen another Jimny on the road? Ive seen 0.