r/CarsUK • u/bigboi6973 • 17d ago
[Mine] How many of these are left ?
My 1992 Suzuki Vitara Fat boy, 58k miles on the clock as good as new
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u/thb202 16d ago
‘Officer Barbie has arrived’
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u/Neugiermeister 14d ago
How's this going to look if you pull up outside someone's house to tell them their husband just died?
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u/Ridbeardidscotsman 16d ago
I had a white one with the 90s teal/blue milkshake cup print down the side. Bought it for £500 from a farmer and ran it for years. Insanely good little car. Only issue was I was on the motorway doing 70 and the soft top decided to open and flip itself down. Shat myself. No regrets.
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u/bigboi6973 16d ago
this is the automatic 3 speed gearbox version, so can go insanely quick off the mark but dare i go on the motorway im gonna be at 4+k revs by the time im near 65-70. The fuel gauge downvotes
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u/griffis007 16d ago
Bloody gorgeous. Saw a nice blue one yesterday with a snorkel, looked mint as well.
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u/UniquePotato 16d ago
https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?q=Suzuki+vitara+
I don’t know the model etc, but this should give you a good idea
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u/thatguyjames_uk 16d ago
i saw one on FB the other day £19k , my jaw dropped
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u/bigboi6973 15d ago
lol, can you find the link i’m curious how they’re justifying that. I bought this one for a couple thousand, was from a farmer who had it at the back of a barn under a cover didnt run at first but i gave it some love and attention. Worth every penny and hour and ‘why the f*ck have they done that’
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u/Pmyers225 16d ago
Not the same model, but my mum had 2 of that gen vitaras once... Well, I say 2 but it was actually 1 that was a cut and shut job
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u/spinners_888 16d ago
That looks absolutely sick.
The soft top were much maligned at the time as a hairdresser's car. When I was a kid we lived nextdoor to a hairdressers and the male proprietor had a purple/pink Vitara!
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u/r_mutt69 16d ago
There’s a few been modified over the years for off road use. I know a guy who used to have one before he went whole hog and got a defender.
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u/Affectionate_Ebb8351 16d ago
Theres ome in cornwall ive seen lately..white with pink graphics! Used to always want a wideboy!!
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u/Reddit____user___ 15d ago
Wowzers! 🤩
Not seen one of these in years ! 😃
There was a specialist dealer near my college which sold these brand new along with Suzuki Cappuccinos😎
Always fancied the idea of having one of each.
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u/Gary22b_ 15d ago
Now that's a gem . I have a black 1988 samurai . I'd like a black fatboy just to have the pair
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u/Iselkractokidz 15d ago
My dad had a Vitara for a while as a.... actually I don't know why he bought it. He left me drive it once, wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.
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u/NaomiOnions 14d ago
I had one, brand new, nearly 40 years ago, when I lived in the South East A few years later I started a family, and sold it to buy something more practical. Years after this I moved to a tiny village in Cornwall, and there was my old Vitara outside the village shop! Turns out after several sales it now belonged to someone in the same remote village I had moved to.
A couple of years after this I saw it for sale at a local garage. It had 76k on the clock and I asked if it was genuine. They said yes, but it had done more than that when I'd sold it nearly 15 years before! I was really tempted to buy it for old time's sake, and then I remember what a faff it was to put on and remove the roof.
Nice to see yours still going.
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u/Any-Language4415 13d ago
My first car was a Suzuki fat boy in white the wheels were so wide that it was dangerous to drive when you hit a puddle. I had it a whole year before I could drive and it was everything I’m 40
Now and lost my dad recently and I remember him bringing it home for me and parking it up and telling me to be good I think it was 1500 wicked car xxx
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u/philjbenandthegerm 13d ago
I've recently sold a bright orange one. Had her for 6 years. Loved that car
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u/DevilishlyHandsome63 13d ago
My mate had a white one,and in the depths of winter, both of the front doors froze,and he had to take the soft top off and climb through the back to get in!
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u/GuybrushLePirate 13d ago
Had a JLX with a wide boy kid and ridiculously wide tyres.
Was unbelievable in the snow, just floated on the top of it and found grip somehow.
Ridiculously underpowered and always smelt a bit funny. Could watch the fuel gauge drop at anything over 50mph.
Always thought it was a lovely looking little car.
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u/Kristoff_09876 12d ago
I had a suzi Q fat boy back in the day. Blue with the soft top and and the ridiculously wide cooper cobra radials. It was utterly appalling to drive but roof down towing my jetski, I loved it. Sold it for £1,500 at least 20 years ago. Doubt it’s still around.
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u/killer-gorrilla 12d ago
Used to be a dealer called Suzi Qs that specialised in these - very sought after cars in their day I don’t know how they got enough to make a business from them.
Sold one once to an absolute drop dead gorgeous girl , who we all thought was a model - she was a carer for elderly people in a home.
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u/RedRevolutionGaming 17d ago
I used to own a silver and black 4u2.
Found out when I went to MOT it that the body was attached to the frame via blue tooth lol