Richard Porter
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So on the spot, they committed to a massive order of these cars.
I guess they basically agreed to import a certain number of X90s sight unseen.
Yes, well, the soft back was the one with the canvas-y bit on the back.
Well, this listener wraps up by saying that the eagle-eyed and eared among you may have already spotted the obvious error in Suzuki GB wildly ordering a load of X90s in the hope of appealing to countryside folk with money.
When they turned up were not only two-door, rendering them fairly useless for the majority of the target market, but also they were all two-wheel drive.
I'm not sure if we ever got the four-wheel drive one that was available in some parts of the world, but the first ones were certainly two-wheel drive, leaving the now deeply red-faced Suzuki GB directors thinking, oh shit, how are we going to sell these?
As a result, a hurriedly written process document was issued about how ordering cars when pissed is a bad idea.
Well, I could only go on what sounds like a very plausible message from a listener who says they used to work at Suzuki GB, so they got this from source.
The Tesla's got to go, but you can have an EV.
You just have to get, I don't know, something like an ID.3 with a... Honda E. Honda E, rear engine.