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1991 Suzuki Vitara [SE416] 
Ep. 2.07Class: Cars, Off-road / SUV — Model origin: 
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![1991 Suzuki Vitara [SE416]](i320975.jpg)
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◊ 2011-10-10 23:05 |
Could this be Made for Norway? |
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◊ 2011-10-10 23:08 |
Perhaps. It's got green plates btw, meaning that there are no back seats, so the vehicle is taxed as a light van (varebil). |
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◊ 2011-10-10 23:15 |
You say that because you see that the model is different from the JDM one, or because there is a "ø" in the movie title? |
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◊ 2011-10-10 23:31 |
No. The title means nothing and I see a reflector. I also see a green Norwegian plate, which means cargo van. -- Last edit: 2011-10-10 23:31:38 |
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◊ 2011-10-10 23:39 |
And a raised roof. Forgot about the roof. I have never heard about this roof anywhere else. |
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◊ 2011-10-10 23:40 |
I think that is just a van behind it. |
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◊ 2011-10-10 23:42 |
Indeed. Which you learned ½h ago from Lateefs comment  Please stop posting useless comments or your account will be blocked (not especially related to this page, but in general to the huge amount of posts that you made in the last days). -- Last edit: 2011-10-10 23:46:25 |
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◊ 2011-10-10 23:55 |
I will weigh in on this one since I am tonkaTracker after all  First of all there is no high roof, the Vitara was never sold with a high roof in any market which means, to quote you: you have never heard of this roof anywhere! The fact that it has the green plates means nothing except that it is a Van or Commercial version, which just means that it was sold without rear seats for the purpose of carrying cargo. The Van version of the Vitara was sold in all markets save for the US. Now on to the "reflector" which is indeed not a reflector but an indicator repeater. Every variation of this model came with these repeaters in every market except Japan, US/Canada, Hong Kong, and very early Argentina and Australia markets. In the case of this page yes the made for Norway is justified mainly because the car is listed as a Vitara, where as the original is called Escudo but also because there is no front sidemarker lamp, instead there is a indicator repeater. -- Last edit: 2011-10-10 23:57:51 |
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◊ 2011-10-11 00:03 |
Is that right? Doesn't this one have a high roof?: Link to "www.finn.no" Same goes for a few of the others for sale here: Link to "www.finn.no" .. or is this some kind of aftermarket roof? -- Last edit: 2011-10-11 00:06:02 |
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◊ 2011-10-11 00:10 |
It is an aftermarket roof, they never came from Suzuki like this, they were converted much like conversion vans are. I have a friend in Sweden with one of these converted Vitaras and he constantly complains about leaks and the shoddy workmanship. I actually thought his was a one-off conversion but I guess I was wrong. Looking at your link though this Vitara here may have one of these conversions. I see roof racks which is why I thought it was a van behind the Vitara but now I see these roofs had the racks as well  -- Last edit: 2011-10-11 00:11:49 |
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◊ 2011-10-11 00:15 |
No, I had already known that. He just beat me to it.  Yeah, I admit that me trying to help out has ended up with less than desirable results (to say the least). I will slow down with the comments. I never meant to be a burden.  |
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◊ 2011-10-11 01:55 |
I stop doing those thing some time ago that is useless to post the information falling their deaf ears. So I changed the tactic to more of an question or remarking something that is not in an USA norm I also learn something else that most of USA cars sold in Europe are done by a conversion, not a factory add-on. I tried to support your finding to see what our European friends has to say. .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2011-10-12 23:52 |
Finally the facts about it are easy: it depends, who had imported the specific car. Either a regular dealer, whose brand had US-models officially in their range, resp.official dealers of US-brands (for the last decades I only remember Chrysler for Germany). Or an US-spec car, delivered on a special order by a private person, a non-brand-contracted dealer or an official sales-partner of this brand, but it's car, which is not in the range. As for example our local Ford-dealers is doing with the Mustang and Shelby-Mustang. But for us IMCDBists it's often -nearly always- not clearly to see, which way from America to Europe the specific car has made. As mentioned before, in Germany the absolute majority of classic US-cars is private used import. Newer cars not, that it true. Annother point, but not really determining for cars from the last 20 years (because the rules about different features for specific European countries melted away) is the wide market of new "EU-re-import"-cars. For tax-reasons (they aren identical in the EU) it's sometimes senseful to order a new car at a dealer in annother EU-country. |
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◊ 2011-10-12 23:57 |
But the Mercedes on the right has one. As this kind of van-conversion is indeed a Norwegian speciality (in Holland and Austria there are specific van-versions, too, but with a different shaped roof), I suggest to list the Benz .gif ";)") |
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