Safety check for Suzuki
New Plymouth An official investigation into a claim that a popular four-wheel-drive vehicle was accidentprone has been welcomed by its Wanganui-based assembler. < Mr Bill Grice, general manager of marketing for Suzuki New Zealand, said his company had nothing to fear from a Transport Ministry accidents’ record probe of the Suzuki Samurai. “We’re a caring company. We don’t sell a product which would cause injury or loss of life,” he said. Controversy surrounding the Samurai, popular both with serious off-road-ers as well as recreational users, blew up last week when the Consumers’ Institute claimed the $20,000 vehicle had an instability problem.
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Press, 27 July 1988, Page 43
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