Anyone know much about these?
My sister is after a new car, because she's basically wrecked the 205 I bought her 18 months ago. She works with horses and so generally carts a load of gear around down bumpy, muddy tracks and she has very litte mechanical sympathy, so I was after something a bit more rugged. I've been looking at small ish hatchbacks again for her, but then saw a Vitara on Retro Rides for £750. A quick ebay reveals could can get them for a fair bit less than this!
So what they like? Hopefully fairly reliable being Jap, but does rust hit them? ISTR the other less-pansy model (SJ?) being fairly decent off road - do the Vitara have the same mechanicals? It wont be doing any serious off roading, but as long as it can cope with a few bumps and has decent ground clearance that'd be good. On road handling and performance not really important, as long as it goes and stops ok!
Can you think of anything else that would be suitable?
Cheers