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Suzuki adds five-year warranty

Suzuki has joined its rivals with a five-year warranty.

Better late than never, Suzuki has arrived at the five-year warranty party.

The Japanese brand joins most mainstream brands - including Hyundai, Honda, Ford, Holden, Mazda, Subaru, Volkswagen and Toyota - in offering what is now replaced three-years as the standard coverage period for new vehicles. Suzuki’s has no kilometre limit.

Kia still leads the industry with its seven-year/unlimited kilometre warranty, with Chinese-brand MG offering six-years/unlimited kays.

The extended warranty coverage applies to all new Suzuki models sold from October 1, 2019 and has been coupled with an important change to its capped price servicing scheme. Service intervals have been extended from six-months to 12-months, which also brings it in line with most of its direct competitors.

The decision comes as the brand’s sales have declined 4.1 per cent year-to-date to August, in a market down more than eight per cent.

Stephen Ottley
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Steve has been obsessed with all things automotive for as long as he can remember. Literally, his earliest memory is of a car. Having amassed an enviable Hot Wheels and Matchbox collection as a kid he moved into the world of real cars with an Alfa Romeo Alfasud. Despite that questionable history he carved a successful career for himself, firstly covering motorsport for Auto Action magazine before eventually moving into the automotive publishing world with CarsGuide in 2008. Since then he's worked for every major outlet, having work published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Drive.com.au, Street Machine, V8X and F1 Racing. These days he still loves cars as much as he did as a kid and has an Alfa Romeo Alfasud in the garage (but not the same one as before... that's a long story).
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