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Laura Berry

Senior Journalist

8 min read

Richard Berry reviews the 2016 Suzuki Vitara S Turbo 2WD with specs, fuel consumption and verdict.

The emotional scars are still there. Our family car in the early 1990s was a brand-new first-generation Suzuki Vitara with a manual gearbox in Charcoal Grey. The dealer threw in the decal option pack and Mum drove away with non-removable stick-on hot pink cat paw prints walking across the bonnet. She loved it. I didn’t. It was the car I learned to drive in. As if an L-plate on a soft-top Vitara didn’t make you enough of a target. We were the only family in the street with a little four-wheel drive, everybody else had Commodores and Falcons. We also had a Commodore but it was a V8 and I wasn’t allowed near it. Mum loved the Vitara so much she traded it in a few years later for an even fancier Vitara and it wore my P-plates. Read the full Suzuki Vitara S Turbo 2WD 2016 review .