{"id":35323,"date":"2025-08-31T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35323\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T22:00:17","slug":"suzuki-vitara-has-had-updates-but-are-they-enough-to-keep-it-competitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35323\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzuki Vitara has had updates but are they enough to keep it competitive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThere\u2019s a fine line between vintage and frayed, writes our motoring editor\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geraldine Herbert test drives the Suzuki Vitara 1.4 Boosterjet Hybrid Ultra Allgrip. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MGviat2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Geraldine Herbert test drives the Suzuki Vitara 1.4 Boosterjet Hybrid Ultra Allgrip. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s a fine line between \u201cvintage\u201d and \u201cfrayed\u201d. One gets a little gentle tinkering, a button swapped here, a clever new pocket there, while the other is simply left to sit in the corner and get old. But maybe there\u2019s a third category, and, if there is, our test car this week sits squarely in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Suzuki Vitara was launched a decade ago, but has been tweaked a few times over the years. This year\u2019s facelift delivers a reshaped front grille and bumper, a new rear spoiler and improved tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a fine line between vintage and frayed, writes our motoring editor Geraldine Herbert test drives the Suzuki&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,4942,19,17,4746,27463],"class_list":{"0":"post-35323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-geraldine-herbert","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-life-magazine","14":"tag-suzuki"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}