The Adventure Begins: A Mad Car's First Four-Wheel Drive Experience

As we set out on our adventure, the thrill of discovery was palpable. Martin had been itching to take his trusty Jimny off-road for a while now, and I was eager to see if it lived up to its reputation as a capable and fun vehicle. With four-wheel drive engaged, we ventured into the unknown, navigating through dense bushland and rugged terrain. The trees seemed to close in around us, casting dappled shadows on the ground as we made our way deeper into the wilderness.

"Okay, mate, let's check this puddle for us," Martin said, his voice laced with a mix of excitement and trepidation. I nodded in agreement, wondering what lay ahead. As we approached the puddle, Martin instructed me to go around it, while he would test its depth. "We'll go through if it's not too deep," he said, his eyes fixed on the water. But as we hesitated, a question lingered in the air: should we risk getting stuck?

"Go around, I don't know if we can make it through," I replied, my voice laced with doubt. Martin shot back, "We're in four-wheel drive, mate! We've got this!" He was right, of course – we did have a capable vehicle, and our confidence had yet to be shaken. Still, the prospect of getting stuck sent a shiver down my spine. As we considered our options, Martin exclaimed, "That's not being serious, are you? This is still fun! We can get an adrenaline rush driving slow!" His words were infectious, and I couldn't help but laugh at his enthusiasm.

Before we knew it, we found ourselves hurtling towards the puddle – a seemingly innocuous spot just moments before. As we crossed over, Martin quipped, "We're doing it! We're going eight kilometers an hour!" The rush was exhilarating, with the wind whipping through our hair and the trees blurring by in a green-and-brown blur.

However, our adventure took an unexpected turn when we encountered a deep chasm. "This is not good," Martin muttered, his brow furrowed with concern. I nodded in agreement, my heart racing at the prospect of getting stuck. As we debated our next move, Martin recalled, "People tell me Jimmy's can do anything." He was right – the Jimny had a reputation for being capable off-road.

With newfound confidence, we pressed on, Martin remarking, "We should educate ourselves, too." His words struck a chord, as I realized how little we knew about our trusty vehicle. As we navigated through the terrain, Martin pointed out various features of the Jimny, such as its four-wheel drive system and gearing.

As we crested a rise, a breathtaking view unfolded before us. "Look at that!" Martin exclaimed, his eyes shining with excitement. The sight took my breath away – it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. We reveled in the beauty of our surroundings, taking in the stunning vistas and marveling at the sheer power of the Jimny.

As we continued on our journey, Martin mused, "This has been an incredible automotive adventure." His words were understated yet profound, capturing the essence of our experience. The thrill of discovery was still alive, and I couldn't help but feel grateful to be sharing it with my friend Martin.

The adventure may have just begun – or rather, it had barely started – but one thing was certain: we would return from this trip with an even deeper appreciation for the Jimny's capabilities and our own sense of adventure. The road ahead beckoned, promising more thrills, spills, and unforgettable experiences to come.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enon mighty car mods we are all about pushing it so we're pushing it right now mate in the bush not far from home and we're going to do something just a little bit different have you got any toilet paper martin i don't have any and we've already started welcome to another episode of mighty carmodz martin we're all about pushing it on this show aren't we clearly we are we're all about trying new things yep we are and um i need a leaf a big leaf uh we're all about trying new things and martin when i was a kid there were three cars that i dreamed of owning one day i'm going to guess what they are i've never told you this an econo van an s13 and a ford taurus no okay none of those things the three cars that i wished i i'll start with the most surprising one first a lancer the same model is too sexy yes i really wanted one of them when i was like a teenager i thought they were awesome yeah the other thing that i wanted that i've since achieved martin is an nx coupe yes that i desperately wanted yes there was one other car that i've wanted for 25 years and you know what martin i was like 2020 has been a tough year i'm getting a treat it wasn't a lotus it wasn't a mini it wasn't an s13 there was another car that i desperately wanted ever since i was a kid and i just went you know what i'm just going to go and get one i'm gonna do it this is actually dream car i bought my dream car i bought another dream car not a supercar but another dream car and here we are in the great outdoors now why would be in the great outdoors we wouldn't be here for the next coupe well we'd be at a drive-through i was here to take behind the tree let's be honest but we pulled over um and now um and now i'm here to reveal this incredible car for you this is incredible it's it's not jdm is it jdm are they they're kind of sure yeah sure yeah let's go there because that'll get more views it's jdm mate um and today we're going to reveal it we're revealing it in a way we haven't done before we're going to be driving it we're going to be testing it it's the same as what we always do uh when i say different it's the same isn't it yes shall i go and get it you should totally go and get it i want to go and get it i want to show the people and run the graphics and prepare yourself i'm gonna wipe my there are two things about my friend that are very reliable his love of jdm nugget cars and his digestive system today we're going to be experiencing one of those things in the form of a white nugget that is a suzuki chimney yeah dude yeah man i bought a chimney yeah you did yes i bought a chimney this one this is no crossover suv soft thing these are legit aren't they this is a legit proper four-wheel drive i didn't buy it side unseen i actually went and had a look at one actually marty and i took the k truck to go and look at one and then we got there it was at a dealership and we drove it around we're like oh this is cool and then there are no four wheel drive though doesn't work so i ended up finding this one it was owned by a teenage girl on a p plates i went and had a look at it now you might be wondering how much is a chimney this is a 2012 model when they were new they were about nineteen thousand dollars how much are they now martin probably the same twenty five thousand dollars is how much a chimney costs these days so um this year i got before all the crazy covered stuff actually went crazy um so this year was 17 000 um and it's almost 10 years old but it's only done 47 000 k so there's absolutely no case i understand it's like one owner or something it's an auto which uh i did some research on the jimny forums it seems that an auto is better for off-roading for doing like downhill descents yeah i have never ever owned a four-wheel drive before some of you might be saying wait a second just before you started mighty car mods you got a jeep wrangler you did we don't talk about that anymore first thing you're going to notice is a bonnet scoop yeah martin have a look in the bonnet scoop does it go anywhere no not at all it doesn't go anywhere it's totally blocked uh it's totally blocked because in japan these are a proper legit k car they come with a 660 turbo yes which is the maximum you're allowed that's why it has that engine and the car weighs a thousand kilos in australia they go you know what forget the toe like usual we get boned we get bone and they go instead we get big cubes you can have 1.3 liter so that is what's in there martin with a variable valve double overhead i'm not very well double overhead cam 1.3 liter they're actually pretty good engines and they're ready and they make okay power but yeah in japan this is unblocked a little intercooler sits on the top it's turbo at 660cc and it's within the k-car dimensions and that's important because if you want to rejoin over there you can pay heaps less and you can have it as a second car a lot of people use them as their snow vehicles we saw heaps of them over there with yellow plates in the snow now there is a new version of a chimney that's come out since that's pretty expensive turns out the cost between the new one and these one is not too disparate now because these are worth hard to get the new ones though isn't it they're sold out right i think it's kind of i think anything chimney is hard to get but why do people love them so much and why are they so expensive that is the question and they've just got a cult following man and it's just people say they're super capable this is a proper ladder frame chassis proper four wheel drive i don't know exactly what that means that matters because it that matters because it means you can get what four drive people talk about articulation you can get the wheels to be in different positions when you're going up big gnarly hills that if you don't have that you've got a solid diff or a solid rear axle whatever it's just bouncing along as one big thing and that that's what makes them so capable and their weight and also it's the history of these sierras because since like the 80s or 90s or even earlier these were those little four drives that could do things that the big four drives could do without all the power and they were pretty impressive and they've just continued and these these have been what the same since like 98. they've been the same for a very very low change this is the kind of face lifted one now you'd be forgiven for thinking that the inside of this car was designed by lotus because there is nothing in it this one here comes with a steering wheel which you can see there this one comes with some power windows which is a special option they used to be windy and now they're power windows my trucks windy this one here is auto because i got on the chimney forums and they're like auto is like better for off-roading um and then over here this is where the fun is we've got our two-wheel drive our four-wheel drive and our four-wheel drive low range and that is what we're going to be uh testing out today that is it that is all of the features that are inside there is some other features in the back this is one of my favorite bits about the car look at the auto opening martin oh wow you only got to pull the handle and it pops open hold on a second man it's not really auto opening there that's auto opening oh it's got a gas strap look at that go where it's going oh that is high tech man in the back you've got around 100 kilos of storage area definitely enough for a mighty car mods t-shirt um you've got these rear seats that can do a 50 50 split and i think that gives you around 300 liters did i say 100 kilos of kilos but you could probably i mean it's about 100 liters of storage in the back if it's a cake car it's 350 kilos in the back and that's it man and that's the rules and that's it i haven't even looked through there's other oh what's in here dude there's some stuff in here i have no idea what this is oh lock nuts so no one steals your spare wheel off the back i did notice it has three lock nuts on the back wheel well hopefully one of them will open it so there it is martin that's it these cars have proper cult followings apparently they are like super super capable yep do you want to love about it it has a purpose yes it's built specifically to do something but you can drive it there yes so like you can drive it down the freeway yes it's not as comfortable as a tarago or something but you can get to a place like this and do some cool off-roading in florida have some adventures that's right in the one vehicle leave the door of your house have an adventure drive there drive home like an awesome track car same thing something you can drive to the track this is the off-road equivalent yes i really like aftermarket scene for these is absolutely off its chop not just here in australia in japan there is so much stuff for them it's not funny are we gonna modify it dude tighten your pants oh they're already tight and real really yes it's getting real but today we're in the beautiful blue mountains national park which is about an hour of sydney city and we're going to go for a drive we're going to check out the car you're coming with us it's going to be jimny adventures the history of the jimny starts like many k cars with a two-cylinder 360 cc engine suzuki wanted to get into the four-wheel drive game as far back as the 1960s and they bought out a bankrupt manufacturer and began producing an lj10 the lj literally stood for littlejeep over the next decade there came the lj20 lj50 and finally the lj80 which bore the chimney name the next model was the sj413 known as the sierra in australia the samurai in the usa and was hugely popular worldwide in 1997 this third generation of suzuki's was released unlike many other manufacturers that went soft rotor and crossover the jimny retained a ladder type chassis dual ratio transfer case and that made it a proper four-wheel drive it's not uncommon to see chimneys keeping up with the big boys that have much bigger and more powerful engines in 2012 the chimney got a facelift with a different grille bumper and importantly this hood scoop they made them right up to 2018 when production of the fourth generation began today we are in the beautiful blue mountains west of sydney city and we're going to be going for our first drive on the dirt in this car and you are coming with us for the ride all right martin it's time let's go our first four-wheel driving adventure i'm super keen man it's going to be so good all right we started that's a good sign and now dude is he fast i don't know we're going to find out together if you floor it will hit will we hit that tree i don't know let's see all right mate this is us how's it feel on the dirt it feels great we're not actually four wheel driving yet we're just going to some well i'm in two-wheel drive mode okay which is rear wheel driving this it's not like the fake the fakie four-wheel drive that's front-wheel drive and then it adds a bit this is rear-wheel drive and then adds the front which i think is pretty freaking cool apparently no sensitive so it's not like a subaru where it's running stuff all the time or a volkswagen where it's got clutches punching it out to do things it's just like you lock them all together or you don't and you can have that high range or low range exactly that's my understanding water crossing yeah causeway is that what this is i think so all right martin look at that on the time four-wheel drive listen oh vacuum actuated oh yes cool all right so we're locked together now we are four-wheel driving i have no idea what we're doing me neither but i like it because we're in the outdoors beautiful fresh air a nice cool day it's great i get that side of it straight away all driving up big hills i'm not sure i completely understand yet but i think i feel like i'm going to at some stage i'm going to start to get it yes because you ride dirt bikes and i ride dirt bikes and that's probably in a similar vein am i right this is just a dirt bike with um that is not dude oh that looks gnarly it does look gnarly that looks deep it has been raining so look dude there's a trail to go around it there is a that's i think they call it a cheat track now i've only been four wheel driving for about five minutes of my life but i reckon that you probably should like check that it's like that's fine that's all right i'm more concerned about right in the middle there and also how muddy the bottom of it is with our very very basic tires dude this is fine look how deep it gets man that's like half a meter d is it yeah dude i reckon we're going to be all right well i'd laugh so hard if you fell in oh it is that deep it's like 800 mil so let's check that against the car i reckon but surely jimmies can get that bar through a thing can they a stock bog stock one with basically road ties on it doesn't the htm mean like highway tyre i don't know man so we've it'll the water will be up to well there approximately so it's coming in outdoors then isn't it we're getting muddy it's like there where's the air intake um yeah maybe lower than that i don't know maybe we shouldn't like start by getting stuck in that well that's a crappy way to start the experience i want to work up to it don't you i just want four times people are like tender i just want to send it but i don't want to like if the water is actually up to there and that's why i measure if it goes any higher i've i know how to work this out do you feel like this afternoon putting a new engine in this car yeah do you feel like replacing a stick with a standard engine no well then that's answers it let's just do this and keep going dude we've been four driving for like 100 meters this is what our whole trip is going to be like yeah our experience with this car the whole time is going to be me trying to convince you not to send it through the world's deepest freaking puddle 100 meters from the entrance to the track yes is this going to be like my life from now on oh look at this man this is this is cool this is full driving let's see if you can get bogged in this i can get bogged in that maybe we gotta maybe instead of getting bogged we go you're in it now what's that called what's that called when you're like getting yes there's another one no there's another puddle we good that's a puddle yeah man how deep is it i don't know oh no it's all right that was good that was mad we're we're four-wheel driving martin i'm into it so where do we go we just drive man we just oh yeah yeah gymnast yeah chimney that did way better than i thought it would we can do anything in this car martin sure anything if you say so mate totally sold this four-wheel driving thing man i know why people have been doing it because it's freaking awesome you get it dear i think so jimny life mate we're going everywhere there's nowhere this car can't go mate i'm sure there's plenty of places it can't be no it can go everywhere so this is your first time martin as well as mine actually doing whatever it is that we're doing yeah driving around dirt trails with massive puddles everywhere dude that's a big one it's a huge puddle do we check it well you're supposed to aren't you oh look nah dude there's a mad little rock dude there's a cheat thingy dude i'm gonna do that dude i'm just gonna do a little it's like what are we gonna do the worst we're gonna do is put this on its side and we have to jump out my window what yeah man you got some angle yeah man you did it hold on i drove a car smashed through a puddle wait does it wait what do you do when there's a fork in the road you just go straight dude that's a mad look at that that's mad now are you meant to go fast or are you meant to go slow am i meant to go slow and take it easy pick the angle and do the whatever feet of both ah smash my elbow on the thing the k-car life dude k-car dimensions anyway this is i love this stuff on dirt bikes i don't know about you but like yeah they're craggy rocky trails you can get some speed up and like jump off stuff i really really like there's no mods even on this yet man this is stock amazing what it can do stock well there's a reason people modify these things right that's right they get more to get more are you still eating bananas um well i had my first banana today for the first time in a couple of weeks really tasted so much like a banana you don't realize how much a banana tastes like a banana until you eat one yeah if you don't eat one for a little while then you go again all right martin can you go check this puddle for us mate sure or do we go around go around i don't know if we do not see more of the trail i think we go through are you going to go through i think are you going to test it no then you're going around i don't know you're going to go through it well okay we're going through you know what yes this is the one isn't it this is the one we're going to get stuck in we're in four-wheel drive how deep though let's maybe i put the window down don't you need momentum though dude i have momentum it's getting deeper oh it's getting really deep this is the deep it's going to be don't slow down don't stop yeah man it's good you got this yeah yeah yes gymnast before driving yeah we're driving this is so good that's mad the chimney is unstoppable isn't it amazing that you can get like a similar thrill as you would get on a race track but we're going eight kilometers an hour yeah what what i'm serious it's not serious are it's a different kind of thing but it's still exciting it's still fun it doesn't always have to be about going fast in mad cars does it dude what is going on what is that no no no no no no is this the end of the road for us we can we don't even know if we have the grand clearance to go through that yeah we do it's a chimney what are you talking about dude we're doing it it looks muddy oh you need momentum i have momentum oh are you getting up tonight yeah this is the most fun i've had going slow ever i will say that oh it's awesome because the chimney shouldn't be able to do these things but it can i know jimmy owners out there are saying my jimmy can do anything i'm sure it can and you've been stuck but we our confidence hasn't been hit yet because no not being stuck either no but and obviously it can do more wild stuff than what we're doing but this is our first time man yeah ever how do you four wheel drive i mean people will tell us they will that we but we should educate ourselves also we just tipped that in oh put that up i mean that was close yes yeah good job jim knee now we go low wait we now go backwards all right stuck our first bogging okay now do we just need to go through with more there's a big hump there's a big hump that i think that dips or something there we go oh oh chimney i'm sorry jimmy little jimny now should i stay in the rut or should i drive on top of that thing no i stay in the tracks man really but yeah because it's nice and hard packed dude let's go up there driving look up there yeah that's like chimney only track no one else is gonna fit up there anyway man look at this so rocky martin this has been an incredible automotive adventure yeah dude this is just the beginning and i i know it's just the beginning and i know i've like swallowed the mad like chimney cool pill yeah but what a freaking awesome car oh yeah it is amazing man look at this view look at this view we gotta get the jimmy right up there man yes that looks epic all right we're going up over that rock trying to avoid the massive tree stump up there yeah cool man yeah man look at this martin well done to you i didn't do anything you came with me for the journey well done to the chimney yeah are you a chimney owner amazing do you like four-wheel driving amazing are you the engineer that invented this car or had anything to do with it amazing let's have a look out here martin that was fantastic hey man look at that look at the rewards you get from like driving your full drive around you get to go look at this stuff so good so there it is everybody that is the chimney uh next up man we're going to start modifying it of course we are i'm so keen and then there's going to be an adventure some tires no we're gonna because these are mighty car mods people lots of them are gonna know about it and other people like you and i know nothing so we're gonna learn together um there it is thank you very much for watching that's it mad car blue mountains excellent and now we get to do all those trails home again in reverse thanks everybody so that is my mad new suzuki chimney and my first experience driving off-road in a four-wheel drive and i freaking love it in the next episode of mighty car mods we're going to be modifying this little nugget in preparation for an epic trip and see some more of this incredible country that we call homeon mighty car mods we are all about pushing it so we're pushing it right now mate in the bush not far from home and we're going to do something just a little bit different have you got any toilet paper martin i don't have any and we've already started welcome to another episode of mighty carmodz martin we're all about pushing it on this show aren't we clearly we are we're all about trying new things yep we are and um i need a leaf a big leaf uh we're all about trying new things and martin when i was a kid there were three cars that i dreamed of owning one day i'm going to guess what they are i've never told you this an econo van an s13 and a ford taurus no okay none of those things the three cars that i wished i i'll start with the most surprising one first a lancer the same model is too sexy yes i really wanted one of them when i was like a teenager i thought they were awesome yeah the other thing that i wanted that i've since achieved martin is an nx coupe yes that i desperately wanted yes there was one other car that i've wanted for 25 years and you know what martin i was like 2020 has been a tough year i'm getting a treat it wasn't a lotus it wasn't a mini it wasn't an s13 there was another car that i desperately wanted ever since i was a kid and i just went you know what i'm just going to go and get one i'm gonna do it this is actually dream car i bought my dream car i bought another dream car not a supercar but another dream car and here we are in the great outdoors now why would be in the great outdoors we wouldn't be here for the next coupe well we'd be at a drive-through i was here to take behind the tree let's be honest but we pulled over um and now um and now i'm here to reveal this incredible car for you this is incredible it's it's not jdm is it jdm are they they're kind of sure yeah sure yeah let's go there because that'll get more views it's jdm mate um and today we're going to reveal it we're revealing it in a way we haven't done before we're going to be driving it we're going to be testing it it's the same as what we always do uh when i say different it's the same isn't it yes shall i go and get it you should totally go and get it i want to go and get it i want to show the people and run the graphics and prepare yourself i'm gonna wipe my there are two things about my friend that are very reliable his love of jdm nugget cars and his digestive system today we're going to be experiencing one of those things in the form of a white nugget that is a suzuki chimney yeah dude yeah man i bought a chimney yeah you did yes i bought a chimney this one this is no crossover suv soft thing these are legit aren't they this is a legit proper four-wheel drive i didn't buy it side unseen i actually went and had a look at one actually marty and i took the k truck to go and look at one and then we got there it was at a dealership and we drove it around we're like oh this is cool and then there are no four wheel drive though doesn't work so i ended up finding this one it was owned by a teenage girl on a p plates i went and had a look at it now you might be wondering how much is a chimney this is a 2012 model when they were new they were about nineteen thousand dollars how much are they now martin probably the same twenty five thousand dollars is how much a chimney costs these days so um this year i got before all the crazy covered stuff actually went crazy um so this year was 17 000 um and it's almost 10 years old but it's only done 47 000 k so there's absolutely no case i understand it's like one owner or something it's an auto which uh i did some research on the jimny forums it seems that an auto is better for off-roading for doing like downhill descents yeah i have never ever owned a four-wheel drive before some of you might be saying wait a second just before you started mighty car mods you got a jeep wrangler you did we don't talk about that anymore first thing you're going to notice is a bonnet scoop yeah martin have a look in the bonnet scoop does it go anywhere no not at all it doesn't go anywhere it's totally blocked uh it's totally blocked because in japan these are a proper legit k car they come with a 660 turbo yes which is the maximum you're allowed that's why it has that engine and the car weighs a thousand kilos in australia they go you know what forget the toe like usual we get boned we get bone and they go instead we get big cubes you can have 1.3 liter so that is what's in there martin with a variable valve double overhead i'm not very well double overhead cam 1.3 liter they're actually pretty good engines and they're ready and they make okay power but yeah in japan this is unblocked a little intercooler sits on the top it's turbo at 660cc and it's within the k-car dimensions and that's important because if you want to rejoin over there you can pay heaps less and you can have it as a second car a lot of people use them as their snow vehicles we saw heaps of them over there with yellow plates in the snow now there is a new version of a chimney that's come out since that's pretty expensive turns out the cost between the new one and these one is not too disparate now because these are worth hard to get the new ones though isn't it they're sold out right i think it's kind of i think anything chimney is hard to get but why do people love them so much and why are they so expensive that is the question and they've just got a cult following man and it's just people say they're super capable this is a proper ladder frame chassis proper four wheel drive i don't know exactly what that means that matters because it that matters because it means you can get what four drive people talk about articulation you can get the wheels to be in different positions when you're going up big gnarly hills that if you don't have that you've got a solid diff or a solid rear axle whatever it's just bouncing along as one big thing and that that's what makes them so capable and their weight and also it's the history of these sierras because since like the 80s or 90s or even earlier these were those little four drives that could do things that the big four drives could do without all the power and they were pretty impressive and they've just continued and these these have been what the same since like 98. they've been the same for a very very low change this is the kind of face lifted one now you'd be forgiven for thinking that the inside of this car was designed by lotus because there is nothing in it this one here comes with a steering wheel which you can see there this one comes with some power windows which is a special option they used to be windy and now they're power windows my trucks windy this one here is auto because i got on the chimney forums and they're like auto is like better for off-roading um and then over here this is where the fun is we've got our two-wheel drive our four-wheel drive and our four-wheel drive low range and that is what we're going to be uh testing out today that is it that is all of the features that are inside there is some other features in the back this is one of my favorite bits about the car look at the auto opening martin oh wow you only got to pull the handle and it pops open hold on a second man it's not really auto opening there that's auto opening oh it's got a gas strap look at that go where it's going oh that is high tech man in the back you've got around 100 kilos of storage area definitely enough for a mighty car mods t-shirt um you've got these rear seats that can do a 50 50 split and i think that gives you around 300 liters did i say 100 kilos of kilos but you could probably i mean it's about 100 liters of storage in the back if it's a cake car it's 350 kilos in the back and that's it man and that's the rules and that's it i haven't even looked through there's other oh what's in here dude there's some stuff in here i have no idea what this is oh lock nuts so no one steals your spare wheel off the back i did notice it has three lock nuts on the back wheel well hopefully one of them will open it so there it is martin that's it these cars have proper cult followings apparently they are like super super capable yep do you want to love about it it has a purpose yes it's built specifically to do something but you can drive it there yes so like you can drive it down the freeway yes it's not as comfortable as a tarago or something but you can get to a place like this and do some cool off-roading in florida have some adventures that's right in the one vehicle leave the door of your house have an adventure drive there drive home like an awesome track car same thing something you can drive to the track this is the off-road equivalent yes i really like aftermarket scene for these is absolutely off its chop not just here in australia in japan there is so much stuff for them it's not funny are we gonna modify it dude tighten your pants oh they're already tight and real really yes it's getting real but today we're in the beautiful blue mountains national park which is about an hour of sydney city and we're going to go for a drive we're going to check out the car you're coming with us it's going to be jimny adventures the history of the jimny starts like many k cars with a two-cylinder 360 cc engine suzuki wanted to get into the four-wheel drive game as far back as the 1960s and they bought out a bankrupt manufacturer and began producing an lj10 the lj literally stood for littlejeep over the next decade there came the lj20 lj50 and finally the lj80 which bore the chimney name the next model was the sj413 known as the sierra in australia the samurai in the usa and was hugely popular worldwide in 1997 this third generation of suzuki's was released unlike many other manufacturers that went soft rotor and crossover the jimny retained a ladder type chassis dual ratio transfer case and that made it a proper four-wheel drive it's not uncommon to see chimneys keeping up with the big boys that have much bigger and more powerful engines in 2012 the chimney got a facelift with a different grille bumper and importantly this hood scoop they made them right up to 2018 when production of the fourth generation began today we are in the beautiful blue mountains west of sydney city and we're going to be going for our first drive on the dirt in this car and you are coming with us for the ride all right martin it's time let's go our first four-wheel driving adventure i'm super keen man it's going to be so good all right we started that's a good sign and now dude is he fast i don't know we're going to find out together if you floor it will hit will we hit that tree i don't know let's see all right mate this is us how's it feel on the dirt it feels great we're not actually four wheel driving yet we're just going to some well i'm in two-wheel drive mode okay which is rear wheel driving this it's not like the fake the fakie four-wheel drive that's front-wheel drive and then it adds a bit this is rear-wheel drive and then adds the front which i think is pretty freaking cool apparently no sensitive so it's not like a subaru where it's running stuff all the time or a volkswagen where it's got clutches punching it out to do things it's just like you lock them all together or you don't and you can have that high range or low range exactly that's my understanding water crossing yeah causeway is that what this is i think so all right martin look at that on the time four-wheel drive listen oh vacuum actuated oh yes cool all right so we're locked together now we are four-wheel driving i have no idea what we're doing me neither but i like it because we're in the outdoors beautiful fresh air a nice cool day it's great i get that side of it straight away all driving up big hills i'm not sure i completely understand yet but i think i feel like i'm going to at some stage i'm going to start to get it yes because you ride dirt bikes and i ride dirt bikes and that's probably in a similar vein am i right this is just a dirt bike with um that is not dude oh that looks gnarly it does look gnarly that looks deep it has been raining so look dude there's a trail to go around it there is a that's i think they call it a cheat track now i've only been four wheel driving for about five minutes of my life but i reckon that you probably should like check that it's like that's fine that's all right i'm more concerned about right in the middle there and also how muddy the bottom of it is with our very very basic tires dude this is fine look how deep it gets man that's like half a meter d is it yeah dude i reckon we're going to be all right well i'd laugh so hard if you fell in oh it is that deep it's like 800 mil so let's check that against the car i reckon but surely jimmies can get that bar through a thing can they a stock bog stock one with basically road ties on it doesn't the htm mean like highway tyre i don't know man so we've it'll the water will be up to well there approximately so it's coming in outdoors then isn't it we're getting muddy it's like there where's the air intake um yeah maybe lower than that i don't know maybe we shouldn't like start by getting stuck in that well that's a crappy way to start the experience i want to work up to it don't you i just want four times people are like tender i just want to send it but i don't want to like if the water is actually up to there and that's why i measure if it goes any higher i've i know how to work this out do you feel like this afternoon putting a new engine in this car yeah do you feel like replacing a stick with a standard engine no well then that's answers it let's just do this and keep going dude we've been four driving for like 100 meters this is what our whole trip is going to be like yeah our experience with this car the whole time is going to be me trying to convince you not to send it through the world's deepest freaking puddle 100 meters from the entrance to the track yes is this going to be like my life from now on oh look at this man this is this is cool this is full driving let's see if you can get bogged in this i can get bogged in that maybe we gotta maybe instead of getting bogged we go you're in it now what's that called what's that called when you're like getting yes there's another one no there's another puddle we good that's a puddle yeah man how deep is it i don't know oh no it's all right that was good that was mad we're we're four-wheel driving martin i'm into it so where do we go we just drive man we just oh yeah yeah gymnast yeah chimney that did way better than i thought it would we can do anything in this car martin sure anything if you say so mate totally sold this four-wheel driving thing man i know why people have been doing it because it's freaking awesome you get it dear i think so jimny life mate we're going everywhere there's nowhere this car can't go mate i'm sure there's plenty of places it can't be no it can go everywhere so this is your first time martin as well as mine actually doing whatever it is that we're doing yeah driving around dirt trails with massive puddles everywhere dude that's a big one it's a huge puddle do we check it well you're supposed to aren't you oh look nah dude there's a mad little rock dude there's a cheat thingy dude i'm gonna do that dude i'm just gonna do a little it's like what are we gonna do the worst we're gonna do is put this on its side and we have to jump out my window what yeah man you got some angle yeah man you did it hold on i drove a car smashed through a puddle wait does it wait what do you do when there's a fork in the road you just go straight dude that's a mad look at that that's mad now are you meant to go fast or are you meant to go slow am i meant to go slow and take it easy pick the angle and do the whatever feet of both ah smash my elbow on the thing the k-car life dude k-car dimensions anyway this is i love this stuff on dirt bikes i don't know about you but like yeah they're craggy rocky trails you can get some speed up and like jump off stuff i really really like there's no mods even on this yet man this is stock amazing what it can do stock well there's a reason people modify these things right that's right they get more to get more are you still eating bananas um well i had my first banana today for the first time in a couple of weeks really tasted so much like a banana you don't realize how much a banana tastes like a banana until you eat one yeah if you don't eat one for a little while then you go again all right martin can you go check this puddle for us mate sure or do we go around go around i don't know if we do not see more of the trail i think we go through are you going to go through i think are you going to test it no then you're going around i don't know you're going to go through it well okay we're going through you know what yes this is the one isn't it this is the one we're going to get stuck in we're in four-wheel drive how deep though let's maybe i put the window down don't you need momentum though dude i have momentum it's getting deeper oh it's getting really deep this is the deep it's going to be don't slow down don't stop yeah man it's good you got this yeah yeah yes gymnast before driving yeah we're driving this is so good that's mad the chimney is unstoppable isn't it amazing that you can get like a similar thrill as you would get on a race track but we're going eight kilometers an hour yeah what what i'm serious it's not serious are it's a different kind of thing but it's still exciting it's still fun it doesn't always have to be about going fast in mad cars does it dude what is going on what is that no no no no no no is this the end of the road for us we can we don't even know if we have the grand clearance to go through that yeah we do it's a chimney what are you talking about dude we're doing it it looks muddy oh you need momentum i have momentum oh are you getting up tonight yeah this is the most fun i've had going slow ever i will say that oh it's awesome because the chimney shouldn't be able to do these things but it can i know jimmy owners out there are saying my jimmy can do anything i'm sure it can and you've been stuck but we our confidence hasn't been hit yet because no not being stuck either no but and obviously it can do more wild stuff than what we're doing but this is our first time man yeah ever how do you four wheel drive i mean people will tell us they will that we but we should educate ourselves also we just tipped that in oh put that up i mean that was close yes yeah good job jim knee now we go low wait we now go backwards all right stuck our first bogging okay now do we just need to go through with more there's a big hump there's a big hump that i think that dips or something there we go oh oh chimney i'm sorry jimmy little jimny now should i stay in the rut or should i drive on top of that thing no i stay in the tracks man really but yeah because it's nice and hard packed dude let's go up there driving look up there yeah that's like chimney only track no one else is gonna fit up there anyway man look at this so rocky martin this has been an incredible automotive adventure yeah dude this is just the beginning and i i know it's just the beginning and i know i've like swallowed the mad like chimney cool pill yeah but what a freaking awesome car oh yeah it is amazing man look at this view look at this view we gotta get the jimmy right up there man yes that looks epic all right we're going up over that rock trying to avoid the massive tree stump up there yeah cool man yeah man look at this martin well done to you i didn't do anything you came with me for the journey well done to the chimney yeah are you a chimney owner amazing do you like four-wheel driving amazing are you the engineer that invented this car or had anything to do with it amazing let's have a look out here martin that was fantastic hey man look at that look at the rewards you get from like driving your full drive around you get to go look at this stuff so good so there it is everybody that is the chimney uh next up man we're going to start modifying it of course we are i'm so keen and then there's going to be an adventure some tires no we're gonna because these are mighty car mods people lots of them are gonna know about it and other people like you and i know nothing so we're gonna learn together um there it is thank you very much for watching that's it mad car blue mountains excellent and now we get to do all those trails home again in reverse thanks everybody so that is my mad new suzuki chimney and my first experience driving off-road in a four-wheel drive and i freaking love it in the next episode of mighty car mods we're going to be modifying this little nugget in preparation for an epic trip and see some more of this incredible country that we call home\n"