I know Right! The 80s Jeep's are new Japanese restaurant signs now! There's a bunch of people bringing in Japan cars now up to 1996! Why isn't anyone bringing in a conex box full of 94-95 jxi 413 Sammy's instead of the 660ci turbo 410? Or get a box full from India with the LWB 413? Or LWB 4dr short boxes and the other varieties of the fuel injected one's?
Good lord next time have a guy with some balls to actually push on the gas , Zuki paved the way for off road vehicles ask The Crocidle Hunter SteveI Irvwin we he follows the Dingo fence
It would do alot better but I doubt it would shame anything hardcore theres no magic into building a crawler. Power to weight, articulation, traction, wheel base, clearance, and low center of gravity. Prioritize as needed. Nobody ever built a magical off-road vehicle atleast not from a mass market manufacturer and highway legal
the samurai outperform the jeep in the mud due to its weight. I had 2 samurai and I have to adore. They are not made for rock craling but for everything else. Snow mud etc ...
@@stephanegagne887 Sand best, they float a lot on water crossings where bigger & heavier is unbeatable. Are they really good in mud? I think heavier is good for mud.
@@Malc664 heavier just sink's! A fuel injected Sammy will actually stay on top and seriously rip! And with a few minor upgraded parts and a little work they Will really do some wiked mud slinging!
@@Malc664 what is that supposed to mean? I'm not a millennial so most of the time I don't know these childish acronyms! But if it's something stupid like your above comment unlike the above people who have owned 1-2 Sammy's! I have been working on Suzuki's since they were still in the crates and being put together! I have personally owned well over 125 documented titled Samurai's and have built Everything from a fuel injected tough truck with Swift GT parts and turning 8k RPM and it was in the actual Monster Jam series and I was that division champion for 6 years and never lost a race in the last 4years of racing it. I have also built countless lifted Samurai's for off road or mud boggs with tires big enough for crushing car's! Built a few with stock based engines that will run in the 15s in the 1\4 mile and drive home getting hi 40 miles to the gallon! No Jeep's are going to do That and be street legal!! I actually have it when guys put Toyota axles and cast iron bottom end engines or be diesels in\on a Samurai! Because of the weight balance of the Samurai it actually ruins the weight bias from a very close 52Front\48Rear to if you put a set of Toyota axles on them it makes the balance 68ft-32Rear literally making the rear axle traction Worthless! And don't get me wrong Toyota and Suzuki\Subaru are all made by Fuji heavy industry and the Sammy Axles are just smaller sized yoga axles from that same era but the Samurai was actually built before the Toyota fourunner and solid Axle truck! In 82-84. But I have actually built\Driven\Raced just about every kind of SUZUKI even the Swift's and the SX4 in spectator rainy and rally events and I have the videos of it ALL so no I'm not just saying this without the stuff to back it up! Nor do I drive like these damn FTL hammer heads that is trying to make a 30+ year old Stock Samurai look like crap when it's like trying to compare you're great grandfather against a teenager running the 600yard Sprint's! So again I don't know what you are trying to say above but I have actually been there done that!
Gentlemen- I have nothing against "87 Wranglers, or their owners. But, of all the Jeep's that I have owned, and there were A LOT, that was by far the worst. Now, owning a Land Rover, has made my memories of that Jeep seem somewhat better.
@@boohoomoron7629 I think we all would prefer the Jimny. I doubt it'll ever make it state side. In a perfect world, I'd just have a Tacoma and a Jimny. All I'd ever need.
I'll be listing either my 1987 or 1992 Samurai on Ebay sometime this summer. I can't decide which one I want to keep. Both are in excellent shape. The things are like little tanks.
Right? What the heck is this guy afraid of? 4-low 1st with complete stops while suffering the stock carb and open diffs? Please just grow a pair, air down, 4-hi 1st, give it the beans and we'll see you at the top. I get that they don't want to spend on mods and that's fine ~ Dropping 10 psi, removing the sway bar, chopping the hook off the exhaust pipe, cutting the hinges to make the doors removable, junking that dead weight pushbar, and removing the mud flaps before they get torn off... all free upgrades. These vids are practically click-bait and yet here I am, admitting I watched the whole thing and looking forward to criticizing the next one :-)
@@yhiissuchbs I know right! This damn kid drives it like a Ass! I don't know why the F they didn't buy a set of 30" BFG AT Tires? 15psi in the rear and 18 in the front and like you said remove the 2-14mm bolts in the front to loosen up the sway bar and drive it reasonablely and it will go anywhere that they have been showing us far better than just hammering it at street pressure and trying to bash the rockers and everything else underneath it! Not to mention how much better the ride is with the bigger Tires! But if they wanted to make it a fair fight then they should do a Spoa lift and use the same size tires as the Jeep size tires! Then there would be some serious surprises! But someone with a brain would have to be driving!
@@yhiissuchbs you know if they really don't want to spend much more money on it these guys could show there true bighead nature on social media and do some creative swapping. Get some inexpensive used 28-30" Tires and remove the sway bar. Get a carb bowl venturie from highway53 Suzuki for $9 and it would definitely help the carb situation out. Change out the fluids in the driveline components to a lightweight Synthetic or blended oils. If they don't want to buy a spool or clicker locker weld it up in the rear. And a huge thing to help with the ride is a set of 82dodge ramcharger rear red rider shocks and lube up the spring's and the eyelets which could be over tightened and binding up which can really make it bounce house ride. And the rest of the stuff you said about the bumpers and doors and put a couple of diamond plate aluminum side rails to protect the rockers. But we know that with just a couple of things done on the cheap would pay big dividends! But then again I almost think that they are trying to pick up were consumer reports ended and they're trying to find more faults in a 30+ year old dog and keep kicking it while it's down! Cruelty to the little guy!
I had a 88 Samurai with Trail Master 4" lift, 275/75 15 BFG Mud Terrains, 2 barrel Weber DGV 32/36 carb & a Doug Thorley header and it climbed like a mountain goat and went through mud like a alligator!
@@boohoomoron7629 That *FIAT Jeep* won't last 30 years because of the many crappy built computers it has in it that can't withstand the bumps and moisture that off roading has to offer.
Back to my high school years we had a hill that we all would try to climb. The Suzuki Samurai is the only one that could accomplish it. Of course he hit the bottom of the hill at 60mph and jumped most the way up it but still made it. 25 years later it is still the only 4wd to make the climb and its still called Samurai Hill
@@guyontheinternet111 can't tell if this was sarcasm, I will say I've never been stuck anywhere, but the electrical is always unpredictable, plus my Rubi loves to go through steering stabilizers even after having the rack and pinion parts replaced, still wouldn't trade it though, I love my Jeep
@@motopumpkin3129 of course it will...people love Jeeps and if it needs a head gasket so be it...i junked a Pontiac 6000 for a bad fuel pump. some cars you cant wait to get rid of
Fun video. That little sammi would be unstoppable with a few minor upgrades. -Spring over lift with yj springs. -30-32 inch aggressive tires -lockers. I described my samurai above, the upgrades coupled with its tiny size make it incredibly formidable. The jeep and toyota guys are always impressed when we go out...
even less extreme mods, I run a 2" lift, ~28" GG AT3 tyres (205/75r15), and not much stops it. Issue with running bigger than ~215/75r15 on a SJ is the gearing really begins to suffer, you can get reduction gears but adds so much to the cost, as does lifting the newer coil sprung one by >2" as you really need castor corrected radial arms, extended brake lines, shock relocators & some other mods.
It looked like they just cut the muffler off. The heat shield was there and the exhaust pipe was rusty with a jagged cut at the end. Hmmmmm....it definitely wasn't Borla.
It's crazy the surge of popularity the Samurai has experienced lately, but they're pretty cool and capable. Sometimes I think the Samurai has more in common with the original Jeeps than the Wrangler.
It does. It's like a 1983 era Japanese engineered willys CJ2 and it's brilliant off road. It's amazing in ways that nothing big and heavy is, no matter what it is.
The first time I rode in a Samurai and saw it climb, I bought one! They are incredible. When that one wore out I bought another. My JX 13 had a manual dif lock in the front. I never knew they made them without. The ride is incredibly rough but boy can they handle off road terrain! That rocky incline would have been a piece of cake for my JX 13 in low range, locked FWD, with 2 or 3 people in it. Extra weight transformed it from a splendid climber into an exceptional climber, unrivaled. I have towed out a bogged down Toyota 4Runner, which could not make it up a steep muddy hillside road during a tropical down pour in Grenada, to accolades from my buddies at the top. They are still prizes here in Grenada. What’s more, the engine and everything else was user serviceable. I repaired almost everything myself. Samurai!. The Japanese should call the thing a Ninja or better a Shugun!
Exactly well said, i have same SJ413 Samurai 1.3Liter , they are build tough, week ago i Towed 35 minutes ,Jeep CJ5 with bad clutch, with my little Samurai ,love its ride 🇯🇵
32 years ago on my 9th birthday my 3rd grade teacher had his Samurai floating down the creek at the Great Sand Dunes. He made it to the bank, and spent the rest of the day flogging the shit out of it. It never complained or quit. Those were and still are awsome little vehicles!!
For some reason I can picture Nathan watching this video and crying a bit. Some tears of joy and others for the slight damage on the Sami! Great 👍 job guys!
@@nicholasmolina9447 the tires are stock 205/70r15s and they got them free from Yokohama. For some reason they don't want to put any money into the Zuk.
Nathan should be doing any and all Samurai segments. He understands them. A few few mods that would be less expensive then the tires on the Jeep are in order
Nathan was better on this video than a lot of the ones in the past. In fact I have a bit more respect for him now. At the same time the other heavier set guy does better samari segments. If we could have Tommy, Andre and drop the father.
The Samurai does have a folding screen and the doors do come off and with a 10 minute mod you can lift the doors of instantly. The Samurai is a far superior car and still will be long after the Wrangler is just iron ore.
I had a 88 samurai back years ago and they are so great for the trails. You can fit it through so much more than a Jeep. The best ever is the early 90s and 80s Toyota pickups. They are small too and more reliable.
Back in the day my friends samurai was quite a neat little ride. It was under powered but still a fun little 4x4. I pulled it out by that towe hook quite a few times with my CJ7. And that little samurai gave me some rides back when the CJ was stuck! Nice memories! 😃
Yeah. Jeep started going bigger on rims with the TJ Rubi, which seemed stupid to me. 15s fit over the brakes just fine, the brakes worked just fine for up to 35s, and tires for 15s were around $100ea for a 30-31" mudder. Today, even a tiny Renegade or Compass is riding on at least 16s from the factory. Tires for 16s and larger are stupid expensive, and have little sidewall. People swap 15s onto their JKs for a reason...or several. Wranglers aren't supposed to handle like sportscars.
I have been trying to get these idiots to At Least put on a set of 30" BFG\AT-MT tires that clear perfectly and just disconnect the sway bar with 2-14mm bolts and then actually air down the Tires! But it would be a massive improvement from what this Hammer head group is doing with the Sammy! They just do the PIN it and shoot the line instead of actually driving the line!
For Pete’s sake take the tyres pressure down to 20-16 PSI. No wonder you are being spine bashed. Personally, I think you did it deliberately which is dumb as the Suzuki should not be underestimated. There are many reasons why the Suzuki is superior to most 4x4’s and these features were not detailed enough IMO. As a presenter YOU FAILED.
100% as a Samurai owner. The nerdy commentary and lack of offroad common sense such as airing down tires and knowing how to hold the proper line instead off pointing it at the obstacle and just hitting the gas. I have a 91 EFi with a simple 2” OME spring lift and 30”MT’s and would have been right along side the overstuffed dime-a-dozen wrangler. And then his annoying commentary while getting a little bounced around its like STFU and deal with it nerd! Cringeworthy.
I had a 88 Samurai with Trail Master 4" lift, 275/75 15 BFG Mud Terrains, 2 barrel Weber DGV 32/36 carb & a Doug Thorley header and it climbed like a mountain goat and went through mud like a alligator!
That samurai does have front axle lock, its in the wheel hub on one of the front wheels, you just turn the centre knob and it should lock the front diff.
Even before I watch this video I'm gonna predict the Samurai acquits itself quite nicely. Those tiny little featherweights just crawl over rocks like spiders over sand. They make novices look like expert rock-crawlers.
had to sell mine cause the wife (now an ex) didnt like it leaving spots in the driveway but i dont think there has ever been a dissatisfied Samurai owner. Great vehicle
When I had a Samurai - it had a 3" lift with Jeep springs, 31" tires, low range transfer case, and a 1.6 engine. Plus lockers. It was a beast. That's what they should be comparing!
glad to see you didn't abandoned the samurai vids, hope to see more soon the indian cousin is the maruti gypsy, and like mine's is the long chassis version, but mine's is the made in spain turbodiesel love the vid, and your faces when sammy reached the top of the hill please gimme more!!
When I was a teenager my friend's dad had a Samurai. His hunting buddies he would offroad with laughed at it... Until their long wheelbase full size trucks with bad brakeover angle got stuck, usually high centered. The Samurai was able to squeeze around and tug enough to get them off their high center perch. 😏
I had both, the Samurai and the Sidekick. Prior to that, I grew up driving Willys Jeeps. I had a Wagon, Mom had a Roadster, and dad had a Cab Over, all 4x4. Samurai and Sidekicks both would go anywhere the Willys did. And get better mileage, better radio, and they did not beat me to death. Yeah, you may be in Boulder, but ta-da -we have mountains in NC that are steep, isolated, and hard. The old Suzukis laughed at it.
Had a sj410 (1.0), a samurai (1.3) and now a 04 jimny (1.3 84hp) with a 4” lift, 416 gears and 30” tires and i love it, same dimentions as the old samurai but a lot more comfortable.
I also have a 2004 Jimny. Have not had the opportunity to get it off road, but I absolutely love driving it. I really like the way the tranny & transfer case whines. I plan on driving it for a very long time.
Davin Ellicson They will rub. 215/75 R15’s are the largest with out any modification. If you use a 1” offset wheel with those 215’s, the Sammie will surprise you, nearly unstoppable. Mine kept up with my friends CJ5 and CJ7.
Davin Ellicson The earlier Samurai’s didn’t have inner plastic wheel wells. The tires can rub on the plastic bumper end covers and possibly the frame, if you don’t use offset wheels. The wheel wells are pretty small.
A friend of mine back in the late 80's had a lifted Toyota pickup with 35's and I had a Samurai with Trail Master 4" lift and 275/75 15's, 2 barrel Weber DGV 32/36 carb & a Thorley header and I could walk circles around him. Even had to pull him out with my bumper mounted winch a couple times. One time he buried his Yota so bad (almost to the roof in red clay/mud) it took 3 wreckers to winch him out after waiting for a week to wait for the ground to dry enough so they could get to his truck.
Tommy and Andre, this is probably my new favorite TFL video. My two favorite parts: Andre saying "You will be shocked!" In a perfect Schwarzenegger impression and Tommy destroying his back on the bumpiest hill climb ever. The only thing that would have made it better would be Andre making more fun of Tommy in his toy off-roader and Tommy teasing Andre more for bringing his pampered ride for his aging back. Seriously, loved the video guys.
My samurai was great. I did a SPOA lift , reverse shackle and put Toyota axles on it. Lockers in front and rear and GRS 2 It would keep up with the Jeeps.
JDM er true, but this way the accomplishment of the Samurai looks better, and at the end i think this was the point (and to advertise those doors of course)
Many moons ago (late-80s) I had a friend working at a logging camp in the Interior of BC, Canada. The standard vehicle was a 4WD Ford F150/250 truck, but to get access to those really impenetrable places where the Fords feared to tread, the goto alternative was a bone-stock Suzuki Samurai. Enough with the Jeep shilling - I'm off to check Craigslist for a Samurai.
@@MichaelArtelle Actually Suzuki didn't fold. They're still around selling cars around the world, they only stopped selling in North America. They make and sell the Jimny (replaced the Samurai) all around the world including Europe and Australia. Car companies that used to sell in the US in the past then stopped have come back (Fiat, Maserati, Alfa Romero) so it is conceivable that Suzuki can start selling here again if there's enough of a demand.
I wish Suzuki would bring the 2019 Suzuki Jimny to the USA, I would buy one in a heart beat. I had a 1987 Samurai and it was slow but super fun and reliable!!!
Had same model Suzuki in UK years ago, used as run around and deer stalking. Brilliant bit if kit. Could have been a good video had they used off road tyres and a brain rather than ordinary tyres and sarcasm. Definitely a good add for Suzuki 👍
My cousin has one of the nicest Suzuki Samurai's you can find, he lifted it 4 inches and put a set of 32-10/50's on it, and many other things, and it will go just about anywhere. It's an awesome little vehicle.
how can you compare a cheap build car to such a quality samurai :P
Bravo!!!
That wrangler it's never going to last as near that samurai. It will fall to pieces before reaching 30+ years.
Haha
I love you
I know Right! The 80s Jeep's are new Japanese restaurant signs now! There's a bunch of people bringing in Japan cars now up to 1996! Why isn't anyone bringing in a conex box full of 94-95 jxi 413 Sammy's instead of the 660ci turbo 410? Or get a box full from India with the LWB 413? Or LWB 4dr short boxes and the other varieties of the fuel injected one's?
The Samurai only needs a better driver and some decent tires
I’m glad somebody said it
Good lord next time have a guy with some balls to actually push on the gas , Zuki paved the way for off road vehicles ask The Crocidle Hunter SteveI Irvwin we he follows the Dingo fence
I'm the owner Suzuki samurai jx hardtop 2002 mdl
That Samurai with a rear locker, a 2"lift and decent MT tires would put to shame many hardcore off road vehicles
Eduardo Sánchez would love to have one and I agree with what you are saying exact mods it needs
It would do alot better but I doubt it would shame anything hardcore theres no magic into building a crawler. Power to weight, articulation, traction, wheel base, clearance, and low center of gravity. Prioritize as needed. Nobody ever built a magical off-road vehicle atleast not from a mass market manufacturer and highway legal
I'd add yota axles a rear locker and a low gear set for the t case to that list
I DONT AGREE WITH UR OPINION SINCE MANY CARS ALREADY HAVE IT TOO EVEN JEEP WRANGLER AND IT IS COMMON
I skipped around, they even deflate tires?
If the Samurai had better tires, it wouldn't have uphill difficulty. Shout out to Old Suzuki!
th-cam.com/video/JsAoU2_M080/w-d-xo.html&t= Modified ;-)
That’s the way he drives he is kinda scared if u ask me.
*before watching*
Idk if the samurai can keep up with the wrangler, but I'll tell you something, it's already outlived that jeep.
the samurai outperform the jeep in the mud due to its weight. I had 2 samurai and I have to adore. They are not made for rock craling but for everything else. Snow mud etc ...
@@stephanegagne887 Sand best, they float a lot on water crossings where bigger & heavier is unbeatable. Are they really good in mud? I think heavier is good for mud.
@@Malc664 heavier just sink's! A fuel injected Sammy will actually stay on top and seriously rip! And with a few minor upgraded parts and a little work they Will really do some wiked mud slinging!
@@billyputnam6892 👍🙂
@@Malc664 what is that supposed to mean? I'm not a millennial so most of the time I don't know these childish acronyms! But if it's something stupid like your above comment unlike the above people who have owned 1-2 Sammy's! I have been working on Suzuki's since they were still in the crates and being put together! I have personally owned well over 125 documented titled Samurai's and have built Everything from a fuel injected tough truck with Swift GT parts and turning 8k RPM and it was in the actual Monster Jam series and I was that division champion for 6 years and never lost a race in the last 4years of racing it. I have also built countless lifted Samurai's for off road or mud boggs with tires big enough for crushing car's! Built a few with stock based engines that will run in the 15s in the 1\4 mile and drive home getting hi 40 miles to the gallon! No Jeep's are going to do That and be street legal!! I actually have it when guys put Toyota axles and cast iron bottom end engines or be diesels in\on a Samurai! Because of the weight balance of the Samurai it actually ruins the weight bias from a very close 52Front\48Rear to if you put a set of Toyota axles on them it makes the balance 68ft-32Rear literally making the rear axle traction Worthless! And don't get me wrong Toyota and Suzuki\Subaru are all made by Fuji heavy industry and the Sammy Axles are just smaller sized yoga axles from that same era but the Samurai was actually built before the Toyota fourunner and solid Axle truck! In 82-84. But I have actually built\Driven\Raced just about every kind of SUZUKI even the Swift's and the SX4 in spectator rainy and rally events and I have the videos of it ALL so no I'm not just saying this without the stuff to back it up! Nor do I drive like these damn FTL hammer heads that is trying to make a 30+ year old Stock Samurai look like crap when it's like trying to compare you're great grandfather against a teenager running the 600yard Sprint's! So again I don't know what you are trying to say above but I have actually been there done that!
Now compare a STOCK 1987 Wrangler against the Samurai. 🤔
Samurai my man
Are there any '87 Wranglers left on the road? I had a red one, It turned pink after the warranty expired and then burnt to the ground.
@@maxpowersbigfoothunter3825 I got rid of mine last year
Max Powers I have an 87 wrangler. Only has 58k original miles on the clock. Still runs and drives like new
Gentlemen- I have nothing against "87 Wranglers, or their owners. But, of all the Jeep's that I have owned, and there were A LOT, that was by far the worst. Now, owning a Land Rover, has made my memories of that Jeep seem somewhat better.
I found myself skipping all the parts about the Wrangler and eventually just stopped watching to check Craigslist for a Samurai.
get a roxor instead seems all the fun of a samurai but with a warranty
@@joeyscleaninglady2877 not even close #i want the new jimny
@@boohoomoron7629 I think we all would prefer the Jimny. I doubt it'll ever make it state side. In a perfect world, I'd just have a Tacoma and a Jimny. All I'd ever need.
I'll be listing either my 1987 or 1992 Samurai on Ebay sometime this summer. I can't decide which one I want to keep. Both are in excellent shape. The things are like little tanks.
@@joeyscleaninglady2877 Roxors start at $15,000
The Samurai needs driver mod before anything else.
Right? What the heck is this guy afraid of? 4-low 1st with complete stops while suffering the stock carb and open diffs? Please just grow a pair, air down, 4-hi 1st, give it the beans and we'll see you at the top. I get that they don't want to spend on mods and that's fine ~ Dropping 10 psi, removing the sway bar, chopping the hook off the exhaust pipe, cutting the hinges to make the doors removable, junking that dead weight pushbar, and removing the mud flaps before they get torn off... all free upgrades. These vids are practically click-bait and yet here I am, admitting I watched the whole thing and looking forward to criticizing the next one :-)
@@yhiissuchbs I know right! This damn kid drives it like a Ass! I don't know why the F they didn't buy a set of 30" BFG AT Tires? 15psi in the rear and 18 in the front and like you said remove the 2-14mm bolts in the front to loosen up the sway bar and drive it reasonablely and it will go anywhere that they have been showing us far better than just hammering it at street pressure and trying to bash the rockers and everything else underneath it! Not to mention how much better the ride is with the bigger Tires! But if they wanted to make it a fair fight then they should do a Spoa lift and use the same size tires as the Jeep size tires! Then there would be some serious surprises! But someone with a brain would have to be driving!
@@yhiissuchbs you know if they really don't want to spend much more money on it these guys could show there true bighead nature on social media and do some creative swapping. Get some inexpensive used 28-30" Tires and remove the sway bar. Get a carb bowl venturie from highway53 Suzuki for $9 and it would definitely help the carb situation out. Change out the fluids in the driveline components to a lightweight Synthetic or blended oils. If they don't want to buy a spool or clicker locker weld it up in the rear. And a huge thing to help with the ride is a set of 82dodge ramcharger rear red rider shocks and lube up the spring's and the eyelets which could be over tightened and binding up which can really make it bounce house ride. And the rest of the stuff you said about the bumpers and doors and put a couple of diamond plate aluminum side rails to protect the rockers. But we know that with just a couple of things done on the cheap would pay big dividends! But then again I almost think that they are trying to pick up were consumer reports ended and they're trying to find more faults in a 30+ year old dog and keep kicking it while it's down! Cruelty to the little guy!
Samurai is great for hunting in tight trails, even quading trails, and great on fuel! It actually climbs pretty good with the right tires!
I had a 88 Samurai with Trail Master 4" lift, 275/75 15 BFG Mud Terrains, 2 barrel Weber DGV 32/36 carb & a Doug Thorley header and it climbed like a mountain goat and went through mud like a alligator!
@@jonwilliams4030 this is very true, it can maneuvers tight corner and climbed almost all terrain easily. Much preferred here in Borneo for hunting.
The Samurai is an engineering masterpiece for an off road vehicle.
Drive Jeeps currently, but learned to drive a manual and off-road in a Samurai. Much respect for both. 👍🏼
3000$ vs 30,000$ 1987 vs 2019. Seriously. Put a 1.9 VW TD on the Samy, lift kit, ARB lockers winch and a power steering and it will laugh at the Jeep.
Not quite.
So in other words change every part of it? Get a tj out of the box and it will wreck it.
I'd take the Samurai over the Jeep any day.
Yeah.... Who can afford to take a $60,000 Jeep off road?
@@jambam6176
Definitely not me
@@jambam6176 not a wise one.
@@jambam6176 let's compare again when that Jeep is 30 yrs old
@@boohoomoron7629 That *FIAT Jeep* won't last 30 years because of the many crappy built computers it has in it that can't withstand the bumps and moisture that off roading has to offer.
Back to my high school years we had a hill that we all would try to climb. The Suzuki Samurai is the only one that could accomplish it. Of course he hit the bottom of the hill at 60mph and jumped most the way up it but still made it. 25 years later it is still the only 4wd to make the climb and its still called Samurai Hill
I wonder if after 30 years that Jeep will be as good as that Samurai is
As a jk owner I can say the Jeep won't make it 30 years
@@motopumpkin3129 JK's are great, extremely reliable with very little needed maintenance
@@guyontheinternet111 can't tell if this was sarcasm, I will say I've never been stuck anywhere, but the electrical is always unpredictable, plus my Rubi loves to go through steering stabilizers even after having the rack and pinion parts replaced, still wouldn't trade it though, I love my Jeep
@@motopumpkin3129 of course it will...people love Jeeps and if it needs a head gasket so be it...i junked a Pontiac 6000 for a bad fuel pump. some cars you cant wait to get rid of
@@philtripe I guess so, it'll be like Theseus's Jeep haha
I've owned and loved 2 Samurai's. They're mountain goats. Handle better off road than on.
Fun video. That little sammi would be unstoppable with a few minor upgrades.
-Spring over lift with yj springs.
-30-32 inch aggressive tires
-lockers.
I described my samurai above, the upgrades coupled with its tiny size make it incredibly formidable. The jeep and toyota guys are always impressed when we go out...
even less extreme mods, I run a 2" lift, ~28" GG AT3 tyres (205/75r15), and not much stops it. Issue with running bigger than ~215/75r15 on a SJ is the gearing really begins to suffer, you can get reduction gears but adds so much to the cost, as does lifting the newer coil sprung one by >2" as you really need castor corrected radial arms, extended brake lines, shock relocators & some other mods.
I like how he bragged about the aftermarket exhaust and the v6 sounded like a straight piped civic when he revved it.
It looked like they just cut the muffler off. The heat shield was there and the exhaust pipe was rusty with a jagged cut at the end. Hmmmmm....it definitely wasn't Borla.
It's crazy the surge of popularity the Samurai has experienced lately, but they're pretty cool and capable. Sometimes I think the Samurai has more in common with the original Jeeps than the Wrangler.
Samurai has always been popular. Seem them lifted every day.
It's the same with the brand new Suzuki Jimny.
Agree 100%!
because Zuki is close to original jeep size. they are beasts, love mine.
It does. It's like a 1983 era Japanese engineered willys CJ2 and it's brilliant off road. It's amazing in ways that nothing big and heavy is, no matter what it is.
The first time I rode in a Samurai and saw it climb, I bought one! They are incredible. When that one wore out I bought another. My JX 13 had a manual dif lock in the front. I never knew they made them without. The ride is incredibly rough but boy can they handle off road terrain! That rocky incline would have been a piece of cake for my JX 13 in low range, locked FWD, with 2 or 3 people in it. Extra weight transformed it from a splendid climber into an exceptional climber, unrivaled. I have towed out a bogged down Toyota 4Runner, which could not make it up a steep muddy hillside road during a tropical down pour in Grenada, to accolades from my buddies at the top. They are still prizes here in Grenada. What’s more, the engine and everything else was user serviceable. I repaired almost everything myself. Samurai!. The Japanese should call the thing a Ninja or better a Shugun!
Exactly well said, i have same SJ413 Samurai 1.3Liter , they are build tough, week ago i Towed 35 minutes ,Jeep CJ5 with bad clutch, with my little Samurai ,love its ride 🇯🇵
It's only called a samurai in America, everywhere else in the world its called the Sierra,
@@archygrey9093they go by a few different names. Jimny, Sierra, Gypsy, Samurai.
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..and our friends at Falken tires.
And Fiat Chrysler. Definitely not by Suzuki...
bling bling, hahaha. we don't need those.
Sure sold me on those jk bestop doors actually so...yup.
The Zuks dimensions are truer to the original Flat Fender Jeep than the Jeep is. I'd take that sweet original Zuks over the Jeep any day.
That samurai can go anywhere the jk goes, just needs a driver mod..
A set of lockers is all you need on the samurai and it will do everything a jeep will
Not quite lol
I wish they would bring the new Jimny to the US!
Agreed
I think they'd sell like crazy here.
No thanks
As long as it has fully independent suspension.
I vote for the Jimney AND the terrano 2.
32 years ago on my 9th birthday my 3rd grade teacher had his Samurai floating down the creek at the Great Sand Dunes. He made it to the bank, and spent the rest of the day flogging the shit out of it. It never complained or quit. Those were and still are awsome little vehicles!!
For some reason I can picture Nathan watching this video and crying a bit. Some tears of joy and others for the slight damage on the Sami! Great 👍 job guys!
The Little Suzuki that Could.... you go, boy!!! Kudos.
Will you guys put some decent a/t tires on that samurai at least? Come on.
He says at 6:22 those were the smallest tires they found that would fit
Please put some skinny pizzacutters Yokohama G003 or maybe BFG km3 on the Suzuki.
The Geolandar G015 IS a decent AT tire. It does not look very aggressive, but I found them to perform well.
BFG KO2’s 215/75R15 will fit and that Sammie will be unstoppable.
@@nicholasmolina9447 the tires are stock 205/70r15s and they got them free from Yokohama. For some reason they don't want to put any money into the Zuk.
Thats it. You now need a "Cheap Samurai" segment :P
Mod that glorious old puppy!!
Nathan should be doing any and all Samurai segments. He understands them. A few few mods that would be less expensive then the tires on the Jeep are in order
Nathan was better on this video than a lot of the ones in the past. In fact I have a bit more respect for him now. At the same time the other heavier set guy does better samari segments. If we could have Tommy, Andre and drop the father.
Still needs a massive driver mod
SJ413 Samurai is build for tough Adventures, love its ride 🇯🇵
The Samurai does have a folding screen and the doors do come off and with a 10 minute mod you can lift the doors of instantly. The Samurai is a far superior car and still will be long after the Wrangler is just iron ore.
I had a 88 samurai back years ago and they are so great for the trails. You can fit it through so much more than a Jeep. The best ever is the early 90s and 80s Toyota pickups. They are small too and more reliable.
Back in the day my friends samurai was quite a neat little ride. It was under powered but still a fun little 4x4.
I pulled it out by that towe hook quite a few times with my CJ7.
And that little samurai gave me some rides back when the CJ was stuck!
Nice memories! 😃
Love those lil Samurai’s! Every one I’ve seen has been a lil beast!
I bet the front bumper,winch, and light bar on that jeep cost more than the entire zuk. Hell, just the tires on the jeep probably cost more as well.
You haven't looked at the $ami market in a few years..
I bet you a rim cost more than that car
Marty Harris actually jeeps area a very affordable vehicle. Even the rubicon isn’t more then a topped out Durango or others.
Yeah. Jeep started going bigger on rims with the TJ Rubi, which seemed stupid to me. 15s fit over the brakes just fine, the brakes worked just fine for up to 35s, and tires for 15s were around $100ea for a 30-31" mudder.
Today, even a tiny Renegade or Compass is riding on at least 16s from the factory. Tires for 16s and larger are stupid expensive, and have little sidewall.
People swap 15s onto their JKs for a reason...or several. Wranglers aren't supposed to handle like sportscars.
This vid/review is totally sided.
Just look how moded that fiat jeep is..
Man that zuki with just a couple of mods will beat that jeep any day.
Please keep this Suzuki and do a modified series similar to the cheap jeep segment 😁
no ever one ruins them
Would love to see some 33x9.5r15 on the little Samurai.
no because it would shame the jeep😁
I have been trying to get these idiots to At Least put on a set of 30" BFG\AT-MT tires that clear perfectly and just disconnect the sway bar with 2-14mm bolts and then actually air down the Tires! But it would be a massive improvement from what this Hammer head group is doing with the Sammy! They just do the PIN it and shoot the line instead of actually driving the line!
The Samurai went to where the jeep can never. I'm talking about altitude in the mountains!
I loved my Suzuki Samurai, miss it big time, a very reliable truck!
The big advantage of the Samurai is it's really small and can get into tight spots the Wrangler cannot.
Rather have the cute and fun Samurai.
Zuk's, the original side by side atv.
Better than that over moded jeep of road anyday
Great video. I believe the Samarai is the most powerful off road 4x4 if you go by hp to weight ratio.
"The trials bike of cars" Nicely put, I'm in! Go Suzuki.
I think plenty of skeptics would be surprised at just how capable a stock Suzuki Samurai actually is....
20 minute Bestop and Falken commercial. Better than a re-hash of the cheap Jeep. I approve!
For Pete’s sake take the tyres pressure down to 20-16 PSI. No wonder you are being spine bashed.
Personally, I think you did it deliberately which is dumb as the Suzuki should not be underestimated.
There are many reasons why the Suzuki is superior to most 4x4’s and these features were not detailed enough IMO.
As a presenter YOU FAILED.
100% as a Samurai owner. The nerdy commentary and lack of offroad common sense such as airing down tires and knowing how to hold the proper line instead off pointing it at the obstacle and just hitting the gas. I have a 91 EFi with a simple 2” OME spring lift and 30”MT’s and would have been right along side the overstuffed dime-a-dozen wrangler. And then his annoying commentary while getting a little bounced around its like STFU and deal with it nerd! Cringeworthy.
Anyone that's ever seen a little sami offroad, knows it's no joke.
Definitively, samurai deserves you give her some love =)
Had a samurai with 32's, lockers f/r, 5.12 axle gears, 4:16 tcase gears and 1.6 16v tracker motor and went everywhere my fellow jeepers went
Jason Vigil, I had a sj410 (900cc) axle over on 33s, it went everywhere.
Samurai hood latches are always in the lockable glove box! Regardless of which side the steering wheel is located.
That’s also done on convertibles so you can lock the glovebox and prevent someone from opening the hood if the top is down.
The whole point of Suzuki's is being able to pick lines that other cars can't. The things I have driven in my Jimny that have had others in aww.
You need to lift the samurai and drop a locker in the rear. Make that a cheap truck challenge! Or do a simple spring over and bigger tires.
I had a 88 Samurai with Trail Master 4" lift, 275/75 15 BFG Mud Terrains, 2 barrel Weber DGV 32/36 carb & a Doug Thorley header and it climbed like a mountain goat and went through mud like a alligator!
Fun fine, but can you do a Samurai vs Jeep same year range. A true contest
Hey guys, look for the Maxxis Trepador 205/70R15 for the Sammy, those are just stunning little beasts!
I feel like y’all should put a small 2in lift one some good tires. Nothing crazy, just realistic and cheap.
Tommy, your JK may have bounced up that hill but methinks your idea of "struggling" differs from the norm 😉
That samurai does have front axle lock, its in the wheel hub on one of the front wheels, you just turn the centre knob and it should lock the front diff.
Even before I watch this video I'm gonna predict the Samurai acquits itself quite nicely. Those tiny little featherweights just crawl over rocks like spiders over sand. They make novices look like expert rock-crawlers.
had to sell mine cause the wife (now an ex) didnt like it leaving spots in the driveway but i dont think there has ever been a dissatisfied Samurai owner. Great vehicle
I like the Samurai videos
When I had a Samurai - it had a 3" lift with Jeep springs, 31" tires, low range transfer case, and a 1.6 engine. Plus lockers. It was a beast. That's what they should be comparing!
I'm thinking of getting wrangler springs for my samurái,do the work well what Jeep Didi you use do you have any pictures thanks
glad to see you didn't abandoned the samurai vids, hope to see more soon
the indian cousin is the maruti gypsy, and like mine's is the long chassis version, but mine's is the made in spain turbodiesel
love the vid, and your faces when sammy reached the top of the hill
please gimme more!!
When I was a teenager my friend's dad had a Samurai. His hunting buddies he would offroad with laughed at it... Until their long wheelbase full size trucks with bad brakeover angle got stuck, usually high centered. The Samurai was able to squeeze around and tug enough to get them off their high center perch. 😏
That was a nice bestop ad. Give that Sami a bit of love in minor mods and it will be completely unstoppable at half the price of a stock wrangler.
Santiago Hills I daily drove one almost every day so I did a bumper delete a leaf spring lift and a wider tire. Got me everywhere I wanted to go.
Indian Army still uses these Suzuki Samurai.... Because its Indian Army who knows how to use a Samurai...being a Samurai....btw loved your video!! 👍
Samurais and ninjas are legends!
I had both, the Samurai and the Sidekick. Prior to that, I grew up driving Willys Jeeps. I had a Wagon, Mom had a Roadster, and dad had a Cab Over, all 4x4. Samurai and Sidekicks both would go anywhere the Willys did. And get better mileage, better radio, and they did not beat me to death. Yeah, you may be in Boulder, but ta-da -we have mountains in NC that are steep, isolated, and hard. The old Suzukis laughed at it.
The Sammy is so much more capable off road. They fit down almost all ATV trails too!
Had a sj410 (1.0), a samurai (1.3) and now a 04 jimny (1.3 84hp) with a 4” lift, 416 gears and 30” tires and i love it, same dimentions as the old samurai but a lot more comfortable.
I also have a 2004 Jimny. Have not had the opportunity to get it off road, but I absolutely love driving it. I really like the way the tranny & transfer case whines. I plan on driving it for a very long time.
Samurai will run 215/75 15 stock with no issues.
I miss mine.
Wish I never sold it.
tahoehiker What about 225/75 16?
Davin Ellicson They will rub. 215/75 R15’s are the largest with out any modification. If you use a 1” offset wheel with those 215’s, the Sammie will surprise you, nearly unstoppable. Mine kept up with my friends CJ5 and CJ7.
Scott Brown Can’t you just manipulate the plastic wheel liners? I did on my Dacia Duster: th-cam.com/video/JzB1i_LQBjE/w-d-xo.html
Davin Ellicson The earlier Samurai’s didn’t have inner plastic wheel wells. The tires can rub on the plastic bumper end covers and possibly the frame, if you don’t use offset wheels. The wheel wells are pretty small.
Scott Brown Funny how on 26 inch tires it can do what a Jeep can do on 37s...
I've had my samurai for 8 years now and I love it, it does make me mad sometimes but it's still a fun little truck
It doesn't matter what kinda 4x4 you have, it depends upon how well you know to handle it !!!!.
Give the Samurai a lift, lockers, 32's, re-gear it, and watch it hang with that Jeep everywhere.
I'd put my modded Samurai against that Jeep any day.
I’m so used to Top Gear / GT that at 17:30 when he was coming up from behind I expected him to bump the Samurai
As a diehard mopar or nocar guy, (and since I own a rubicon jk)
I’d love a samurai
I’ve watched those things embarrass big trucks
I have a Wrangler as well and I agree with you. The samurai is basicly a mini-wrangler.
Just acquired a Sammy for 700 look forward to making it a jeep killer
I have not watched the video yet and I can say yes. Sometimes even better.
I have a Zuk and a jk 4 door, both heavily modified. I love my jeep, but the Zuk will out perform it all day long.
I had an 87 with 31’s. Little cut here and there and bam a sweet off road Suzuki....
The samurai (called gypsy here in India) is so raw i love it. It's a staple among off-road enthusiasts here ;)
Stop wanking about the jeep. That samurai is awesome
A friend of mine back in the late 80's had a lifted Toyota pickup with 35's and I had a Samurai with Trail Master 4" lift and 275/75 15's, 2 barrel Weber DGV 32/36 carb & a Thorley header and I could walk circles around him. Even had to pull him out with my bumper mounted winch a couple times. One time he buried his Yota so bad (almost to the roof in red clay/mud) it took 3 wreckers to winch him out after waiting for a week to wait for the ground to dry enough so they could get to his truck.
Suzuki samurai is called maruti suzuki gypsy in india it goes pretty much everyewhere. Indias favourite offroad vehicle
Tommy and Andre, this is probably my new favorite TFL video. My two favorite parts: Andre saying "You will be shocked!" In a perfect Schwarzenegger impression and Tommy destroying his back on the bumpiest hill climb ever. The only thing that would have made it better would be Andre making more fun of Tommy in his toy off-roader and Tommy teasing Andre more for bringing his pampered ride for his aging back. Seriously, loved the video guys.
My samurai was great. I did a SPOA lift , reverse shackle and put Toyota axles on it. Lockers in front and rear and GRS 2
It would keep up with the Jeeps.
Thank you friends!!! I have Suzuki Samurai 1988!
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I wish we got the new jimny in the states:-(
I competed off road in a SJ KJA Dropside pick up. Bloody thing was unstoppable.
It should have been a regular wrangler vs a lifted samurai
JDM er true, but this way the accomplishment of the Samurai looks better, and at the end i think this was the point (and to advertise those doors of course)
that would be unfair for the wrangler :(
Suzuki has got my respect since the last jimny came out
I had a samurai with front manual lockers, it seems like your samurai has them too, it would be much better off road if you use them.
Those lock the hub not the diff
Many moons ago (late-80s) I had a friend working at a logging camp in the Interior of BC, Canada. The standard vehicle was a 4WD Ford F150/250 truck, but to get access to those really impenetrable places where the Fords feared to tread, the goto alternative was a bone-stock Suzuki Samurai. Enough with the Jeep shilling - I'm off to check Craigslist for a Samurai.
I love the Samurai, always have. Suzuki should bring the Jimny here to the US. I bet it'll sell well.
@@MichaelArtelle Actually Suzuki didn't fold. They're still around selling cars around the world, they only stopped selling in North America. They make and sell the Jimny (replaced the Samurai) all around the world including Europe and Australia. Car companies that used to sell in the US in the past then stopped have come back (Fiat, Maserati, Alfa Romero) so it is conceivable that Suzuki can start selling here again if there's enough of a demand.
I wish Suzuki would bring the 2019 Suzuki Jimny to the USA, I would buy one in a heart beat. I had a 1987 Samurai and it was slow but super fun and reliable!!!
Had same model Suzuki in UK years ago, used as run around and deer stalking. Brilliant bit if kit. Could have been a good video had they used off road tyres and a brain rather than ordinary tyres and sarcasm.
Definitely a good add for Suzuki 👍
My cousin has one of the nicest Suzuki Samurai's you can find, he lifted it 4 inches and put a set of 32-10/50's on it, and many other things, and it will go just about anywhere. It's an awesome little vehicle.