More Indian built junk

if you read the article linked by the OP you'll find UK versions are built in Thailand.

Evidence suggests the issue affects some RHD versions but not those for all RHD markets. Presumably associated with linkage that transfers brake pedal movement to a left located servo/cylinder unit.

More Indian built junk

Nice to see you have your facts right!

That'll take some recovering of customer trust.

Looking at the Autocar report, it looks like the company is following the crisis management bible - immediate warning and recall, inconvenience existing customers as little as possible etc.

It's painful in the short term but pays off long-term. When Perrier had the contaminated water issue in the 80s and withdrew all of its products, sales increased after they sorted the issue and reintroduced sales.

In any crisis of this sort it's important to do EVERYTHING right from the moment the problem is reported, to give the reassurance that ALL the right steps will be taken.

Too often in the past, car makers haven't reacted publicly to the first report but only reacted to increasing external pressure as time goes on.

To be honest, if you deliver a car to a motoring magazine, and it suffers a severe failure that could cause a fatal crash, you change the car, and the replacement has an identical failure ... your options regarding not going all out on the fault are rather limited.

Which begs the question - how did Suzuki engineers test the prototype or pre-production models of the RHD version?