First Suzuki Jimny five-door arrives in Australia, pricing due December

The boss of Suzuki Australia has shared an image of the first Jimny five-door to roll out onto local roads, ahead of official pricing and specifications becoming available next month.

In a post on the ‘New Suzuki Jimny (JB74) Australia’ owners group on social media platform Facebook, the local General Manager Michael Pachota uploaded a photo of the five-door Jimny – now known as the Jimny XL – wearing Victorian number plates.

According to the VicRoads database, the Suzuki Jimny was registered on November 14 – wearing ‘JBOXXL’ personalised number plates, referencing the small 4x4’s ‘JBOX’ nickname and now-confirmed ‘XL’ designation for five-door variants in Australia.  

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While Suzuki previously said pricing and specifications for the Jimny XL would be released in November, it has now confirmed the information will be available on December 5 – just a handful of weeks before customer deliveries are due to begin between January and March 2024.

In September, the car-maker claimed it held more than 1500 pre-orders for the Jimny XL, which will be produced for Australia in India – rather than Japan as with the locally-delivered three-door Jimny.

The Suzuki Jimny XL will be powered by the same non-turbo 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine from its three-door sibling, mated to a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic transmission and a part-time four-wheel-drive system.

Despite sharing similar equipment to the three-door model, it is expected the Jimny XL will incur a price premium owing to its larger size.

At present, the three-door Suzuki Jimny is priced from $30,490 plus on-road costs in ‘Lite’ manual guise, while the flagship GLX automatic starts from $33,490 plus on-road costs.