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title: "Five-Door Suzuki Jimny Launches 2021 as the Nano-Jeep You Really Need: Report"
description: "Here's another candidate for your 25-year import wishlists."
date: "2020-10-08"
modified: "2020-10-08"
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  - name: "James Gilboy"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/36969/five-door-suzuki-jimny-launches-2021-as-the-nano-jeep-you-really-need-report"
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  - "Jeep News"
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  - "Jeep"
---

# Five-Door Suzuki Jimny Launches 2021 as the Nano-Jeep You Really Need: Report

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Suzuki's cult favorite off-roader the Jimny exists in a strange purgatory. Despite waiting lists ranging in length from months to literal decades in the case of Indonesia according to [*Iwanbanaran*](<https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=id&u=https://www.iwanbanaran.com/2020/10/05/update-suzuki-jimny-waktu-tunggu-inden-20-tahun-produksi-india-belum-pasti/&prev=search&pto=aue>), Jimny's struggle to meet emissions standards could force its [retreat to the commercial vehicle market](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/31948/suzuki-jimny-could-transform-into-a-rugged-commercial-vehicle-to-avoid-dying>). There, the Jimny could thrive, and reportedly gain new body styles such as a five-door model or a pickup truck.

According to India's [*Gaadi Waadi*](<https://gaadiwaadi.com/five-door-maruti-suzuki-jimny-to-likely-launch-in-early-2021/>), Suzuki plans to launch a family-friendly five-door Jimny within its borders sometime in 2021. [*Autocar India*](<https://www.autocarindia.com/car-news/larger-5-door-suzuki-jimny-being-readied-for-india-launch-416688>) corroborated this way back in March, projecting domestic start-of-production in December on a lengthened version of the Jimny's ladder chassis. Manufacturing, however, might have been postponed by India's COVID-19 shutdowns in April, which [forced its auto industry to lay a big, fat goose egg for sales that month](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/33294/zero-new-cars-were-sold-in-india-in-april>).

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The alleged five-door Jimny could further turn up the heat in India's surprisingly competitive domestic off-roader market, where the Jeep Wrangler's spitting image, the [Mahindra Thar](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/35852/the-new-mahindra-thar-is-what-the-original-jeep-once-was>), does battle with the [Force Gurkha](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/35917/the-force-gurkha-is-an-indian-g-wagen-lookalike-with-a-manual-and-locking-diffs>), itself a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen lookalike. Should Jimny buyers for some reason *not* want their SUVs to boast the only original design on the scene, they can import [one of those totally-not-a-Bronco body conversions from Japan](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/31745/this-dronco-body-kit-makes-a-suzuki-jimny-look-like-a-classic-ford-bronco>), and build what some desperately wish the Bronco Sport was.

![message-editor%2F1602182418737-medium-5232-suzukiintroducesthejimnylightcommercialvehicleineurope.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602182418737-medium-5232-suzukiintroducesthejimnylightcommercialvehicleineurope.jpg>)
*Suzuki Jimny's chassis, *Suzuki UK**

Obviously the Suzuki Jimny isn't sold in the United States, a source of misery for those who like their off-roaders simple, yet capable. But they say misery loves company, and many more will be made miserable by the above reports' suggestion the super-sized Jimny was designed by India, for India, and that export isn't a given. The same might go for a pickup model, which many speculate would be straightforward to engineer on the five-door's elongated chassis.

For the time being, expect driving these potential future Jimnys to require buying a plane ticket to Delhi. Hopefully, by the time either of them launch, a U.S. passport will again be worth more than toilet paper.

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/jamesgilboy>)