Here’s something interesting – Naza Eastern Motors has teased the arrival of the Suzuki Jimny 5-Door in Malaysia. The stretched 4×4 is now available for booking as a more practical version of the cute and cuddly off-roader.
No details of the Malaysian-market model have been revealed just yet, but we do know that the Jimny 5-Door has been lengthened by 340 mm over the original three-door, measuring 3,985 mm long, 1,645 mm wide and 1,720 mm tall. All this goes into the 2,590 mm wheelbase, giving you not just more rear legroom but also a significantly larger boot, which has more than doubled in size from just 85 litres to 211.
On the outside, the Jimny is set apart by chrome rings on the five-slot grille but otherwise retains the upright, slab-sided design, equipped with round LED headlights, chunky fender flares, bumper-mounted taillights, external spare wheel on the sideways-opening tailgate and 15-inch grey Y-spoke alloy wheels.
The no-nonsense interior has also been retained and features Mercedes G-Class-style passenger grab handle and an unchanged four-seat layout (no centre seatbelt) with a 50:50 split-folding rear seat. One change is that the three-door’s seven-inch infotainment touchscreen has been replaced by a much bigger nine-inch panel.
Unchanged are the mechanicals, with power still coming from a K15B 1.5 litre naturally-aspirated four-cylinder petrol engine producing 102 PS at 6,000 rpm and 130 Nm of torque at 4,000 rpm. You get the same choice of five-speed manual and four-speed automatic gearbox, although given that the latter is standard on the three-door in our market, we expect the 5-Door to follow suit.
Also fitted is Suzuki’s AllGrip part-time four-wheel-drive system with a low-range transfer case. The Jimny 5-Door retains its 210 mm of ground clearance, but the longer body has understandably reduced the break-over angle from 28 degrees to 24. The approach and departure angles have also been trimmed slightly to 36 degrees (previously 37 degrees ) and 47 degrees (previously 49 degrees) respectively.
Read Danny’s review of the three-door Jimny here.
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Why la this car had to be expensive? If its price range are about 150k sure hit. OR they remove the 4X4 gear so those who like to use it as a rugged daily vehicle will choose it. But that wont happen i know
Just when GWM Tank 300 coming.
3door better than 5door.. Like my Defender 90
In today’s competitive car prices, why would any dumb people buy a car with merely 102 ps and 130 nm for more than 170k?! What’s the logic?
Social media hype and clout chasing, nuff said.
3 door already 170k
For 5 door sure they will market it 200k
Big boy toys
Apa big boy toys? Suzuki Jinmy is and has always been a poor man’s Jeep.
Wah why tis copycat toy looking thing so expansive is the system milking the poor unworthy slobs of every last kupang ah