Start with what the Suzuki Jimny is: a 3/5-door SUV / 3-door van / 2-door convertible / 2-door pickup truck with gasoline engine, built from 1970 to 2018, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Suzuki Jimny (Japanese: スズキ・ジムニー, Hepburn: Suzuki Jimunī) is a series of four-wheel drive off-road mini SUVs manufactured and marketed by Japanese automaker Suzuki since 1970. Originally belonging to the kei class, Japan's light automobile tax/legal class, the company continues to market a kei-compliant version for the Japanese and global markets as the Jimny, as well as versions that exceed kei-class limitations. Suzuki has marketed 2.85 million units of the Jimny in 194 countries through September 2018.
The hardware
The engine is gasoline engine. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the American Motors Corporation AMC Gremlin, the Chevrolet Impala, the Range Rover Range Rover. Its Suzuki stablemates include the Suzuki XL-7 and the Suzuki Landy.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Suzuki Jimny — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.