Maruti Suzuki Jimny Long Term Review, March 2024 Report

Well, yes, she has gone back, and it feels like a break-up. Last month, I had to or was rather forced to part ways with my long-term Jimny. Only I know the depth of sadness I felt as I watched my beloved drive away. It was truly heartbreaking.

We have talked about the Jimny’s capabilities in great detail in the past multiple times, so you might already know that it’s quite a potent off-roader, and it’s also quite flawed as an everyday car. What I will talk about in this final report, however, is the ownership experience – or the personal bond that I have come to share with the little Jimny.

In the last six months, I clocked over 11,000km with the Jimny, meaning I spent quite a lot of time driving it – by choice, that is. And I say this because there have been days when we had AMGs, BMWs, and many other faster, fancier, and better vehicles sitting idle in our office’s parking lot, and yet I’d choose the Jimny over everything else. Whether it was for my daily drive home or highway runs (where the Jimny feels totally out of its depth), I consciously preferred the Jimny over everything else.

It didn’t matter if people joked about it being a ‘toy car’. It didn’t matter if my family didn’t find it comfortable. It didn’t matter if it couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding with its performance. Nothing mattered at all! The Jimny, to me, is the automotive equivalent of ‘the one’. You stop caring about everything else – the flaws, the complexities, the compromises. You don’t give two hoots. The whole world revolves around you and your partner. That’s precisely how I felt living with the Jimny.

Even though it’s gone, I really, really want the Jimny back in my life. So much so that I spend my nights sitting on the Nexa website, looking for the best deals on the Jimny. I must say that I’d almost decided on a red Jimny and was tempted to break the bank. But then, I recently stumbled upon some pictures of the Australia / South-Africa spec Jimny – the one that comes in some cool colour options, including ivory beige. That’s what I WANT now. Considering the 4-door Jimny is shipped to the rest of the world from India, I believe it shouldn’t be much of a hassle to launch these new colour options here. C’mon Maruti Suzuki, just do it and take my money!

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