Who likes the 5-door Jimny?

I’M asking. Really, I’m asking!

Because I personally do not. No, I do not like the look of the new

5-door Jimny. I do not like its power, I do not like its extended body, I do not like its price, and it certainly is not a very appealing off-road vehicle.

But I do love the 3-door Jimny. That was a very unique vehicle.

Not so long ago, we wrote that the Jimny was the most underrated off-road vehicle ever to be built by a car company. Nobody really paid attention to it and most people who wanted an all-terrain vehicle would go for the more popular ones like the Toyota Fortuner 4x4, the Nissan Terra 4x4, and the off-road pickups of Isuzu, Nissan, Toyota, Mitsubishi, and even Chevrolet. and Ford.

And if the person buying the car had enough wads of cash in bank accounts, he or she would surely go for the Land Rover Defender that has a tougher and fancier badge.

But not many really paid attention to the 3-door Jimny until we started talking about its capability some seven years ago.

You see, we accidentally found out how excellent an off-roader the Jimny 3-door was when a friend asked us to join him on a camping trip with off roaders. There was one 3-door Jimny in the fleet of fancy 4x4 vehicles and we thought, hmmm, that’s an odd one out there.

It was, but it was not any inferior to all of the other fancy off-road trucks that it accompanied. That time seven years ago, the 3-door Jimny took as much punishment and gave as much grit as all the other “bigger” vehicles.

That was one good daily beater of an off-roader.

But Suzuki had to come up with an extended version of the Jimny. They had to come out with a 5-door version that looks so odd it does not seem appealing anymore.

The uniqueness of the 3-door Jimny was that it was small but powerful, looked regular but packed a deadly punch.

The 5-door Jimny looks like a Defender wannabee with its box shaped body. But it still maintains the same engine of the smaller Jimny, so there is a compromise in the power-to-weight department. The interior is still spartan compared to its competitors, and while it looks good on the 3-door Jimny, it does not look appealing to the bigger version.

And with a price tag of P1.708 million for the top spec and P1.558 million for the entry level model, I would rather go get me a Nissan Terra with all the bells and whistles at a cost that is not so huge.