Speaking to Australia’s carsales.com.au at the reveal of the Jimny set to go on sale Down Under next week, Suzuki Automotive Australia General Manager, Michael Pachota, said he has been pushing for a production Jimny pick-up despite the sole factory in Kosai already running at full capacity of 60 000 units in an attempt to keep up with spiraling demand.

“Australian consumers can’t wait to get their hands on a ute version, so I’m pushing very hard with the factory to try and get that into Australia. Our country has a high agricultural presence for farmers and people working the land. The Jimny Sierra has always been an iconic car on any farm or property and those vehicles out there on those farms are still running today. They won’t break down,” Pachota said.

Already previewed as a render by Czech-based X-Tomi Design in 2017 and by the Jimny Sierra Style concept (pictured) shown at the Tokyo Auto Salon earlier this month, the pick-up will use the standard Jimny’s TECT’s ladder-frame chassis, AllGrip four-wheel drive system with selectable low-range, have a ground clearance of 210mm and powered by the 1.5-litre K15B petrol engine that produces 75kW/130Nm.

With the engine comes the option of two transmissions; a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic, though expect the addition of a longer loadbay to impede on the Jimny’s current dimensions with both the overall length (3 645mm) and wheelbase (2 250mm) likely to be longer.

If given the green light, the Jimny pick-up will mark Suzuki’s segment reappearance since discontinuing the United States-only Equator, a badge engineered version of the previous generation Nissan Navara, in 2012, and three years after officially ending sales of the terminally dated SJ410/413 derived Farm Worker in New Zealand, which is also sold by Maruti Suzuki in India as the Gypsy.