Suzuki Jimny Heritage Returns Automatic Only for Australia: $42,490 Drive-Away, 300 Numbered Cars

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Suzuki Australia has quietly brought the Jimny Heritage back for a second run, and the headline change is the one buyers have been asking for since the first allocation sold out in a single afternoon in 2023. The three-door body returns, the Heritage decals and red mudflaps return, the numbered build badge returns, but the five-speed manual does not. For the first time, Heritage buyers get the Jimny's four-speed automatic as standard. Pricing opens at $42,490 drive-away for Superior White, with Medium Grey or Jungle Green metallic at $43,235 drive-away. The run is capped at 300 cars, numbered 301 to 600.

This is a cosmetic-and-trim edition on a mechanically unchanged three-door Jimny automatic, so the question for the buyer is a narrow one: is the numbered plate, the Heritage cargo tray, the red mudflaps and the pack of accessories worth the premium over a standard three-door Jimny auto in the same showroom. The maths is the main story here, and we have run it below against our own catalogue of the Jimny range and its natural cross-shops.

Pricing

For context against the rest of the current Suzuki Jimny range, the three-door Jimny Lite auto starts at $36,490 drive-away, the standard three-door Jimny auto at $38,490 drive-away, and the five-door Jimny XL auto at $40,490 drive-away. The Heritage sits $4,000 above the three-door Jimny auto and $2,000 above the XL auto, with no mechanical change over either of them. It is also the first automatic Heritage, so the premium is partly a transmission premium that the 2023 run did not have to answer for.

What You Get Over a Standard Jimny Auto

The Heritage package is cosmetic. Suzuki Australia lists the following additions over the standard three-door Jimny automatic:

• Red front mudflaps and red rear mudflaps
• Jimny Heritage cargo tray in the rear load area
• Heritage exterior decals and badging
• Numbered limited-build badge on the cabin, 301 to 600
• Heritage accessory pack
• Three-colour palette: Superior White, Medium Grey, Jungle Green

Nothing in that list changes the way the car drives, tows or wades. There is no suspension tweak, no diff lock added, no gear ratio change, no bash plate. The Heritage differentiates on badge, finish and provenance. If none of those matter to you and you want the same car to actually use, the standard three-door Jimny auto at $38,490 drive-away is the shorter path.

Specs

These are the published figures for the three-door Jimny automatic. The Heritage package does not change any of them, which is worth saying out loud: the Heritage is not a different Jimny to drive. It is the same drivetrain, the same gearing, the same geometry and the same ground clearance as every other three-door Jimny auto on the Suzuki Australia price list.

Equipment

Standard equipment carries over from the regular Jimny automatic and includes LED headlights, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, cloth seat trim, climate-control air conditioning and a 9.0-inch infotainment screen with the usual phone-mirroring. The Heritage additions sit on top of that specification rather than instead of any part of it, so you do not lose anything by picking the Heritage over a standard Jimny automatic. You simply pay more for the decals, the mudflaps, the cargo tray, the build number and the Heritage pack.

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Safety

The three-door Jimny JB74 held a three-star rating from the 2019 ANCAP protocols. That rating expired in December 2024 under ANCAP's six-year currency rule, and Suzuki has not had the current three-door retested since. The Heritage therefore goes on sale with no in-date ANCAP score on the body it uses. Standard active safety equipment on the Jimny automatic is unchanged on the Heritage: autonomous emergency braking, lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control and a dual-camera driver-assist system are included, as is a reversing camera.

For how we approach safety ratings in our own write-ups, our ANCAP explainer walks through how the stars work and what expiring a rating actually means for a car still on sale.

How It Compares

The Heritage sits in a very narrow slot inside Suzuki's own range, and the sharper comparisons are inside Suzuki rather than against other brands. Against the standard three-door Jimny automatic on the current CarSorted catalogue, the Heritage is $4,000 more drive-away for a cosmetic kit and a build number. Against the five-door Jimny XL automatic at $40,490 drive-away, the Heritage is $2,000 more, and the XL gives you two extra doors, more rear seat room and a longer load area for the money, which is a real practicality trade.

Looking outside the Jimny, this is a hard price band to spend into. For much the same money you can walk into a GWM Tank 300 Lux at close to $44,990 drive-away, which brings a 2.0-litre turbo petrol with 162kW, both front and rear diff locks, a full five-door body and heavier kerb weight. The Jimny Heritage counters with roughly 700kg less to carry up a hill, a proper low-range transfer case, an honest-to-god ladder frame, and a nameplate that has held its used value better than almost any small 4WD on the Australian market. Our side-by-side on that cross-shop is here: Suzuki Jimny versus GWM Tank 300.

Within Suzuki's own special-edition history, the Heritage pricing lands below the Jimny Rhino, which asks $47,490 RRP before on-roads for the five-door XL body with Kinetic Yellow paint. The Heritage is cheaper on paper, has fewer units (300 to the Rhino's 250), and keeps the three-door shape that originally sold out in five hours. If the shape and the collectible numbering matter, this is the Heritage's pitch.

Warranty and Running Costs

Suzuki Australia's five-year unlimited-kilometre warranty applies to the Heritage, same as the rest of the Jimny range, with capped-price servicing available at authorised dealers. At the published 6.9 L/100km combined, a Heritage covering 15,000km a year on 95 RON petrol at $1.90 per litre comes in at roughly $1,970 in fuel annually. That is low for a 4WD and sits well below a Tank 300 Lux at a claimed 9.5 L/100km, which would cost about $2,710 in fuel over the same distance. For the longer breakdown on how we compare running costs between cars, see our running costs calculator write-up.

What This Means for Buyers

The CarSorted database shows the Jimny range answering a very specific brief: short, light, properly off-road capable, cheap to feed, cheap to insure, strong resale. If that brief is yours, the honest buyer-side cross-shop is between the three cars Suzuki currently sells to it. Our catalogue has them at $38,490 drive-away for the standard three-door Jimny auto, $40,490 drive-away for the five-door Jimny XL auto, and $42,490 drive-away for the Heritage. The hardware on all three is identical. The decisions are shape, doors and whether a numbered build plate is worth $4,000 to you.

If you need the extra pair of doors or a boot you can actually use for a weekly shop, the XL auto is the Jimny to buy and the Heritage premium is working against you. If the three-door shape is non-negotiable, the standard three-door Jimny auto still gets you the Heritage drivetrain and the Heritage geometry for $4,000 less, and you can spend the difference on a bull bar, a snorkel and a set of all-terrains and have a car that actually goes further than a factory Heritage. The Heritage makes most sense when you are buying it as the thing itself, numbered, collectible, final 300 of 600, held like the 2023 cars have been held. Across the first run, we have seen almost no mileage put on the cars that resold, which tells you how the owners treated them, and that is probably how this allocation will go too.

Our one piece of practical advice: the first Heritage sold out in five hours, so if you want one, treat the Suzuki dealer phone call as the only thing that matters this week. The paint allocation across the three colours is not public, so a dealer who still has Jungle Green or Medium Grey at $43,235 drive-away is doing you a small favour, and the Superior White at $42,490 drive-away will almost certainly go first.

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