2024 Suzuki Jimny vs 2021 Peugeot 2008

What's the difference?

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Suzuki Jimny
Suzuki Jimny

$30,490 - $59,990

2024 price

Peugeot 2008
Peugeot 2008

$15,950 - $29,800

2021 price

Summary

2024 Suzuki Jimny
2021 Peugeot 2008
Safety Rating

Engine Type
Inline 4, 1.5L

Turbo 3, 1.2L
Fuel Type
Premium Unleaded Petrol

Premium Unleaded Petrol
Fuel Efficiency
6.9L/100km (combined)

6.1L/100km (combined)
Seating
4

5
Dislikes
  • Would get tiring on a long trip
  • Quite spartan in terms of features
  • Low power, surprisingly high fuel use

  • Hefty pricing
  • Lack of advanced safety features
  • Slightly grim rear accommodation
2024 Suzuki Jimny Summary

You really can’t please everyone, can you?

It seems like just about every example of the wildly, ridiculously, immensely popular Suzuki Jimny barely had time for the suspension to settle as it parked in the showroom before it was being snapped up and rolled out for a customer - in fact plenty of Jimnys probably never saw a showroom floor, such was the length of the waiting list.

But even then, you all wanted a bigger version of the Jimny. It’s never enough is it? 

Fine, says Suzuki, here’s an even more easy-to-live-with version of the adorable 4X4 that everyone wants, and these examples will probably continue to fly off the shelves too.

But is the XL just that - a Jimny with two extra doors? Or is there more to it than that?

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2021 Peugeot 2008 Summary

The 2008 is kind of a big deal for Peugeot - the old car was a bit niche and people didn't really know what it was. It also had a whiff of last-decade Peugeot whereas this one is proper 2021, fashion-forward Peugeot. The brand has changed so much in the past few years that it's even going to slap a new logo in its big grilles in the coming months.

Peugeot's product strategy was missing that important, late-millenial/early Gen X grabbing compact SUV, a cheaper entry to the brand that attracts fans of good design with a plenty of readies in their pockets. Basically the people Mini's Countryman, BMW's X2, Audi's Q2 and VW's T-Roc and T-Cross are going after. So not an easy task, then.

The local importer knows it needs to find younger customers to hook into the brand, because the halo of its turn-of-the-century success, the 306, has now faded. People like me will buy Peugeots because they wanted a 306, are Francophiles or are just plain contrarian (in my case, all three). Peugeot needs an in. The 2008 might just be it.

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