New Suzuki Equator Pickup Rendered

Suzuki’s Equator pickup, not offered in Australia, had never been a particularly successful product for the Japanese carmaker.

Based on the D40 Navara, the Equator was built in the US alongside Nissan’s own pickup, known there as the Frontier.

But, while the Frontier pulls in around 5000 sales in the US each month, the Equator managed an average of 150 per month in 2012 - the year that Suzuki pulled its automotive arm from North America after 30 years of business there.

Could the Equator return? Likely not to the US market, but a new Suzuki pickup could potentially do good business in Asia and here in Australia.