This midsize pickup was Suzuki’s first truck for the North American market and was introduced as a 2009 model year vehicle after its public debut at the 2008 Chicago Auto Show. Rather than being a clean-sheet Suzuki design, it was an OEM-supplied model built by Nissan in Smyrna, Tennessee, and closely related to the Nissan Frontier. Suzuki positioned it as a practical, body-on-frame pickup offered in extended-cab and crew-cab forms, aimed at buyers who wanted a conventional compact/midsize truck with Suzuki badging and dealership support.
The nameplate appeared only in one continuous production run. It was sold in North America beginning with the 2009 model year and ended after the 2012 model year in the United States; Canadian sales ended earlier, after 2010. The truck never became a long-running stand-alone Suzuki franchise, but it remains notable as the company’s only modern pickup in the U.S. market and as an example of Suzuki’s brief attempt to broaden its North American lineup beyond small cars and SUVs. Enthusiasts generally remember it as a rare rebadged Nissan truck rather than a distinct Suzuki engineering project, which makes it an unusual footnote in Suzuki’s automotive history.