The Suzuki Escudo is known as Sidekick in North America and Vitara in Europe and it is a small off road vehicle manufactured by Suzuki and General Motors between 1989-2004.

When Escudo or Suzuki Sidekick was redesigned in 1999, the name Sidekick was dropped and the name Vitara was introduced with 4 seats.

There are both two and four wheel drive versions of the Suzuki Sidekick and in four wheel drive the Suzuki Sidekick is too good picking its way.

The Suzuki Sidekick is available in colors such as Deep Space Blue, Jade Green, Mars Red Metallic, Midnight Black Metallic, Oregon Green, Sapphire Blue, Satin Black, Superior White, and Toreador Red.

The Suzuki Sidekick gives 26 mpg in city limits and 26 in the highways and 24 mpg when combined and regular fuel type is used and the cost to drive 25 miles is about $ 3.90 with 1.04 gallons needed.

The annual gas emission of The Suzuki Sidekick is 3.5 at its best and 16.2 when it is at its worse.

The Suzuki Sidekick 2 door convertible comes with wheel base of 86.6 inches, length of 143.7 inches, width of 64.2 inches, height of 64.3 inches, and curb weight of 2339 lbs, while the 4 door wagon has wheel base of 97.6 inches, length of 158.7 inches, width of 64.4 inches, height of 65.7 inches, and curb weight of 2632 lbs.

The Suzuki Sidekick was specially manufactured for sports events and regularly takes part in Pikes Peak International Hillclimb driven by Nobuhiro Monster Tajima and in a number of other Japanese events where it beat most of its other competitors.

The Suzuki Sidekick was known in Canada as Pontiac Sunrunner, in Spain it was Santana 300 and 350, and in Japan, it carried a Mazda badge.

The main drawbacks of Suzuki Sidekick are that it is tall and narrow and so the driver has to be cautious when driving through turns and since there is not much of cabin insulation, the sound of wind and road traffic come through loud.