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Apr
6th

JAPAN: Minicars dominate top 10

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Suzuki's Wagon R minicar was Japan's best-selling vehicle for the fifth consecutive year, according to the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. Sales fell 7% in fiscal 2008, however, to 208,494 units. Full story...
Apr
6th

AMA Supercross: The Firm of Stewart and Reed does the business in Jax.

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Yamaha lead rider James Stewart won his 10th AMA Supercross race of 2009 at the inaugural race in Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, before 31,653 fans and the ever steady Chad Reed (Suzuki). Full story...
Apr
3rd

INDIA: Maruti Suzuki posts volume growth

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India's car market leader Maruti Suzuki sold 792,167 vehicles in its 2008-2009 year. This marks a growth of 3.6% over the previous 12 months, it said. Full story...
Apr
2nd

Suzuki sedan heads for December introduction in the United States:

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It's been awhile since we've shown you some spy art of Suzuki's upcoming sport sedan foreshadowed by the Kizashi concepts. Full story...
Apr
2nd

Suzuki cuts U.S. staff by 15% as Q1 sales plunge

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American Suzuki Motor Corp., reeling from a first-quarter sales decline of 43 percent, terminated more than 15 percent of its staff across the board at its Brea, Calif., headquarters and its regional offices, a spokesman confirmed late Wednesday. Full story...
Apr
2nd

Yoshimura Suzuki Selling Mat Mladin’s Current Superbike

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Too good (Or cheap) to be true? As Yoshimura Suzuki will be switching to 2009 models for the next AMA race, Mat Mladin's current racer, a 2008 GSX-R1000 Superbike will de sold off the back of the hauler, right after the Superbike race this coming Sunday in Road Atlanta. Full story...
Mar
31st

INDIA: Mitsubishi cans small car plans

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Mitsubishi Motor's plan to produce a volume-generating compact car in India - following the likes of Suzuki and Hyundai - has been deferred indefinitely for lack of funds and sliding demand. Full story...
Mar
30th

AMA SX: Stewart comes through in Toronto

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Yamaha's James Stewart won his ninth race of the '09 season, in front of more than 37,000 fans inside Toronto's Rogers Centre, after leading every lap of the final. With four races left of the 17-race title chase, the championship battle is coming down to a straight fight between Stewart and Chad Reed, the Suzuki rider who arrived in Toronto with an 11 point lead in the championship. Full story...
Mar
29th

2009 Suzuki Swift+ Review

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It goes without saying that purchasing a Suzuki Swift+ is not an emotional decision. It's a matter of necessity. And yet, few people are buying it. Less than 2,000 units have found takers in Canada last year, while overall econobox sales amounted to over 150,000 cars. Full story...
Mar
26th

INDIA: No Nano rival plans at Maruti

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Top Indian car maker Maruti Suzuki, has no plans to enter the Nano segment, even though it expects the world's cheapest car to have a marginal impact on sales of its 800cc small car which is based on an early 1980s Alto model. Full story...
Mar
23rd

AMA Supercross: Chad Reed wins in St Louis

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The AMA Supercross series visited St Louis (MO) on Saturday as its two dominant riders, the steady Chad Reed (Suzuki) and main rival and quickest rider in the series James Stewart (Yamaha) lined up to do battle. Reed led the season championship from Stewart by only 6 points, after finishing first or second in every race so far this season. Full story...
Mar
23rd

AMA Superbike and Daytona SportBike from Fontana

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Rockstar/Makita Yoshimura Suzuki rider Mat Mladin went a perfect two-for-two in 2009 with a win in Saturday's AMA Superbike race at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA, his victory coming after a race-long battle with Tommy Hayden. Full story...
Mar
18th

Lawmakers to hear about plight of ‘scared to death’ small dealers

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When Bob Cockerham became a Suzuki dealer in 2006, he had great hopes for the franchise. But in November 2008 he gave up Car World Suzuki. Unit sales in 2008 dropped 60 percent from the previous year. Full story...
Mar
18th

Senate committee to hear from New Mexico dealer

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When Bob Cockerham became a Suzuki dealer in 2006, he had great hopes for the franchise. But in November 2008 he gave up Car World Suzuki. Unit sales in 2008 dropped 60 percent from the previous year. Full story...
Mar
17th

AMA Superbike at Daytona: Mat Mladin – who else?

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Suzuki rider Mat Mladin won his seventh career Superbike race at Daytona International Speedway Thursday where he led 10 of 15 laps after starting from the pole. Mladin's win was his second Superbike victory in a row at Daytona and his fifth there in the last six years. Full story...
Mar
17th

AMA SX: Chad Reed wins Daytona while Stewart puts on the show!

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The AMA 450 Supercross 20 lap main event was presented in Daytona last Saturday and Suzuki rider Chad Reed did an outstanding job by winning the race and taking over the points lead. Full story...
Mar
17th

Daytona 2009 – The Adventures of Miguel, Pascal and the Boys

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The decision by Team Suzuki / Blackfoot / Picotte Performance to enter Miguel Duhamel in the 2009 Daytona 200 Mile race was taken very late in the game, as the budget necessary to get the five-time 200 winner Miguel Duhamel on a Suzuki GSX-R600 was finalised 13 days before the race truck had to leave Granby for the Florida track. Full story...
Mar
16th

Suzuki launches TV ad blitz for SX4

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After shunning broadcast advertising for most of the first quarter, American Suzuki Motor Corp. returns to TV todaywith commercials for the SX4 small sedan and hatchback. Full story...
Mar
16th

No floorplan: Top Suzuki dealer loses all his cars

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Three years ago, Gary Linam recalls wistfully, his retail auto business was a "jet at full throttle, going straight up." Today, the jet is crashing toward Earth. In 2006, Linam's Suzuki dealership in Huntsville, Ala. Full story...
Mar
6th

Top Suzuki dealer stops selling, cites floorplan woes

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A Suzuki dealership in Huntsville, Ala., that was once the brand's top U.S. sales outlet has stopped selling vehicles while its owner looks for a new source of inventory financing. Full story...
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