Suzuki Motor Corp’s domestic car sales recently passed the 20 million unit milestone. This was spurred by strong performance in the small vehicle segment – Suzuki sold a total of 624,723 units in Japan last year to claim a 32.7% market share in the small car segment, an increase of 1.1%.
The company is seeing growth elsewhere too. In 2009, Suzuki made 1,479,231 vehicles outside of Japan; a record for the company and a 5.3% jump over 2008. The majority of these were accounted for by Maruti Suzuki in India where it holds a 54% market share of passenger vehicles sold. A master in developing markets, Magyar Suzuki in Hungary, which supplies Europe with the Swift, Splash and SX4, recently celebrated being the domestic market leader for the thirteenth consecutive year.
Suzuki’s car production began in Hamamatsu in October 1955 with the Suzulight pictured above, which was powered by a 360cc two-stroke engine. The company fast gained reputation as a “small car expert” and introduced the Suzulight Carry Pick-up in 1961 and the Fronte 800 City car in 1967. This was followed in 1970 by the introduction of the Jimny, which Suzuki says is the world’s first compact and lightweight 4X4. The debut of the Alto in 1979 cemented Suzuki’s stronghold in Japan’s mini car segment and provided the perfect product to conquer India.
Danny Tan loves driving as much as he loves a certain herbal meat soup, and sweet engine music as much as drum beats. He has been in the auto industry since 2006, previously filling the pages of two motoring magazines before joining this website. Enjoys detailing the experience more than the technical details.
congrats suzuki
proud as a suzuki owner..
one of the better japanese makes, alongside with Mitsubishi and Subaru.
congratulations suzuki!
OK… 20million mark reached… So… any benefit to the owner?
its a very good company with good and reliable car and bikes, o and also atv. its presence is so good in else where like japan n india that sometimes, i wonder about its presence in Malaysia….. wat i mean is that since P2 is doing well with K-cars n the myvi n alza, wouldnt it be good also to have the the WAGON R, SPLASH, pallate …..never in my mind i underestimated suzuki…. done well with the vitara n jimny in 90's. even where i am staying, beforre there was myvi, there was the suzuki Solio…. then when the swift came…wow…
sx4 is nice, but fully imported price vs the vios n city ckd is no win… if priced lower by 10k as ckd with full option, it will be a run 4 the money…. some more, mazda 2 is coming in….
Suzuki Swift rocks.
ya.. ya…
Praise the brand.. in the end… our money still goes to them…
and,we just have the car… nothing more, nothing less…
me too… proud to be a suzuki owner…
vitara and fx125…
already 10 years now but still good…
reliable with no breakdown…
i love the swift
Gov need to protect P2… pls open our market… let bring Suzuki K car here and sell it at viva n myvi price…
o yes….. plz open the market…… we cannot have a 'BARRIER' as car lovers to be stuck with the usuals…… so SUZUKI should have a plan like wat the P2 has done….
i am just guessing that the suzuki slpash can be a hit vs cars like viva and the I10…… who knows…..
Good Suzuki..
Now please reintroduce the new SUZUKI JIMNY in Malaysia.
thanks.
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February 20, 2010 @ 12:08 pm
o yes….. plz open the market…… we cannot have a ‘BARRIER’ as car lovers to be stuck with the usuals…… so SUZUKI should have a plan like wat the P2 has done….
i am just guessing that the suzuki slpash can be a hit vs cars like viva and the I10…… who knows…..
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do u think G wants to give suzuki as national car title as well??? for sure p2 will ask G not to do so.. otherwise.. their business must be in trouble..
Suzuki Jimny would be to expensive if were to CBU from Japan..
am proud of not one but few models of suzuki that i own.. awesome car awesome handling .. i revv my tiny G10 to 7000 almost everyday and only service the car once a year hahahahah