Suzuki Motor Corporation has been in business since 1909 and is headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. The current CEO is Osamu Suzuki and the current COO is Hiroshi Tsuda. The company’s main source of income comes from the manufacture of motor vehicles and light trucks. The company also manufactures motorcycles and outboard motors. Suzuki Motor Corporation has revenues close to 20,000 million dollars. There are currently 45,000 employees within the corporation. Their website is located at globalsuzuki.com. Suzuki has become the twelfth largest automaker in the world today based on production volume. Suzuki Motor Corporation has become so large that it has 35 production plants in 23 countries and 133 dealers in 192 countries around the world.
The company was originally founded in 1909 by Michio Suzuki as the Suzuki Loom Company which manufactured looms for the Japanese silk industry. For the first 30 years of the company’s existence, manufacturing focused on the development of these looms and their worldwide distribution. Michio Suzuki also filed up to 120 patents for different products during his time with the company. The company’s first motor vehicle was manufactured and distributed to the public in 1955. It was called the ‘Suzulight’ and was a light car, as evidenced by its name.
Before the company started manufacturing motor vehicles, it began manufacturing motorcycles. His first motorcycle rolled off the assembly line in 1952 and was more or less a motorized bicycle. Their motorcycles became more popular during the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to manufacturing motorcycles, Suzuki Motor Corporation also races their motorcycles. The company won the MotoGP title in 2000 and since 2006 has been sponsored by Rizla and known as the Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Team.
The company as a vehicle manufacturer took off after that. They then started making trucks, other compact cars, motorcycles, ATVs, and much more. Suzuki has also built vehicles for other major motor vehicle manufacturing companies. Those companies are General Motors, Subaru, Mazda, Nissan and Maruti Suzuki. Apart from motor vehicles, Suzuki has been very successful in the production of ATVs and motorcycles.
Suzuki ATVs are as follows:
utility sports
or Suzuki King Quad 700
Suzuki Twin Peaks 700
Suzuki Vinson 500
Suzuki Eiger 400
Suzuki Ozarks 250
Sport
Suzuki LT 230
Suzuki LT250
Suzuki LT-Z250
Suzuki LT-Z400
o Suzuki LT-R450 (race ready)
o Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak version (rally/road)
o Suzuki Cultus Pikes Peak version (rally/road)
Suzuki Motor Corporation also has a Suzuki World Rally Team. The team is factory-backed and competes in motor vehicle races around the world. It is quite new. He made his debut in 2007 as a competitor at the Rallye de France. The team has competed in just a few races in 2007 and 2008 and will add a couple more races to its schedule in 2009.
Suzuki Motor Corporation has been producing and distributing quality motor vehicles, motorcycles, outboard motors, ATVs and light trucks since the early 1900s and continues to climb the ladder of the most productive automobile manufacturing companies in the world today. .
