Suzuki

Suzuki Motor Corporation - a Japanese engineering company. The headquarters - in the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Founded in 1909 by Michio Suzuki. The company started its activity with the release looms, motorbike and motorcycle, was founded as Suzuki Loom Works. In the 1930s, rose sharply in Japan, demand for cars, and in 1937, Michio Suzuki, staff began a project to create small cars. After a few prototypes of the program was curtailed because of the outbreak of World War II.

The idea of ??creating vehicles returned only in 1951, when the market collapsed looms. Was created by motorbike Suzuki Power Free, which was the feature of having two drive sprocket, through which you can move only through the engine by means of pedals or using simultaneously both types of drives.

In 1954 the company was renamed Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd., At which time it was producing 6,000 motorcycles and mopeds in the month. A year later, went into the production front-wheel minicar Suzulight with independent front and rear suspension. In 1962 he began exporting motorcycles to the United States, at the same factory team became the first pobedilelem Series Moto GP. In 1982 the group released the first in the world of ATV - model QuadRunner LT125.

In 1967 the company opened its first overseas plant in Thailand, in 1982, started operations in India. In 2008 a joint venture between Suzuki with Indian company Maruti Udyog holds 50% of the local car market.

In 1967, the group began production of the first generation of the family runabouts Fronte, Alto, Cervo, in 1983 there is a model class above - Swift / Cultus. Exports of automobiles in the United States started in 1985. In 1988 began the production of the crossover Vitara.

In December 2009, Suzuki has entered into an alliance with the German Volkswagen Group, with the latter exchanged shares, and announced the joint development of environmentally friendly cars. Less than two years later, in September 2011, it was announced that the decay of the alliance.