Suzuki News

Every month is important in the auto industry, but for most automakers, December holds special significance; as the last month of the year, we get annual sales numbers in addition to monthly figures, and automakers, consumers, and analysts are all able to see how good or bad the year actually ...    Read more

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has announced its safest cars for the 2013 model year. In all, the new Top Safety Pick+ was awarded to 13 different cars, with another 117 vehicles earning the title of Top Safety Pick. To earn a Top Safety Pick+ award, vehicles must earn ...    Read more

It seems like just yesterday when American Suzuki said it would be pulling out of the U.S. market, declaring bankruptcy amid sluggish sales and a dearth of new products. However, the automaker said it would continue service and support for its cars, trucks, SUVs, and crossovers despite bailing on the ...    Read more

Suzuki's cars are now hot, apparently. After years of tepid sales, Suzuki announced a few weeks ago that it would exit the U.S. market. Apparently, people took to the going out of business sale, and demand has ...    Read more

One can imagine Suzuki's corporate offices are something like the end of  Trading Places when brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke are yelling "Sell! Sell!" as they're being trampled by traders who want to buy frozen concentrated orange juice instead. In the real world, Suzuki has a few ...    Read more

Mitsubishi had a rough year in the American automotive market, but it wasn't for lack of trying. After dropping four major vehicles from its lineup (the Eclipse coupe, Eclipse Spyder, Galant sedan, and the Endeavour crossover), Mitsubishi watched its sales in the United States take a nosedive to the tune ...    Read more

It has come to our attention that, despite the flurry of automotive news, there was something else going on this week. From what we've gathered, it had something to do with a contest between two guys, one wanted the other's job, and there was a big hullabaloo about swings in ...    Read more

In an interim court ruling this morning, American Suzuki Motor Corp. was authorized to borrow $45 million dollars to close its struggling franchise dealerships According to reports from Automotive News, the borrowed money allows Suzuki to make cash payments to all 216 of its automobile dealerships in America within 10 days ...    Read more

American Suzuki Motor Corp. has announced that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and end its automotive business. The company will wind down and cease selling cars in the United States, and focus its efforts on its much more successful motorcycle, ATV, and marine divisions. Suzuki will continue ...    Read more

We ran down the sales numbers for September, but it's a lot to take in. Fortunately, it's our job to comb through it. In any list, there are winners and losers, and sometimes, they come from surprising sources. While we're sure Honda, Chrysler and Volkswagen are feeling pretty good ...    Read more

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The early Chevrolet Equinox and shamelessly tacky badge-engineered variant Pontiac Torrent never saw critical acclaim; the same went for the Cobalt and, again, its Pontiac G5 sibling. Now those late-2000s GM products are being recalled, along with the Saturn Ion, for a fuel pump that ...    Read more

More than 350,000 people should be getting letters in the mail sometime soon warning of imminent malfunctions, fires, or other impending automotive doom raining down upon them if they don't act soon. Three automakers—"Old" GM, BMW, and Suzuki—just issued recalls for various issues. As always, here's a rundown of what ...    Read more

Contrary to popular belief, Suzuki is not dead. In fact, like some bizarro Star Trek universe where Spock grows a goatee and sends people to the Agony Booth, Suzuki is still very much alive and thriving in Europe, Asia, and its home turf of Japan. A new ...    Read more

It's been a strong month for Japanese carmakers, with new product trickling in through the pipelines. To wit, Toyota and Honda were the obvious winners this month. No surprise there. It's like saying that the Abrams M1A2's 120 mm smoothbore gun with armor-piercing discarding sabot rounds will probably do some ...    Read more

April 2011's earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan rocked its industry, devastated the mainland, and disrupted production all over the world until late fall. What's interesting to see, reading between the numbers, is just how much of an impact the earthquake had. Japan's three biggest automakers—Toyota, Honda, and Nissan—shot back into ...    Read more

It was a great month for Honda, Subaru, Toyota and Mazda, which all posted either double-digit growth or the best month ever in the company’s history. Which is kind of like the difference between finding a quarter in your pants pocket on laundry day and winning the Stanley Cup. The ...    Read more

What do the Coachella music festival, a Honda lawsuit, and a couple of Chevy-themed videos have in common? Nothing, really, except that they were all covered at Automotive.com this week, and all recapped here in our Week in Review. It was a big week for news, really, with all kinds ...    Read more

Pop quiz: When was the last time you saw a new Suzuki car? We mean a new one, not a ratty Esteem on the side of the freeway, and certainly not of the two-wheeled variety. The painfully underrated Kisazhi is a unicorn on these roads. The SX4 dates to ...    Read more

We're well into 2012, but if March sales are any indication, the beat plays on for Japanese automakers. March proved to be a mixed bag for Japanese stalwarts, with luxury brands such as Lexus, Acura, and Infiniti experiencing a long winter. On the flip side, economical, value-driven cars are something ...    Read more

Suzuki has never had its own GPS navigation. In the past, Suzuki's systems have been detachable Garmin units—which pop up through a bin in the top of the center console, as in the SX4 shown above. The advantage of this is that it's cheap, and you can use the detachable ...    Read more

In the classic 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day,” Bill Murray’s character is forced to live one day—the titular Groundhog Day—over and over again. After much soul searching, Murray's character eventually learns not to be a pompous jerk, gets the girl, and even falls in love with the town of Punxsutawney. But ...    Read more

Ignore all the froufrou about the Acura NSX, pictured above, and the sleek, unpronounceable Lexus concept that were hyped up at the last auto show. Some significant Japanese cars came out this month, and their sales figures reflect the shininess: the Toyota Camry, Honda CR-V, and Subaru Impreza ...    Read more

The Super Bowl of advertising is just around the corner, once again coinciding with the actual Super bowl. Good thing too, since it's a sure bet that not all of the millions of people watching The Big Game actually enjoy football. However, all of them do buy stuff on occasion, ...    Read more

The past few years has seen major shakeups in the automotive industry, and it shows in a recent survey on brand perception conducted by Consumer Reports. Once dominant players Toyota, Honda, Ford, and Chevrolet remain on top, but each automaker has seen its points gap decrease compared to last year. ...    Read more

In 2011, Automotive.com’s staff size increased 600 percent. We started our own revitalization, staking out where we were and where we are yet to go. To close out the year, we put together our picks for the high and low points that made up the automotive year that was 2011. From ...    Read more