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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: ebewley on December 04, 2003, 09:21:41 AM
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BREA, Calif. (December 2, 2003) - American Suzuki Motor Corporation (ASMC) sold 4,091 vehicles in November, a 10 percent decrease from its 2002 calendar year-to-date sales. The midsize Suzuki Verona sedan continued to gain momentum with 483 units sold in its third month of sales. The XL-7 posted 1,488 sales; the Grand Vitara posted 468 sales for the month and the Vitara posted 422 sales. Aerio sedan and SX marked 1,173 sales for the month, a 34 percent increase from 2002 calendar year-to-date sales.
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I wonder if they will get the message and lower thier prices!
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How about canceling out the G.V.,keep the higher end XL-7 and put the 2.5's in the 2dr. Vitara. Then using the Xl-7 platform make a 4 door pick up truck add 2 cylinders to the 2.7 and have a affordable V-8 pick-up to compete with ford ,chevy, and toyota. Can't understand why they have 2 V-6's so close in displacement with different fuel management systems. OK,i was dreaming about the pick-up idea.      Stu.
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OK,i was dreaming about the pick-up idea.      Stu.
I wouldn't count the pickup idea out. It has been kicked around enough to where I've had conversations with people in the know where the problem with a Suzuki pickup has been described as one of taxation. Appearently, there is a stiff tax on imported pickups. So, until you see Suzuki building a plant here, change in tax law, or reservation of some manufacturing space in a US GM facility, it won't happen.
-Eric
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i hope they dont stop the GV i have drivin both the GV and the xl-7 and for someone that doesnt wheel the gv is a much sportier car around town
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I wouldn't count the pickup idea out. It has been kicked around enough to where I've had conversations with people in the know where the problem with a Suzuki pickup has been described as one of taxation. Appearently, there is a stiff tax on imported pickups. So, until you see Suzuki building a plant here, change in tax law, or reservation of some manufacturing space in a US GM facility, it won't happen.
-Eric
They DO have a plant here...it's in Ingersoll Ontario! It's even modeled after Iwata in Japan. :(
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Hmmmm.....ingersol,ontario,United States? ::)
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Doesn't have to be in the United States...Canada is just as good. Many cars driven by Canadians and Americans alike are EXCLUSIVELY made in Canada.
The point is, THERE IS A PLANT HERE, in North America.
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Yeah, but its gonna make the uniwannbebody equiniox or some awful beancounter iteration of what an SUV should be.
No more trackers and no more vitaras from Ingersoll! >:(
However, Iwata has plenty of capacity to build vitaras and xl 7 rigs for export to the US. ;D
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Yeah, but its gonna make the uniwannbebody equiniox or some awful beancounter iteration of what an SUV should be. ÂÂ
No more trackers and no more vitaras from Ingersoll!  >:(
Only because GM called that shot with out much of Suzuki's opinion.
It's suppose to be a 50-50 partnership unless Suzuki has sold there half or something like that?
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might be....or zuke could "rebadge" one of the beancounter dreams from that plant and call it their own.
Kinda like rebadging Daewoo cars and calling them zukes.
Or Ford going to Kia and hatching up a concoction called the Aspire which never inspired sales.
Or Chebby getting zuke to build the sprint? Remember that leetle beast, with a turbocharged 3 banger?
Or Honda going to Iszuzu and slapping a "Passport" name on that suv and calling it their own. Funny, CR used to give bad reliability ratings to the Izsuzu product , but better than average to the Honda (apparently not at all mindful of the fact that both rolled off the assembly line in W. Lafayette Indiana)
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ITS AMAZING THE POWER THE BADGE NAME HAS ON A MODEL VEHICLE....HMMMMM PAY OFFS FROM THE BIG COMPANIES...NAAAA THAT WOULDN'T HAPPEN...MUST BE A WHOLE LOT BETTER WITH THE HONDA EMBLEM ;D