Suzuki News

Suzuki launched its Swift Sport Cup series on Thursday 3rd April at the BRC’s 50th Anniversary event at Chatsworth, Derbyshire – the home of The Rally Show.

The SX4 WRC of P-G Andersson has scored a manufacturers’ point for Suzuki after an extremely challenging event featuring some of the worst conditions in recent memory.

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The Rally Argentina provides a vivid contrast to last month’s Rally Mexico where competitors will swap the heat and rocks for cooler weather and softer gravel surfaces near the city of Cordoba, about 700 km northwest of Buenos Aires.

Suzuki’s all-new Splash mini-MPV, which goes on sale this Saturday (8 March), has received a ringing endorsement in the latest round of Euro NCAP testing, achieving a four star rating for adult occupant protection and a three star rating for child occupant protection.

Toni Gardemeister has finished in the points for Suzuki on the Swedish Rally, claiming seventh position and the team’s best result to date. He scores two driver points and three manufacturer points.

Splash is Suzuki’s all-new mini-MPV with bags of practicality and youthful, vibrant styling designed specifically for the European market.

At the 78th Geneva International Motor Show, to be held from 4–16 March 2008, Suzuki Motor Corporation will be exhibiting the following models:

Following two test events in Corsica and Great Britain last year, the Suzuki World Rally Team now embarks on its first full season of world rallying with two new drivers: Toni Gardemeister from Finland and Per-Gunnar Andersson from Sweden, the reigning Junior Rally Champion with Suzuki.

Toni Gardemeister and Per-Gunnar Andersson will be driving the all-new Suzuki SX4 WRC in 2008. By nominating the Scandinavians, Suzuki brings a famous face back to the WRC tracks and enables one of its juniors to enter the world’s most demanding motor sport competition, thus following the corporation’s international motor sport strategy.