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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki
Bottom line they're hard into cars.
"2012: In January, the company said it would build a new engine factory as the third factory in Indonesia to fulfill the fast-growing Southeast Asian market. On a 1.3 million square-metre site in an industrial park outside Jakarta, Suzuki has spent 10 billion yen and might be would reach 30 billion yen."
Remember about 7 years ago when they joined with Kawasaki? It was the year they made that pot-metal piece of shit RMZ/KXF 250F
I could see that happening again.
They pulled out of MotoGP too. Going under? Probably not. Motorcycles ceasing production? Wouldn't surprise me one bit. Like I said, Suzuki is the KTM of the 90s. If you ask me, KTM is in the "big 4" and Suzuki is #5, on the outside, looking in.
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That quality piece of equipment was compliments of Kawasaki's engineering and production. That was one of several models shared by the two manufacturers during their "alliance", as they chose to refer to it. Yes, that 2004 model KX250F/RMZ250 was something else, wasn't it. I loved how the management would simply lie about issues with those things. If everyone only knew.........
The RMZ is an awesome bike period. But they had to make decisions on production #'s, it's business. The other four all pull money from their main business's which are huge. Look at Kawasaki, the motorcyles division, especially dirtbikes are a tiny part of their business.
Suzuki will be fine. They will pick up two top guys next year like Wilson or Rattray and be right back. I just wish they would get rid of that Rockstar suzuki team. That team makes the RMZ250 look back when in fact it's a fantastic bike.
Shit I hope they do well, as I have become a HUGE fan of their product recently. I still dont understand why you dont see more of them out at the track. The RMZ is every bit as good or better than most of the 450s out there.
There may be a deal in place for them to make some quick money in case they can't manage to get some of the real RM's over here...
Apparently, Browning-Ferris Industries has a ball mill down in Texas and the balls are getting rough and rusty. In order to retard the corrosion of the balls, Browning-Ferris will buy up the RMZ's and smash them into chunklets....
Then they'll be fed into the ailing ball mill to polish up it's balls.
The RMZ line will be excellent for this.
As far as the current 450 goes, its awesome. Ranks near the top of every shoot-out I've read even though they've only been continuously refining the '08 model.
Edit: I know, obviously can't go purely off of "shoot-outs", but I still feel its a strong bike.
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Pretty sure Suzuki are fine AND NOT GOING UNDER - they are bigger than MX sales alone and globally a lot bigger than their sales or lack of sales in the U.S (may be hard for some U.S citizens to believe but true none the less) if in fact they are suffering at all.
UK for example, Suzuki are very popular - would like to bet it's the same in most countries. Road and off road.
Moto GP is a tough nut for any manufacturer to stay at the top in - other track racing however, Suzuki are very popular and successful - look at the titles acquired nationally and internationally.
I like what Yamaha has done with Star. They have really helped build a nice team up by offering them factory stuff. They can help more riders on that team at lower costs then fielding one or two "superstars" through their own factory effort. Those Star bikes are just as capable as winning as PC or Geico with the right riders.
IMHO, I wish all of the direct factory efforts would go away. If each factory supported 3 satellite teams, there would be alot more rides available and it would make a huge improvement in leveling the equipment playing field. If each satelite team has (minimum) 2 riders, that's 6 riders per factory support, x the big 5 = 30 riders on good equipment instead of about the current 10 riders who have obvously better equipment. Then you would still have the smaller privateer-type teams with fairly good bikes. I just think it would really help in spreading the wealth of factory goods and promote a more even playing field.
the amount of $$ they have wrapped up in engineering/tooling is quite substantial
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