Magyar Suzuki

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Magyar Suzuki Zrt, the company. is a company based in Esztergom, Hungary automotive and motorcycle dealers. Since October 1992 Magyar Suzuki is considered as an automobile manufacturer and takes for Suzuki since an important strategic market position in Central Europe. The foundation stone of the work took place in April 1991.

The manufacturer of the Hungarian plant site covers an area of 350,000 square meters. Even from afar you can see from the past leading highways 111 and 117 of the workshops. Of the latter consists of the 1117 a direct link road to the plant site. Currently here are employed over 4200 workers. Total investment in the amount of 14 billion HUF has been spent on the construction of the plant. In addition to Suzuki ( 97.3 %) and the Itochu group ( 2.5%), the Autókonszern ( 0.1%) and IFC Investments to participate ( 0.1 %) of the company. The work thus represents a joint venture between Suzuki and Toyota, but is issued due to the high property claims Suzuki as one of its subsidiaries.

History

Just one year after the start of production of more than 10,000 units of Suzuki Swift were sold. This was the Suzuki Swift this year as the best selling car model in Hungary. To mark the success of the work had taken the four- door model with the program. Until then there had been the Swift here only as a five-door, which was located in the compact class. The new notchback model, however, was ranked in the lower middle class. The main competitors in turn were the Mazda 323, Toyota Corolla and Nissan Sunny. From European manufacturers were at that time no serious competition in these segments. At the same time the work began with the installation of the European version of the Suzuki Alto. The components for this one moved largely from the Indian carmaker Maruti. Only the smaller components such as bumpers, exterior mirrors and interior have been made ​​in Europe. Maruti should therefore devote only the right-hand drive production units for the next 15 years.

In the course of 1994, Magyar Suzuki took then also export its vehicles to reach to the maximum utilization of the work. As the first country the People's Republic of China, Republic of China, Italy and the Netherlands were supplied. Approximately 25,000 units were produced in 1994.

Around 1995 the manufacturer's market share in Hungary has dropped to 20 percent because of increased competition. A year later the factory certification for the ISO 9002. Yet received in the same year of 100,000 Hungarian Suzuki rolled off the assembly line in Esztergom. As a newest model, however, what the Subaru Justy been added, which was almost identical to that of the hatchback Swift.

The declining sales figures, triggered by press releases relating to counteract a poor build quality and reputation as defects dwarf, Suzuki was forced to revise the Swift. In Japan reacted to late 1995, the model update at Magyar Suzuki was only at the end of 1996, after the Japanese parent company had announced permanently suspend its exports of Swift to Europe. Because in some countries, the revised model had already been available by import from Japan, but you wanted to take no technical step backwards, the revised model learned its implementation now also in the Hungarian plant. Then took the Suzuki Swift and 2001 in, again the place of the best-selling automobile in Hungary.

A further step to counteract the bad reputation, put the Hungarian plant since 1998 with the introduction of a certified environmental management system according to ISO 14001. Moreover, General Motors had entered into an agreement for the joint production of a small car.

In the new millennium Magyar Suzuki then took on the production of the new WagonR , which rolled off the production line according to the agreement of 1998 in the badge - engineering. So this had been offered in the European markets in parallel as Opel Agila. Some body parts as well as the platform produced for its sister model Opel Polska factory in Gliwice. There are other model variants of the WagonR was built, but unlike consist exclusively of components of the Opel production.

About the turn of the millennium a plant expansion took place, which should enable the production of other car models. Upon completion, there began the production of the new Suzuki Ignis. In 2002, the new generation of the Alto followed. The second generation of the Ignis was already in late 2003 on the market and made from 2004, mainly because participation in intra-European rallies for Fuore. The racing version heard on the name Super 1600th Only by the success media succeeded Suzuki mass production of the model to take. For the technically outdated models Swift and Justy, however, it was necessary for the past years to reduce production numbers. Subaru then reacted with the acquisition of the new Ignis G3X Justy as. In September 2004, then also presented their new Suzuki Swift, for it now but more was no sister model. However, the launch of which took place only on 4 February 2005. The redesign of the product range increased investment of 100 billion forints to claim. From Magyar Suzuki, the period 2003-2005 is therefore referred to as the European Renaissance. As the largest investment in the economic region of Central Transnubiens, the company was also awarded the Best of the Region award.

With the Suzuki SX4 Suzuki Magyar produced in February 2006 for the first time a recreational vehicle, also known as family leisure vehicles. For the newly established partnership with Fiat, the model is built here in badge engineering as Fiat Sedici. The two models of the Ignis was replaced. Two months later, the assembly of the Alto in Europe has been set. The sequel has since been built in the newly built Manesar plant of the Indian automobile manufacturer. It served as a replacement, the new generation of the Justy. In this it was, however, a license of the Japanese Daihatsu Boon. The Hungarian model Daihatsu Daihatsu went on the model name of the Daihatsu Sirion.

In the summer of 2007, Magyar Suzuki began the third plant expansion, for which an investment of 50 billion forints were estimated. In this part of the work of the Suzuki Splash is currently under construction. Similarly, the Opel Agila Vauxhall Agila as its sister model to be built here. But parts suppliers is further Polish Opel or GM plant. The current generation of the Swift is available in Hungary since the summer of 2010.

In July 2011, the two - millionth vehicle rolled off the line.

Production figures

Model Overview

Information: Magyar Suzuki used to start the vehicle identification number of the world manufacturer code TSM. The factory code of the letter S is used at the ninth position for the plant in Esztergom. Vehicles where there is the letter G is to find, come from Polish production in Gliwice manufacturer Opel Polska.

• A car model of the brand Suzuki.
• A car model of the Subaru brand
• A car model of the Opel brand.
• A car model of the Fiat brand.
• A car model of the Daihatsu brand.
• A car model of the Vauxhall brand.

1: Production of vehicle parts for this car model took place in India at Maruti. ( WHC: MA3; WKC: p Since 2007 is used by the newly built Manesar plant, the same plant code. ) 2: Production of vehicle parts for this car model took place at Daihatsu in Japan. ( WHC: JDA; WKC: S) 3: Production of vehicle parts for this car model took place at Opel in Poland. ( WHC: W0L; WKC: S)