Suzuki became SA’s favourite passenger car brand in May

• Suzuki the greatest-promoting passenger car or truck model all round
• Swift the most popular auto with 1 764 models marketed – a new document
• Suzuki Car SA and its dealers set new data

 

Suzuki Vehicle recorded a profits-soar of 630 cars from April to Might and hit a new over-all report of 4 331 new automobile income.

The new report suggests that Suzuki was also South Africa’s favorite passenger motor vehicle manufacturer in May well, outselling just about every other car marque and firmly setting up by itself as the third most significant manufacturer on the marketplace gross sales roster.

“As a business, our expansion strategy about the yrs could be in comparison to that of bamboo. Bamboo spends its early decades rising a solid root system that can help its stems. To the bare eye, it seems that it is not escalating at all, but as soon as it has set up the correct roots, the bamboo shoots into the sky at a rapid tempo.

“Since opening our doorways in South Africa in 2008, we have used a whole lot of time, electricity and money on developing a robust vendor community, a healthful head office environment group and a significant sections warehouse that can provide on our brand name assure of worth for cash and wonderful purchaser company. Now, with a community of 81 sellers, we are seeing the sturdy development that a firmly set up root program can deliver,” states Henno Havenga, supervisor for car supplier income at Suzuki Vehicle.

Havenga congratulated Suzuki dealers immediately after they broke by way of the 3 000-device barrier in May well with overall retail product sales of 3 100 models. Most of the remaining Suzuki vehicles ended up bought through its government, rental and fleet income division, which recorded profits of 1 229 units.

To top the variety of new records by the enterprise, naamsa, the field organization council, described that the Suzuki Swift was South Africa’s very best-advertising vehicle in Could with income of 1 764 models (which includes the Swift Activity). The S-Presso (783 models), Vitara Brezza (530 models), Jimny (428 models) and Ertiga (305 models) concluded the record of five finest-providing Suzuki products.

“The announcement of our new record and the new seller income report comes a couple times just before we celebrate the best-carrying out sellers at the 2021/22 Dealer of the 12 months Awards,” says Havenga.

“Every year the competitors for the title as the Suzuki Supplier of the Year gets fiercer as far more dealers enter our Elite and Platinum tiers for high-accomplishing dealers with exemplary purchaser services. This calendar year is no unique, and we look ahead to announcing the top rated performers future 7 days.”

Suzuki will launch its most recent product – the 2022 Suzuki Baleno – in the first 7 days of June. It will sign up for other very popular worth-for-dollars automobiles these types of as the Swift, S-Presso and the Super Carry workhorse on the showroom floors.

“The Baleno sets a new typical for value for money,” claims Brendon Carpenter, Model Advertising Manager of Suzuki Automobile South Africa.

“With luxuries these types of as local weather handle, an infotainment procedure with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as very well as major-design functions this kind of as head-up display screen and a round-watch digital camera procedure, we hope to set a new conventional for the compact hatchback marketplace and welcome even extra people today to the Suzuki spouse and children.”