Suzuki became SA’s favourite passenger car brand in May

• Suzuki the most effective-promoting passenger car or truck manufacturer all round
• Swift the most popular motor vehicle with 1 764 units sold – a new history
• Suzuki Car SA and its sellers set new data

Suzuki Automobile recorded a sales-soar of 630 vehicles from April to May well and strike a new over-all report of 4 331 new automobile sales.

The new report indicates that Suzuki was also South Africa’s favorite passenger vehicle brand name in May possibly, outselling each other motor vehicle marque and firmly setting up itself as the third greatest company on the industry income roster.

“As a firm, our growth technique about the yrs could be compared to that of bamboo. Bamboo spends its early decades developing a potent root procedure that can aid its stems. To the naked eye, it appears that it is not increasing at all, but when it has proven the ideal roots, the bamboo shoots into the sky at a rapid rate.

“Since opening our doorways in South Africa in 2008, we have invested a ton of time, energy and money on establishing a powerful vendor community, a healthier head office environment crew and a large parts warehouse that can provide on our brand assure of value for revenue and great consumer service. Now, with a network of 81 dealers, we are viewing the strong expansion that a firmly set up root technique can produce,” says Henno Havenga, manager for vehicle vendor profits at Suzuki Vehicle.

Havenga congratulated Suzuki dealers right after they broke by way of the 3 000-device barrier in Could with full retail sales of 3 100 models. Most of the remaining Suzuki cars were being bought through its authorities, rental and fleet profits division, which recorded product sales of 1 229 units.

To major the selection of new data by the corporation, naamsa, the marketplace business council, reported that the Suzuki Swift was South Africa’s greatest-providing car or truck in May perhaps with gross sales of 1 764 units (together with the Swift Sport). The S-Presso (783 units), Vitara Brezza (530 models), Jimny (428 models) and Ertiga (305 units) completed the record of 5 best-selling Suzuki products.

“The announcement of our new history and the new vendor income file arrives a couple times right before we rejoice the very best-doing sellers at the 2021/22 Seller of the Calendar year Awards,” states Havenga.

“Every year the levels of competition for the title as the Suzuki Seller of the Calendar year gets to be fiercer as a lot more sellers enter our Elite and Platinum tiers for significant-doing sellers with exemplary shopper assistance. This calendar year is no diverse, and we seem forward to asserting the top performers next 7 days.”

Suzuki will launch its newest product – the 2022 Suzuki Baleno – in the to start with week of June. It will sign up for other incredibly popular value-for-cash cars this kind of as the Swift, S-Presso and the Tremendous Have workhorse on the showroom flooring.

“The Baleno sets a new normal for value for income,” states Brendon Carpenter, Manufacturer Advertising Manager of Suzuki Vehicle South Africa.

“With luxuries this kind of as local weather handle, an infotainment method with Apple CarPlay and Android Automobile as effectively as top rated-model options these types of as head-up exhibit and a spherical-perspective digital camera method, we hope to established a new typical for the compact hatchback current market and welcome even much more folks to the Suzuki household.”