Suzuki Achieves Two Million Total Accumulated Automobile Production Volume in Hungary

ESZTERGOM, HUNGARY – July 19, 2011: Suzuki’s automobile production and sales subsidiary in Hungary, Magyar Suzuki Corporation Ltd. (Headquarter located in Esztergom, President: Mr. Hisashi Takeuchi) has achieved the accumulating total of two million in its automobile production volume on 14 July 2011. The two millionth car of production was a “New Swift”.

Since Magyar Suzuki Corporation Ltd. started producing 1.0L and 1.3L “Swift” in October 1992, they have produced “Wagon R+”, “Ignis”, first world strategic model “Swift”, “SX4”, “Splash”, and “New Swift” for the European market as well as the Hungarian domestic market and achieved two million in 19 years.

Suzuki had started negotiating before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and jointly founded Magyar Suzuki Corporation Ltd. in 1991. Suzuki was among the first Japanese automobile manufacturers back then to create a foothold of production in East Europe, and had started production and sales of automobiles in 1992. Although they were supplied mainly in Hungarian domestic market at the time of their first production, due to the expansion of models and production capacity, currently it is Suzuki’s production hub in Europe, supplying to more than 45 countries in Europe and beyond.