Florida-based Suzuki Marine USA has appointed boating industry veteran Daiki Sugiura as its executive vice president for sales and marketing. Sugiura has over two decades of experience with Suzuki Marine and the global boating business, including three years based in Germany, overseeing German and East European outboard motor markets, and another three years in Belgium […]
Suzuki Marine USA has appointed Nobuo Suyama as its new president. Suyama, who has been with the company for four decades, will be based at the company’s US headquarters in Tampa, Florida. Since 2014, Suyama had been serving as managing director/president at Suzuki GB (distributing automobiles, motorcycles, ATV and outboard motors). “It is my great […]
Suzuki GB has launched a new campaign in collaboration with sustainable apparel manufacturer, OceanR, to help remove plastics from our oceans. This new initiative will see Suzuki committing to the removal of 1kg of plastic waste from the oceans with every outboard sold in the UK from now until the end of March 2023. As […]
The accumulated global production figures for its outboard motors has reached four million, Suzuki has announced, 57 years after launching its very first outboard motor, the D55, in 1965. Its mid to large horsepower models are manufactured at its Kosai Plant, Shizuoka, Japan, while its portable outboards are produced in Thailand. The four millionth outboard […]
As early bird tickets are released for next year’s Southampton International Boat Show (SIBS), organisers say 83,000 people attended – fewer than originally predicted due to the day’s closure for the Queen’s funeral – but 14,000 of those got out onto the water. There were 685 individual stands and berths, over 650 craft on display […]
Suzuki GB has partnered with Ineos Britannia to become the official supplier of outboard motors for its fleet of chase boats, which will support Ineos Britannia, the Challenger of Record for the 37th America’s Cup in 2024. The outboard of choice will be the dual-propeller DF325A model, with Suzuki providing the team with 12 units […]
Suzuki has started production of five mid-size outboard motors with what is said to be the world’s first microplastic collecting device as standard equipment. In October 2020 Suzuki announced the development of a microplastic collecting device, which can be equipped to outboard motors so that microplastics near the water surface can be collected as the […]
Suzuki is introducing three new models to its range in the form of the DF140B, DF115B and the DF100C. These new outboards are mechanically controlled and replace the out-going DF140A, DF115A and DF100B models. These new additions to the Suzuki outboard range provide an upgraded compression ratio of 10.6:1 that the company says gives better […]