Suzuki APV

The Suzuki APV is one of 68 Suzuki Motor Corporation models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2004. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Suzuki APV properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Hyundai Hyundai Tucson, the Ford Ford Mustang, the Chrysler Chrysler 300 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Suzuki APV reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L Suzuki G engine#G15A / G15A SOHC Multi-valve / 16V Fuel injection / MPI Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.5 L Mitsubishi Orion engine#4G15 / 4; kerb weight is recorded at 1140 – / 1115 – (pickup truck) / 1260 – (Mitsubishi Maven); drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed List of Aisin transmissions#Longitudinal / AW03-72LE Automatic transmission / automatic (APV only); the layout is Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 101,200 units, which makes it a solid production run.

Its place in the Suzuki Motor Corporation story

Within Suzuki Motor Corporation's own catalogue the Suzuki APV sits alongside the Fuji Cabin, the Geo Metro, the Suzuki A-Star Concept (2005), the Suzuki Aerio. The record names the Suzuki Carry#Plus / Suzuki Every Plus/Carry 1.3 / Suzuki Carry#Futura / Suzuki Carry Futura (upmarket van variants) / Mitsubishi Kuda (for Mitsubishi Maven) as its predecessor and the Suzuki Carry#DC61T / Suzuki Carry 1.5 (for pickup truck) / Mitsubishi Xpander (for Mitsubishi Maven) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Hisanori Matsushima, Tsutomu Musashiya and Takamitsu Fukuda. Assembly is recorded at Indonesia: Bekasi, West Java (Tambun Plant; Suzuki Indomobil Motor).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

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