Suzuki Motor Corporation
This is the catalogue record of the Suzuki Hustler, one of 68 models Suzuki Motor Corporation has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2014. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Suzuki Hustler properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. 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 Ferrari Ferrari 488, the Ford Ford Escort, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Suzuki Hustler reads like this: the record lists its engine as 658 cc List of Suzuki engines#R engine / R06A Straight-three engine / I3 / 658 cc List of Suzuki engines#R engine / R06A Turbocharger / turbo I3; quoted output is 38 kW (naturally aspirated) / 47 kW (turbocharged); kerb weight is recorded at 750 –; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / Continuous variable transmission / CVT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 51 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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.
Within Suzuki Motor Corporation's own catalogue the Suzuki Hustler sits alongside the Fuji Cabin, the Geo Metro, the Suzuki A-Star Concept (2005), the Suzuki APV. The record names the Suzuki Kei (Hustler) / Mazda Laputa (Flair Crossover) / Mazda AZ-Offroad (Flair Crossover, indirect) as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Kosai, Shizuoka.
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