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◆ JUNE 26, 2006 AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE 17 ◆ New SX4 gets support from Swift suppliers Suzuki’s new SX4 shares a common platform and several key suppliers power steering for both Suzuki models. French suspension specialist the car for , which the Italian carmaker classifies as a medium SUV with its sibling, the Swift. Both cars are made at Suzuki’s plant in Allevard Rejna makes stabilizer bars and coil springs for both cars, and and calls the Sedici. Fiat supplies the SX4 with a 1.9-liter turbodiesel. Esztergom, Hungary. Japanese partsmaker delivers the Swift’s Germany’s Robert Bosch delivers brake boosters and master cylinders for Suzuki will assemble about 40,000 SX4s in Hungary in 2006, said Minoru and the SX4’s automatic transmissions and of Japan supplies the the two vehicles. Suzuki calls the SX4 a because it blends the Amano, director of Suzuki Deutschland. Suzuki’s plant has capacity to cars’ manual gearboxes. Nissin Showa, also of Japan, produces electric characteristics of a small car and an SUV. Suzuki produces a version of build 200,000 vehicles a year. – Alex Graham

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