Suzuki Suzulight 360 : Information

In July 1959 on special by October), the new Suzulight TL was presented, displacing the SF. Just accessible with a part collapsing back seat and a huge tailgate opening to the side, its layout was far in front of now is the ideal time. With back seats collapsed, the TL could take 1 cubic metre (1.3 cu yd) or 300 kg (661 lb), half more than the SL had the capacity to oblige. Suzuki exploited 12-inch wheels having get accessible and generated an up to date shiny plan with one wheel at each corner, exceptionally reminiscent of the Mini presented two months prior (see estimate correlation on right). The 360 cc motor, tubular suspension, and segment mounted three-speed transmission were delicately adjusted remainders from the SF, however power was dependent upon 21 PS (15 kw). The outline, by Tadaaki Mizuki, was an aftereffect of sparing space with at least compound bend pressings.

The inner part was straightforward. One exposure blurb of the period specifies such extravagances as "synchronized wipers", "a lever-worked winker switch", a fuel measure, and "self-starter actuated by turning the ignition key".There was stand out, focal taillight. The 59-60 Tls were not even accessible with a traveler side windshield wiper. Regardless, the Suzulight TL Van was the most exorbitant auto in its class, at ¥398,000. In the interim, the Subaru 360 Commercial expense ¥365,000 and a Cony 360 Truck an unimportant ¥330,000.

On 26 November 1959, Typhoon Vera obliterated Suzuki's gathering plant. Suzuki made the best of it and rapidly constructed another, more advanced sequential construction system industrial facility (completed just four months after the fact) and were therefore ready to raise numerous a larger number of Tls than the definitive objective of 200 for every month. Sales in 1960 were 6,075, against about twice as numerous Subaru 360 and 23,417 Mazda R360 Coupés. Regardless, this equalled in the vicinity of five times the sum number fabricated of the first SF arrangement. Toward the conclusion of 1960, month to month handling had arrived at 1,000, while it was dependent upon 1,500 for every month by March 1962.