Collections: Suzuki Plaza Museum, Part One, In The April Issue

Collections: Suzuki Plaza Museum, Part One, In The April Issue

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Featured In the April 2020 issue of Roadracing World:

For decades, Suzuki housed an informal collection of breakthrough motorcycle and car models from the past in a cramped room on the ground floor of an office building at company headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan. In 2009 (100 years after it was founded as a loom maker in 1909), the company opened Suzuki Plaza, a purpose-built, three-story museum located directly across the street from the headquarters complex.

     The museum offers a well-organized, chronological trip through its history and transformation from what was Suzuki Loom Works into Suzuki Motor Co. Ltd. The company now has five factories in Japan, including a futuristic new Hamamatsu plant where motorcycle engines and complete machines are assembled, including the latest GSX-R, GSX-S, Katana, SV650, and V-Strom models…

—Excerpt from Collections: Suzuki Plaza Museum, by John Ulrich

Educational and interactive displays. 3D videos of the manufacturing process. Historical context for different significant motorcycles, racing eras and racing machines. A trip through Suzuki’s corporate museum is a trip through the company’s successes, and the highlights are in the latest issue of Roadracing World!

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