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Japanese overcome micro-van controls
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A RAPID increase in sales of micro-size vans is expected next year, once Suzuki and General Motors' Bedford get around die quota restrictions which have limited sales of this Japanese-dominated market.
Bedford starts making Suzuki's SK410 microvan at its Luton plant next year, and these will be sold by its dealers as the Bedford Rascal and by Suzuki as the Super Carry, (see p18).
It frees the market from the joint Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders/ Japanese Automobile Manufacturers' Association import quota which meant Suzuki, Daihatsu, Honda and Subaru sold only 7,000 last year.
Within 18 months. Bedford believes the market will reach 14.01.111 Vans, and it will build 10,000 of them, three quarters of them as Rascals.
Suzuki stands to gain at least as much as Bedford. It only sold 750 of its soon-tobe-disc