Oh yes. However to say that they make motors for Suzuki is only half truth and somewhat misleading. Of course a company in a third world country is going to milk the "fact" that they "build" engines for a first rate motorcycle company in Japan.Gummiente wrote:http://www.wonjanmoto.com/HYPERR wrote:Where did you hear this? Suzuki makes their own motors.
The engines that are built are for small bikes that the majority of it are intended for sale in third world countries.
They are not building engines the way Rotax was building engines for BMW or Yamaha was building engines for MZ.
They are merely manufacturing Suzuki engines to Suzuki specs under Suzuki supervision for the lower end Suzukis.
This is done mostly to save money as the labor in an highly industrialized country like Japan is way too high compared to labors in third world countries.
Wonjan saying they build motors for Suzuki is equivalent to American Honda Motor Corp saying they build engines for Honda Limited. I'm sure the Chinese threw out tons of red tape preventing Suzuki from creating their own factory in China and mandating this set-up to be used if they want to sell bikes in China.
Rest assured Suzuki would never trust Wonjan to build an engine like the GSXR motors or pretty much any substantial bike slated for North America, Europe, Japan, and other industrialized markets.
This is a totallly different scenario from Lifan who basically outright steal engine blueprints from Honda, building vastly inferior unlicensed clones of their engines, and constantly getting sued by them.