Battling plummeting sales, Suzuki says it will offer three months worth of free gasoline to anyone who buys one of its SX4 small cars. The small Japanese automaker’s sales have been off well over 50 percent this year and were down 78 percent last month when compared to the year before.
Some of Suzuki’s drop-off in sales can be attributed to a thinning of the lineup that has seen the XL-7′s production go idle and the Forenza and Reno drop off the map entirely. Still, the Grand Vitara and SX4 slipped 69.1 and 53.2 percent, respectively, last month.
Suzuki will give buyers a gas card worth $270 for the SX4 sedan and $290 for the SX4 hatchback – good for what the automaker says is the equivalent of three months worth of driving.
