Did you know Suzuki sold an electric kei van back in 1999? The fourth-generation Every offered a factory EV model that August, two decades before EVs went mainstream.
Median 108 hp across 56 similar cars
Lead trim: 657 cc F6A turbo
Suzuki Every fourth generation DA52 / DB52 / DA62DA52/DB52/DA62 · 1999–2005
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FactDid you know Suzuki sold an electric kei van back in 1999? The fourth-generation Every offered a factory EV model that August, two decades before EVs went mainstream.
Introduced in January 1999 with the van dropping the Carry nameplate in Japan. The DA52W Every Wagon (two-wheel drive only) and the bigger Every Plus came in June 1999, an electric model in August 1999, and the timing-chain K6A (still 657 cc) appeared in September 2001 as the DA62. The Carry got a major facelift in 2002 but the Every kept the pre-facelift look. Also sold as the Mazda Scrum and Ford Pronto PR-Z in Taiwan, and built by Chang'an in China.
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Trims & Figures
2 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 657 cc F6A | 1999–2001 | 0.7 L Inline-3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 657 cc F6A turbo | 1999–2001 | 0.7 L Inline-3 | 63 hp | 72 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
Owning one
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Photographs
Nine years into this Every generation's life, Suzuki quietly swapped out its old 5-speed automated manual for a proper CVT.
Every earlier Every was a van first, with a passenger version added on — the fifth-generation DA64 flipped that completely, designing the passenger wagon first and deriving the commercial van from it.
Did you know Suzuki sold an electric kei van back in 1999? The fourth-generation Every offered a factory EV model that August, two decades before EVs went mainstream.
Suzuki waited almost to the very end of this generation's run to add a retro-styled trim — the Every C didn't show up until late 1997, a year before the whole generation was replaced.
This generation's design outlived Suzuki's own production of it by three decades: Daewoo kept building a badge-engineered clone, the Damas, in Korea all the way until 2021.
The Suzuki Every didn't start out as its own model — it was simply the van half of the Carry range, split off into a separate nameplate in December 1982.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
Chevy pitched the Astro as the anti-minivan, telling buyers life was too big for one, while it rode on a rear-wheel-drive truck frame.
The IIHS rated the Astro Poor in a 1996 crash test, yet 2001–2004 Astros later had the lowest driver death rate of any US passenger vehicle.
The boxy, unglamorous Astro quietly posted one of the best real-world safety records in America: IIHS found 2001-2004 models had the fewest driver deaths per million vehicles of any passenger vehicle on US roads.
The third-generation Tourneo Connect, released in Europe in October 2021, is a rebadged fourth-generation Volkswagen Caddy, assembled by Volkswagen in Poland.
Ford beat the 25% "chicken tax" by importing the Transit Connect as a passenger van — rear windows and seats included, then stripped out and recycled once it landed in the US.
Ford spent years in federal court over the second-gen Transit Connect: in June 2019 the US won its appeal, and judges ruled the van was cargo-only — ending Ford's workaround for the 'chicken tax.'
GM sold a rebadged Nissan NV200 as the Chevy City Express for four years, then killed it in 2018, citing weak sales and the fact that its parts weren't even compatible with GM's own parts catalog.
Its name is a pun: "S-Cargo" means "Small Cargo" but sounds just like escargot — French for snail, the shape the whole van was built to resemble.