Commercial Vehicles Suzuki ST20 'Truntung'

Automotive Car - Suzuki Suzuki Carry ST20 is having a body code ST20. Carry ST20 is the first pickup Suzuki car manufactured in Indonesia. The car was first produced in Japan in 1976 and first entered Indonesia in 1978. The process of production of this car was originally only performed in Iwata prefecture Shizouka Japan. However, because the motor vehicle tax rules in Indonesia in 1973, this car be assembled in Indonesia. This car is called "truntung, Teruntung or Trontong" in some areas because of onomatopoetic or sounds coming from 2-stroke engine is used to produce the sound "truntung" that eventually became the name for this car.

Empty weight of the car is only about 650Kg to his pickup version. Power and torque this car is very small. But the fact is, with a 3-cylinder engine configuration 2-step, pull the car down quite fast. Some people even say if there truntung Suzuki acceleration is similar to the Yamaha RX-King often used jambret to escape. Because of this acceleration, it is not uncommon in earlier times many young people who participated in the slalom using this pickup car. Although the acceleration is passable, but it seems the car is still inferior to the other pickup truck in its class to freight transport affairs. It can be seen from the population that has begun rarely operate in the mountainous region.

This car uses a 3-cylinder 2-stroke engine capacity of 550cc. Because the use of 2-stroke engine, the car is put aside oil as 2-stroke motorcycles in general. These machines still use carburetors for fuel supply and platinum for ignition. For matters of cooling the engine, this car could be a step further with the use of liquid cooling or water cooled. The maximum power that can be generated this car reaches 33Hp on 4500Rpm and around 52Nm of torque at 3000rpm. The transmission used is a standard that era with a 4 speed manual transmission.

Suzuki truntung appear in the form of a pickup that could only carry goods weighing 350kg. However, because the production period equal to the prime body of a car industry, appears also Suzuki minibus truntung with the body. One body of a car that was popular in making car body is Adiputro and Liling Putra of Bandung, West Java. Features minibusnya version is not much different from the version of the pickup, only the rear by a body with a door in the middle left side, sliding windows and the passenger seat. Do not expect luxury features installed in cars of this. Air conditioning is not available, but instead there are air vents on the front under grille, alloy wheels wear size 10inch and legs double wishbone front and leaf springs which makes it quite comfortable behind the class may be the only one in the car's existing luxury.