Throughout the late 1980s, the Suzuki Samurai was one of the best-loved and best-selling sport utility vehicles in the North American market. However, Suzuki had been manufacturing the vehicle for more than a decade in Japan before it made its stateside debut in 1986. Born of Japan’s once-booming Kei Car scene, the pint-sized Samurai became the first four-wheeled vehicle Suzuki — who has sold motorcycles in the U.S. since the mid-1960s — offered to American consumers.   The Samurai’s debut was beyond
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