Countdown to official website: Howe DR300 expected to turn into Suzuki GSX-S300 twins

Suzuki has been absent from the 300-class this global strategic market for a long time, when the other three Japanese factories are in Southeast Asia to launch 300c.c. street, street bike, Suzuki is still to 250c.c. as the main force, in the last year also launched a new GIXXER SF 250 to attack the market; Recently, the foreign media reported that the Chinese Howe Jennings DR300, which was unveiled at the Chongqing Motor Show in 2018, the The future has the potential to enter the global market with the Suzuki GSX-S300!

Haojue, Suzuki's Chinese partner, is ready to release the DR300 twin-cylinder street bike

Haojue is Suzuki's partner in the Chinese market, and recently Haojue showed a mysterious countdown on its official website, teasing the release of the DR300 model, which features a 298c.c. water-cooled, 4-valve, parallel-twin cylinder, and has been predicted by foreign The DR300, which features a 298c.c. SOHC water-cooled 4-valve parallel twin, has also been predicted by foreign media as likely to be marketed outside the Chinese market under the Suzuki GSX-S300 name.

The DR300 is powered by a 298c.c. SOHC water-cooled 4-valve parallel twin with 29.2PS

From the looks of it, the Haojue DR300 does have a lot of Suzuki GSX-S family shadows in it, and the power part is powered by a water-cooled parallel twin with 29.2PS@8,500rpm and 27.8Nm@6,500rpm. 27.8Nm@6,500rpm of maximum torque; suspension with KYB inverted forks, 7-stage preload adjustable mid-mounted rear shock; brakes are 290mm single disc with NISSIN dual-piston calipers at the front, 240m single disc with NISSIN single-piston calipers at the rear, and front and rear wheels are fitted with a BOSCH dual-channel ABS system.

DR300 has some of the flavor of Suzuki's GSX-S family

DR300 adopts monochrome LCD instrumentation

The overall structure of the Haojue DR300 is made up of almost all Japanese components, so there's a good chance that it will become Suzuki's twin-bike model; on the other hand, will Suzuki develop GSX-S as a basis for the DR300 in the future? On the other hand, whether Suzuki will use the DR300 as the basis for developing the GSX-R300 is also quite curious and expected, but if the GSX-S300 really debuts in the future and uses China as its production base, it may be quite difficult to introduce it to Taiwan at that time, so let's wait and see how the Haojue DR300 develops in the future. Will the DR300 become the Suzuki GSX-S300? Let's wait and see.

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