The Suzuki Karimun is a nameplate of

city car The A-segment is the 1st category in the passenger car classification system defined by the European Commission. It is used for city cars, the smallest category of passenger cars defined. A-segment sales represent approx. 7-8% of the market in ...

s produced by the Japanese automaker

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and marketed in Indonesia between September 1999 and 2021 by

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, an Indonesian subsidiary of Suzuki. It is named after

Great Karimun Great Karimun ( id, Karimun Besar), also known as Nuwi Island, is one of the islands in the Riau Islands province of Indonesia, administratively part of Karimun Regency. It lies about 37 km southwest of Singapore, 54 km west of Batam, 24 ...

(''Karimun Besar''), a group of islands in

Karimun Regency The Karimun Regency is located in the Riau Islands Province, Indonesia. Besides the central island of Great Karimun, the regency also includes the islands of Kundur and over 240 smaller islands. The district covers a land area of 1,524 km2 ...

Riau Islands The Riau Islands ( id, Kepulauan Riau) is a province of Indonesia. It comprises a total of 1,796 islands scattered between Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, and Borneo including the Riau Archipelago. Situated on one of the world's busiest shipping la ...

, although the subsidiary also said the Karimun name was coined from the phrase "carry to the moon". The Karimun models are based on a

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platform of Wagon R models and derivatives: * First generation (SL410R, 1999–2006): a locally built first-generation Wagon R-Wide/+. * Second generation (MF31S, 2007–2013): a

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imported from India and rebadged as the Karimun Estilo. This model is a restyled first-generation MR Wagon from the Japanese market. * Third generation (MP31S, 2013–2021): Indonesian version of the second-generation Maruti Wagon R, a longer version of the fourth-generation Japanese market Wagon R. It is assembled locally through Low Cost Green Car (LCGC) program endorsed by the government and sold as the Karimun Wagon R. 2005 Suzuki Karimun GX (front), West Surabaya.jpg, First generation (Karimun) 2007-2009 Suzuki Karimun Estilo VXi 1.1 MF31S (20210919).jpg, Second generation (Karimun Estilo) 2018 Suzuki Karimun Wagon R GL (front).jpg, Third generation (Karimun Wagon R)

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* {{Suzuki timeline 1980 to date Karimun City cars Hatchbacks Front-wheel-drive vehicles Cars introduced in 1999 2000s cars 2010s cars 2020s cars