Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Suzuki Motor Corporation (Suzuki), with an aim to jointly contribute to resolution of social issues and achievement of sound and sustainable development of an automobile-based society, concluded a memorandum on beginning concrete examinations for business partnership.

Toyota and Suzuki have agreed to start exploring ideas directed toward business partnership, as announced on October 12, 2016. Since then, the companies, have shared with each other their challenges and have been discussing areas of collaboration in a manner that ensures fair and free competition.

The companies agreed today to begin concrete examinations toward the realization of business partnership in areas including environmental technologies, safety technologies, information technologies, and mutual supply of products and components.

Toyota and Suzuki have agreed to work toward the early realization of business partnership. To that end, the two companies are to immediately establish an implementation framework aimed at bringing to realization the points agreed on.

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