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Main Area => General GS500 Discussion => Topic started by: speedsix on August 29, 2009, 06:33:53 PM

Title: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: speedsix on August 29, 2009, 06:33:53 PM
I sold my 1994 GS500e a few weeks back but I was riding my wife's 2005 GS500F because I missed the little bike and I was looking it over when I noticed it was made in Spain.  I am pretty sure my 1994 GS500E was made in Japan but I never really looked.  When did they start making them in Spain?  Was the 1994 made in Japan like I think or am off base on that?
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: Alphamazing on August 29, 2009, 06:38:51 PM
http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=44053.0

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=31369.0

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=22708.0

From the last link...

Quote from: Roadstergal on November 24, 2005, 02:20:45 PM
I think all '01+.  My '04 and '05 are Spanish.
Edit - nope, this one is Japanese.
http://www.gstwins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22702

Maybe just the faired.
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: gsJack on August 29, 2009, 07:25:49 PM
Your 1994 GS was made in Japan as were all 89-02 GS500/E models imported to the US.  The 04 and later GS500F models came from Spain.  No 03 models were imported to US.

The Spanish made GSs had forks made in Spain which can be identified by that little emblem above the axle and to the right of the lower caliper bolt on the right fork slider.  See pic:

http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/photos/2006models/2006models-Suzuki-GS500Fo.jpg

The forks on GSs made in Japan didn't have that little emblem on the right fork slider.

Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: JEREMY JOCK on August 29, 2009, 07:39:18 PM
My '04 was made in Spain.
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: The Buddha on August 29, 2009, 08:26:56 PM
Correct, spain ... like in ... suzi ... you got some spain in to do ...
Cool.
Buddha.
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: commuterdude on August 31, 2009, 03:57:42 PM
Did ya'll know that the rain there falls mainly on the plain?
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: Punkalflufen on August 31, 2009, 05:12:54 PM
Quote from: commuterdude on August 31, 2009, 03:57:42 PM
Did ya'll know that the rain there falls mainly on the plain?

Are you saying that the rain in Spain mainly falls on the plain???
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: bluerider on August 31, 2009, 05:57:35 PM
Since my '08 is made in Spain, can I call it a european motorcycle?
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: The Buddha on August 31, 2009, 06:37:42 PM
Nooo ... everything made in spain, falls apart in the rain on the plain ... yea ...

Cool.
Buddha.
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: dohabee on August 31, 2009, 08:42:07 PM
stop all this rhyming, I mean it
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: Alphamazing on August 31, 2009, 08:43:36 PM
does anybody want a peanut?
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: dohabee on August 31, 2009, 08:48:43 PM
 :D awesome
Title: Re: I just noticed, my wife's GS500 was made in Spain.
Post by: mister on September 01, 2009, 04:53:02 PM
My bike says it was manufactured in ESP. Well, my bike doesn't SAY it cause it cannot speak. But the Compliance Plate has ESP stamped on it as the place of manufacture. Which could just mean, that's where the Plate was made, or the frame it's riveted to.

The mole in Espanol goes role'n down the hole. Just doesn't have the same ring to it as rain mainly on planes in Spain, nor does it tie your tongue like Plucking Pheasants  :icon_mrgreen:

Michael
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