Sayuka Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha (or Sayuka), is a Japanese brand born in 1967 and established in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama prefecture, and manufactures light vehicles (passenger cars and vans).
Origins
All started in 1935 with Kanagawa Heavy Industries, that was a public company dedicated to design and build plane engines for the Imperial Army.
On the late 50s, the Japanese Government sold the company to Sayru Steel Co. Ltd, and continued to build engine planes, until in 1962, both companies created Sayru-Ka Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha (that was renamed to Sayuka Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha), under an ambitious restructuring plan led by chairman Yoshio Suzuki, who wanted to focus the business on car manufacturing.
First car
The first car launched by the brand it was the Sayuka Emerald (E1) in 1968, a small 4-door saloon, and it was cheap, reliable and easy to maintain.
It was powered by the A-series engine family: an OHV 4-cylinder all-iron engine. In that case, the 1.5L A15-1, that used a 2-barrel carb, producing 60hp at 4900 RPM and 105Nm at 3400 RPM, enough to move the 850kg sedan (in Luxe trim. 800 in the Standard).