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 The RX-5, Suzuki's prototype rotary, was unveiled at the Tokyo salon in 1973, one year after [[Yamaha RZ201|Yamaha's RZ-201]]. The RX-5 was technically more advanced, and it flashed a snazzy Italian Giugiaro bodystyle to boot. It went into production soon after, while the Yamaha languished at the prototype phase, In doing so, Suzuki had made the new bike, rechristened RE5, the only Japanese series production rotary and the first rotary put on the assembly line since Germany's rustic [[Hercules]] and the antiquated Dutch [[Van Veen]].
 ==No Splash with the Public==
-Unfortunately. innovation does not always score with the public, and the RE5 did not exactly send buyers rushing off to their local Suzuki dealers, checkbooks in hand Some were put off by the aesthetics, which may baffle current collectors, since Giugiaro styles are generally acknowledged to be brilliant, but more were disappointed in the RE5's lack of real punch from its water-cooled 197cc rotary, It was not the end for Suzuki, however-the firm scored big in 1976 (worldwide-not us) with its [[Suzuki GS750|GS750]], a bigger bike with more power than the courageous RE5 Rotary.
+It is rumored that the RE5 was designed by Giugiaro, Alessandro Colombo, famous Italian motorcycle engineer, motorcycle historian and editor of Legend Bike confirms that this is not the case.  The bike is too Banal and in line with everything else of that era to even be considered a Giugiaro.
 ==1975 RE5M==