Suzuki is about to expand its 800 parallel win platform with two more models. Approval documents in Australia point to a 2026 GSX-8GT and a slightly more luxurious version thereof.
After years of radio silence, Suzuki unveiled a completely new 800 parallel win platform at the end of 2022, which worked for more than 10 years in the deepest secret. As the first model with the 776cc Paralleltwin, the V-Strom 800th was launched, followed a few months later by the GSX-8S. A year later, two more models followed: the V-Strom 800 and the GSX-8R.
Strictly speaking, you could therefore speak of two platforms: the DL800 V-Strom platform and the GSX800 platform. From that second platform, Suzuki has now obtained type approval for two more models in Australia, but it is still a bit of a guess to the exact details – as well as the final name under which they are put on the market.
What do we know then? Currently there are two GSX800 models: the GSX800RQ that we know as the GSX-8S sporty Naked and the GSX800FRQ that we know as the GSX-8R Supersport. Both engines have the same block and the same specifications, which makes no shared type approval logical.
In the approval documents for 2026, however, two more models are mentioned in addition to the RS and FRQ, a GSX800TRQ and a GSX800TTRQB. More than the two internal names is currently unknown, but that does not alter the fact that the necessary can be distracted.
To begin with, the fact that Suzuki has added the internal code names TRQ and TTRQB to the GSX800 indicates two things: that the two models on the current GSX-800 models are based and that they are driven by the same 776 cc parallel win, with exactly the same specifications.
The key question, however, is what kind of models they will be, and for that Suzuki’s own internal code system offers a solution. Suzuki already uses the internal TRQ code with an existing model: the GSX-S1000TRQ, which is popularly known as the GSX-S1000GT. This leads to the obvious conclusion that the GSX800TRQ will be put on the market as the GSX-8GT.
Only the GSX800TTQB remains. The internal Code TTQB cannot be found with other models, but it is likely that it will be a variant of TRQ. A more luxurious GT+ version, just like Suzuki has done with the GSX-S1000GT+ that is available in some countries.
For the exact details we will have to wait until the end of this year, it is expected that the new 800 models will be presented on the EICMA in Milan.
– Thanks for information from Motorfreaks.