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Offline leafman60

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Re: 2025?
« Reply #30 on: August 19, 2024, 07:19:47 PM »
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Re: 2025?
« Reply #31 on: August 19, 2024, 07:41:41 PM »
New vertical twin? Here ya go, Steve-

 https://www.cycleworld.com/motorcycle-news/moto-guzzi-retro-roadster-spy-shots/

Why on earth anyone would call that a Guzzi when it has an Aprilia motor—and looks like Aprilia’s response to a Ducati Monster—is beyond me. I think the journalists were drunk when they claimed it’s “a new Guzzi” just because it has a tank with side bulges (because a tank with side bulges is the first thing I think of when I think Guzzi). Anyway, that’s just me as I teeter back and forth between “a Guzzi doesn’t HAVE to be a lateral V-twin” and “bet me it doesn’t.”
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Offline Tusayan

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Re: 2025?
« Reply #32 on: August 19, 2024, 09:16:21 PM »
Plastic Indian made ‘Guzzis’ with generic Aprilia engines, marketed to the third world, would not be a value producing use of the marque.

On the other hand almost anything Piaggio does makes me feel unwell, so why should this be any different?


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Re: 2025?
« Reply #33 on: August 20, 2024, 01:46:54 AM »
Kawasaki and Suzuki shared the DL1000 engine and also a 450 MX engine some years ago. In the car industri, there are lots of brands using the same engine. And many Guzzis were branded that, but featuring Benelli designed engines. So I do not see the Aprilia engine as a deal-breaker.
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Re: 2025?
« Reply #34 on: August 20, 2024, 04:47:04 PM »
In my other hobby which is audio, except for a few boutique makers in America, Europe and wealthier parts of Asia, most products under $10,000 may be designed in their home country, but are made in lower cost Asian countries.  It simply comes down to price competition and costs of production.  So, no reason why motorcycles should be any different.  Don't most of the Birt Bikes now come from factories in Asia?  If MG hopes to lure in younger riders, it has to offer bikes they can afford, just no way around it. This doesn't mean I love the idea, but just acknowledging the reality.
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