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Look at Victory, probably sold 50 times more bikes each year than Guzzi and axed. I say lets hope for more and better bikes.
From 2008/9 through to 2016 they had a full range of truly *Modern* world competitive motorbikes in the Griso, Stelvio, Norge, Sport and Bellagio. They were under promoted and advertised and their great virtues of reliability and easy maintenance were hidden under a bushel. Piaggio then kill them, they say, because of emissions to which I say 'Horseshit!'.If they were honest they'd say that the main reasons were low sales, (See above!) and the fact that with Marzocchi no longer making forks finding a different front end for most of their range was going to be a chore. Also all the designs were getting a bit long in the tooth.As it is though Guzzi has been condemned to building smallblocks and the Calis and I'm sorry but I think they're garbage. Horrid, overweight, evil handling, under-suspended shopping trolleys. The antithesis of what Guzzi once was.
The beaker and I exist in separate frames of reference.
Not sure what else is left outside of a Griso replacement.
The ADV market being about the hottest in motorcycling. Cool.
Likely you are gonna be dead, or give up riding, before this model cycle is obsolete.
Hottest?Not by total sales.Not by a long shot.Maybe it's the market with the most growth potential - that is EXCEPT attempting to take away shares of the 50% plus of the US market that Harley holds, and that doesn't count the additional percentage of the total market that Harley's competitors hold which includes Triumphs cruisers and arguably neo-classics, Indian, a not insignificant portion of JAPanIncs. sales, and most of what Guzzi has been selling for a few years now.
In the uk the GS apparently is the best selling bike > 125 cchttp://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2017/june/gallery-adventure-bike-test/And in germany as well
(Referring to Victory sales)Actually, they sold about like Guzzi.
My personal observation, I have seen quite a few new victories and hardly any new Gussie on the suburban roads around Chicago. My guess is that victory likely sold three times as many bikes as M G. Thank goodness MG is owned by an Italian company if it were American it would be dead on arrival.
Not at the dealership I worked at - as a salesman. We sold about 3 to 5 Victory bikes for every Guzzi, and we were good at selling both.
But I believe those numbers are absolutely dwarfed by the US market.
Possible. Here are the numbers for Germany from 2016: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/154306/umfrage/neuzulassungen-von-motorraedern-in-deutschland-nach-modellen/ . The R1200 GS alone has about a quarter of the German market.
They need younger more affluent buyers.
⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧Bingo! No truer words have every been written.I predict they'll keep the 1400 variant in maybe 2 forms with vintage lines for the veterans, but introduce a new, powerful, water cooled, technologically fulfilling 1200cc cruiser to compete with the entry level HD/Indians to appeal to the rookies.But then again, I could be way off.
This would be a good time to fulfill the promise made back in 2014 or so, when they teased a water-cooled 1300cc that was drawn up in cooperation with the Aprilia engineers. If I recall the discussion at the time, the target was Euro 4 and beyond, 130 HP, a hefty dollop of torque, and maintaining the Guzzi appearance with modern design. Such a design would be a very competitive base when measured against the competition in this space, such as the powerplants in the Yamaha FJR and the revamped R1200. It wouldn't go against the supersports, but that's Aprilia's job.
