>>28621764
i really don't get why Japanese manufacturers went full retard in the 00's
>all of our 80s models are still selling like hotcakes
>let's discontinue all of them and consolidate all of these models into a group of a half-dozen low-end models based on which third world factory we're using, and focus entirely on the 10K+ market!!!
>we'll even stop selling bikes at Honder dealers and force them to be sold only at Shady powersports dealerships that gouge the shit out of customers so we can finance everything!!!
>wtf what do you mean all of the factories we shut down kept going and just changed the name? That's copyright infringement!!!
Still not buying chinkshit but it goes to show how fucking stupid the Japanese bike makers have been the last 20 years. They could literally be ruling the world when it comes to low-CC motors if they kept expanding slowly and adding to their existing lineup instead of shutting everything down for a slight profit increase in 2001 and cede the entire market to China.
Suzuki did the same shit with their small economy cars. Who cares if the Swift is the best selling sedan and the Tracker is the best selling SUV of Australia and the US in the late 90s? We can shut the factories down and sell them for peanuts NOW, whoops guess we aren't in those markets anymore and China owns it all lmao
