02-20-2018, 10:24 AM
Ulve,
I find a lot of flaws in your logic based upon my experience in banking, finance and retail in regards to this new 900 you presume Honda is/will one day bring to market when all the CB1100’s are sold.
The money Honda spent developing and manufacturing those bikes has been spent and accounted for.
It is illogical that Honda is forgoing the sales/profits (expected over the next decade by millennials, your words) to languish while the current models wait to be sold, while a bike “bike that will sell itself “ sits on the drawing board.
Each day a current CB1100 remains unsold, Honda is losing interest on the manufacturing cost of a bike sitting in a warehouse. It would be much better financial sense to sell those bikes, and use that money to help fund production and advertising cost of a “bike that will sell itself”.
For example, show up at any car or cycle dealer after lunch time on the last business day of the month and you can negotiate a better deal, because another month of floor plan charges start the next day and the dealer wants as many sales for the current month as possible.
Smarter people than both of us have kept Honda in business for a looong time!
I find a lot of flaws in your logic based upon my experience in banking, finance and retail in regards to this new 900 you presume Honda is/will one day bring to market when all the CB1100’s are sold.
The money Honda spent developing and manufacturing those bikes has been spent and accounted for.
It is illogical that Honda is forgoing the sales/profits (expected over the next decade by millennials, your words) to languish while the current models wait to be sold, while a bike “bike that will sell itself “ sits on the drawing board.
Each day a current CB1100 remains unsold, Honda is losing interest on the manufacturing cost of a bike sitting in a warehouse. It would be much better financial sense to sell those bikes, and use that money to help fund production and advertising cost of a “bike that will sell itself”.
For example, show up at any car or cycle dealer after lunch time on the last business day of the month and you can negotiate a better deal, because another month of floor plan charges start the next day and the dealer wants as many sales for the current month as possible.
Smarter people than both of us have kept Honda in business for a looong time!