Victory Motorcycle to Wind Down Production

[Guth_imp]

Probably doesn't help that the name of the company invokes imagery of thrash metal bands. Or maybe that does help...

Actually I thought Victory was a cool name, if they had made the motorcycle more retro instead of...whatever it was.

Imagine if the Victory looked like the [url=http://www.broughsuperiormotorcycles.com/home.html]new Brough Superior:

I didn't see anything wrong with the name "Victory". However, there was no real depth of motorcycling history associated with the name and that can make a significant difference (provided the bikes are up to the task). Brough Superior has quite a historic name to work with, but I have no idea how well received the bikes are (the styling looks awkward to me to put it mildly). Contrast that with Triumph, who has good looking bikes that are well regarded to go along with a legendary name. If John Bloor had try to make a go of it under the Victory name instead of buying the rights to use the Triumph name, I just can't imagine sales doing nearly as well, even if the bikes themselves were all great.

I guess we'll see how it goes with Polaris and Indian moving forward. It would be cool to see Indian branch out more along the lines of what Triumph has accomplished as opposed to sticking strictly to the cruisers-only mold like Harley Davidson. I'd love to see them release some more "current" designs under the Indian brand. They could start with a street legal derivative of the FTR750 Scout. Now that would be pretty cool.