11-25-2014, 09:26 PM
(11-25-2014, 08:25 PM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: Wow, well done mate! Your usual erudite self. I think what is hindering the meaning of what we are after is purely semantics. What is a model? For instance HX MODEL Holdens (I had V8 ute) were manufactured in '76 and '77. I regard them as build years of the same model, an HX, rather than '76 and '77 model Holdens. I think the '13 CB is distinct from the '10 model, and was engineered and marketed by Honda as such.
Cheers
I think you're almost right. Holden (and Falcon for that matter) have always had models which run over a number of years. In the case of this bike I think the difference between the '10 model CB1100 and the '13 model CB1100 was simply that the latter went to the US and Europe. Other than the ability to get the speedo and odometer to display either miles or kilometres, I'm hard pressed to see any difference of note between what came here in '11 and '12 and what went to the US and Europe in '13. If you asked a Japanese who could have bought a new one every year, I suspect they would say there was no 'new' model until 2014 when there was the EX/DLX a 6th gear and a brand new instrument cluster.
My thesis? There was a 2010 model that sold in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and then a new model in 2014.
But, of course, I could be wrong. Oh so very wrong.