| Author | Message | ||
     Ferris_von_bueller |
As posted elsewhere. A good listen http://www.motorcycleradionetwork.com/podcast "over 80% of the engineering staff has been cut at HD" "they are managing a stock price not a motorcycle company" Unbelievable | ||
| Tramp |
I don't know if I'd call it 'unbelievable'. They're public, and they answer to shareholders. Cutting Buell, as much as it pains me, was necessary...shareholders want blood when the chips are down, and you cut the less productive divisions,first. It's the economy,and it's the same everywhere. What i d=find unbelievable is that Motorcycles didn't qualify for a revises "cash-for-clunkers' program, because, had this occurred, we may still have Buell around right now,and doing well. cash-for-clunkers was predicated on the idea of trading in gas guzzlers for higher MPG models...an american-made sport motorcycle should certainly have fit the bill better than any Mitsubishi product. When the going gets tight, though, the more sluggish markets suffer, and the American Sportbike paradigm isn't popular enough in this supersized fat society. Would that it were, though. | ||
| Crusty |
Not quite "Cash For Clunkers" but it's still an incentive: The U.S. Government’s recently approved stimulus package includes tax breaks for consumers who purchase new on-road two or three wheeled motorcycles or scooters in 2009. The law, officially designated as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, allows buyers of qualified motor vehicles to take a tax deduction for state or local sales or excise tax imposed on the purchase, up to $49,500 of the purchase price. The deduction applies to NEW purchases made between February 17 and December 31, 2009, and taxpayers do not need to itemize to claim it. Key Tax Break Points • Vehicles eligible for the tax deduction are all on-road two and three wheeled vehicles weighing less than 8,500 pounds and is limited to the tax on up to $49,500 of the purchase price • The deduction applies to vehicles purchased between February 17, 2009 - Dec. 31, 2009 • Only new on-road two- or three-wheeled motorcycles or scooters are eligible • The tax deduction is for state or local sales or excise tax imposed on the purchase • Single taxpayers with an adjusted gross income over $125,000 and married tax payers with an adjusted gross income over $250,000 are not eligible • The law also includes a new 10 percent tax credit, up to $2,500 for motorcycles (two or three-wheeled vehicles) with electric motors manufactured primarily for use on public streets, roads and highways purchased by December, 2011 | ||
| Timo31 |
I thought it was funny when they said that Harley should start building caskets. Ouch. | ||
| Teddagreek |
Not yet... I'm sure they are looking into it...  | ||
| Brumbear |
I love the one guy with the India is an open market statement if I heard it right. The country that can produce a $1400 car not a typo $1,400.00 in totta GOOD LUCK with that one boys | ||
| Brumbear |
Why don't they just sell it and make money on selling the Co leasing the factory they can keep the sportster motor I like them but if they need it they need it. There are others that are easily adptable. I actually prefer the sportster motor as I can't get into jams as quickly if ya know what I mean |
