It is mentioned near the end of the video that they are still interested in 2T development...Yay!!! http://www.vitalmx.com/features/Inside-Husqvarnas-New-U-S-Headquarters,3194
Like I mentioned, Kris and I had a little chat about two strokes, but it was off the record. I can assure that they are keeping a watch on that market, though. The models they may be able to create would be awesome!
To hell with what the market is doing, create the bikes and create the market! I can gaurantee that they will sell 3 in just my little corner of nowhere.
It's a little more complicated than that. C.A.R.B. (California Air Resources Board) weighs in quite a bit with the future of the bikes.
We are talking about 2T's that are all red sticker anyway right? If it is a question of trying to get a DI 2T green stickered then that is a different question completely. Still bring the bikes out in competition form and work out the CARB crap later.
Fortunately NY is not CARB compliant for motorcycles, as it is for cars and trucks. '12 TXC250 and TXC310 are not "Green Sticker". There are lots of customers in the other 49 States to buy "Red Sticker" 2 strokes.
The features I'd like to see would be: an electric start a hydraulic clutch a clean burning fuel injection system that could get the machine pavement designation.
Yes, direct injection is the way of the future for all two strokes. Interesting that an Indian scooter company that is already producing direct fuel injection in their two stroke scooters and has bought a 40% share in KTM. It's rumoured that KTM has a direct injection two stroke with some very clever technology in the crank case ready to produce once the emission laws get sorted out. I have eight two stroke Huskys and one four stroke Husky in the shed, but I won't be buying another Husky two stroke until they get direct injection. cheers
Why cant they inject the oil? like snowmobiles? I cant stand the mixing gas for whatever reason. If they injected fuel and had a small oil reservoir Id consider. Is that nuts?
I don't know what kind of results that marketing research turns up in terms of regional demographics and who it is where buys what, but companies like to develop products that they can sell everywhere to a broad market.. In the county where I live, Husqvarna dealers won't even put a two stroke on the floor. There is no market for them down here. If I wanted to buy a two stroke model, I would have to make a down payment to have one ordered. If a company were to be developing new clean technology for two stroke engines that could encompass a wide variety of models, it would weigh in quite a bit to increase the sales of trail, competition and street legal models across the board as well as across the nation.
