KTM/Husqvarna... now how will this play out?

And you never will understand it unless you are sitting at the meetings, sleeping with the right\wrong person, or just lucky with your guessing ... These companies\peoples history can shed some light on their past behaviors maybe help on the future, but we won't really know till another business decision is made ...

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SP does sound like a ~straight shooter to some degree ... Go back and read all his articles a few more times and some sense of a plan might might come forth ...

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The previous owners plan is out in the open now ... Try to remember all that was said about them when they took over in 2007 and apply some of that wisdom to the current owner and comments ... Some old guy 2 yrs ago on this site said 'there will not be enough meat on the bone for bmw' and they would drop Husky just as they just did ...

Ok ... I'll rephase the answer ... "All these companies work together to some degree" ...

Exactly my point. WE are just ordinary citizens with desires other than reporting to shareholders about profit increases. I do say its going to be interesting how this all unfolds. I'm not sure how many of us Husky affictionato will be future consumers. And it's unit sales that corporate wants.

Yep, I hope we get a few yrs racing at least and maybe the numbers will look good enough to keep ... And maybe Husky can even sell the bajaj/ktm brand bikes at the Husqvarna shops ... BMP excluded of course...

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Unit sales just screams 1BIL and counting Indians to go after...

Call me romantic, but I don't think it's all about the money for Pierer. He has a net worth a a few hundred million U$, so he doesn't really need any more. However, he's also very competetive. KTM just trumped BMW as the biggest European motorcycle producer (in 2012), so he now sets himself a new target (Japan). He also has a love for MX and off-roading, being a rider himself. That's one thing that sets him apart from the Bajaj-family and hopefully prevents a profit only attitude.

Obviously, he expects to make money out of this, that's for sure.

You know Husky was orange first, will they be orange again?

I really hope my dealer hangs on to the brand, I highly doubt they will though, they are a long standing BMW dealer, and they just took on the Husky brand last year. My bike required a lot of tweaking early on, replacement of all the starting hardware, flywheel, act... so I hope they dont just abandon it, if so I am sure if I have any future problems I will be on my own. I have had the bike 8 months anyways so i guess I am kind of on my own anyway!

With KTM running/owning Husqvarna, I could see myself returning to the Husky fold. I just wasnt prepared to sink my lifes savings (and then some) into dealing with BMW after seeing their lack of direction with Husqvarna. I have already been in contact with KTM on a very informal level. We will see where it goes in the next few months.

No parts and engines for new production, but BMW will have to provide spares of BMW sourced parts to Husky for 10 years from production date. I imagine SP will have to start paying the bills at Husky NA in Corona and take over the parts distribution from BMW Motorrad USA. I have a hard time believing that Corona, will continue just as it is through this. Canada will need a new distributor, as BMW Motorrad Canada took it over from the bankrupt Barrett Group and there's no reason for them to continue. The rest of the world will pretty much, just write the checks for bikes and parts to the new company.... as they did when BMW bought it from MV Agusta/Cagiva.

I have already registered the domain name "Huskavatooma" (pronounced who-ska-va-TOOM-a)

It will be interesting to see how it unfolds up here as Husqvarna was run out of BMW Canadas head office in Toronto with 2 employees. BMW Canada will want to sever all ties immediately. I would assume that KTM NA will be taking over distribution of the brand for all of NA.

Ill be curious as to how contingency unfolds and if the financing portion will be effected.

...here,in a nutshell is what I would like to see happen....Mr. Stefan Pierer walk away "completely" from KTM/Husaberg and build Husqvarna into the dominating marque that it so rightly deserves after all these years.Anything less from Mr. Pierer ,is "not" acceptable ..."I" do not want Husqvarna to be tagged as entry level brand.I paid a little more for my Husky's(up until recently anyways...and I'm talking owning Husqvarna's since the 70's)and I'll gladly pay for quality as needed...
To this,I'm putting this issue to rest until more concrete news comes about and I'm going to spend all the quality time I can with my 2010 TC250 and my 2007 WR125...starting now!
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I financed a Dodge Sprinter through Chrysler Business Financial, during Daimler-Chrysler days and when Mercedes sold Chrysler, my loan was sold to another Auto Loan group. I imagine all the Husky loans will be similar.

You know, you guys that keep parroting the line that BMW must provide parts for 10 years may be barking up the wrong tree. I spent quite a bit of time searching for PROOF that an automobile manufacturer, let alone a motorcycle manufacturer, must provide parts for 10 years past the models lifespan.

Couldn't find a darn thing other than the same thing being repeated over and over until it became gospel. Hey, if it's on the internet, it must be true, right? I think Abe Lincoln said that. To the contrary, I did find a law site where a lawyer said he could find no such law.

If someone can post a link, showing me that this 10 year requirement is indeed a law, I will eat crow. Otherwise we should quit repeating what I believe to be false.