• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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Actual news on the KTM purchase of Husqvarna

hahmule said:
11000 bikes is one fifth the output for KTM right? By dumping those on the market, he risks taking a hit at KTM, the crown jewel. I seriously doubt Perrier would be able to idle KTM workers to deal with a downturn caused by the dumping for short term profits, especially given the layoffs that have already occurred in Italy. He likely has supply contracts to think of as well. If I were him, I wouldn't even risk it.
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Cant dump them internationally, there are stringent laws that forbid this.
 
I hate this thread!

Last time I was here SP shuts down the varesse factory. Now he sends 11,000 new husky's to the crusher as not to damage ktm's value.

We should rename this thread "downer central". I'll just see how this all pans out in the future, and keep my ear's pluged when SP starts throwing husky's into the crusher.
 
Coffee said:
Crush the bikes vs selling them over 18months instead of 12? I realize scrap metal is highly desirable but not sure it is that desirable.
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2010 Buell Blast (H-D would actually sell it to you like this, you had to order it via their website or Ebay)...Just saying...It's been done before...

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Dismal! F*** those Austrians. Having spent the last few years living in Germany (Prussia) I´ve always wondered why all the blame is always placed on poor old Prussia whereas the b*stard came from Austria.
 
If I was SP I would sell my shares in KTM to the Indians, close the factory in Italy (Husky is not Italian anyway), keep existing dealerships, sell the 11K bikes at reduced prices and during that time build a new Husky factory somewhere else (China) using the existing tooling and technology.
 
I told my wife about SP and that he is closing the Husky factory down.
She said "what a wanker; if she were me she would immediately sell my 950SE and never buy another KTM again" :lol:
 
organ donor said:
Dismal! F*** those Austrians. Having spent the last few years living in Germany (Prussia) I´ve always wondered why all the blame is always placed on poor old Prussia whereas the b*stard came from Austria.
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Being part German myself I heartily concur!
 
I wouldn't get too feisty yet.... The Germans orchestrated this whole mismanaged deal. The Austrians didn't over produce and cook the books, they just got paid to take the mess off BMW's hands. SP is doing what BMW didn't have the brass to do, because they were afraid it would hurt BMW sales in Italy. Source says over production is totally BMW sourced engine bikes, mostly 650's. Most likely trying to close out engine contracts with Loncin and Kymco.
 
Norman Foley said:
I wouldn't get too feisty yet.... The Germans orchestrated this whole mismanaged deal. The Austrians didn't over produce and cook the books, they just got paid to take the mess off BMW's hands. SP is doing what BMW didn't have the brass to do, because they were afraid it would hurt BMW sales in Italy. Source says over production is totally BMW sourced engine bikes, mostly 650's. Most likely trying to close out engine contracts with Loncin and Kymco.
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I didn't say "we" were perfect Norm! And carrying on regardless in the hope that things will pick up next quarter is a fairly standard business practice, even if it doesn't usually work.

Interesting that most of the leftovers are road bikes. Not having an established dealer network with access to all the (expensive) diagnostic faff will make them a little harder to shift, I imagine.
 
7point62 said:
I didn't say "we" were perfect Norm! And carrying on regardless in the hope that things will pick up next quarter is a fairly standard business practice, even if it doesn't usually work.

Interesting that most of the leftovers are road bikes. Not having an established dealer network with access to all the (expensive) diagnostic faff will make them a little harder to shift, I imagine.
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People who were inside think BMW is shifting around loss in an unrealistic way, or it looks like they were already thinking of selling in 2010. Yearly profit/loss figures given for different years are not matching what really happened.....

It appears BMW was dumping unwanted Asian sourced engine stocks into Husqvarna instead of Motorrad, at a rate that was not realistic with demand. It looked good on paper, as production was up and supplier contract obligations met. BMW sucks.... I wish Claudio Castiglioni was still alive, because these "real businessmen" types suck too!
 
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