For big companies, a CEO’s job is being a CEO, not being involved with the nitty-gritty of the actual business, and that’s not inherently a bad thing. A CEO’s job is mainly selling the company to investors and the market and the public, and making big picture decisions where only familiarity of the underlying business…

The problem isn’t that they have 36 models... it’s that they have 36 models that are all variations of their overtired cruiser theme.

We went to Milwaukee for the first time over the weekend. Didn’t go to the HD museum, but I noticed a lot of their branding around town. Most of it was due to the upcoming Mama Tried show that Harley sponsors. It. Was. Actually. Cool. I think maybe they should just lean on that team, as they seemed to have a better…

CEOs are like college sports coaches. Once you’re in, you’re in. You don’t have to be good. In fact you can be awful. But get that first job and next thing you know your name pops up whenever there’s another opening even if you have no results, bad results, or your only good results were a fluke (you took over when…

I think the only thing HD can really offer anyone at this point is being a case study in business school. Don’t rest on your laurels while your market ages out.

In my business, it would take YEARS before that CEO could even use all the industry regulations and acronyms in a sentence, from memory. And in that interim time, the CEO would seem pretty behind the curve on everything. Almost like an intern with better presentation.

it’s gotten so bad, i’ve seriously looked into renting a billboard for a month.

“The average driver is now so stupid they think DRL’s are automatic headlights”

A few excellent examples in the thread below. My favorite is the Jaguar.

Brown? The Caddy is not remotely brown. it’s a warm, metallic gray.

Haha you should have been CEO

I can’t believe this took this long. Levatich is the Wayne Fontes of motorcycling. There is no cup of coffee this idiot couldn’t mess up. Apologists point to an industry decline, but he missed every hot trend in the industry, including those that played to their core strengths. How did they miss the retro trends?

You’ve written a blog that basically endorses his “plan” by listing all the proposals without any analysis whatsoever. Anybody could get this information straight from Bernie’s web site, so why did you go to the effort to duplicate it?..well, because you’re trying to “spread the word” about how he will accomplish all…

Classic Porsche - charge ridiculous money for simple items. e.g....

Not always, it’s usually spread around.

I don’t get the simultaneous pro-dealer and anti-dealer sentiments on this site. Clearly, Jalopnik is pro-dealer when it involves Tesla, but anti-dealer in all other regards.

Wagon good crossover bad we get it.

that’s cool and all, but have you seen 3dBotmaker Diecast racing?

If chess is considered a sport, I’ll give marble racing the benefit of the doubt.