That is pretty much what I was getting at in the 2nd paragraph. H-D needs way more variety in engines and bikes.

I get what you are saying. However, when the Japanese companies came out with V-twins, they were expanding their product lines. And while the Japanese were making their V-twins, the bikes weren’t copies of Harleys. They each had their own flavor. I bought a new Victory Vegas. I could have bought any Harley I wanted.…

Nevermind that we keep shipping fewer and fewer bikes! The new goalpost is revenue! As you were!

Bingo. They just rehash the same damn product in a few different flavors. Even the new Pan-America seems like a half baked effort - and they’re trying to go after the large bore ADV bike market, a market I believe is starting to decline in favor of mid-size bikes.

Harley should be looking at themselves as an American…

I ride a Honda CB because I like the smoothness of the inline-4. But if I wanted a flat 6 or a V-Twin or V-4 or a thumper they’ve got all that. H-D also has any motor configuration you want, as long as it’s a V-Twin and a V-Twin only. I’m not interested in those though, so I never look twice at Harleys.

“This measure best reflects our comprehensive efforts to expand into new product segments and foster a customer-creation culture - one that is laser-focused on our riders and fans who are passionate about being overweight and dressing like they didn’t get the callback from the Village People after their audition.”

If your greatest fear in life is running out of toilet paper... then things are pretty good.

The ‘68-72 Chevy Nova says hi. Walk past a row of red SS “tribute car” coupes at any car show, the crowd will form around Grandma’s pea-green sedan because so relatively few survive.

That a lot extra for that conversation.  Personally I’d be more inclined to just install a trailer hitch and buy a small utility trailer at probably half the cost 

At least they’re being frank about it.

Hats off to this guy. But the wheel base looks kind of bizarre. As in there is a LOT of vehicle hanging off from the rear wheels.  I’d be curious how stable the handling is at high speeds.

They should have just launched the Bronco by letting someone drive it 40mph down the 405 in LA.

Before there were trains, people crashed horses into things.

Same with my Elise, same engine with a Lotus tuned ecu.

Jesus. You bought your kid a CASKET?

is this still true??? been hearing since the terminators that cars driven hard from the beginning make more power later in life.  we need an experiment.  two new cars one driven like a pissed off teenager owns it and one driven like an adult owns it. dynos and oil analysis every 5k miles. 

XRS! I miss mine, that was a fun car.

I mean, you still couldn’t start beating on it because you’d have to stop and remove the break-in oil first, and replace it with regular oil...

I thought he just meant he got 500 miles in already. I mean sure it can be done, but the very 1st ones just came off the lots like last week.

I am not that far from Thunder bay, are there interesting trucks for sale there?