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Yamaha output down

By Paul Crowe

After the Harley report a few days ago, Yamaha is saying it produced about a third less motorcycles over the last 11 months and exported 30% less. As I suspected, the motorcycle market is getting soft.

Posted on April 16, 2005 Filed Under: Motorcycle Business


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  1. James - Whybike.com says

    April 17, 2005 at 2:53 pm

    Is that the sound of prices dropping? Or are they slowing production to keep prices high?

  2. Kevin White says

    April 19, 2005 at 7:32 pm

    It may be the sound of a slower pace of development, as well as fewer chances being taken on divergent designs and fewer models being brought to the states.

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