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I am not sure , but I think I read somewhere that the 49% Bajaj share of KTM group may have been reduced/diluted after the purchases of Husqvarna + GasGas without Bajaj money,
( I could well be wrong, and I am sure someone will point it out if I am - as understanding complicated financial deals is not my speciality )
I think many may have thought that I was denigrating KTM and/or making an inference that quality would be poorer on bikes made in China. That wasn’t the intent. I think that everyone knows that you can get almost any level of quality that you desire in Chinese products, you just need to pay for it and have a robust QA program put in place
As was pointed out, Royal Enfield really can’t be counted as a British company. Husqvarna can’t really be counted as Swedish. Bajaj already owns 49.9% of the KTM parent company.
The real question for me is how much longer does KTM keep any meaningful production in Austria now that they have easy access to production plants with people working for less than 5% of the wages paid ‘back home’. It’s an interesting wrinkle in international trade that just happens to be happening with motorcycles right now.
The Tundra is more American than the F150. Toyota NA is an American company. Former CEO of Toyota global now lives near Dallas, and has a crazy private track on his land.
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Taiwan vs. mainland China are not even remotely the same thing in terms of economics, quality, and tech.
The big 4 Japanese brands build a lot of their bikes in others parts of Asia , Kawasaki and Honda have bing plants in Thailand for example
So KTM has a joint project with Maxcom to build a carbon fiber plant in Bulgaria to make bicycles. WP is also now in mountain bike suspension. https://seenews.com/news/bulgarias-maxcom-austrias-pierer-to-jointly-invest-in-new-e-bike-plant-in-plovdiv-748453
The only thing that is almost certain is that 2025 bikes will be more expensive than 2024 bikes...
I've seen some trick carbon fiber manufacturing at Spirit aero systems in Wichita...
Yeah, I think that the majority of production is still in Japan, but that may not be the case anymore either I suppose. My original question also assumed that such wide labor rate disparities and the way that KTM worded things, more and more production will be transferring to India and China will soon result in Austria being passed by the other countries in units made.
China cant sucessfully operate a nuclear plant for any long duration. They have multiple different styles of fission reactors and do not have the intuition/innovation to keep them successfully running. Its a societal problem there that most of their citizens have very little creative/innovative thinking and mostly just copy without understanding. They continuously invite strong individuals from the european/north american nuclear industry to assist them but because of the type of education/copying they cant think foreward enought to be successful.
From someone in the nuclear fission industry.
yes for sure, they've just started commercial operation of the first fourth generation fission nuclear power plant but the are just only retarded monkey.....
I think the topic is more that an european brand is going like others in asia to lower production cost and maximize profit; and not about the quality of the final product.
European are brainless, they don't have any natural ressource, and sent all their industries outside europe....it will be the new 1/3 world in not so much time.
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