Retro Harley Davidson
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It started as a Cross Bones.
http://www.2dayblog.com/2011/07/30/h...le-came-to-be/
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The American auto makers have done all produced their sports cars as a retro model (Mustang, Camero, and Challenger) and they have sold great.
Do yall think if Harley Davidson produced a retro model that looked like '10s-30s model at a price of the Sportsters how many would sell?
Do yall think if Harley Davidson produced a retro model that looked like '10s-30s model at a price of the Sportsters how many would sell?
Yes, it sells and it always will.
Old is cool.
Wish I'd realized that when I had to choose my first car between a late-70's Datsun 280Z and a 1965 Ford Fairlane for the same price - I bought the Datson. Luckily I got over it and didn't end up some spaz sportbiker.
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I'd say a fair chunk of Harley's current line-up is retro to one degree or another. I also believe Harley is kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place with this. On one hand are people asking if Harley could add a dash more retro to the recipe, but if they do they catch flak from the motoring press (and non-Harley riding potential customers) that they're mired in the past and incapable of making a modern bike.
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I believe certain pre-war H.D. models re-made with modern engineering and features would sell very well, but the Motor Company would have to do some market research (not hard to-do) and make them to pre-orders, i.e., limited production in order to satisfy the bean counters.
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