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Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:01 pm
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I am in Canada and had ordered March 1st a 2022 RS Color Imperial Blue. It was supposed to be arriving sometime end of May, then end June , now it is not even in production. My dealer has no clue about availability of 2023 , he doesn’t think that there will be any RS 2023. I am very disappointed about the situation. Just a good move that I kept my RS 2018.
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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #13 I wonder if this is partly because of different behaviours of consumers in the US compared to Europe. In the US, car buyers buy from dealer/distributor stock and tend to want their car straight away, whereas in Europe buyers are happy to order specifically and wait for it to be built. Is it the same for bikes in the US? |
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Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #17Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #13 Yes, it is different behaviors. BMW, Mercedes and Audi are seen as luxury brands in the US and selling cheaper cars with less features and lesser materials is seen as lessening the brand. It's partly why when Toyota wanted to sell luxury cars, they had to come up with a new brand name. The dealer experience also has something to do with it. Higher volume, lower cost cars can't support the high end dealer experience. The reciprocal of all this is that VW tried to sell higher end luxury cars (Touareg and Phaeton) in the US and it was a failure. The dealers were still VW dealers and nobody in the US wanted to spend Audi money for a car that had a VW badge on it. The latter is pretty shallow IMO.
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Zitat von Paul911 im Beitrag #18Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #17Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #13 In the UK, Audi's biggest seller is the diminutive A1. It is nothing but a VW Polo/Seat Ibiza/Skoda Fabia in a posh frock. I bought one as I have an Audi dealer 500m away. It is the perfect car for my job driving around a Shire County with a mix of urban and rural roads, many originally designed for carts. Audi & BMW are quite successful at getting hold of young people developing careers with the A1 & 1 series who then stay loyal to the brand as they move up the greasy pole, moving onto 3 series etc. There again, we still have a culture of the company car in the UK despite the tax hit. One's status in an organisation can be measured by the company car you drive. Retail being the worst culprit for this legacy of the 1980s. Greenwashing their 40,000 miles a year with EVs and PHEVs being the latest trend.
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I recall the sales manager of my local BMW shop telling me a few years ago that they would have potential customers walk into the showroom ask for a particular motorcycle and when told that it would have to be ordered from the BMWNA warehouse or from another dealer, the customer would then walk out saying that they didn't want to wait for the bike to arrive and would just go to some other dealership that had what they wanted. No doubt it was very frustrating for the salesperson to hear that kind of response. Perhaps things are different now that you are lucky to find any new motorcycle on the showroom floor - except for the R18 models of course, which appear to be available in quantity in U.S. BMW showrooms.
Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2020 KTM 390 Duke; 2011 Royal Enfield Bullet 500; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2016 BMW R1200RS; 2018 Zero S 16.6 kWh
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #20 I think there are plenty of bikes in the showroom based on the email I received from my local dealer. The R18 was the only boxer mentioned in the email, but special offers on S1000RR and various parallel twins. I think it is only the S1000XR, R1250 and K1600 bikes that buyers have to wait for over here.
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