Volvo Building the S60 in China

[wheelbender6]

Volvo S60s built in China now. Still reluctant to buy a China scooter?
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/06/23...tion/id=58817/

[Oldgunner]

I wonder if they are ready for the increased U.S. entry taxes..that goes for scooters too !

[DisillusionedPrepper]

I'd sure like to see a couple American made brands hit the market.

We really need to catch up w/ the rest of the world as far as transportation goes...

[Oldgunner]

Now, that WOULD be nice.. Could you picture a reborn Cushman ?

[DisillusionedPrepper]

Cushman would be the first/best/obvious choice.
I could also see any or all of the "Big Three" getting into the market.

Hell, a real savvy fella with a pocket full of investors could easily set up production in any of the blighted factories in Detroit. Imagine the tax incentives, grants, low to no intrest loans?
Now imagine that same game plan with either diesel, hybrid, or E85 fuel.
All you really need is a clever engineer (CAD), and a small foundry to produce engine parts.

Oh, I forgot... Americans like 6 wheel drive, three 28' trailer boats, and any other form of transport that costs more to run per day than it costs to feed 20 families in any of those ass backward countries that sell us everything we own.

Yeah! What was I thinking... Rock on America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bitches...
(I hope they all choke on my 25 gallon per year exhaust fumes)

[cheapeto]

When Harley Davidson came to York PA back in the 70's, I worked on the small bike line, when I first was hired on by American Machine & Foundry.

I'd love to to tell you I remember everything about it, but I was so out of place in a bid assed factory environment, all I really remember is running my ass off trying to get a footpeg threaded into a hole, that may or may not have weld splatter in it, as the bike comes by your 6' or so work area.
Then after I could do that, attach turn signal wires, then another small task.

One of the reasons I think HD failed a big customer base, as they simply said, Honda and others were farther ahead with their machines, so they chopped it off the offerings list.

I had graduated from a great vocational school in their weld shop, so I had skills all over the plant, and those lines closing down, did not affect me work wise anyway.
But I always felt HD should have done more to save those smaller motorcycles.

[DisillusionedPrepper]

Cheapeto
"But I always felt HD should have done more to save those smaller motorcycles."

I completely agree. I think when Willie was younger he had visions of grandeur, and wanted the biggest, most expensive bikes on the planet coming from his facilities.

That stuck us with $25,000.00 motorcycles, and all the fun was gone.

I'd LOVE to see the old horizontal scramblers made available again. Modern dirt bikes will kick their ass but that's not the market for them. Every town/city in America has some field or vacant lot that will suffice as an impromptu flat track. It gets old, riding a 1969 Vespa 125 in circles pretending it's a Harley...

A reborn Harley NoPed would be a BLAST!!!

How about a city commuter? Little 49cc street bike w/ a gear box? Dual purpose 49cc machines?
Heck for what it costs to build just 3-4 models, and target them at bettering our life/planet... It seems to me a no brain'er.

I live in rural NW Florida, and the only transportation I really need is a 49cc scooter (highly modified of course). I get everywhere I need to go, every day of the week, and like I said above I use approx 25 gallons of fuel a year.
I wonder WTF is wrong with people that refuse to see what they are doing by refusing the benefit(s) in using smaller personal transportation. AT LEAST part time!!!

Crappy builds? No service/repair shops? Any high school kid can repair these things for pennies compared to that Perius or 6 wheel Dodge. I said no brain'er. Maybe I should say NO BRAINS!
My head hurts...