Re: OT: Suzuki SV650, Was (Re: A triple for triples.)

["Marc Cook" <marccook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have to understand that Suzuki has a lot of faired 600s in the mix--the 
Katana 600 and the new Bandit 6. They were really trying to differentiate
the models and felt that an unfaired 650 was the best compromise.

Personally, I'd rather see the faired SV and the naked Bandit here; we got
just the opposite.

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>From: Matt Knowles <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: OT: Suzuki SV650, Was (Re: A triple for triples.)
>Date: Sun, Jan 23, 2000, 11:31 AM
>

>>I wonder how much Suzuki lost just because they wouldn't release the full
>>faired
>>SV650 in the US.
>
> There were two things I expected to see this year at the motorcycle show,
> because every magazine review mentioned the lack of them:
>
> 1. Importing the faired SV650 into the US
>
> 2. A VFR with factory saddlebags
>
> Neither showed up, which shows how little the manufacturers care about
> public input. When I wrote the American Suzuki rep about the SV650, their
> response was that they would have to sell the faired version for about
> $1000 more than the unfaired, making it sell for around $6500. Seeing that
> I almost paid twice that for the Sprint, I don't think that would have
> turned away too many customers. Why they didn't provide the choice when
> they were making both models anyways (and selling both to our neighbors to
> the north) I'll never understand. It certainly soured my opinion of Suzuki
> though.
>
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