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Posted on 05/15/2018 5:52:48 AM PDT by servo1969
The jobs in Thailand exist to make bikes for the Asian market.
Harley has saturated the American market and there will be no sales growth here for the foreseeable future.
There is potential for large growth in Asia. The bikes can’t be exported because the American labor costs are too high to be competitive in the Asian market.
ChicagoConservative27 beat ya by a half a minute
This has been coming for quite some time now.
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Yep they have been in the reorganizing mode for some time now.
Here are a few articles from back in late 2016 talking about it.
Boomers bought Harley’s but younger generations aren’t interested.
The most incredible chopper or old-school muscle car can come down the avenue here in New York City and millennial guys don't even give it a glance. Then, most of them don't look at pretty women either.
that sucks, hope they find new worthwhile jobs quick.
The irony is that while motorcycles are the dominant transportation mode, you will very seldom see one on the street. Thais don’t have the money.
True, sales are flat or declining in certain markets in USA. Look for their electric bike next year. Baby boomers are the last generation of riders.
I appreciate all three.
Yes and over at theautoextremist.com they are the 1st other than myself (after having to deal w/ a decedent's stuff and disposition of assets via tag sale ) to note that Millenial's aren't into stuff and that a big correction is on the horizon for the collector car market.
You can see it as well when watching the Antique Road Show on PBS ( I don't often ) that prices on certain items are coming down, sometimes bigly, their won't be a market for it, the Millenials and Z's after them could give 2 chitts about anything sentimental or has history, this care less about history thing is disturbing.
I am waiting for a Saudi Sheik or someone to take a mega dollar Ferrari and convert it to electric and watch that world's collective head explode. The Jaguar Factory restored a 63 XKE to perfection and yes added an entire electric drive train, it came out nice, drove well, but I am sure their are those that mashed their teeth over it.
Now that's funny. (I'm a former HD owner. Don't currently own any, but may again.)
This wouldn’t make sense for a company that caters to a “made in America” customer base.
With the new generation not being car types so much, maybe there will be some deals.
A 67/68 Cougar to replace the one I wound up having to sell would be great. My wife would hate it. She hated the first one.
> HD is not about to start building bikes in Thailand just to ship them back here. There’s no economy in that. <
A couple of years ago I was eating a can of brand-name peaches. Out of curiosity, I glanced at the label. It said “Product of USA, packed in Thailand”.
That made no sense at all. So I called the questions/comments number on the label. Yep...the peaches were grown in the USA, shipped to Thailand for canning, then shipped back to the USA for sale.
So much for their American Icon image.
I’ve noticed (anecdotally) that young people now don’t seem to have the same passion to get their license and drive. Sadly, the alluring sense of freedom and ability to go anywhere seems to have taken a back seat to doing everything online and never leaving your house.
Is it possible that some cities in Thailand are like larger cities in China and have outlawed riding motorcycles on city streets?
The Chinese are about as nuts about motorcycles as anyone on the planet but larger cities outlawed riding them within the city so you only see the few people who have exemptions (couriers?) on motorcycles. If you don't know that you'd think anyone who can't afford an auto settles for a bicycle because they don't like or can't afford a motorcycle. In smaller cities there are tons of motorcycles.
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