Posted on 05/22/2024 11:04:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Souo's first motorcycle has a 4-valve, DOHC, 8-cylinder, 2000cc engine - that's two 1000cc four-cylinder engines joined together. All the liter sports bikes now produce more than 200 horsepower, so we expect that 400 hp would be relatively easily achievable should Souo desire to make a further splash when the horsepower figures are announced.Souo
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We love an adventurous startup, but GWM's new "clean sheet" motorcycle company announced last Friday really does look ominous in its potential to disrupt the established motorcycle industry order. The privately-owned Chinese "Great Wall Motor Company" (GWM) started making cars in 1984, yet it has been among the 25 largest automotive manufacturers in the world for the last decade and the company is on a massive roll.
Domestic sales are up more than 20% year-on-year so far in 2024 after selling a record 1.4 million vehicles in 2023 (1.1 million domestically and 300,000 internationally).
It has released 20 new models across its raft of brands (GWM, Haval, Wey, Tank, Poer, and Ora) so far this year, and intends to be selling a million vehicles a year internationally by 2030 (that's 85% year-on-year growth for the next six years).
GWM already exports to more than 170 countries and given that it has 1,000 overseas sales channels already in existence, it intends to utilize its strengths by adding a motorcycle brand into those same sales channels.
Now if you haven't heard of Great Wall Motors, the chances are that you soon will. The global automotive industry has been in a state of perpetual revolution for most of its existence, with the world order regularly changing, so if you need a quick snapshot of the current world order, here's a list of the world's largest car companies by market capitalization.
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You welly smot guy.
Visit Sacramento CA, and help yourself to all their Knuckle heads.
If I ever see one here, I’m gonna get a little bottle of gold pain and change the name to SPUD.
SOUP......................
tres Elegante but I’ll bet the customer service/warranty is “difficult “
Wind pull/ mini-van/ semi truck vaccuum pull is something I did not think of.
And that is a valid point.
But, for me. My presumption of the trade off between that and weight/ stopping and cornering would not make up for it.
But there are a lot of people that really like bikes that only go in straight lines. So, I know I am in the minority.
I want to see the garages these people have.
The bike has the Chinese white-hankie guarantee. The salesperson waves a white hankie as you pull away, and as long as you can see it, you are covered.
“4-valve, quad-cam, horizontally-opposed, eight-cylinder, two-liter engine”
I am a psychic. I see leaking head gaskets in your future.
Is there a ping list? I want on it!
.. article was also clearly written by AI.
It’s got that Japanese game-show tone in it’s voice.
martin fierro Has the Motorcycle Ping List................
If you have to lay it down, you’re gonna trough the highway.
Proof that the Chinese don’t believe in the climate change crap.
I was thinking the same thing but they also don't care about their homeland since they've polluted 1/5 of their farmland into being worthless for farming. That's a lot of land and poison in their soil which eventually gets into their ground water supply.
I don't buy the glowbull warming nonsense either but there's something be said for cleaner burning vehicles in densely populated cities. You can see the difference, especially in the summer. L.A. air pollution would hit the mountains above San Bernardino and just hang there. On most days during the summer you would be hard pressed to see the next traffic light a block away.
Oh I agree completely.
Good news for Pootie-Poot.
Ural is no longer the least reliable touring bike made.
A friend of mine, now passed, had one of those...............
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