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Originally Posted by Walkabout
CCM will be able to make a living with sales into the European market? Let's see how it goes, and, please let us not assume that a bike, any bike, will have the same asking price in each and every market.
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I'm quite sure the CCM will be sold in the USA. You don't pass up a market that's 20 times the size of any other. And yes ... prices WILL be adjusted market to market. We pay in Dollars (generally) what Brits pay in UKP. Been that way a long long time. The lower the dollar goes ... the better for CCM.
CCM will have to compete ... but there are PLENTY of newly wealthy Dot.com hipsters here and thousands of One Percenter rich guys out there to support CCM. Just look at the booming sales of $25,000 BMW GSA's, $20K KTM 1190's, Ducati Panigle's, MV Augusta. Sales are better than they've ever been, records broken for BMW. Look it up.
So, IMO, there is a "niche" for CCM in the USA. But they'll need professional marketing to "Sell" the bike and a small dealer network of some kind. CCM are NOT new in the USA. I know of at least two past generations were sold at a local dealer here in San Francisco going back to the 90's. I'm betting that relationship will continue. The local dealer now sell Ducati, MV Augusta, Triumph, Moto Guzzi and formerly Husqvarna ... and could possibly take on CCM. Or ... the KTM/Aprilia dealer down the block may take them? Dunno.
The last generation of CCM they carried did not sell well. Bikes sat on the floor unsold for a couple years. Time will tell. Hope the new bike can do well!
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