2010 Suzuki's

[Jetpilot5]

 I will reply to my own post Suzuki Canada has now fixed the above screw up and now shows the updated touring model @$13299.00 not bad price .

Maybe now they'll have time to finally update the US site.  I see the base GSX1250FA goes for $11,799 Canadian.  What do you figure, maybe $10,999 if it makes it to the US?

[BlueRidgeKat]

Well fuck the screwed up US Suzuki webste. Will someone who is going to the IMS show in Dallas next week post here what Suzuki will offer in the US and what the colors are for 2010

[Jetpilot5]

Well fuck the screwed up US Suzuki webste. Will someone who is going to the IMS show in Dallas next week post here what Suzuki will offer in the US and what the colors are for 2010

Please!  Price would be nice too.

[BlueRidgeKat]

Please!  Price would be nice too.

Yeah...... and pictures even!

[Dave the slave]

As of 9:30 pm mtn standard time the Suzuki USA website is again automatically linking you to the Canadian site if you click on the "Motorcycle" link.

They seriously must have retards running their website.  I'm pretty sure my 11 month old daughter could get as good of results as the Suzuki IT team.

[Rincewind]

Yeah well, they aren't the only ones behind.  BMW, KTM, Ducati, don't have all their 2010 line-up pricing & colors yet either.  Next week is EICMA in Milan, maybe we will learn more after that.

[BlueRidgeKat]

Yeah well, they aren't the only ones behind.  BMW, KTM, Ducati, don't have all their 2010 line-up pricing & colors yet either.  Next week is EICMA in Milan, maybe we will learn more after that.

At least Ducati has on their site when they are going to post their 2010's, they even have a countdown clock on this page http://www.multistrada.ducati.com/ with the days, hours and minutes left.

Suzuki has to be ready with their bikes for next weeks Dallas show. There is no reason for the US website not being updated yet. Yes, I am a impatient bastard this time of year    

[chornbe]

At the beginning of 2008, $1 was 107 yen. At the beginning of 2009 it was 90 yen. A 16% decline in exactly one year.
A 2008 1250S was $8300. A 2009 is $9300.

Converting the US prices to Japanese yen, a 2008 was 888k yen on January 1st and a 2009 was 837k. That means the bike is actually cheaper now, from Suzuki's perspective: 6% cheaper. They're reducing their profit margins to try to keep the price as low as they can, but the dollar is total shit so the US price still increased $1000.

You have a lot of nerve bringing facts and situation analysis into this....

[chornbe]

Let's all calm down and take a step backwards...

If you owned a company who, despite selling some of the greatest products in the market place, was down on sales by 30+% by no fault of ANYTHING other than that consumers simply aren't able to buy right now... would you be in a hurry to completely retool for new models?

Anyone saying "yes" is either delusional, or has no clue what it actually takes to manufacture a complex system.

A new model? Yes.
A couple of new models? Maybe.
Revamp a whole group of products? No f'ing way.

Your staples stay. You experiment with one, maybe two new models.

ie... Honda.

[Jetpilot5]

All I want to know is if a new model they have already announced (GSX1250FA), and is on the websites in the UK and Canada, is coming to the US market.  That, and if it is, having a price would be nice.

[BlueRidgeKat]

Let's all calm down and take a step backwards...

If you owned a company who, despite selling some of the greatest products in the market place, was down on sales by 30+% by no fault of ANYTHING other than that consumers simply aren't able to buy right now... would you be in a hurry to completely retool for new models?

Anyone saying "yes" is either delusional, or has no clue what it actually takes to manufacture a complex system.

I am with Jetpilot..... all I want to know is what colors do we get on the bikes in the US and do we get the same ones as Canada, sometimes in the past we have not.

As far as retooling for new models, I could care less. I would just like to see models that are already available in Europe or other countries make it to the States. I'll use Yamaha as a example here. They have two bikes I would love to have if they were available, the Bulldog and the Tenere. Like to have the Dog for the street and the Tenere as a dual purpose. Personally, I blame the Harley "lifestyle" for this. We get every Japanese Harley clone knockoff but not other styles of bikes.

[chornbe]

Only because they sell in viable numbers - enough to make it worth it to bring the products here, get them through fed-dot and epa certification - a 'start from zero' process with each model. If you sell 100 of one item and 1 of another, yet it costs the same ridiculous amount to get them both here... it doesn't make sense to bring the single-seller here. At all.

You hear a lot of noise about "if they bring that here" and "I can't wait to buy one used" in the same sentence all too often. The MFGs hear us, apparently.

[bandit1250]

I like the fairing a whole lot better than mine. The black engine is nice too.

[gritsngravy]

The nor cal bike show is in 2 weeks and Suzuki has not posted a clear and accurate website to let us know what's happening for 2010......tough times indeed.  Makes you wonder how they handle warranty issues.  

[BlueRidgeKat]

The nor cal bike show is in 2 weeks and Suzuki has not posted a clear and accurate website to let us know what's happening for 2010.

Exactly. That was the whole point here, not brand new models.

The Dallas show is one week from today so they have to already have their bikes ready to load on the truck for the show therefore there is no excuse for the website not being up. The Canadian site is up with 2010's on it.

Then again maybe Suzuki has pulled out of the IMS this year and plans on bringing no bikes to the states for 2010 which was a rumor about four months ago that at the time I laughed at.

[nater]

A Suzuki shop owner I know told me that Suzuki had large volumes of production overruns this past year and now there are wearhouses full of unsold bikes.  The credit crunch had a lot to do with that.  18-23 year olds couldn't get loans for bike.  I also heard that Suzuki was laying off a lot of its marketing dept.  It's not looking very good.  I would not be surprised if we did not see any new Suzukis in the US this next year.

[BlueRidgeKat]

A Suzuki shop owner I know told me that Suzuki had large volumes of production overruns this past year and now there are wearhouses full of unsold bikes.  The credit crunch had a lot to do with that.  18-23 year olds couldn't get loans for bike.  I also heard that Suzuki was laying off a lot of its marketing dept.  It's not looking very good.  I would not be surprised if we did not see any new Suzukis in the US this next year.

Thats probably why they keep flashing the 2010 Canadian site on the US site to tease you so if you want a 2010 you can just move north to Canada.

Neither of my two local Suzuki dealers have either of the three GSXR's. It looks like if they are overstocked in warehouses they would send some more out to the dealers to try and sell.  

[Mr.Black]

That's probably why they keep flashing the 2010 Canadian site on the US site to tease you so if you want a 2010 you can just move north to Canada.

Another good reason.

I'm 1/4 Canadian and have no felony record, would I be given citizenship?

[BlueRidgeKat]

This may (or may not) confirm the rumor of no 2010 Suzuki's in the US. Its not  looking good.

http://www.sport-touring.net/forums/index.php/topic,46685.0.html

I still cannot imagine no 2010 GSXR's or V-Stroms, everything else in their lineup maybe, but I thought those really sold for them.

[Blunder]

Neither of my two local Suzuki dealers have either of the three GSXR's. It looks like if they are overstocked in warehouses they would send some more out to the dealers to try and sell.  

The local Suzuki store has no floor space for any excess warehouse stock.