$40,000 for the Friggin' Motus

[Silverbird]

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2012/03/motus-motorcycles-announces-dealers-pricing-and-final-horsepower-numbers-for-2013-models/

After dealer BS, tax and fees you'll pay 40K for a top of the line Motus.

What a wasted opportunity to get a non-Japanese ego driven sport-touring bike.  At that price only movie stars will be riding them and people like us that will actually ride them will have to watch and admire.

[atadaskew]

[Kneescrubber]

I wouldn't have one if I was movie star.  

[rgbeard]

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2012/03/motus-motorcycles-announces-dealers-pricing-and-final-horsepower-numbers-for-2013-models/

After dealer BS, tax and fees you'll pay 40K for a top of the line Motus.

What a wasted opportunity to get a non-Japanese ego driven sport-touring bike.  At that price only movie stars will be riding them and people like us that will actually ride them will have to watch and admire.

You could buy them from the movie stars that sold them after the first year, when they became "old", and no longer wanted in the garage.

[Orson]

ego driven sport-touring bike.

 

you wrote ego-driven and sport touring in the same sentence  

line up a Harley, a crotch rocket, an adventure bike and a sport tourer in front of a throng of high school girls and the sport tourer would be invisible  

[B(rice) Rocket]

Someone on here made a decent point on the other motus $$ thread about how you see all these bigdogs and occ and west coast choppers going for that and more and people are still riding them. I see them fairly often too and I'm in Straight-Roadville USA, beaten only by Kansas!  

I wouldn't be surprised to see a few here and there when riding through high exposure twisties like they have in Arkansas and the Dragon. Hardcore pirate wanna-be's will have their custom $50k choppers, super hardcore STers who are into American-made power will be all over the Motus. I'm willing to be a lot of Buell Ulysses' will be hitting CL...

Hell, I'd rather drop $40k on a Motus than the new Erik Buell Racing $40k trackbike...cool bike but.....so impractical  

[ConPilot1]

 super hardcore STers who are into American-made power will be all over the Motus.

Disagree totally.

Hell, I'd rather drop $40k on a Motus than the new Erik Buell Racing $40k trackbike...cool bike but.....so impractical  

Agree totally.  

Price is out of line on this bitch. Bottom line. /thread.

[R Doug]

They obviously want to sell this thing.   I'm guessing the resources spent in R&D plus the cost to manufacture a bike for a start-up company makes it nearly impossible to make a profit.  At the current price point, I wonder how many units they would have to sell just to break even?  

I'm sure this isn't easy for them.  IMHO, it appears they built it first and thought about the price later.  They should have done the exercise of running some numbers determining what price point they could actually sell this bike (I've read on here that people would have paid $20,000) and then calculate whether they can even build it to sell at that price.  

The crew must of consisted of a lot of engineers and gear heads without a finance or accounting person in the group.  God love 'em!  

[garry]

They obviously want to sell this thing.   I'm guessing the resources spent in R&D plus the cost to manufacture a bike for a start-up company makes it nearly impossible to make a profit.  At the current price point, I wonder how many units they would have to sell just to break even?  

I'm sure this isn't easy for them.  IMHO, it appears they built it first and thought about the price later.  They should have done the exercise of running some numbers determining what price point they could actually sell this bike (I've read on here that people would have paid $20,000) and then calculate whether they can even build it to sell at that price.  

The crew must of consisted of a lot of engineers and gear heads without a finance or accounting person in the group.  God love 'em!  

Or maybe their initial projected price was way lower and they were too deep in the project to bail out when they realized it would have to sell for a lot more money. $40K is way out of my budget, but are plenty of people that can spend $40K on a toy.

[Rogue]

It's made in the USA, paid for with US Labor costs, insurance costs, environmental fees, regulatory fees, etc., etc.,  So yes, it's $40k for the intended production run.  

Just like Erik Buell Racing, Tesla Motors, and Fisker Motors, that is the price of any start up.  If people were thinking $25k, that was wishful thinking!  

[Kraz]

Come on - MSRP is 31k for a well set up bike.  40k is adding everything on top of the hopped up model.  If she doesnt' sell well, you'll get her out the door for less than MSRP.

And how many topics do we need to start about the same thing?  At least it's free advertising for Motus.


(I still want one.)

[Silverbird]

I said Japanese ego driven - not - Japanese, ego driven. Meaning the Japs give you what they think you want.