There is a cataclysmic change in HARLEY DAVIDSON who has been sticking to air-cooled V-twin with large displacement. In addition to a water-cooled 60-degree V twin and electric motorcycle, small displacement vehicles in Asia are also in standby state! * Young Machine November issue of 2018 (Released on September 22)
India Capture Strategy Begins to Bet Survival!
HARLEY DAVIDSON announced on July 30, 2018 about the new model offensive in the raging waves between 2019 and 2022. One of them is a small displacement model of 250-500cc, which declared the launch of the India within 2-years. The HARLEY has announced 100 new models over the next decade and aims to boost global sales by 50%. It is an India market that the motorcycle market is expanding in Asia and among all the explosive in order to be necessary for that.
For this market, HARLEY has introduced an India factory Street 500 in 2015, and the new small displacement motorcycle should be a model under this. It is announced that it will co-develop with Asian manufacturers like BMW which produces the G310 series in cooperation with Indian TVS, but this magazine is daring to newly developed 60-degrees water cooled V-twin that platforms deploy 500 to 1250cc. It made CG by the image which made 500cc of the minimum version in the single cylinder. There's also a [Precedent] that HARLEY sold a 500cc single-cylinder motorcycle called [Blast], which removed the rear cylinder from the 1000㏄ V-twin BUELL XB9 system in the past. *Young Machine November issue of 2018 (Released on September 22)
[HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR250 Expected CG (Upper Left) Expected Appearance Time: 2020 years] It is said that the variation of 500-1250㏄ is prepared by the Street Fighter with the new water-cooled V2 engine that HARLEY announced this time. It is expected that the exhaust volume of half is 250㏄. The precedent had a Blast of BUELL and was a half-size 492㏄ of 984㏄.
[Upper] It is a sketch of an electric motorcycle planned to be introduced in 2021-2022. The tank/seat of the XR750 wind is great if they appeal to sports like HARLEY. [Lower Right] It cut-out the clay by the XR750 as well in the development of HARLEY's new model water cooling model. [Lower Left] The new model of water cooling is a figure that understands that it also keeps in mind India's unique equipment "Sari Guard" that prevents entrapment of clothes."
Speaking of India, SUZUKI, how about 250?!
The new flagship of GIXXER Series, which is likely to appear in 2019, is strong in the Asian market centering on India. It seems that it is 250 single sports which adopts "circulation type oil cooling system" in which an oil jacket is provided in the vicinity of a combustion chamber between a cooling passage of oil and an intake/exhaust port, and it continues to be open to new patents on its oil cooling, one after another. It is expected to have a double feature of naked and cowl (SF), as well as the air-cooled 155㏄ version of the current GIXXER, and it seems to be introduced from the naked version first. *Young Machine November issue of 2018 (Released on September 22)
[SUZUKI GIXXER 250 Expected CG, Expected Appearance Time: 2018 Fall-2019 Spring, Debut Possibility: 50%] This CG was originally produced by this magazine as image of SF specified mounting the full cowl.
The two-wheel power figure of the Asian market, which was used when YAMAHA announced the 2019 type YZF-R25/YZF-R3 (2017). It is overwhelming that India is 19 million units compared with 300,000 in Japan. There are 7.2 million in China and 5.2 million in Indonesia, which is far larger than the scale, and manufacturers in the world are fighting contending for it.
Original Source[ Young Machine ] (*Japanese)
