Just seen this thread.
Stirring is always a popular "hobby" among fat twats
Just thought I should point out that the corporate focus for BMW these days is very much focussed on low carbon-emission vehicles. OK this is the car division and the motorrad arm is somewhat maverick. But remember the F800-series were designed primarily with fuel efficiency in mind.
If there is an update to the R1200 coming, which I doubt will be in the next few years but after that, you can expect it to be water-cooled and fuel-efficient. Maybe a flat-4 boxer?
And if anyone was going to bring out a diesel bike, apart from the special-purpose military ones, it would be BMW. But I can't see it happening any time soon. Maybe in ten years time.
Very well said. Looking how well BMW does in the diesel engines department and overall engine design - BMW picked up the most of 2006 car engine awards, and BMW officially states that diesel is the best concept to get the most power out of per fuel consumption, thus it would be realistic to have first diesel big caliber production (dual sport or tar) touring oriented bike coming out.
Re: KTM engine on BMW stir. I reckon the talks (if there is any) is about moving any speciefic model engine manufacture into KTM factory to be built according to BMW specs. Due the growth in sales and introduction of new models (they now officially promise 5 new models every new year) BMW has spread the component production worldwide to keep up with demand that their current factories can't. The new forthcoming G450X engine was already over Berlin's plant capability since they want to make it in big numbers to keep its price down, so they contracted Taiwan company (Kymco) to produce it according to BMW specs (yep, the BMWs desgined new G450X engine will be officially "Made in Taiwan"). Rotax is another example of contracting external sources in production, so why not contract KTM that has expanded and modernized its production plant lately or contract with Triumph that also has modernized production plant. Can't see any reasons to stop it if both sides can earn more profit this way
This is how modern date production goes, it's called globalization.
Question:What is the truest definition of Globalization?
Answer: Princess
Diana's death.
Question: How come?
Answer:
An English princesswith
an Egyptian boyfriend
crashes in a French
tunnel,driving a
German car
with a Dutch engine,
driven by a Belgian
who was drunk
on Scottish whisky,
(check the bottle before you change the spelling),
followed closely by
Italian Paparazzi,
on Japanese motorcycles;
treated by an American doctor,using
Brazilian medicines.
This is sent to you by
a Canadian,
using Bill Gates's technology,
and you're probably reading this on your computer,
that uses Taiwanese
chips,and a
Korean monitor,
assembled by
Bangladeshi workers
in a Singapore plant,
transported by Indian
lorry-drivers,
hijacked by Indonesians,
unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen,
and trucked to you by Mexican illegals.....
That, my friends, is Globalization!
Oh c'mon, are you after a trolling award!
!!!!!
(oh and it belongs on a 5 series ) and it'll always be the boxer for the bikes!
) Like it or not the Boxer twin mould has been broken.
