They were a great bike---it was the dealers--or rather "lack of dealer support" that run me off. The machine itself was well designed.
WOW--hard to imagine. I am sure that the reasoning is to promote and support the Indian. Talking to the guys at Daytona for the last 2 years, they simply cannot build Indians fast enough. Victory and Indian are very close to identical twins once you get past the engine and tins. They share a lot of design and engineering DNA.
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From what I read in the Investor Relation presentation, some Victory Dealers will have the choice to be Indian Dealers..
Funny though,, this is not a "discontinued operations" event, just a cease manufacturing. It reads that Victory has been only 3 percent of Polaris sales and lost money 3 of the last 5 yrs.
The Focus is now on Indian and Slingshot
I've spent most my money on Motorcycles and Women, the rest I just wasted.
Kind of knew that was coming. Sales were bad. Now they can focus on the beautiful Indian brand. I not a slingshot fan so don't care.
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I've been reading some of the Victory forums (used to be a member on one) some of the membership is pretty upset regarding this. I can feel for them... it sucks to have a bike with rapidly dissipating resale value. Especially for the poor guys whom just got one and started making payments on it:
http://www.thevog.net/threads/polari...the-f-k.89537/
I remember when Harley axed Buell... that was pretty sad as well.
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Originally Posted by DMAGOLDRDR
When Indian first cranked up, they had first choice back then, too. I seem to remember the cost of a Victory franchise was in the $50K range, while Indian was $400-$450K. Most Victory dealers were taking a pass in the beginning. I am not sure if they are changing that now, but they took a hard line on the Indian price tag early on.
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I wonder how many "Slingshot" units they sell each year??..I have only seen 3 on the road around here and the local dealer that sells them has had the same ones on the floor for several months now.....Just curious...
Around here, all I see are used Slingshots, with about 9 miles on them... (joking of course - but I'm amazed how often it appears someone buys one of these on a whim and tries to bail on it just a few months later).
Agree!!..I used to ride with a guy who was really into bikes and speed stuff...He bought one of the first Slingshots available in this area and was in a "whole new world" as he said a few days after purchase...Since then, 2 years ago or more, he has driven it only 4 times and these were trips to local auto shows....He is now trying to unload it with no luck so far!!!!
I had a feeling that was coming and kinda steered me to the F6B over the XC. Kinda shame because I attended the Victory ride days and always enjoyed the Cross Country.
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