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The quote was "developed", not "designed".Interesting, especially the quote in the article, "We designed the gearboxes ourselves."
The quote was "developed", not "designed".
Big difference.
It's entirely likely that last year when the question was asked, BMW wasn't planning to build motorcycles in India. This still doesn't sound like BMW is building motorcycles in India. It sounds like a company in India is building gearboxes for BMW.
Big difference.
The Rotax thing wasn't exactly a travesty for BMW, now was it?
--chiba
You're right on both counts. However, I didn't say I had a problem with this decision in terms of quality, only that BMW will surely pocket the savings without passing on any benefits to the consumer - at least on the higher-end models anyway.
BMW has had reason to be unhappy with its European transmission supplier, and European bearing suppliers for a number of years. Other than stereotypes we have no real reason to believe that this will make quality suffer.
No thanks. I'll keep my 2006 RT with its "inferior" European sub-assemblies. Harley Davidson a few years back began incorporating off shore components in their bikes and the HOG raised holy heck about it.