Kawaski Ninja 500 and Vulcan 500 end in sight?

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Kawaski Ninja 500 and Vulcan 500 end in sight?

#1 Unread post by flw »

I stopped at a dealer today and was told the Ninja 500 is in its last year ('09). The sales person was told this at the dealer convention. I then asked about the Vulcan 500 LTD since it has the same base block. He told me the year following the Ninja 500, would be the last for the Vuclan 500 LTD. So Ninja 500 is done after '09 and Vulcan 500 LTD is done after '10.

I asked what would be the replacement between the 250 and 900 vulcans. He said they usually don't say anything while existing bike are still unsold in numbers.

This was the Kawaski/Honda dealer in Freeport Il. Before we stated, I told him I had no interest in a replaceent for my current bike but just wanted 10 min. of his time to keep me up to date on the current line.

Any one here of this or can confirm via your local dealer? Or just sales B.S. to get people to buy the bigger bike?

Dan O.
Goldwing 1500se '98
VN500 LTD '07 Sold

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#2 Unread post by chewy4011 »

Yes, the Ninja 500R is done after the '09 model year. realize i'm late with this, but new to the forum
2009 Kawasaki Ninja 500R- candy plasma blue

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