Kawasaki does indeed make dam near everything, Wrider.Wrider wrote:.........
Kawasaki also makes EVERYTHING out there, and is branching out into power tools I saw recently.
KHI (Kawasaki Heavy Industries) makes locomotives, ships, heavy equipment, machine tools and a buttload of other stuff I haven't mentioned. I have a Kawasaki 5" grinder that is probably as old as you are. It's green, too.

KHI also used to run their racing department. Back when the was such a thing as 'works' bikes, works Kawi's all had 'KHI' cast into the cases someplace, as all those one-off racing engines were specially built in their KHI foundry, not the motorcycle plant. I think they moved the racing program away from KHI into the bike division a few years ago, but I'm not positive about that.
Kawasaki is large enough and diversified enough to survive this economic dump.