Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:35 am
All that crazy marketing and perception stuff. Suzuki, with their cruisers was trying to appeal to the cruiser audiance, who is either looking for a Harley, or a Harley like bike. Or at least it seems that way to me.
Harley did the cc thing starting with the V-rod engines, which were mostly engineered in Germany, if I've read correctly. Also, for the majority of the rest of the biking world, they talk in CCs. Maybe that is catching up to Harley finally as well. Not sure, but I know the world was suppose to "go" metric years ago, and there are still hold-out all over the world, with the US being the worst example.
In the end, I'd say there has to be many reasons for the differing engine size descriptions, but 9 times out of 10 it seems that marketing has the most control, since they are the ones that claim the right name, color, or description will sell more or less of something.
My 2 cents.
Harley did the cc thing starting with the V-rod engines, which were mostly engineered in Germany, if I've read correctly. Also, for the majority of the rest of the biking world, they talk in CCs. Maybe that is catching up to Harley finally as well. Not sure, but I know the world was suppose to "go" metric years ago, and there are still hold-out all over the world, with the US being the worst example.
In the end, I'd say there has to be many reasons for the differing engine size descriptions, but 9 times out of 10 it seems that marketing has the most control, since they are the ones that claim the right name, color, or description will sell more or less of something.
My 2 cents.
