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Honda suspends motorcycle production
Effective immediately, production has been halted at Honda’s Hamamatsu motorcycle factory. Tomorrow, the production facility in Kumamoto will be closed as well. The move is part of a wave of post-earthquake measures that will see Honda’s other Japanese facilities closed, including the R&D facility in Tochigi where one employee was killed in last week’s 8.9 magnitude quake. Update: Suzuki is...
Mar 14, 2011
Dailies
Half of KTM employees go part-time
Photo: KTM733 of 1,482 full-time KTM employees will transition to part-time work between May and August this year. The move effectively eliminates two months of production, but retains the company's workforce and manufacturing capacity in hopes of an economic rebound next year. All levels of employees will be affected, including factory works, management and executives. Cross Holdings, KTM's major...
Mar 30, 2009
2010 BMW S1000RR gets ABS, traction control
Update: Full details and images of the production 2010 BMW S1000RR have finally been unveiled. Click here to see them.Here's the 2009 BMW S1000RR, the road-going version of BMW's new World Superbike contender. Details are still sketchy, but it weighs 183kg (dry), has a 999cc inline four and will cost €15,150 ($19,438) when it goes on sales in Germany early this summer. Also present are ABS brake...
Feb 03, 2009
Dailies
Honda to stop US motorcycle production
Photo: DailyInventionHonda has announced it will cease production at its Ohio plant in Spring 2009. No jobs will be lost, as the facility's 450 workers will be reassigned to cars and trucks. Honda's Marysville, Ohio, plant makes Gold Wing tourers and VTX cruisers. Production of future versions of those models will shift to facilities in Japan. We don’t know if that means new versions of those bi...
Feb 27, 2008