I still remember the last part of the AM radio jingle from back then:
"Honda prices start about two-fifteen ($)
Go little Honda, go little Honda
You meet the nicest people on a Honda."
Anyone else remember that? I would have been about 10 or 11 years old then.
I could walk to the Honda shop in 10 minutes from our house.
$215 was the Super Cub price.
As far as the dealer prices in Thailand, in the last 12 years, I have bought at least 8 new motorbikes or scooters in Thailand, at dealerships, and never paid more than the listed MSRP.
Paid cash every time.
But none of those bikes were purchased in a large city, other than my last purchase, which was a new Suzuki purchased in downtown Phuket. I also paid MSRP for that one. Maybe because Suzukis are not so popular in Thailand.