Kawasaki Thailand Announces New Factory Plans

[ScubaBuddha]

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According to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, Kawasaki plans to begin moving production of all of its large-displacement motorcycles from the company’s main Akashi Works factory in Japan to its existing facilities in Thailand immediately in order to cut production costs. The motorcycle manufacturers have been suffering heavy losses due to sluggish sales in the current sagging economy, forcing them to look for various methods to cut costs, and moving production facilities to countries with lower labor and operating costs is a common step.

When asked how this would effect the pricing and availability of Kawasaki sportbikes in Thailand, Kidsak Supaporn, executive VP of sales for Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. stated, "This will be very good for Thailand's sportbike community. We expect to have the full line of Ninja sportbikes available for sale in Thailand with no import duties by mid summer."

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Oh Happy Days!! This puts the ZX-6, Z1000, Ninja 1000 at about 300,000 baht!! ZX-10 for 365,000 baht!!

Source:

http://motorcyclenews.com/115897/146-0908-kawasaki-moves-large-motorcycle-production-to-thailand/index.html

[soihok]

That really is good news, as long as the price of the bike is right.

I was looking at a new R1 in Korat a couple of years ago and it was about 850,000 baht.

I would certainly entertain a new Z1000 for under 400,000.......gimme,gimme,gimme.

[JonnyF]

Best check the date of the article I think

Nice idea though

[nikster]

Nice one Scuba

It's an old article so I guess it's actually legit, only from 2009 or so...

[ScubaBuddha]

:D Well I got at least one person!! As many of you know, a while back they did make a similar announcement, but it turned out to be just the 650 twin bikes. Took me a while to find an article without a date at the top. I actually altered a couple old articles but couldn't get photobucket to display them with the appearance of a real webpage so I abandoned that idea. One cool thing about many forums including Thaivisa is you can make the link appear to go one place but have it go another:

www.visordown.com/KawasakiGoesThai

www.motorcyclenews.com/KawasakiMovesToThailand.html

:jap:

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Edited April 2, 2011 by ScubaBuddha

[ib1b4]

I would love to get one of those GRT1400 if the price was right.

[BigBikeBKK]

Ha ha ha!!! Brilliant one Scoobie! Ride On! T

[skybluestu]

On gt-rider there's a mention that the Z1000 will be available from Oct for 590,000 http://www.gt-rider.com/thailand-motorcycle-forum/threads/34530-Kawasaki-Z1000-is-coming.?p=266806#post266806

[Mr.Poko]

On gt-rider there's a mention that the Z1000 will be available from Oct for 590,000 http://www.gt-rider.com/thailand-motorcycle-forum/threads/34530-Kawasaki-Z1000-is-coming.?p=266806#post266806

Motorcycle Thailand says it would be 595,000 Baht, and they even had an article about the Kawasaki Z1000

http://www.motorcycle.in.th/staticpages/index.php/Kawasaki_Motorcycle_Price_List

http://www.motorcycle.in.th/article.php/The-2011-Kawasaki-Z1000

[thai4me]

A lot of power, freely wheelies at 7k rpm.