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The dogs wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 4:31 pm This is somewhat different in as much as a Chinese company has bought into a well established longstanding brand name with heritage. They know they can’t make an impact on the established marques on their own so putting the money and manufacturing might behind a brand like Benelli is a way in against the big hitters. I remember back when I was a service advisor in our local Harley dealer when the accessories came in to fit they were stamped “made in Taiwan” so nothing new here.


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As you say, nothing new about Harley outsourcing...even in the 1970s much of the tinware came from Taiwan, the electrics from Italy, and the suspension and carbs from Japan.
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The good old “Assembled in the USA” tag.
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H-D now has factories in India and Thailand...but who remembers the H-Ds made be Aermacchi in Italy?
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ive always been confused .. :roll:

now I am even more confused .. :lol:
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Richard Simpson Mark II wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 9:19 pm H-D now has factories in India and Thailand...but who remembers the H-Ds made be Aermacchi in Italy?
Were they the 350 horizontal singles?
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DavidS wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 10:00 pm
Richard Simpson Mark II wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 9:19 pm H-D now has factories in India and Thailand...but who remembers the H-Ds made be Aermacchi in Italy?
Were they the 350 horizontal singles?

Yes, here's one at a local show a few years ago. First and only time I've pointed my camera at anything with harley davidson written on it... :lol:
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Yes, and there was also a range of 90 - 250cc two-stroke singles which came later.

They became the first Cagivas when H-D pulled the plug on Italy

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Italian H-D two-strokes won 3 road-race world championships in the late 1970s

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They couldn’t win a turkey shoot now


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