Suzuki Marketing

[Oldie]

No wonder they're not selling many bikes - they have 14 models listed on their website with no price info. That's about 38% of their entire range. It took them months to post a price for the Van Van 200 and I expect the same will happen for the V Strom 250 etc. Pretty useless

[chris-red]

[Rogerborg]

Why pre-announce it though? You can't pre-order without a price - although I guess dealers might be happy to take $SOME monies now in return for a promise to negotiate for the rest later.

Do they imagine that folk will be holding off buying bikes from other marques just in case the Suzuki offering is better / cheaper? Given the paltry specs that they've announced for their new 125 / 250 bikes, I can't see folk queueing up. There's no mainstream alternative for the V-Strom 250, and the GSX-R250 is an Inazuma in a frock. I can't see why they're even bothering.

Seems like the most likely result is to devalue the current models of their own bikes. Yeah, thanks for telling me that the V-Strom is obsolete, Suzuki, but I might do you a favour...
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[Alpineandy]

I understand it's available in the states for around $4.6k so it'll be interesting how much it appears here for
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[Oldie]

Actually, having thought about it, Suzuki pricing is fairly meaningless anyway. Even if they stop the "£900 off" promotions I'll always regard their list prices as suspect. Maybe that's their new tactic - you come up with the price and we'll see if it's close enough to what we want

Generally good bikes though.

[almostthere]

they need to have a word with the marketing guru known as Creg Aarons he'd shift shitloads of Suzukis he might be able to do a crowdfunding campaign to finance development of new model
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