I don’t know about them divesting the brand, but maybe they are entertaining producing units for another brand under contract. Less risk that way since they only need to produce quantities requested vs guessing at the market.
Can’t help to notice that they had to perform an inventory write down. I’m not sure that’s a good signal when they have to put such accounting tools to work.
A friend of mine used to trade in every year with his dealer anywhere between 1 to 2k difference. He stopped doing that about 8 years ago when that started to change. Today when he buys sleds he just looks for low k used since he feels more value that way.
It’ll be a case of lessons learned for Powersports manufacturers. That time a few years back was nothing more than a one off situation. People that had residual money to spend all of a sudden got extra time for hobbies and bought during a supply fiasco. Fast forward a year from that, you have...
I agree with replacing the wheel arch’s vs finding a whole box, way more cost prohibitive. Buddy did that on an 01 Silverado over a weekend and it turned out great.