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Originally Posted by
Keithblade
Read a write up in a freebie paper (which is very good actually) from a bike cafe at Hawes while I had my low fat/low calory full english!
The write up was written by a guy who had it a week and did some trails, he gave it a good thumbs up apart from - yes you guessed it 'the price'. He did a comparison against the (predictably) GS but he did make a good point, he took a standard GS and listed all the optional extras you could have and he still had a spare �200.00 compared to the S10!
If Yamaha reviewed their pricing and lowered it to make it more competitive this bike would sell in the thousands IMHO! What is their strategy behind this? They can not be going for exclusivity as that doesn't make sense when they are launching a bike that is obviously there to take away some of BMW's sales. A financially desperate Company trying to increase revenue by over pricing when the could decrease the price and sell more units!
Had the price been more realistic it would have been in my garage now instead of Katie M. It ticked all the boxes for me except the price!
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The price is a problem for Yamaha.
It's not that they are greedy, I did some sums recently between when I bought my 08 Tenenere and now regarding the exchange rate of the Yen.
It was then 212 Yen to the Pound, now its about 134 Yen to the pound. If the rate was currently still 212 the Super Tenere would be a bit over �9000.
They are not beeing greedy, they still have the same manufacturing costs but a sh!tty rate to deal with foreign markets. This is why the XT660Z has gone up so much in the last two years.
I have to defend it, I just paid �14,300 for my farkled one !!!! It's a good job it's only money...Doh!