Motorcycle industry news Archives

Yamaha closes Spanish plant moving to France

25 April, 2020

Yamaha has officially announced that it will be closing down its Spanish factory in Palau-Solità Plegamans and moving to Saint-Quentin in northern France, where they have another factory.The move is due to a “global redefinition plan” and has been influenced…

Asian motorcycle markets

2 April, 2020

Suzuki Motor Corporation has just founded new production facilities in the Phillipines in an investment of 2.1 billion Yen - about 19 million euros. The new Phillipines motorcycle production plant will start operating in June 2012 under the Suzuki Phillipines…

Honda expands motorcycle production in India

24 March, 2020

The global motorcycle market is far from healthy with falling sales in the USA and Europe. If it weren’t for countries like India, Brazil and the pacific region in general, there wouldn’t be much keeping us afloat right now. With…

Bajaj raises stake in KTM

15 March, 2020

The KTM-Bajaj project has seen the Indian company slowly acquire more KTM stock over time, with a recent 1.21 percent acquisition taking it to a total of 39.3 percent ownership of KTM stock. Majority shareholder CROSS has a 50.1 percent…