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Tim
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In article <[email protected]>, Danny Colyer wrote:
> Sam Salt wrote:
>> I can't understand why anyone would want to buy a bike from a car dealership
>> when there are perfectly good LBS's around with good advice and aftersales.
>
> Some people like the image associated with certain brands of car. Off
> the top of my head, other car makers that have started selling bikes are
> Porsche, Mazda and either Range Rover or Land Rover. I don't think
> Peugeot really counts, being a bike maker that also sells cars
>
> The Range/Land Rover bike was a rebadged Moulton, so not actually a bad
> machine. ISTR the Porsche bike was a heap of all-style-and-no-substance
> boinginess. I can't remember anything about the Mazda bikes, even
> though I was temping in the marketing department of Mazda UK when they
> first came out.
>
>
The current Land Rover range of bikes is rather large. I can't
find an external link but the internal page showing them indicates twnty
four models including ladies bikes, a few hybrids, a few different
styles of hardatail and three full sussers. I think they'd have done
better to co-brand a couple of proper off road bikes with a proper
British bike maker but I'm sure whatever marketing person thought of it
had a plan in mind.
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Tim.
> Sam Salt wrote:
>> I can't understand why anyone would want to buy a bike from a car dealership
>> when there are perfectly good LBS's around with good advice and aftersales.
>
> Some people like the image associated with certain brands of car. Off
> the top of my head, other car makers that have started selling bikes are
> Porsche, Mazda and either Range Rover or Land Rover. I don't think
> Peugeot really counts, being a bike maker that also sells cars
>
> The Range/Land Rover bike was a rebadged Moulton, so not actually a bad
> machine. ISTR the Porsche bike was a heap of all-style-and-no-substance
> boinginess. I can't remember anything about the Mazda bikes, even
> though I was temping in the marketing department of Mazda UK when they
> first came out.
>
>
The current Land Rover range of bikes is rather large. I can't
find an external link but the internal page showing them indicates twnty
four models including ladies bikes, a few hybrids, a few different
styles of hardatail and three full sussers. I think they'd have done
better to co-brand a couple of proper off road bikes with a proper
British bike maker but I'm sure whatever marketing person thought of it
had a plan in mind.
--
Tim.