Thread: No more XT660Z?
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Old 11-11-16, 16:43
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Originally Posted by dallas View Post
if they are this far, why would it take another year or even more, to develop and produce the new Tenere?
Production Tooling,
Homologation,
Production orders full for other bikes....


Many years ago I worked in the Automotive sector, and just getting new seat-belt designs from mock up to full production was a multi-year task.
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