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Originally Posted by mflueras  No disrespect candyman, but 2 or 3 years later it's no longer new. It's sat on in the dealership without any attention. As far as this being fairly common, I don't know how a dealership can survive with inventory remaining on their lots that long. I just cannot believe the manufacturer, the dealer, or the financier would not push to liquidate such high inventory days vehicles, even if it means losing. |
New refers to mileage. Cars under 2500km (in canada) are sold as new, I'm sure bikes have a similar mileage system. It is NOT a time system. A 50 year old bike can still be sold as new if it's never been over the mileage allotted.
The dealerships or financiers do liquidate the vehicles, which is why they drop in price when the years go by...they can not afford to say "ok, a year's gone by, the bike's now being sold for $1000 instead o $9000" that's financial suicide.