We Americans want everything. And when we spot a sexy new model (motorcycle) on the showroom floor (okay, the women too), in Europe that we can’t have, we start whining. But Americans just don’t buy naked-type bikes like the Euros do and the cycle continues.
Once in a while, the manufacturers ante up and bring something stateside despite its potential for dismal sales. They want us to like them, remember? Even more rare is the occasion for the OEMs to bring us a model that we ‘need’ here in the states. Honda has done it for the second time this year, for model year 2010, supplying U.S. riders with a unit that’s already popular in the European Union.
Earlier this summer, we saw the best-selling scooter in Europe come to us in the form of the fuel-injected liquid-cooled economic-minded SH150i. Shipped to the U.S. for the first time, Honda again seeks to fill a gap in its lineup with units priced for everyone’s wallet.
Today we’re looking at the next model to come from Japan, via European consensus, as yet another economical price-point bike for its 2010 lineup, the NT700V.
You’ve already heard the news, maybe even sat on the bike at the IMS show, but we got a ride on the girl this week and we’re impressed with its overall package, if not for it’s striking similarity to the bigger brother ST1300 – a husband and wife combo for sure!
Isn’t the Deville a Cadillac? That’s Deauville, ya dork!
Selling in the EU since 1999, the Honda Deauville has been serving as a popular commuter and weekender-touring bike where short trips are more common. Since we’ve got this big ol’ piece of land and wanna take everything with us when we travel, Honda has been offering the American market the full-touring capable ST1300. However, not everyone can afford the $15-grand or the vacation time these days, thus the NT700V gets dropped on our doorstep for next year as a smaller sibling to the bigger ST. In fact it’s already at your local dealership.
At the core of this middleweight tourer is a 52-degree, 680cc, SOHC, 4-valve-per-cylinder V-twin with the same architecture and spec as the DN-01 (and Transalp in Europe), sans the auto-tranny HFT, of course, in a decidedly more commuter- and touring-oriented package.
For detail www.motorcycle.com
Earlier this summer, we saw the best-selling scooter in Europe come to us in the form of the fuel-injected liquid-cooled economic-minded SH150i. Shipped to the U.S. for the first time, Honda again seeks to fill a gap in its lineup with units priced for everyone’s wallet.
Today we’re looking at the next model to come from Japan, via European consensus, as yet another economical price-point bike for its 2010 lineup, the NT700V.
You’ve already heard the news, maybe even sat on the bike at the IMS show, but we got a ride on the girl this week and we’re impressed with its overall package, if not for it’s striking similarity to the bigger brother ST1300 – a husband and wife combo for sure!
Isn’t the Deville a Cadillac? That’s Deauville, ya dork!
Selling in the EU since 1999, the Honda Deauville has been serving as a popular commuter and weekender-touring bike where short trips are more common. Since we’ve got this big ol’ piece of land and wanna take everything with us when we travel, Honda has been offering the American market the full-touring capable ST1300. However, not everyone can afford the $15-grand or the vacation time these days, thus the NT700V gets dropped on our doorstep for next year as a smaller sibling to the bigger ST. In fact it’s already at your local dealership.
At the core of this middleweight tourer is a 52-degree, 680cc, SOHC, 4-valve-per-cylinder V-twin with the same architecture and spec as the DN-01 (and Transalp in Europe), sans the auto-tranny HFT, of course, in a decidedly more commuter- and touring-oriented package.
For detail www.motorcycle.com
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