I wouldn't own a VW either though. Don't strike me as too reliable.
Maybe... I drive a 2000 Passat 1.8 petrol with 450,000 kms. It's a tank. Cheap to service, even in a country where VW has never sold cars
Simply, they are too proud to lose face after being a major force in racing for so many years. I don't doubt, they will, eventually, make a come-back. It's only been a handful of seasons. Look how many years Ducati stuck around before they achieved real parity. Honda knows, as well as everybody else has known for years, that the win on Sunday, sell on Monday paradigm, is dead. It's not about practical stuff like money. It's national pride. Unless the Japanese economy takes a cavernous dive, I think Honda will keep at it.Completely different principles making things go up instead of downbut I get your point.
If Honda feel that MotoGP has no relevance to their road bikes then why don't they just quit? It seems silly that they would waste millions of dollars a year on something they don't get any value from.
My dad owns a 2015 Golf station wagon and it's already got rust on the doors.I wouldn't own a VW either though. Don't strike me as too reliable.
Afriend of ours had a golf and repetitive motor problems, including a failed cylinder head. Got rid of the pos before it sent her broke.
I agree. And this is what I point out to people saying that Marquez should have stuck with Honda. It took Ducati 6 years to get back to winning after Stoner left and it involved a complete rework of the race team and a new technical chief. Honda have so far shown no inclination of that massive overhaul apart from a brief 'hey wanna come work here?' to Gigi.
birdbird is clutching onto history. Honda's strategy worked well in the past but things have changed and its clear that currently Ducati's strategy is working the best. Perhaps in the future we will see Ducati's strategy no longer working as someone has worked out a better way to do things.
It's like what Honda did in the '80s. They were trying to be competitive in flat-track when riders like Roberts, Spencer, Shobert and Lawson were all coming out of the flat-track scene. They were getting nowhere, until they took apart a Harley and figured out that the firing sequence was what made the Harley's so tractable. Once they used that info, they were quickly able to beat Harley Davidson at their own game.
Are Ducati and Aprilia really any different as far as nationalistic pride is concerned?
Gigi's employment of the rule book anyway. It is my opinion that so called equalisation rules have a tendency to entrench advantages once they are gained, which has happened in F1 as well.
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Having good staff who happen to be of the same citizenship is not the same as outright refusing to hire outside staff, OR adopt foreign business concepts imo.
I am a much bigger fanboy of Stoner than I am of MM but he was an old fogey when he was under 30 and still racing.
