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the Yamaha engine He felt the need to clarify that the joint project he had created with… Kfmoto Which was announced on September 15, concerns the Chinese market only, as was mentioned from the beginning.

the Yamaha It already had a presence in China, and has been manufacturing two-wheelers for many years now in a joint venture with Jianshe. In its initial announcement, Yamaha It does not clarify that this cooperation will only concern China and states that this country represents an important base for production and sales and that they will continue to discuss with China. Kfmoto The direction they will give to their joint venture, and take steps forward with the aim of becoming more competitive.

We said in our own article, of course, that their cooperation concerns the Chinese market and that it is very possible to expand it in the future, while we quoted the full English text with the full names of the two companies, both the former and the new joint venture whose abbreviation will be ZCYM. You can remember it here.

With today’s announcement, 3/11/2023, the Yamaha engine He is quick to inform that the joint venture with Kfmoto It is about the Chinese market but repeating two main elements, that China represents an important production and sales base and how “They will continue to discuss the direction of the joint project with Kfmoto In the future, with the aim of increasing competitiveness.

Basically, this announcement is no different from what we wrote here on 9/15/2023: “Joint venture between Yamaha and CFMOTO to build motorcycles in China,” A fact that raises questions about why Yamaha had to provide clarifications to the entire European market. Maybe because they started guessing future models or because the theories about what would be made had already begun, which is what all manufacturers suffer from. For example, BMW doesn’t manufacture any parts for the big GS in China, but more and more comments will emerge about its Chinese origin even though it’s completely non-existent and the BMW-Loncin collaboration is only about smaller displacements. Meanwhile, BMW had always collaborated on the manufacture of smaller cylinders, a role previously played by ROTAX. Likewise, Yamaha has many factories around the world, and not all of the large MT family is manufactured in Japan, a large share of smaller displacement engines are manufactured in Indonesia and let’s not forget the production line located in France, where the final models are assembled. Parts beyond that may come from China, such as plastic or crystal for the headlights even for more refined bikes like the Ducati Multistrada V4 where 60% of the parts that make it up come from a 150 km network of suppliers around the factory. The remaining 40% are located around the world. But all this either confuses the world, or is exaggerated, said and deliberately stated many times by opponents, as we saw with the KTM 890 Adventure which is manufactured in Austria. But you deliberately heard the promoters of a competing company chattering up and down in Chinese. The beautiful thing is that in the future, no one can rule out the path that production lines will take, so we can only talk in particular and not in general. This is also what Yamaha’s announcement says, that their cooperation with CFMOTO is currently limited to the Chinese market and we will see in the future. And so began the same collaboration between KTM – CFMOTO, for the Chinese market only and once the competition in Europe changed and there was room for the expensive 890 Adventure and the cheap 790, the direction of the joint venture became from single track to local track level, a two way street.

The main thing of course is that another large manufacturer chooses CFMOTO as a strategic partner, as it holds the scepter in the Chinese market for large motorcycles, while being a pure motorcycle company that is also expanding into ATVs. It does not have motorcycles and small two-wheelers, and now it has announced that it will enter it as well and is not expanding into other areas, it is focusing on motorcycles.

So it makes sense that traditional manufacturers would want to enter the Chinese market which, although now the second largest market in absolute terms after India, is huge and offers the very interesting advantage of converting and introducing European elements. This means that Chinese motorcyclists have begun to use their motorcycles for travel and tourism and not just as a means of transportation, at a time when the standard of living of many millions of residents exceeds European Union countries. , but for a large number of citizens, such as small Europe, things go very similarly to us, shaping the domestic motorcycle market accordingly.

Basically, Yamaha believes that in a short time, with the same models it plans for Europe, it will be able to achieve very high sales in China as well as huge profit margins, which the factory can achieve at the moment and here’s why. Switched to CFMOTO. This Pierer has already seen since the 2018 founding of the KTMR2R factory which we recently visited. One when it was founded and one now, See the production lines as you will read here.

So the future is open, and apart from the Chinese manufacturers coming to us here, the traditional players are seeing things well over there, in the vast country that is shaping the motorcycle culture and which has already made an amazing leap into cars, is preparing for motorcycles well…