I can't understand why anyone would want to buy a bike from a car dealership when there are perfectly good LBS's around with good advice and aftersales.
Some people like the image associated with certain brands of car. Off the top of my head, other car makers that have started selling bikes are Porsche, Mazda and either Range Rover or Land Rover. I don't think Peugeot really counts, being a bike maker that also sells cars :-)
The Range/Land Rover bike was a rebadged Moulton, so not actually a bad machine. ISTR the Porsche bike was a heap of all-style-and-no-substance boinginess. I can't remember anything about the Mazda bikes, even though I was temping in the marketing department of Mazda UK when they first came out.
The current Land Rover range of bikes is rather large. I can't find an external link but the internal page showing them indicates twnty four models including ladies bikes, a few hybrids, a few different styles of hardatail and three full sussers. I think they'd have done better to co-brand a couple of proper off road bikes with a proper British bike maker but I'm sure whatever marketing person thought of it had a plan in mind. -- Tim.
I can't understand why anyone would want to buy a bike from a car dealership when there are perfectly good LBS's around with good advice and aftersales.
Some people like the image associated with certain brands of car. Off the top of my head, other car makers that have started selling bikes are Porsche, Mazda and either Range Rover or Land Rover. I don't think Peugeot really counts, being a bike maker that also sells cars :-)
The Range/Land Rover bike was a rebadged Moulton, so not actually a bad machine. ISTR the Porsche bike was a heap of all-style-and-no-substance boinginess. I can't remember anything about the Mazda bikes, even though I was temping in the marketing department of Mazda UK when they first came out.
The current Land Rover range of bikes is rather large. I can't find an external link but the internal page showing them indicates twnty four models including ladies bikes, a few hybrids, a few different styles of hardatail and three full sussers. I think they'd have done better to co-brand a couple of proper off road bikes with a proper British bike maker but I'm sure whatever marketing person thought of it had a plan in mind.
Sam Salt wrote: > I can't understand why anyone would want to buy a bike from a car > dealership when there are perfectly good LBS's around with good > advice and aftersales.
Some people like the image associated with certain brands of car. Off the top of my head, other car makers that have started selling bikes are Porsche, Mazda and either Range Rover or Land Rover. I don't think Peugeot really counts, being a bike maker that also sells cars :-)
The Range/Land Rover bike was a rebadged Moulton, so not actually a bad machine. ISTR the Porsche bike was a heap of all-style-and-no-substance boinginess. I can't remember anything about the Mazda bikes, even though I was temping in the marketing department of Mazda UK when they first came out.
The current Land Rover range of bikes is rather large. I can't find an external link but the internal page showing them indicates twnty four models including ladies bikes, a few hybrids, a few different styles of hardatail and three full sussers. I think they'd have done better to co-brand a couple of proper off road bikes with a proper British bike maker but I'm sure whatever marketing person thought of it had a plan in mind.
