Now Benelli has new owner: Qianjiang Group is leader in China whith 1.5 milion bike produced. Fortunately for me and Italy Benelli will remain here for ever....
I read at google some news about it but my italian is to bad to understand the whole message. But it seems true the Qianjiang Group has purchased Benelli
Well, the Tornado looked always a lil bit Chinese to me.
It seems that China is willing to spend some bucks before the will worth really nothing. IBM was sold to Chinese Lenovo so I think is no shame for us to ride their bikes in the future. I prefer this over the take-over by any billionaire youngster.
Moto: i cinesi guardano a Benelli
Sembra tramontato passaggio a anglo-russi di Smolenski
(ANSA)-PESARO,14 SET- La Benelli Moto di Pesaro sta per passare di mano e si concretizza sempre piu' l'ipotesi di una cessione ai cinesi del Qianjiang Group Co Ltd. Sembra infatti del tutto tramontata l'idea di un'acquisizione della storica casa motociclistica (gruppo Merloni) da parte della John Galt Ltd del miliardario russo Smolenski, con cui era gia' stato firmato un contratto preliminare. Il gruppo cinese e' uno dei maggiori produttori di motori del Paese con 12.000 dipendenti e 1.200.000 pezzi sfornati ogni anno.
2005-09-14 12:51
Please don't let Benelli fall into the hands of Chinese! And yes I am Chinese... (Well Roland you asked for my opinion.) I know of too many bad dealings with Chinese backed companies. Maybe I will post some Chinese horror stories (not chinese ghost stories, business stories that is) on my ftp site. :|
BTW, have you seen this "race car" built by the Qianjiang Group? www.qjiang.com.cn/AF001.asp Let's hope the next generation of Tornado will have better fortune than this.
Re: Scoop!!!......New RS Model on the drawingboard
Laurence!!! You are my hero!!! You package arrived today. And the content has already been uploaded to the server. Full HTML version of Tre workshop manual is now available for viewing without the missing pix.
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