The real new owner

Where does this information come from?

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

new owner

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.

Chinese take over

:hat Hi Guys I ahve heard the very same thing from Red Dog Motorcycles (UK). They have not heard any other information though.

I never though when I bought my Benelli that spare parts would be labelled " MADE IN CHINA" ! :lol

Re: Chinese take over

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Man!!! I don't know what to make of this! Toby..maybe you can chime in.

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Sooooo...someone translate this please?

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

Re: Chinese take over

Some more news here:-

216.239.39.104/translate_...D%26sa%3DG

It's WAR!!!

Seems like the deal has not been done yet........... looks like we could have a fight on our hands between the chinese and the russian

translate.google.com/tran...D%26sa%3DG

Re: It's WAR!!!

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: It's WAR!!!

Ack! 150cc 4 stroke single? Wow! Someone really needs a website redesign too!

Hmm.....

At least it's got a 12v battery....... which maybe produces more power than the engine!!!!:rollin

Scoop!!!......New RS Model on the drawingboard

I see the R & D department are well ahead with a new model to replace the RS.

www.qjiang.com.cn/city.asp

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.

www.sitefoundation.com/benelli/

Thanks Laurence!!! If you do ever visit Los Angeles, please look me up, I would like to feed you some Chinese food, served on green and silver plates.

Toby

Your welcome Toby.

I hope other owners may find it useful rather than downloading the whole manual, which may be a problem if they are on a sloooooooooow connection.

and thanks for the offer, if I'm ever thinking of visiting LA, I'll be sure to let you know.

Bye for now,

Laurence