[seruzawa]

HEY! I wanna be the new GMP! ME, PICK MEEE!!!!

No problem.

Simply hit yourself in the forehead with a steam pipe slugging hammer until your IQ reduces to about 70. (Sarnali2 will be happy to provide one for you). Only accept information from ABC, CBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and Wikipedia. Pick a couple of professions that you know nothing about and pretend you work at those. Whenever anyone relates a personal experience jump in and make up some story about how you did the same thing but better or more.

Keep at this for a couple of years and you may be able to replace the last GMP.

 

[seruzawa]

It's not the prediction of down sales that's important. It's the total number of produced units. To drop 30k units in a year in production is astounding. Soft market and economy aside, Harley couldn't have sustained those lofty numbers for long. HD knew the market was changing and instead of starting the draw-down in the last quarter of 2005 they waited. If they started the draw down for the 2006 models no one would have been suprised by the drastic numbers shift (drastic for HD anyway). The strike a while back hurt things for HD but the slow down was already in motion by then and Harley should have telegraphed the lay-offs and reduced production before the strike to get the investors ready for the loss of revenue.

Never mind all that fancy analysis. Just tell us when those $3K Evos are going to hit the used market!