[Ducati] RE: Desmosedici RR First Ride Report from Miller!!!

[Ets-Hokin, Gabe]

Message: 11
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:25:36 -0400
From: "Alexander M Ortner" <aortner264789mi at comcast.net>
Subject: RE: [Ducati] Desmosedici RR First Ride Report from Miller!!!
To: "'Ducati Owners Group'" <ducati at ducati.net>
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>That's an interesting question, because it depends on your perspective...
>if you add up the parts, it's not $72,000 worth...

Who wrote this line? They don't know what they're talking about. And that is
saying it as politely as possible.

Alex Ortner
aortner at comcast.net
www.alexortner.com


Nick Ienatsch said it, and then looked over the text and gave it his okay. I'm not one to second-guess him. He knows more about motorcycles and racing than I ever will.

If you think about it, you can take that statement two ways: one is Ducati's cost of the parts. Obviously they cost less than $72,000 to purchase all the parts, otherwise Ducati could not make a profit on them, no? So it has to cost them less than $72k to purchase all this stuff (because Ducati actually makes very few components, if any; they assemble everything from suppliers), and judging from their profitability lately, there's a nice margin.

The other way to look at it is if you walked into a Ducati dealer and bought every part seperately; in that case, you would pay a lot more than $72k, but you would pay that much for a GSXR1000 is you bought it part-by-part as well, no?

I will let Nick know as politely as I can that he has no idea what he is talking about.

Gabe Ets-Hokin

Online Editor, Cycle World Magazine
www.cycleworld.com
getshokin at hfmus.com
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PS: I was going to be a snotty jerk about this until I saw your website and all the amazing specials you've built...as Ali G says: "Yo, Respec'!"