In a message dated 5/16/01 12:34:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << However, as far as anyone knows, all GTSs were produced in '93 or '94. All the newer models are really '94s with re-painted body work >> What is your source of information on this? Think of the practicality of making 5 production years of GTS's in one year. Yamaha had a REAL good idea of projected sales figures after the first year of production. It is not believable that they are going to overproduce by 4 years. Ask about any Yamaha dealer if Yamaha is in the habit of overproducing any models. It is something they avoid like the plague. They have adopted a fiscally responsible attitude that Harley dealers describe by saying, "If they make enough, they have made too many." Saturating the market drives retail prices down and makes it tough for dealers to operate profitably. If Yamaha's, or anyone else's for that matter, dealers are not profitable, they do not have the resources to buy more product the next year. Therefore, the manufacturer is very sensitive to retail sales, because it affects their ability to sell wholesale. Further.... they do not have that many assembly lines, so to make that many of any model means they are going to have to make less of something else.
