will it become obsolete? Or will Honda put a reverse on it an make it a production trail quad?

 

They r still going to make them and as you already know they dropped the retail from 5699 to 5299 out the door

 

Seems to me the 450r will make it obsolete if they dont update it. And I'm talking about reverse.

 

yeah, reverse, liquid cooling, dohc. then you have a quad that friggin rips. and it'll smoke a z400. but the 400ex we all no of the way it is right now is better than the suzuki if you ask me.

 

They lowered the price and put a bigger carb on it, so I think it will still sell pritty good. There real fun. Just not the fastest of everything. There bullet prouf and always seem to start up and run great, and have great handling.

 

When did Honda ever make any major changes to a model in the past? The 400EX will be Hondas bread and butter bike for years to come. It is the king of the sport quads, or the bargain performance quad, take your pick. It's a solid bike in a solid market niche, now that they dropped the price.

Dealerships around here don't keep any (sport) bike on the floor for very long. They will sell every one they can turn out!!

 

Exactly! For the money its way more fun than a Warrior and more stout than a Z400 and being in between these two is not a bad place to be. With coming out with the 450R it just makes more sense to keep the 400EX right where its at................
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needs reverse.

 

I think the 400 will be around for a while. However, I don't see the 300EX lasting much longer. It seems that people buy the 250EX as a beginner and then step up to the 400EX, completely skipping the intermediate 300. I don't know of anyone personally that has bought a 300 in the past two years.

 

the 400ex was the first quad that started all of this new craze in high performance 4 strokes, it would be just wrong to stop making them, just because they are so reliable and semi fast and the fact that they are a honda makes them sell just as fast as a raptor or z 400, thats why honda waited so long to come out with the 450r, cause they were still making a killing selling the 400ex, reverse and some more power would be nice, but for now im happy with mine, i think honda will be making that quad for a while, especially if they are selling them so cheap, its the perfect quad for the money