Dean Kirsten says he thinks they were made, and that they DID get out, just real limited. I agree with that theory 100%. When the consent decree was signed Honda sent notices to all their dealers and told them if the models they had in stock were sold to anyone, they would lose their franchise indefinetly and would be sued for an outrageous amount of money. So, the ones that got sold had to have happeend before this. That and the fact all the bad publicity surrounding them, I'm sure there wasn't a whole lot of people standing in line at the dealer for trikes...