Honda - are you listening to your potential customers? Yamaha has cut into your sport quad market share with their new YFZ450...however, Honda, you could nullify much of that by annoucing a limited 3 year manufacturing run on an updated (can you say modern) 250R! Offer the public a basic 250R model, a 250R XC version and an 250R MX version, several color choices, retain the original bodywork and non-essential components. and you could announce in the next few weeks during peak YFZ450 delivery periods and stunt the YFZ sales! Talk about a war! How many ATV customers would die for a fresh 250R from Honda, which they (Honda) could build until the CARB regulations shuts them down in 2006/07. Thousands could be sold, and Honda could probably wrangle admittance into the AATVA and GNCC Pro Production classes that are so hot now. It would bring back some shine to an ATV image that continues to get hammered by several other msport ATV models. And by the way Honda, we still expect a CRF450 sport quad real soon! Does anyone share these thoughts? I would think so!

 

I'd buy a new 250R!!! But you can keep the thumper 'cause you know that's all your gunna get!

-Refuse to support the 4-stroke revolution! That might force the manufacturers into R&D again... and they just might come up with a 2-stroker that could meet the CARB regulations- Now that I would buy!!

 

yea it'd be great & they'd sell all they could make.
But it'll never happen!!!!
Maybe they'll release the TRX 450R at the dealer show.

 

whens the dealer show?

 

You 2 stroke guys can $hit in one hand and hope in the other and see which one fills the fastest. While you guys are doing that I'll be putting around on my new thumper. "come to the darkside Luke."

 

I think it's in Oct.

 

Theyd never do it, honda has no nuts. Look at their cars, NSX may be a sportscar but it has a sedan engine. S2000 has what should be in a motorcycle just a touch bigger. Besides I doubt honda executives read yamaha message boards. After everyone else releases their new quads, honda will release something a little bit slower but at the same price. If by some lucky chance they do release a TRX 450R theyl make it conservative as always. It will still be raceable but will need more work as a stock machine because they went to conservative with engine. TRX 450r does sound good though.

 

But yet it dominates superbike and moto gp!!

 

If Honda would make the 450 thumper, the engine design presently needs rebuilt every 20 or so hours....so maybe the quad needs rebuilt every 40?? Haha. Their internet peepers probably can't read english....so have no idea what you are asking for.

 

My hands are already full with my antiques.... and they'll stay that way!
Looks like Gas Gas has some nuts! so I don't have to wait long now do I?

Mean time when you're putt putting around, You can eat some of my roost. You can keep your thumper (Make noise, not power!)