Upcoming ‘child Harley,’ to be manufactured in collaboration with China’s Qianjiang Group, revealed in newest design filings.
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The upcoming Harley-Davidson 338R revealed in design filings
Newest drawings of the upcoming Harley-Davidson 338 have emerged revealing particulars of what might be anticipated from the entry-level mannequin from Harley-Davidson. The design submitting from China’s Nationwide Mental Property Administration present extra particulars and a number of other angles of the Harley-Davidson 338, which can be primarily based on the Qianjiang Group’s QJMotor QJ350 which was unveiled lately on the CIMA present, the China Worldwide Motorbike Commerce Exhibition at Chongqing in China. The designs reveal a flat-track impressed bike sharing the identical engine and an analogous body because the QJ350, however with some notable variations.
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The Harley-Davidson 338R has a flat one-piece seat, and with a fuel-tank that’s formed like a Harley
In comparison with the QJ350, the Harley-Davidson 338R has a a lot decrease, flatter, one-piece seat for each rider and pillion. The gasoline tank additionally appears considerably smaller, with a extra conventional Harley-Davidson form. The bike additionally has a radiator shroud, however the remainder of the bike seems to have much less physique panels than the Qianjiang model. On the entrance the bike has a round headlamp, over which is an offset round single-pod instrument console. On the rear, the 338R has a tail-mounted quantity plate holder built-in with the taillight.
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On the entrance the bike has a single spherical headlight and an offset single pod instrument console
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Now, Harley-Davidson has been quiet about its collaboration with the Qianjiang Group, and the product of that partnership, the ‘child Harley’ was finalised over the past Harley-Davidson CEO Matt Levatich’s tenure, together with his “Extra Roads To Harley-Davidson” technique. With Levatich now out of Harley-Davidson after greater than 26 years within the firm, new CEO, chairman and president Jochen Zeitz has outlined a distinct technique, to restructure the Harley-Davidson model globally and to deal with the model’s strengths, relatively than get experimental and check out a radically totally different product technique.
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A sophisticated prototype of the Harley-Davidson 338R was lately noticed in China
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The Harley-Davidson Bronx streetfighter has already been shelved from the Harley-Davidson line-up. And the American model has determined to wind up manufacturing and meeting operations, in addition to gross sales on the earth’s largest bike market, which is India. However Harley-Davidson’s China technique appears to be intact because the patent pictures of the H-D 338R present. So, whereas Harley-Davidson will not be as bullish on India, China appears to be one market the place the American model nonetheless has some hopes to make a stronghold in.
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