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I am not sure if you know much about the former British motorcycle industry? The reason for its demise was designs which were at least 30 years out of date, and buyers who simply didnt want bikes which were unreliable, leaked oil, and fell apart if ridden hard. That they were still offering such machines in the face of far more modern bikes from the Japanese was largely the result of many years of mismanagement, and a level of greed that meant investment related to developing new products was pretty much unheard of. Like De-Lorean the British motorcycle industry received quite large amounts of taxpayers money, but this didnt alter the fact they were making outdated products, that buyers didnt want, using machine tools even older than the designs of the bikes they were making.

[QUOTE="Carbonfibre, post: 142381, member: 2701"] I am not sure if you know much about the former British motorcycle industry? The reason for its demise was designs which were at least 30 years out of date, and buyers who simply didnt want bikes which were unreliable, leaked oil, and fell apart if ridden hard. That they were still offering such machines in the face of far more modern bikes from the Japanese was largely the result of many years of mismanagement, and a level of greed that meant investment related to developing new products was pretty much unheard of. Like De-Lorean the British motorcycle industry received quite large amounts of taxpayers money, but this didnt alter the fact they were making outdated products, that buyers didnt want, using machine tools even older than the designs of the bikes they were making. [/QUOTE]