Olé!

[Alphamazing]

My bike comes from the country of Spain! My old GS was made all the way over in Japan. Where does your bike hail from? And why the hell is my GS made in SPAIN?

[Roadstergal]

I think all '01+.  My '04 and '05 are Spanish.
Edit - nope, this one is Japanese.
http://www.gstwins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22702

Maybe just the faired.

[Caffeine]

My '05 F is from Spain, too.   I noticed it a week after I bought it.  I don't imagine it will be of lesser quality than a Japanese-built bike.   I hope.  Time will tell.

[The Buddha]

Yup ... mexican ...
Remember Cernunos said when you hug it it seems to say "Te Amo" ...  :lol:
Cool.
Srinath.

[Alphamazing]

What in the hell are you talking about, Srinath?

[pandy]

What in the hell are you talking about, Srinath?

This is the first thing he's said in ages that I *do* understand!    :lol:

[Alphamazing]

What in the hell are you talking about, Srinath?

This is the first thing he's said in ages that I *do* understand!    :lol:

Care to explain?

[pandy]

Care to explain?

Bike was made in Mexico, and when its owner hugged her, bike would say "I love you" in Spanish!  :mrgreen:

[Alphamazing]

Who is Cernunos? Who's bike was made in Mexico? What?

[pandy]

http://www.gstwins.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1866

[lumpoffire]

I'll bet the engine is made in Japan and shipped there, IOW,

the name of Spain
is mainly on the frame

[Alphamazing]

It was made in Mexico? That's odd. I figured all the old GSes were made in Japan... unless I'm totally missing out on some joke here, or something.

[Phaedrus]

The U.S. isn't the only world power to need cheap labor to make things, you know.  :dunno:

[pantablo]

Yup ... mexican ...
Remember Cernunos said when you hug it it seems to say "Te Amo" ...  :lol:
Cool.
Srinath.

srinath you ignorant my mama.
spain and mexico arent the same thing. :nana:

[pandy]

srinath you ignorant my mama. spain and mexico arent the same thing. :nana:

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Perhaps he was really thinking of Portugal!

[Cal Price]

My '03 is from Japan but lots of "Jap" bikes are built in Europe, notably most Hondas of 500cc and over are built in Italy a lot of smaller Hondas, 125cc and under come from Brasil. The best-ever-selling Honda 90 is made in almost every third world country you can think of, or a very close clone is.

In UK we have Renault and Citroen factories, formerly Crysler, formerly Hillman factories plus "French" cars design and concept facilities. My Nikon cameras are made in Japan but all the accessories and bits and bobs come from China.

It's called globalisation, it's shafting all our jobs but keeps prices down in Walmart.

[maxwellf]

I'm on a Mexican radio.... h oh radio

[jsamaniego]

The manufacturing company in Spain is located in Gijon, Asturias, midway between the Basque country and Galicia, at the northern atlamtic coast of Spain (Europe, just in case... :mrgreen: ).
It has been producing motorbike or parts since 1950, previously for MV Agusta and Puch (Austrian offtrack motorbikes), and was purchased by Suzuki in 1988. They have been making Suzuki bikes since 2001.
My GS500 is 2003, purchased in Italy and was made also in Spain....

my two cents...

[niteshade]

<indignant post>

It's called globalisation, it's shafting all our jobs but keeps prices down in Walmart.

first goal... don't shop at WalMart.  

Globalization can't really be stuffed back in the bag, but it can be humane.  Buying a $3 sweatshirt means somebody's paying a higher price somewhere else.  In WalMart's case it's slave-wage Chinese laborers and sub-minimum-wage store employees who make up the difference.

Also, they nuke small towns.  Evil company.

Waltons are the modern robber barons.  At least Andrew Carnegie gave to charity...  Waltons are worth over $108 billion, but give away less than 1%.  Bill Gates gives away like 50%.

Oh, and in my experience, Spanish goods are usually very high quality.

</indignant post>

[dionysus]

Bill Gates gives away like 50%.

I'd check those figures. Gates has given ~$5b to his charity. That was almost all in one year, when he was worth nearlly $100b. So far, as a % of GDP gates is FAR from comparing to Rockefeller. But he's got time. He claims to want to give it all away before he dies, but he did just spend something like $3b on a house....