{"id":3085,"date":"2009-03-10T05:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:26:45","slug":"motorcycle-harley-davidson-asks-riders-to-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; Harley-Davidson Asks Riders to Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harley-Davidson may have a winner with its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trade in, trade up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d marketing strategy, which the company says is moving bikes in a desperate economy. It almost makes you wonder: Would such an idea work with cars?<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that many years ago that H-D couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep up with demand for its motorcycles. In 2006 it shipped nearly 350,000 bikes. But as the economy started to tank last year, so did H-D sales.<\/p>\n<p>Harley-Davidson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2008 sales were down more than 7 percent, after a 5.3 percent drop in 2007&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wheels.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/09\/harley-davidson-asks-riders-to-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harley-Davidson may have a winner with its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trade in, trade up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d marketing strategy, which the company says is moving bikes in a desperate economy. It almost makes you wonder: Would such an idea work with cars? It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that many years ago that H-D couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep up with demand for its motorcycles. In 2006 it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}