{"id":733,"date":"2009-02-06T05:10:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T01:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2009-02-25T05:15:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T01:15:01","slug":"bmw-motorrad-usa-defies-motorcycle-sales-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"BMW Motorrad USA defies motorcycle sales slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Arial;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>BMW Motorrad USA are reporting an increase in sales last year riding through a challenging 2008 motorcycle market.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a weakened motorcycle market, BMW Motorrad USA reported a gain (0.6 percent) in 2008 sales compared to 2007 outperforming overall U.S. motorcycle sales, which dropped more than seven percent last year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our sustained success during these very difficult economic times speaks volumes about the strength of our brand, our new model initiatives and the quality of our dealers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d commented Pieter de Waal, Vice President, BMW Motorrad USA. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many within BMW Motorrad USA attribute the success in sales to interest &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clutchandchrome.com\/News\/0902\/News0902013.htm\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0BMW Motorrad USA are reporting an increase in sales last year riding through a challenging 2008 motorcycle market. Despite a weakened motorcycle market, BMW Motorrad USA reported a gain (0.6 percent) in 2008 sales compared to 2007 outperforming overall U.S. motorcycle sales, which dropped more than seven percent last year. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our sustained success during these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}