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And all of them are going to cost 3x more that what they should be?

testing out the market by selling the bikes at sky high prices! great! :|

all those who buy are just bait then!

Considering BMW started selling bikes before cars, its disappointing to know they are giving more consideration to cars than bikes. But to hell with it..if I was BMW..I would have done the same

Too expensive. India and its dam duties. Still im gonna save up and but the S1000RR. My fav sport bike on EARTH

I would love to own K1600 GTL some day.. One of the best Touring machine Money can buy...

I hope BMW starts assembling bikes in India sooner rather than later, so that we may get at least some depreciation in the price compared to what its currently now..

I hope that too. But trust me. A CBU will remain a CBU. No matter what we do, when a vehicle has 80,000 parts, even if it is assembled with 99% accuracy, you still will have 80 problems the day u start it. You very well understand the difference in the Indian mentality and German mentality. Inspite of having all their standards and machinery for assembly/manufacturing, We cannot have their mentality, thus with the chaltahai attitude, we will not cross 99% efficiency. Thus a CBU from Germany is a CBU from germany. Cannot be compared to an indian assembled or manufactured BMW

Ummm, not quite right I would say. The location of the assembly plants doesn't decide the quality and certification factor in my opinion. the word "import" sadly is conceived better than "made in India or locally made" tag. Does CBU comes with a guarantee of not going wrong ever? However if this was about the "desi" customer relation and A.S.S. I would definitely agree on the differences.

Even a race ready F1 car ALWAYS has 1% ineffective parts inside it.

I don't agree. It is practical to achieve efficiency comparable to Japanese products. This requires supervision, training, control, etc. ultimately money. Which the manufacturers are not prepared to spend.

So, according to you, the R15 being a high performance vehicle of its segment, has inefficiencies from the manufacturing plant itself?
I never saw people complaining about a new stock R15, like headlights not working, engine not performing good, noise, etc. or anything else.

Small OT: Money is the keyword here. Yamaha can launch the R6, prepare service centres for it, etc. and if it manages to sell 300 units/ year @ Rs. 30,000 profit/ unit, it would still earn just some Rs. 9 millions per year. What is 9 millions for these MNC's?

R15 itself sells some 15000/ year and assuming profits around 10k per unit. That makes it Rs. 15 crores. Big reason to invest!

So, the CBU is an easier workaround. It's not that companies prefer imported stuff. They prefer profitable stuff.

well............i completely agree with you dude.........i have a friend, who is a mechanical engineer and used to work for a company (around 10 years back, i don't remember the name of the firm), their company used to manufacture carbs for bajaj, don't know for which vehicle, he used to say they had around 50% rejection rate due to quality, these rejected pieces would come to plant again and some tweaking here and there, around 30% were made to pass QC in second attempt.