Re: Ducati India hits 1000 unit sales

its like all Indian manufacturers are getting married to European counterparts. bajaj and tvs have been taken over, now only hero and re left for snagging.

Re: Ducati India hits 1000 unit sales

When you look at the startups like Ather and Tork you wonder why Indian manufacturers run towards Europe/Japan/US(EBR) for tech support when they have a country full of engineers waiting for an opportunity to show them what they're capable of.

Would turn out to be much more cost effective even if these companies face minor niggles for the first few years of going 100% indigenous.

The Japanese engineers start this way on smaller motorcycles and then graduate to building big bikes.

Re: Ducati India hits 1000 unit sales

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I can tell you what goes on in Japanese car manufacturers, anyway -
When a fresh engineer joins, he is most likely to join the race department. No, its not a trial by fire. With the racing department having a large budget and no targets to meet, the new recruit gets to learn the ropes, try out whatever ideas that come to mind and gain vital experience.

Once the recruit has done enough time and has got an excellent grip on cars, he/(she?) then moves to the regular boring commuter cars. The more experience, the more likelihood of being assigned to develop the more popular cars. Why? Because these cars require a ton of experience to make, balancing the consumer needs with the accountants' cost cutting to deliver a product that would actually sell in the market. Basically, the experience helps in making compromises while creating products.

Now I haven't read up on what bike manufacturers do, but I would imagine that they may be following something similar because the small bikes are the ones that bring in the $$.

I'm going to dig around and see if I can get some info on this.

Re: Ducati India hits 1000 unit sales

The CBR650F was engineered by a group of 20 something fresh graduates under the supervision of the senior engineers is what I've read a while ago. Shuhei Nakamoto is a good subject to study on. He started with HRC at the age of 26 and was immediately assigned the engine R&D role which he wasn't well versed in. He requested HRC to move him to the chassis division since he had some better understanding there and then he was given the RS125/250 development the very next year.