Four forum members visited two different dealers this past Saturday in the Kansas City area. One dealer had one new CVO, the other had maybe 2+.
The second one had a beautiful Ultra, but was asking $49,995 for it. Yes, that's right, and it's no misprint.
When we asked why, he said their incoming CVO shipments for 18's were being drastically cut because factory production has been cut by 66%. Now, I don't know if this is true, but this guy told us they were charging the $7k premium because of that production cut.
We all left pretty disgusted with the whole thing.
Yes, a dealer is entitled to make money. Yes, they can charge what they want for the bikes. But a $7k markup over MSRP is a 17% bump over MSRP.
And here we thought the CVO's were already over priced.
Anybody out there got any intel on this subject, or seen something like this at their dealerships?