Bajaj made 11,000 out of 81,000 bikes that KTM sold in 2011.
In my eyes, that makes it still a pretty strong European brand.
You have to give KTM credit if they've displaced BMW from being the largest selling brand in Europe. They're doing something right.
If the Chinese collectively own 51% of GM stock, but have no strong presence on its board of directors, does that make GM an Asian company? Whether a company is Asian, European, or U.S. really depends on the management of that company, and how it is run. Harley Davidson has high foreign content, but to many, nothing is more "American" than H-D.
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