{"id":23645,"date":"2019-12-18T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/?p=23645"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:33:57","slug":"cfmoto-and-ktm-are-building-a-joint-plant-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/cfmoto-and-ktm-are-building-a-joint-plant-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"CFMOTO and KTM are building a joint plant in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the latest news,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/news-cfmoto-and-ktm-join-hands\/\"> CFMOTO<\/a> has joined hands with KTM. KTM is famous for entering into global agreements. The largest is between Bajaj and KTM, in which Bajaj holds a share value of 49% that again made other multiple agreements to move the production in Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Now KTM and CFMoto are building a plant in China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There is already a joint venture in place between KTM and CFMoto.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Entire plant area is 24.88 acres (10.07 hectares).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The joint venture has a production base, test course, parking field (pool), R &amp; D center, test &amp; sales center.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With 500,000 as annual production capability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One of the essential things is models that are going to get produced and designed in this plant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CFMOTO started as an importer for KTM and later established a CKD business and a joint venture.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">By the way, CFMOTO is a Chinese motorcycle company, and they do make small and medium-size displacement motorcycles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It is a massive company in China. They also make SUVs besides bikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Construction of joint venture between KTM and CFMOTO to be completed in June 2020<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The joint venture between KTM and CTM helps build the plan in China until June 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We also see that KTM moves the mid-size displacement production in China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Apart from these, the joint venture will help produce 10 models, including the CFMOTO, that has a 990cc LC8 engine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CFMOTO already has the exclusive rights for KTM&#8217;s 990 LC8 engine)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">These parallel-twin engines (LC8 is a V-twin)are to be sold in the Chinese market and also exported to Europe, America, Australia, and Southeast Asia in the form of CBUs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/cfmoto-and-ktm-are-building-a-joint-plant-in-china\/91e76a60\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23648\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/91e76a60.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/91e76a60.jpg 600w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/91e76a60-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/91e76a60-595xh.jpg 595w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/91e76a60-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>They Exported to India and South America in the form of CKD (Complete Knockdown).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As we told you before, KTM is planning to produce a 500cc middle para twin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So perhaps the middle class produced by the above Chinese factory is not 500 twins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speaking of KTM&#8217;s middle para-twin, it is about the LC8c engine used in the 790DUKE 790Adventure 890DUKE R <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/husqvarna-confirms-the-production-for-norden-901-concept\/\">Norden 901<\/a> .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/cfmoto-and-ktm-are-building-a-joint-plant-in-china\/afc3de26\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23650\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/afc3de26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/afc3de26.jpg 600w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/afc3de26-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/afc3de26-595xh.jpg 595w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/afc3de26-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>But will this be a switch to production in China? The current situation is Austrian production. We thought that only the Chinese domestic market produced in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> AlsoCBU exports globally, so maybe this model in the future replaced by Chinese production. Currently, it is not clear which model and destination model produced in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/cfmoto-and-ktm-are-building-a-joint-plant-in-china\/826748f5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23649\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/826748f5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/826748f5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/826748f5-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/826748f5-595xh.jpg 595w, https:\/\/livingimage.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/826748f5-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> Recently, there are many patterns in which major European and American manufacturers collaborate with Chinese manufacturers to produce small and medium displacement models. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/news-is-harley-working-on-lower-displacement-motorcycle\/\">Harley<\/a>, BMW, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/news-m-v-agusta-and-loncin-sign-long-term-partnership-agreement\/\">MV Agusta<\/a> in China? KTM and Triumph are like India. KTM is also in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Although it was the image that only Japanese manufacturers or local manufacturers from Southeast Asia are producing small displacements, overseas players are also participating one after another.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/global.cfmoto.com\/NEWS\/11702.html\">CFMOTO<\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/news-top-5-facts-about-cf-moto-700-clx\/\">Top 5 facts about CFMOTO&#8217;s 700<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23652,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645\/revisions\/23652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}