Rotax's Future?

[Wiley]

Regarding BMW aquiring Husky, I wonder if this may end BMW's relationship with Rotax who furnishes the 650 single motors? Not immediately but in a few years maybe. Then there's Aprila starting to make their own motors instead of using Rotax. Then there's Harley (just Buell for the moment) starting to use Rotax engines.

Everyone knows that HD will need a *lot* of liquid cooled engines in the future in order to meet future EPA requirements. HD has made a lot of money and Rotax makes great liquid cooled V twin engines. Hmmm.

[Paul Mihalka]

Let's not forget that Rotax is just a small part of a huge industrial empire, Bombardier.

[Steve_Witmer]

Doesn't Rotax also supply the motors for the new BMW 800 cc parallel twins?

[Paul Mihalka]

Doesn't Rotax also supply the motors for the new BMW 800 cc parallel twins?

Yes.

[Wiley]

Let's not forget that Rotax is just a small part of a huge industrial empire, Bombardier.

 

Good point Paul.

[bikebits]

Not only the engines for the F800's but the new G series as well.

[Yeeha! Stephen]

Then there's Harley (just Buell for the moment) starting to use Rotax engines.

Everyone knows that HD will need a *lot* of liquid cooled engines in the future in order to meet future EPA requirements. HD has made a lot of money and Rotax makes great liquid cooled V twin engines. Hmmm.

 

Time to buy some more Bombardier stock?

[blkvelvt]

The still make ATV and watercraft engines. Snowmobiles and ultralights as well. Then the BMW thing.

[catmandoo]

if i remeber correctly the small engine(watercraft,snowmobile,atv's) division of bombardier was sold off to some of the upper management.it is now called BRP.

[blkvelvt]

Are you sure?

 

http://www.rotax.com/

[MikeRC]

Rotax is a division of Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP), a privately owned company spun off from Bombardier in 2003. So you can't buy stock yet.

 

As of 2006 "The investor group is made up of Boston-based private equity giant Bain Capital LLC, with a 50-per-cent stake; the Bombardier family, with 35 per cent; and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, at 15 per cent."

 

The company has many other common brands under it's control (Johnson and Evinrude outboard motors; Sea-Doo, Ski-Doo and Can-am) and had 2006 annual sales over $2.4 billion. They announced a $3 million expansion of the Austrian Rotax plant in December 2006. BRP will probably go public in 2011.

 

Bombardier itself now only has its Aerospace (plane) and Transportation (light and heavy rail) Divisions with annual sales closer to $15 billion.

 

Mike Cassidy

[blkvelvt]

Rotax is a division of Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP), a privately owned company spun off from Bombardier in 2003. So you can't buy stock yet.

 

As of 2006 "The investor group is made up of Boston-based private equity giant Bain Capital LLC, with a 50-per-cent stake; the Bombardier family, with 35 per cent; and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, at 15 per cent."

 

The company has many other common brands under it's control (Johnson and Evinrude outboard motors; Sea-Doo, Ski-Doo and Can-am) and had 2006 annual sales over $2.4 billion. They announced a $3 million expansion of the Austrian Rotax plant in December 2006. BRP will probably go public in 2011.

 

Bombardier itself now only has its Aerospace (plane) and Transportation (light and heavy rail) Divisions with annual sales closer to $15 billion.

 

Mike Cassidy

 

That's what I thought. BRP and Rotax are one.