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Kawasaki to move motorcycle production from Japan to Thailand

According to a Bloomberg report, Kawasaki will start shifting the production of some of its medium-sized and large motorcycles from Japan to Thailand, from next year. The aim would be to take advantage of lower costs and cheaper labour in Thailand. Kawasaki isn’t the first major motorcycle manufacturer to go to Thailand – Triumph already has two manufacturing facilities in that country.

Kawasaki remains the only Japanese two-wheeler manufacturer that still hasn’t managed to set up operations in India. The company does have some kind of an agreement in place with Bajaj Auto though, and the latter is expected to launch the Kawasaki Ninja 250R in India before the end of this year.

[Via: indiaautomotive]

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Rossi not to replace Massa

The rumour mills were buzzing with reports that Rossimight switch to Formula One racing in the next few weeks and would replace the injured Ferrari driver Felipe Massa. These reports suggested that after former F1 champion Michael Schumacher withdrew from stepping into Massa’s cockpit, due to the German’s neck injury, team boss Stefano Domenicali held several discussions with Valentino Rossi.

Though ‘the Doctor’ has done some testing sessions with Ferrari in the past, he never considered migrating from two to four-wheel racing. To everyone’s surprise Rossi admitted that when he’ll quit MotoGP racing, he’ll like try his skills in the World Rally Championship.

The Yamaha rider was quoted by the International media that he has spoken a lot with Stefano Domenicali in these last days about the return of Schumi, but hasn’t received an offer to drive for the F1 team. More over Rossi cannot race motorbikes and F1 at the same time.

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