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As far as motorcycles are concerned the name Husqvarna really means nothing any more. It's been through so many hands that I'm not sure I even know them all. Originally it was Swedish, then an Italian company Cagiva bought them a while back (25 years?). Cagiva was merged/acquired MV Agusta in the early 90's. By 2004 Cagiva/MV Agusta where on the rocks and a Malaysian car company bought the company. In 2005 the Malaysians wanted out of the motorcycle biz and sold the company to an Itialian business named GEVI SpA, for one euro along with a boat load of debt. In 2007 BMW picked up the brand and finally it's now with KTM.

As far as I'm concerned all of what was Husqvarna got lost in all those transactions. It's just a name now.

In several of these transactions support of old model years was dropped and those owners got screwed. At least it has an owner now who is committed to off road.

Story made it into the LA Times http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-mo-autos-husqvarna-husaberg-together-again-20130516,0,4083631.story

All I can say is that if you own a Husaberg, sell it quick before part support goes bye bye.

<blockquote data-quote="cleonard" data-source="post: 136728" data-attributes="member: 21">As far as motorcycles are concerned the name Husqvarna really means nothing any more. It's been through so many hands that I'm not sure I even know them all. Originally it was Swedish, then an Italian company Cagiva bought them a while back (25 years?). Cagiva was merged/acquired MV Agusta in the early 90's. By 2004 Cagiva/MV Agusta where on the rocks and a Malaysian car company bought the company. In 2005 the Malaysians wanted out of the motorcycle biz and sold the company to an Itialian business named GEVI SpA, for one euro along with a boat load of debt. In 2007 BMW picked up the brand and finally it's now with KTM.&nbsp;As far as I'm concerned all of what was Husqvarna got lost in all those transactions. It's just a name now.&nbsp;In several of these transactions support of old model years was dropped and those owners got screwed. At least it has an owner now who is committed to off road.&nbsp;Story made it into the LA Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-mo-autos-husqvarna-husaberg-together-again-20130516,0,4083631.story" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-mo-autos-husqvarna-husaberg-together-again-20130516,0,4083631.story</a>&nbsp;All I can say is that if you own a Husaberg, sell it quick before part support goes bye bye.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cleonard, post: 136728, member: 21"] As far as motorcycles are concerned the name Husqvarna really means nothing any more. It's been through so many hands that I'm not sure I even know them all. Originally it was Swedish, then an Italian company Cagiva bought them a while back (25 years?). Cagiva was merged/acquired MV Agusta in the early 90's. By 2004 Cagiva/MV Agusta where on the rocks and a Malaysian car company bought the company. In 2005 the Malaysians wanted out of the motorcycle biz and sold the company to an Itialian business named GEVI SpA, for one euro along with a boat load of debt. In 2007 BMW picked up the brand and finally it's now with KTM. As far as I'm concerned all of what was Husqvarna got lost in all those transactions. It's just a name now. In several of these transactions support of old model years was dropped and those owners got screwed. At least it has an owner now who is committed to off road. Story made it into the LA Times [url]http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-mo-autos-husqvarna-husaberg-together-again-20130516,0,4083631.story[/url] All I can say is that if you own a Husaberg, sell it quick before part support goes bye bye. [/QUOTE]

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