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Swapchunk

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2016 Release Date?
« on: August 18, 2015, 08:31:26 am »
Googled my a$$ off  seems like the 2016 690 release date is a mystery   :-\ .
Does anyone have any insider info?


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Re: 2016 Release Date?
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2015, 10:51:08 am »
I started seeing them come out in December when I was looking last year. They started on the west coast, California area, and headed east. They made it to Florida at the beginning of January.
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Re: 2016 Release Date?
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2015, 07:52:40 am »
Great, just in time for Snowmobile season.   ::)

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Re: 2016 Release Date?
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2015, 02:36:14 pm »
I'll throw my 2 cents in. I started pestering the dealer about mid-year in 2014. He told me it would be somewhere around January or February of 2015 when they arrived.
I walked into the dealership on December 27th and as luck would have it, they had one just off the truck, still in the crate. They were not expecting it at all!
I told them to assemble it and I'd be back the next weekend with my checkbook.
This all happened in the Kansas City area.
The lesson is - stay on top of it so you get one as soon as they arrive. They will not sit on the showroom floor. My dealer was expecting about 4 of the 2015 models and they were all sold before the crate was unpacked.

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Re: 2016 Release Date?
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2015, 01:25:39 am »
I believe there might still be a few new 2015's in some of the remote dealerships.  I just had one shipped from Georgia to California, and I believe the shpg cost ran around $600.  Actually mine was a used 2015 with 43 miles on it.

Just pointing this out as a possible option that one might consider, rather than waiting another 4 months or so for the '16's to arrive.

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Re: 2016 Release Date?
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2015, 07:17:10 am »
I knew the owner at the dealership....   says he puts in orders for say 6 bikes (talking just 690's for this example).....   might get 1 in January, another 1 month later, 2 in March, then no more.   Or might get 2 in January, 1 in Feb, non in March then 3 in April and another in May.  He doesn't know what or when he is actually getting them until the truck shows up.
The dirt bikes are a different story though!
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Re: 2016 Release Date?
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2015, 10:07:21 pm »
We bought two 2015's.  I put a cash deposit up in December 14 on each one.  Dealer knew his delivery timetable:  one in January, one in February and more later in the year.  Dealer received a shipping confirmation about a week before they came in - he emailed us copies. 

I think the secret is to find a dealer you want to deal with, put up a cash deposit-basically cut the deal, based on an understanding that it is for the first or second or whatever 690 the dealer receives.  We had a great relationship with the dealer until they refused to remap the ECU's - then we found an alternative - unfortunate.  There was over a $1,000 difference in pricing quoted by the 3 dealers I approached, so do your homework.
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