Here's the rub. Harley has masterful marketing and image control. They're geniuses at making their brand part of the America formula of Mom, apple pie and baseball. They don't want you to know how many parts they get from Thailand and they don't want you to know they had to lean on a German sports car company to make their latest and greatest engine to work right. Granted, it's not as bad as if they had asked Honda for help - if that were true it'd be all over for them but the cryin'. I'm thinking that they don't mind it being known because the V-rod is aimed more at the type of person who sees German engineering as a plus, perhaps someone who already owns a Porsche or BMW. Their excellent marketing division knows that the old guard is not going to be buying a water-cooled, fuel injected Harley anyway.
