Blueboarhound Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I came across this recently and posted it on WG Forum, I thought I'd post it here also. I have no idea how accurate it is, perhaps someone here knows. I did wonder if the 20 Dr. John editions built for the British market are lumped into the 100 built in '95. I remember talking to someone back in the late '90's at Moto Guzzi (when they were in NC.) and he was able to tell me how many Sport 1100's of each color, by year, came to the US. I wish I would have retained that information but production numbers just wasn't something I was interested in back then. Besides, I'm sure all I heard was blah, blah, blah, silver, blah, blah, blah,..... Daytona 1000 1992: 486 1993: 283 1994: 155 1995: 100 Daytona 1000 Racing 1996: 100 Daytona RS 1996: 113 1997: 195 Sport 1100 1994: 365 1995: 1,191 1996: 215 Sport 1100 IE 1997: 1,314 Sport 1100 Corsa 1998: 200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docc Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Those numbers are very, very close to the production numbers published in Ian Falloon's "The Moto Guzzi Story" by model, but with much more detail by year. How come we've never been able to get this for the V11 series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueboarhound Posted October 16, 2014 Author Share Posted October 16, 2014 I would think that somewhere out there has V11 numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Hubert Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Does anyone know how these numbers compare to the colour they were made in? My best educated guess would be at least 50% are red coloured but how about the black (i love'em) and those rare blue and silver ones? Just curious to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueboarhound Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 That is an interesting question. Back in the '90's the CEO of the importer for the US had told me how many silver 1996 Sports came to the US but the number escapes me. Regarding the blue Sport 1100 they came here by mistake so whatever other market received blue Sports in 1996 is where they were intended to go. As the story goes the US importer opened a shipping container and was surprised to find some blues but decided it was cheaper to keep them versus to sent them back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Hubert Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I remember a black and gold serie LM-2 made for the British market. Wonder about the blue-serie since they do not really fit in the brands line-up. But they shure are beautiful :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czakky Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Agreed. There is something so wrong yet so right about the blue Sports! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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