Then the JH600 would be way cheaper then a Honda Transalp in every respect. It is hard to believe that people of Brazil are able to pay close to $5,000.00 for a Honda NXR150!

So here comes Traxx and their units do have to be at least assembled in Brazil so Traxx will pay assemblers what then $350.00 a month? If Traxx can offer a Brazilian minimum wages then they likely will. So you have a factory labor rate in China of $200.00 a month and an assembly rate of what in Brazil $350.00 a month, the parts have shipping costs and are taxed on import as well. Since the imported part have to be taxed and so does the labor and profits, it all should be public information, but surely it is not.

The quality of the parts are and will be as good as you get when you pay people peanuts to make them, that also holds true for the assembly and if the parts are cheaply made and they are, then the result are a marginally less expensive inferior product to the existing ridiculously expensive ones.

They probably are not paying minimum wages in Brazil in manufacturing, however, I wonder how much the cheapo Chinese are willing to pay for labor in Brazil? In other words why are they so costly, it is because once any economy incurs ridiculously high inflation, the greedy people refuse to ever take a cut to get it back down. You can call that the hurray for me and screw everyone else rule, consider asking a fat person to share their food or better yet try to convince them to just eat a little less. They will not and will get real defensive if you confront them on it.