Hi Norm
I don't know what you think about that but at least one key reason for the
plummeting sales of Victa 2-strokes has been Victa's own long-term strategy.
Since the 2008 takeover of this once Aussie Icon brand, Briggs has systematically
reduced the range of 2-stroke mowers on offer - not in response to consumer
demand, but to lead and manipulate consumer preferences and taste.
After all, Briggs has always been a 4-stroke company, and Victa - and the
once great AUS mower manufacturers - are just branding names, shadows of
their former selves.
An emission compliant Victa 2-stroke could be possible ... and viable ...
if there was a will to make it so. Victa is not an Australian company,
so no point flogging a dead horse.
Had Victa remained in Australian hands, an argument could be made to
preserve the Victa 2-stroke engine, but I see no point in it now.
Perhaps the real issue is the decline of Aussie manufacturing, ingenuity
and ... ownership, and ... icon sellouts.
All very nostalgic.
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Jack
