Interesting that the majority of the failures shown are castings and many are components that are specific to the bike. If you buy a million castings like Ford you can spread out the cost of the x-rays and ultrasonic testing. If you only want 500 you have to fabricate, or buy of the shelf or at least use prototyping techniques as the tooling costs are silly. BMW possibly have the perfect storm of many weird variants each in relatively small numbers.
Weight is the driving factor as much as cost. You'll all pan any new bike that has a spec sheet showing half a ton, yet BMW owners want the active suspension and other added weight.
Andy
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