Ae 5,980 wur produced in a year an a half. Kihachiro Kawashima, who retired as executive vice-preses in 1979, remembered the bike as a ""splendid failure"": it wis too expensive, the ingine owerheatit, the FRP body wis hivier than expectit an made the bike unnerpouered an clumsy, the new cantilevered suspension wis problematic, an customers did no lik the motorcycle-style clutch operation.