Nimbus group gone bust

!0 years ago there were 15 kronas for your pound, today it is 10 kronas.

So, the prices of the boats have crept up over the years and are now very expensive?
 
Whitelighter said:
Shame, I like the boats but no doubt a victim (again) of an equity firm
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I don't know the exact circumstances but this comment is probably quite telling

Speaking to IBI on hearing the news, Lars and Hans Wiklund, who founded Nimbus in 1977 but sold it in 2006, both expressed their deep regret for the company and its employees.

Lars stated: "The company was very profitable when we sold it and we remained on the board for a short while but differences with the new owners on company strategy led us to resign.

Its a great shame but I'm sure somebody will buy the assets from the receiver and resurrect the brand as it is still highly respected
 
Very sad....they built quality boats albeit some were a little quirky.
Let's hope they reappear in some form in due course.
 
Boats in build?

I am not personally affected but where does that leave people who have commissioned boats and have them in build - presumably having paid a deposit to someone - probably the local distributors?
 
Very sad, not my type of boat but still had a lot of respect for them.

Now which two forum members argued for months about how much more Nimbus boats were going to be worth when fuel went up, how we were all going to be clambering around for Nimbus boats that were widely reported as going 1/2 mile on the sniff of an oily rag and all other fast boats would be abandoned at sea as soon as their tanks had run dry ?

Come on time to admit that targeted marketing to tightwads in a recession is like trying to sell cow dung to a Tramp, just wasnt going to happen.
 
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DAKA said:
trying to sell cow dung to a Tramp, just wasnt going to happen.
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:D
Funny D
Never heard that one!
Not funny is the Nimbus situation
Having owned one (an old one) I found the service from Sweden and Offshore Powerboats very good and no problem was too small etc etc
Shame
 
stuartwineberg said:
where does that leave people who have commissioned boats and have them in build - presumably having paid a deposit to someone - probably the local distributors?
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Virtually certain there would not be the slightest question of that - what would be the point for a start? However absolutely sure that Chris. and his team would bend over backwards to adapt a model they had brought in to suit a purchasers wishes.

Interesting point about Nimbus: They have a well respected reputation for the sea keeping properties of the models that are produced. Yet they are manufactured in a small town on the western edge of Sweden's second largest lake. I have the view that a large proportion of those sold into their own country may well be used mostly on inland water, rather than open sea.

Considering where they are built, must be massive transport costs to export them. Not checked, but may be well over fifty miles overland prior to reach a dock for shipping. Then yet more transport to the dealer handling sale.

Mention here of currency rate changes over the past decade: This has the benefit of working both ways however - makes these, or any s/h boats cheaper to purchase here. Fact I gather many previous owned boats have been exported abroad. The aft-cabin Nimbus that first got us interested in these models, "Oxegene" we viewed in Weymouth some years back, it was very soon sold before we got organised. Later an Ancasta dealer volunteered that they had sold this boat back to Sweden.
 
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