Cost cutting usually implies cutting corners, the antithesis of the Ultimate Riding Machine. But when that cost-cutting works because you already have the part on the shelf, and it'd be worse if you tried to engineer something new, cost-cutting is how you get weird and random facts that you can bust out at parties. Well, at least the parties I go to.
One such interesting factoid got laid on me while I was at the press introduction of the new BMW F900 GS and CE 02, the latter of which being the subject of said peculiarity. While BMW's press person relayed the information, he stated that the new CE 02's electric drive motor was in fact just a repurposed alternator from the brand's cars.
