The Japanese must be shitting in their shoes right now and the R&D depts will be spending all their time and money on working out how to make one model suit all players-just as the British were back in the early 70s.
There will be big changes to come.
Japanese companies still work the old way Western companies used to, profit making divisions are used to prop up loss making divisions.
Expect the Japanese to fight back on price, companies like Honda are making most of their loot licensing motorcycle designs and name to the third world these days, they have well established production capacity in China, Taiwan, India etc. You can buy a new CRF450 clone out of China now.... so expect a lot more Chinese content in your CRF in the future with keener pricing.
The Husqvarna and BMW 450 engine is made in Taiwan by Kymco.... so I would also expect the Japanese to leverage their low cost country production. As for Husqvarna if I was BMW I would use Italy for R&D and make the whole bike in Taiwan. Bet more and more of it is.
As was mentioned earlier a lot of buyers will grab the CRF at $8900 rather than a Euro bike at $14000. Bet we will see the Euros take another look at their suppliers and pricing as well.