Mixed sales figures for Indian two-wheeler makers in January 2009. While Yamaha and Honda are enjoying profits, Bajaj is seeing more unsold bikes!
Popular Japanese bike maker – Yamaha, which has created shock-waves in the Indian Two-wheeler segment, will unveil its own showroom in Mumbai, which will be named as – ‘The Bike Station’. This new Bike Station is expected to foster Yamaha’s physical presence at dealerships that already exist in other major Indian cities. The new Mumbai Bike Stations are to be located at Bandra and Malad West.
Honda has yesterday debuted a revolutionary new ‘Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication’ system, which – it is anticipated – could reduce road casualties of both motorcyclists and car drivers. Let me just give you the gist of the technology and you can read further the press release, after the jump The bikes have systems similar to Wireless Lan and bikes within a definite range communicate among themselves. This system monitors all the parameters [ Read More ]
Yamaha is on a roll now and we really mean it! First the YZF R15, then the FZ 16 and then we might also be getting the Yamaha Scooters that we carried an article about and finally we land up here-the YZF R125, a smaller brother to the R15. Yamaha is not giving up and it wants to be seen as making performance bikes, the position that it had vacated [ Read More ]
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The R15 is the coolest motorcycle you can buy for roughly a lakh of rupees in India. Yamaha is overjoyed with the kind of response India has given them, and it looks like they are back, which means it’s nothing but good news for bikers in India.
The response of the R15 has sparked Yamaha to launch more bikes. The Japanese manufacturer announced a few days back that two more bikes from their line-up will see Indian soil in the next year. Details are unclear, but one of them is rumored to be a 125 cc bike. IAB predicts that it should be the YZF-R125, which is already being sold in abroad markets and looks as aggressive as elder brother R15.
YMI is also planning on introducing a range of scooters in India, including models like Jog, Tmax and Majesty (all in 150-250cc range) in India and will take a decision about its possible introduction in due course, some of them which were spotted in Pune.
Hybrid cars have begun to crowd the automobile space of late. The Toyota Prius was the first ever mass-production hybrid car and since then many manufacturers have joined the bandwagon. In India, the Scorpio Hybrid is just about to be put into the market, while the recently launched Honda Civic Hybrid has performed much to the expectation of Honda. Hybrid vehicles use a heavy battery pack and a motor to [ Read More ]
Having made the same Unicorn for so many years now, Honda Motorcycles has apparently got fed up (just like the way we did a long while back). As a result, 3,500 Unicorn Grand Prix will be made in racing blue, white and green colors. The engine and gearbox are same as they were before. The Honda Unicorn is a motorcycle for those who don’t want to ‘zip around’ (read-buy a [ Read More ]
Suzuki Motorcycles India is looking to double capacity in two years even as it plans a series of product launches which includes the Hayabusa superbike. The company is planning to bring in 4 new motorcycles out of which 3 would be released this year. Mr Atul Gupta, Vice-President (Sales and Marketing), outlining the company’s future strategy says “In the next two years, we would like to have products that represent [ Read More ]
