Hero Honda Motors, India's largest motorcycle maker, launched a variant of its 110cc motorcycle Splendor on Monday.
For the past 15 days, workers at the Hero factory have been wearing black arm-bands and abstaining from tea within the premises.
Check out the spanking new bikes from the Honda stables set to hit the roads very, very soon.
According to sources in the know, nearly 25,000 workers from Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, Suzuki Powertrain India, Gurgaon-based Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union, Suzuki Motorcycle India, Sona Koyo Steering Systems, etc, filed a memorandum before Deputy Commissioner P C Meena.
Car and two-wheeler makers are giving India's largest auto hub the miss, thanks to prolonged labour unrests.
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Two years after it hitched a ride with Hero MotoCorp (Hero), Harley-Davidson (Harley) and the Pawan Munjal-led firm are gearing up to ride into the middleweight (midweight) motorcycle segment (350-850cc) in the world's largest two-wheeler market.
Hero Honda Motors, India's biggest motorcycle maker, has scaled up sales target by 20 per cent this fiscal and will launch a motorcycle in the last quarter of 2004-05, a top company official said on Friday.
The Honda Navi is quirky in its nature and has a love-it-or-hate-it aura about it, but one thing is for sure that you can't ignore it, says Naveen Soni
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Hero Honda felt the pressure of market disappointment on Monday even as it announced a growth of 6.3% in motorcycle sales in the month of January 2003.
The Honda Gold Wing has outstanding presence, a punchy engine and all the necessary features a person could dream of. The ride is exceptionally comfortable and also fun.
Hamara Bajaj may have walked into the sunset, but the sun is shining bright for other scooter manufacturers in the country.
The two-wheeler segment is, however, still far from its H1FY19 peak of 9.7 million units
Hero Honda Motors on Thursday launched a restyled version of the 135cc motorcycle Ambition to further boost sales in the premium motorcycle segment.
The ride so far has been a smooth one. But to protect market share, Hero Honda will need to have a bigger presence in the executive segment.
The Honda CB Unicorn 160 has a very good engine, offering excellent performance, says Faisal Ali Khan of MotorBeam.com
While two-wheeler sales declined 22 per cent, two other segments, bigger in value while being lower in volume, were much less impacted.
Hero Honda bounced back from a reverse swing yesterday, as renewed buying surfaced on the counter on Thursday.
While the company has not disclosed the exact price, the new bike is expected to be tagged around Rs 42,000 (ex-showroom, Delhi).
Honda recently unveiled the CTX series of bikes: The CTX700N and CTX700.
Hero Honda Motors, the country's largest motorcycle maker, on Friday said its sales rose by a modest 4.9 per cent in July 2003 to 143,141 units from 136,360 units in the same month last year.
Hero Honda, the country's largest motorcycle maker, today rolled out a new bike 'Splendor NXG' in the deluxe segment as it seeks to consolidate its market share in India.
Indicating willingness to take any of its competitors head-on for maintaining its leadership position in the motorcycle market, Hero Honda on Thursday said it could cut margin albeit as the last option if situation demanded.
Karan Narsu rides the quirky new Honda Cliq to find out if it's got the goods to go all the way in rural India, while also making it a viable option for the city-sleeker
Automobile retail sales in India rose 11 per cent in September as better supplies from manufacturers enabled dealers to ramp up customer deliveries amid the ongoing festive period, Federation Of Automobile Dealers Associations said on Tuesday. Last month, total retail sales stood at 14,64,001 units as compared to 13,19,647 units in September 2021. FADA noted that October is expected to witness even better overall sales due to the festive season further gathering steam.
"We sold 16.85 lakh units in FY 2011. In the current fiscal, we plan to increase it to 21 lakh units. We will continue to grow faster than industry. The turnover is also expected to jump to Rs 7,500 crore (Rs 75 billion) this year," company head sales N K Rattan said in New Delhi at the launch of the bike CBR 250R.
The launch is part of the company's strategy to increase its sales in the Indian two-wheeler market. The new version of its 125 cc sports bike -- CBF Stunner -- priced at Rs 64,630 (ex-showroom, Delhi) -- will be equipped with PGM-FI (programme fuel injection) technology which gives more power, HMSI said. It will be available in the market by the first week of June, it added.
The Livo is one stylish looking motorcycle that's a blend of swooping lines and sharp flourishes. The designers have done a brilliant job here to make sure that the Livo matches up to its heritage. In-fact, at first glance, one would easily be led to think that the Livo belongs to the 125cc segment instead of the 110cc.
HMSI is likely to announce a tie-up with Snapdeal for online two-wheeler sales next month.
After much speculations and wait, Honda has finally launched its highly awaited CB Hornet in India. With the starting price of Rs 79,900 (ex-showroom, Delhi), the bike is available in two variants -- the standard variant with a single disc and Dual Discs with CBS.
Bajaj Auto said it was "concerned" that the Japanese auto giant Honda may have an "aggressive pricing strategy" with its planned entry into the country's motorcycle market in October. Bajaj also launched the CT 400 bike.
India's largest motorcycle maker Hero Honda on Monday said its February sales went up by 51.7 per cent to 204,000 units over 134,000 units in the same month last year.
'It was brutal, barbaric and organised gangster-ism of the Haryana police force. It was sheer savagery,' says CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta.
Hero Honda Motors on Friday said its motorcycle sales surged by 21 per cent in October 2003 to over 200,000 units from 165,066 units in the same month last year.
Hero Honda Motors on Wednesday said its motorcycle sales have jumped 17.6 per cent in September to 157,583 units, which it plans to increase to over 200,000 units in this month.
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