Mahindra & Mahindra, which has been aggressively trying to make inroads in the 7.3 million units per year motorcycle market with the help of Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, has failed to create much excitement, with sales slipping 36 per cent last month from the previous one.
The country's largest two-wheeler maker Hero Honda on Friday said it has launched a limited edition of its 100cc motorcycle Passion Pro, priced at Rs 46,300 (ex-showroom Delhi).
Automotive retail sales saw a 14 per cent rise in March on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, according to data released by the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA). For the whole of financial year 2022-23 (FY23), sales grew 21 per cent YoY. For both March and the financial year, all categories, except for tractors, and including two-wheelers, three-wheelers, passenger vehicles (PVs), and commercial vehicles (CVs), posted double-digit growth. However, the total retail sales of 22.1 million for the financial year were still 12 per cent lower than the pre-Covid (FY20) level of 25 million, owing to an 18 per cent dip in the two-wheeler segment.
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Even as India overtakes Japan in automotive sales in 2022, moving to third place for the first time, oddly enough the country's biggest motor show is going to see some big hitters give it a clear miss. Some prominent automotive brands have cited high event costs, negligible returns on investment, poor event management, and unfavourable location as reasons for their reluctance to participate. Major pure-play electric two-wheelers, too, are riding past this year's edition of the Auto Expo.
The new bike, Splendor Pro, has features such as a power start and a new engine and comes in two variants, the company said in a statement.
Inspired by the dream of her father, now deceased, who 'wanted to travel the world on a bike', this girl travelled through Kashmir (on the Pakistani side), riding through regions of the country where it is considered taboo for women to venture out alone.
Passenger vehicle wholesales in India rose to a record high in October as companies pushed dispatches to dealers to cater to the enhanced demand in the festive season. The overall passenger vehicle wholesales in October rose to 391,472 units, up 16 per cent from 336,679 units in the same month last year. Last month witnessed the highest-ever dispatches of passenger vehicles in the domestic market by Maruti Suzuki India and Mahindra & Mahindra.
Hero Honda is being egged on by the government's "unannounced concessions" in its 10-year vision statement, the Automotive Mission Plan, which envisages the development of low-cost vehicles.
Budget expectations and the subsequent fall in purchases resulted in a 4.23 per cent drop in passenger car sales during February, 2005
'The fundamentals look strong, but we will have to see if they translate into actual demand.' 'Because the April-May marriage season didn't see much sales due to the lockdown.'
Hero Honda Motors, the country's largest motorcycle maker, has expressed confidence of maintaining its industry leadership by achieving double-digit growth in volume and revenue and much higher growth in profits during the next three years.
Japanese auto major Honda Motor Co will commence exporting bikes by next year from India, a country which it sees as a future global hub, particularly for mass market models.
India's largest motorcycle maker Hero Honda on Monday said its sales surged by 35 per cent to 195,000 units in January.
Over 10,000 km in a year but the bike still offers adequate amount of power on tap and a fuel efficiency figure to keep the pocket happy, says Naveen Soni
Buoyed by growing sales and good monsoon, India's biggest motorcycle maker Hero Honda Motors is again considering setting up a third plant.
Hero Honda Motors on Monday said its motorcycle sales grew by 6.1 per cent in August to 145,730 units, from 137,264 units in the same month last year.
Ruling out setting up its third plant in the near future, India's biggest motorcycle maker Hero Honda said on Thursday that production capacity was sufficient to clock double digit growth this fiscal.
Hero Honda Motors, India's biggest motorcycle maker, on Wednesday said sales grew 31.5 per cent at 1,91,635 units in August 2004 over 1,45,730 units in the same month last year.
India's largest motorcycle maker, Hero Honda Motors Ltd, launched its cheapest 100 cc motorbike yet on Wednesday, hoping to blunt competition from main rival Bajaj Auto Ltd.
Five companies get more volumes from scooters than motorcycles.
It was a ride on the fast lane for motorcycles in India with sales in the domestic market going up as much as 19 per cent in the just-ended financial year to 49,64,442 units.
On December 16 last year, Hero Honda informed the stock markets that the partnership was over and Honda would soon exit the company.
Hero Honda Motors Ltd on Wednesday said it would pump in Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion) this fiscal for capacity expansion and new model launches, including its much-awaited scooter models.
The Honda CBR 250RR has been formally unveiled in Indonesia and sales are set to begin by the month of November 2016. But Honda does not seem to have any plans of launching the bike in India yet
Honda, the largest manufacturer of two-wheelers in the world, unveiled its Unicorn model, its first motorcycle to ever enter the Indian market.
The Centre extended the deadline for implementing cleaner emission norms for two-wheelers across the country, a move that has come as a big relief for auto manufacturers, especially the country's largest two-wheeler maker, Hero Honda.
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The group also said that the company's operations in India - Hero Honda Motors - would establish its third plant in 2006.
At Rs 53,900, the Hero Splendor Pro Classic is the cheapest cafe racer motorcycle in the world, says Faisal Ali Khan of MotorBeam. The other locally manufactured cafe racer styled motorcycle is the Royal Enfield Continental GT.
Hero Honda Motors Ltd on Wednesday reported a 20 per cent growth in net profit for the quarter ended June 2004 at Rs 190 crore against Rs 158 crore in the corresponding period last year, buoyed by a 33 per cent surge in motorcycle sales volume.
The BS-VI norms are expected to increase the price of two-wheelers by 10-14 per cent.
Domestic passenger vehicle (PV) sales saw a significant growth in October due to increased availability of semiconductor chips and rising consumer confidence. The sales figures during the month - which coincided with the first post-Covid festival season - released by the top ten carmakers saw a jump of 30.7 per cent to 322,885 units in October. Auto companies count wholesales - units dispatched to dealers - as sales.
Domestic passenger car sales in June grew by 16.36 per cent at 94,002 units as against 80,784 units in the same month a year ago.
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