JAPANESE SUPERBIKES COMING TO INDIA
Japanese 2-wheeler bike manufacturers like Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki and Kawasaki are planning to launch tonned-down versions of their international superbike models in the Indian Market. These bikes will come with smaller engines in the price range of Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh !!!
The superbikes that are being considered for such an overhaul are Yamaha YZF R1, Honda CBR 1000, Suzuki GSX R and the Kawasaki Ninja. These model will also involve a heavy usage of aluminum and rubber components. Features like twin disc brakes and wide tubeless tyres will not be available.
“There are some superbikes in our international line-up of motorcycles that can be fine-tuned for India,” said Naresh Rattan, divisional head (sales and marketing), Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India.
Suzuki Motorcycle India is also contemplating to launch the GSX R series during this year end with an Engince Capacity of around 250cc. This model could cost anywhere around Rs 1 lakh.
“We will launch two bikes before the end of the calendar year, of which one will be a mass-market premium model and the other a superbike,” said Atul Gupta, vice-president (sales and marketing), SMIPL. “The premium model will be a model which will be inspired by the GSX R range of superbikes,” he added.
Source: Rediff
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When we can expect Suzuki Burgman, I strongly feel it will be a good hit in india.
250cc to 400cc category.
The Yamaha R15 is a toned down version of the R1.
Seriously I do not understand this. Toned down versions for 1lakh? Toned down in size or quality or style? Or toned down in all? The R 15 is selling over a lakh of rupees. The Ninja 250 is supposed to be around 2 lakhs, so where are these figures on rediff coming from?
why did cubicapacity bother taking such an article from REDIFF just to paste it here……!!!!
Though this news is little difficult to digest with the kind of figures here but CC Team is doing good to cover anything that happens or is reported on the India Automobile Industry. As long as they give the source, one should not mind it.
Keep it up !!
I dont know what Rediff is talking about and from where they are getting such information.
Nice to hear tat super bikes models coming to india exspecially in chennai, hear after every bikes will have quality and will have more life span due to this sporty bikes………
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If Suzuki launches a 250cc with international styling for around a lac of rupees, who is going to buy the Ninja 250cc for 2 lacs. The battle of the quarter liter bikes is about to begin shortly. It should be fun for the onlooker as well as the buyer.
Another in the long line of poorly researched articles on motorcycling. The writer makes it seem like it’s as simple as taking a litrebike, discard a few parts from here ‘n there and applying a freeform transformation on what’s left.
I find a couple of lines in there worth attention, but the rest of the nonsense sadly overshadow them.
It’s such a pity that a blog like CC is copy-pasting a grade-c article like this without putting some thought into the process.
Really I always though that the admin here is much more wise when writing or copying an article…. hey CC persons .. does this write up makes some sense? or atleast you could have thrown some insight of yours into this …
@All… Indeed the article is poorly researched and written but the point of writing this article was to inform our readers that after the run away success of the Yamaha YZF R15, other companies are also thinking on the same lines and have international models which can be used as base rather than going grounds up.
Offcourse we cannot call the CBF Stunner, a scaled down version of the CBF series from Honda but YZF R15 surely is scaled down R Series from Yamaha and we can expect to see same bikes from other manufactureres too.
The CBF Stunner goes for 53 k+ while the R15 comes for 1.03 Lakhs and hence the mention in the article regarding the pricing.
In anycase I do feel the relevant information from the article could have been presented better. We will take care of this in future, we just need your support and encouragement to keep on going.
Thanks everyone for your feedback.
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