Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Festive seasons are considered an auspicious time for vehicle purchases and Hero Honda knows the importance of the festive season. After the recent launch of the new Karizma ZMR they have announced two new variants of their existing models – the Hunk and the Splendor+ which by the way has sold over one crore unit!
The Hunk that is targeted at the youngsters with its muscular looks now in its new avatar features special Macho Ebony Grey colour treatment which is carried over to the rear grab handles, side cover, foot rest & handle bar, and has body-coloured rear view mirrors along with contemporary stickering on the fuel tank and the raging bull insignia on the tank shrouds it now also features red coloured rear shock absorber springs.
The Splendor has been Hero Honda’s highest and oldest selling bike which now boasts of new-look graphics, gold colour treatment for Splendor+ emblem on side cover and Hero Honda logo on fuel tank, visor and console. The Special Edition Splendor+ features the all black engine, alloy wheels, and front fork among many other changes. But true to its tradition of assigning designers more work than their ‘busy’ R&D lads the world’s largest two wheeler manufacturer has yet again made no mechanical upgrades to these bikes whatsoever.
[Via: BIKE-India]
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India is the market leader in the gearless scooter segment of India but it’s close to two months now that the Auto major is facing severe labour problems at its factory located at Manesar in Haryana. And due to which Honda predicted a 50% fall in its sales like we had reported earlier. But this is a blessing for competition as consumers want to ride back home in a brand new two-wheel this festive season. Now that they can’t get a Honda soon some of them are opting for the second best option.
Sources close to Honda disclosed that because of the 50% drop in daily production at HMSI factory, the waiting period for Honda scooters now stands at around two months. But he feels that the customers who want to buy a Honda are willing to wait to get delivery of their two wheelers.
Other manufacturers like Bajaj say that there are people who must have a new vehicle for the Diwali season. So there’s a palpable spillover in the increased demand for Bajaj models. The other Japanese two-wheeler maker Suzuki added that they were confident of touching 31,000 units both for September and October, which represents a 40% growth against similar period last year. Most two-wheeler manufacturers, including Honda achieve around 10% of their yearly sales during the festive months between September and October.
[Via: BIKE-India]
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
India’s leading gear-less scooter maker Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) is struggling with labour problem at its Manesar plant in Haryana and the firm predicts that this will cause the production to slide roughly by 50% this month.
HMSI had been producing over a lakh motorcycles and scooters earlier but now it feel that it will barely reach the 50,000 unit mark in October and the downward descend may continue in the coming months if a solution is not found for the labour issue. Honda’s other Indian arm – Hero Honda has been dominating the market and registered over four lakh unit of two-wheeler sales in September and hopes to maintain the positive growth.
The over-all two-wheeler sales in India is robust due to the festive season and attractive loan offers and is expected to cross the 9 lakh unit mark in the month of September 2009. However, HMSI due to its labour issue is losing out on this opportunity.
The Manesar region is facing severe labour problems at other plants located in the area. Thankfully , the Honda plant has not witnessed any violent protests but the pace of production has been reduced as the workers seek higher wages. This will further increase the waiting period for the firm’s flagship scooter – Activa.
[Via: BIKE]
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Honda has shifted the European production of the Jazz from Japan to UK as it rolled out the first British built Honda Jazz off the production line in Swindon. Every year Honda sells more than 70000 units of Jazz in Europe. Few months back, production of the Civic and CR-V has to be temporarily shut at the Swindon plant to cut costs. Honda UK plans to build 20000 units of the Jazz by the end of March 2010, with 75% cars to be sold in the UK.
“We see this third model as a wonderful opportunity in the current climate and we’re extremely proud to be building the Jazz here in Swindon. The car is incredibly popular with customers, and it has won countless awards for quality and reliability. Shifting production to the UK is a real vote of confidence in all our Associates here in Swindon, and recognition of the high standards which we have been able to achieve at the plan,” David Hodgetts, Director Honda UK Manufacturing said.
[Via: motorbeam]
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
New Karizma ZMR Techinical Specification Brochure
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
New Karizma ZMR Brochure Scans
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Shades Of New Karizma ZMR
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
New Karizma ZMR has been making a lot of news in automotive market since some photos of Karizma in white shade leaked on net. Now Hero Honda has finally launched the much awaited tourer bike – New Karizma ZMR Fi in Indian Market.
The stance remains the same as the old Karizma which is still considered to be the best touring bike in India with smooth, refined and relaxed Honda engine at the helm. The major and much needed change is addition of programmed fuel injection (PGM-Fi) in the engine. Additionally it also gets disc brake at the rear, gas charged rear shock absorbers, little increase in power and torque.
List Of New Features in Karizma ZMR Fi:
- Full Fairing
- Split Clip On Handle Bars
- Split rear grab rails
- New Shades
- PGM-FI (Programmable Fuel Injection)
- Mirrors mounted on the fairing
- New rear mud guard
- New headlamp and tail lamp which is now LED
- Rear Disc Brakes
- Bank Angle Sensor
- Turn Indicators Mounted On Front Fairing
- Oil Cooler
- New Graphics
- Slightly reprofiled body work
- Gas Charged Shock Absorbers
New Hero Honda Karizma Fi has been priced at Rs. 91,000 (Ex-Showroom New Delhi) which is on the higher side in comparison to Bajaj Pulsar 220 which comes almost 20,000 cheaper and is more powerful in comparison to Karizma Fi.
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Honda Motors India has launched New City with improved interiors. The new City features improved interior quality, a new knob for its air-conditioning. The new City will also has some refreshed exterior bits as well. Two new trim levels will now be available for the City:
- New City 1.5 V MT
- New City 1.5 V AT
The 1.5 E MT and 1.5 S AT have already been discontinued and are no longer available for bookings. The 1.5 S is now available in new colour options along with better quality interior trim as well as rotary controls for the airconditioning. The V versions comes with following features:
- Leather Interiors
- 15″ Alloy Wheels
- New Fog Lamps
- Chrome Door Handles
- New Finish Exhaust Pipe
- Tweeters For The Music System
Like the recently launched New Civic Honda has also introduced the Elegance & Inspire packages for the New City.
Here are prices of New City variants (Ex-Showroom New Delhi)
- New City 1.5 S M/T - Rs. 8,37,000
- New City 1.5 V M/T - Rs. 8,82,000
- New City 1.5 V A/T - Rs. 9,54,000
- New City 1.5 Elegance V - Rs. 34,000/-(approx) additional
- New City 1.5 Elegance S - Rs. 36,000/-(approx) additional (with Exhaust Pipe Finisher)
- New City Inspire V & Inspire S - Rs. 70,000/-(approx) additional
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Honda has announed today that it has developed a new automatic transmission, CV-Matic which can be used in combination with Cub-Sytle engines.
The new CV-Matic features a new cooling system developed on the basis of Honda’s small-motorcyle automatic transmission technology which protects the drive belt from high temperatures enhancing the durability and at the same time allowing for a more compact design with shorter distance between the pulleys.
Honda has applied 14 patents for this technology. The new system will be available with Cub-style scooters to be released in the ASEAN region starting in 2010.
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