Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India (HMSI), country's market leader in auto-gear scooters, announces their plans for the coming years declaring more auto-gear scooters on their way.
"We are the market leader in gearless scooters. With demand for gearless scooters to grow in the domestic market, we are upbeat on this segment. Going forward, HMSI sees 40% business from scooters and 60% from motorcycles," said HMSI's President and CEO, Mr. Shinji Aoyama.
With good sales figures of 16.5 lakh units in last fiscal, HMSI is aiming to touch 21 lakh sales mark this fiscal and claiming the number one spot in the next decade. "We are very happy for the support from the people (in India). We need the same support to be number one in the next decade in India," said Mr. Aoyama adding "Our products are more in demand in the domestic market. Currently, we have 2.6-lakh waiting customers and plan to increase the capacity to meet market demand".
HMSI is also to expand their plant in Tapukara, Rajasthan to an initial capacity of 6 lakh units which is soon to be doubled. The company has invested Rs. 1000 crore on this new plant.
In the motorcycles department, Honda is launching next month the 250-cc version of its veteran CBR called the Honda CB250R which is to be priced at Rs. 1.50 lakh.
Scooter is a two wheeler vehicle mostly liked by teenagers. A scooter can be of both types an electric scooter or a Fuel based scooter.
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