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Yamaha launches 150 cc sports bike

NEW DELHI: Expanding its product portfolio, Japanese two-wheeler maker Yamaha Motor on 12th June launched YZF-R15 sports bike in the country, priced at Rs 97,425 (All India ex-showroom).

"With the launch of YZF-R15, Yamaha unleashes its strategic intent to offer superior products in India and is poised to provide Indian sports bike enthusiasts with the combined thrill of technological superiority and artistic brilliance," India Yamaha Motor CEO and Managing Director Tsutomu Mabuchi said in a statement.

The new model, YZF-R15, would be offered in two colours, racing blue and black.

YZF-R15 would come with a 150 cc liquid cooled fuel injection engine, which would have an all aluminium DiASil cylinder, the company said.

"Yamaha has always kept up with new technology while constantly bringing it to the next level. With India's first liquid cooled, 4-valve fuel injected engine, YZF-R15 comes with R1 DNA," Mabuchi said.

Besides, YZF-R15, the company's product portfolio includes MT01, YZF-R1, Gladiator (SS and RS types), Gladiator Graffiti, G5, Alba and Crux.

Bajaj to launch Kawasaki Ninja250cc in India

Bajaj to launch Kawasaki Ninja250cc in India during the 2nd half of 2008. Bajaj will bring the latest Ninja recently launched in United States, Europe and Japan. Kawasaki Ninja will be imported as a Completely Knocked Down (CKD) unit and it will be assembled in india. Rajiv Bajaj will assemble the Ninja at its chakan plant and will sell the bikes through the exclusive probiking showrooms. Kawasaki will provide the necessary service training and parts back-up fully to live up to the expectations of the Probikers. Bajaj - Kawasaki displayed the Ninja 250cc in addition to the Sports Roadster ER-6n, Ninja ZX-6R, Z1000 aand Vulcan cruiser. Of these, Kawsaki Ninja will be the first to hit the market. “We received a good response for the Ninja 250cc is amazing” Bajaj told at the press conference at the auto expo. Coming to the price, Rajiv Bajaj hinted that the Ninja 250cc will be imported through CKD unit from Thailand. This means it will leverage the FTA agreement between India and Thailand. Because of FTA, import duty on CKD and semi-knocked-down kits is only 10 per cent whereas from other countries it attracts more thn 50%. Hence unlike other superbikes this is going to be affordable.

About Ninja 250cc:

Kawasaki Ninja is powered by an eight valve, twin cylinder, DOHC, liquid cooled 250cc Fuel Injection engine developing 30PS at 10500rpm and a Torque of 21Nm at 8500rpm. This 250cc FI engine is mated with a 6-speed transmission Ninja 250cc features single 290mm petal disc brake at the front and 220mm petal disc brake at the rear.Ninja 250cc weighs 152kg and ground clearance is 135mm. Ninja suspension is through telescopic fork at the front and gas charged bottom-link Uni-Trak at the rear

TVS Flame Pictures and Technical Specifications

Technical Specifications:

Engine Displacement 124.8 cc
Engine technology CC-VTi, 4 Stroke
Max. Power (Kw@rpm) 7.7kw @ 8250 ( 10.5bhp @ 8250 )
Max. Torque (Nm@rpm) 10 Nm @ 6250
Gear Box 4 Gear constant mesh
Clutch Multi-Plate Wet Type
Bore x stroke (mm) 54.5 x 53.5
Compression Ratio 10:1
Carburettor Type VM Type - UCAL
Clutch Wet, Multi Plate

Wheels Mag Alloy
Tyres - Front 90 x 90 x 17, Rear 90 x 90 x 18
Brakes - Front Drum 130 dia / Disc 240 dia, Brake - Rear Drum 130 dia

Suspension
Front Telescopic Hydraulic fork, Rear Twin tube 5 step adjustable Gas filled.

Electricals
Head lamp 12V 35/35 W - Halogen
Tail lamp 12V 21W / 5W
Turnsignal lamp 12V 16W
Battery type & capacity 12 V - 5 Ah
Ignition system High Energy IDI System

Dimensions:
Height 1070 mm
Length 2030 mm
Width 760 mm
Wheelbase 1320 mm
Ground Clearance 165 mm
Kerb weight 121 kgs
Fuel Tank Capacity 8.0 Litre
Fuel reserve 2.0 Litre

Performance
Max. speed 95 kmph

Bajaj Auto plans small car within four years

NEW DELHI: Bajaj Auto Ltd, India's No. 2 motorbike maker, said on Tuesday it plans to launch a low-cost small car in two to four years, probably with French carmaker Renault and Japan's Nissan Motor Co. Bajaj's announcement comes two days before Tata Motors Ltd unveils its much-anticipated $2,500 "People's Car" at an auto show. Renault and Nissan both said a deal was yet to be signed. "We think the world is moving to small cars and big bikes and we are moving there," Managing Director Rajiv Bajaj told reporters at a news conference. Small car sales, which make up more than two-thirds of India's domestic market, are expected to nearly double to 2 million units a year by 2010, helped by rising middle-class incomes. Volkswagen, Toyota Motor Corp, Honda Motor Co and Fiat have also said that they are looking to build low-cost cars. Bajaj is negotiating with Renault and Nissan to co-develop the small car, a project which would be spearheaded by Bajaj with inputs from the two overseas firms, officials and a company statement said. "In the very, very unlikely event (that talks with Renault and Nissan fail) we have every intent to move forward," Bajaj said, adding he was confident talks would be successful. A Renault spokeswoman in Paris said that a deal on the low-price car had not yet been signed with Bajaj, while a Nissan spokesman said the Japanese carmaker was still in negotiations with Renault and Bajaj over whether to go ahead with the project. If the partners decided to build the car, he said, it would be launched in two to four years as Bajaj stated. Bajaj said it also hopes to use Renault and Nissan dealer networks to sell the car, which will have both petrol and diesel variants, in the overseas market. The car would be manufactured at Chakan near Pune in the western state of Maharashtra, Bajaj said. The plant, which is being built with an initial capacity of 250,000 units, will also produce light trucks, which Bajaj expects to launch in 2009. One of the trucks will have Bajaj's first diesel engine, Rajiv Bajaj said. MOTORBIKE LAUNCHES Bajaj, whose two-wheeler sales have dropped 19.1 per cent in April-December from a year ago, said it would launch high-end KPM and Kawasaki bikes in India sometime this year as sales of lower-margin 100cc bikes are falling. Total two-wheeler sales in India in the same period have fallen by 7.7 per cent to 5.5 million units from a year ago. Bajaj has a technological tie-up with Japanese heavy machinery and engineering company Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. "This is the market that appreciates qualitatively superior products," Rajiv Bajaj said. Bajaj will also introduce two new motorbike models and a scooter model in 2008. Shares of the company were trading up 0.22 per cent at 0853 GMT, after rising 2.5 per cent earlier in the day, on Mumbai stock exchange, which was down 0.02 per cent. Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com

Bajaj Auto Dec sales fall 7 per cent on year

Bajaj Auto Ltd, said on Wednesday that sales in December fell 7 per cent to 199,470 units from 214,928 units in the same month a year earlier.

Sales of motorcycles fell 6 per cent to 176,441 units from 187,063 units, while sales of all two-wheelers slipped 5 per cent to 177,249 units from 187,179 units, the company said.

Sales of three-wheelers fell 20 per cent to 22,221 units from 27,749 units. Total exports rose 29 per cent to 50,702 units from 39,385 units a year ago.

Source : economictimes.indiatimes.com