Bajaj Auto says: Future in 100cc bikes!

All this debate about 100cc - 150 cc does not make sense to me. About 70% of the two-wheelers are being sold in the rural market & how many of these customers do you think understand the relevance of cc?

What they look forward to is the features ( Value for Money preposition) such as self start, disc brake etc.

And with more and more bikes with these features coming in the so called 100cc segment and also looking at high cost of fuel and the credit crunch still prevelant ( the bankers are still very choosy in financing), the segment is bound to grow.

So no wonder the players are all clustering into this segment. The latest being HMSI & Yamaha in the pipeline. The game would become more interesting with newer players such as Mahindra also working on prodcts for this segment.

Bajaj had launched many models in 110 CC , 115 CC , 125 CC with the intention to fragment & upgrade the 100 cc Hero Honda market & benefit from it. But the sales figures show a different picture. It seems that the common man is obsessed with 100 cc ( possibly for its high mileage & low maintenance ) & the same was proven during the downturn where hero honda numbers stay & Bajaj numbers fell.Also due to high volatility in fuel prices the common man would still play safe with 100 cc.

Although Market is moving towards trendy massive engine bikes but still i think Future will force companies to get back to 100cc bike as this segment has got very good Mileage + now a days new technologies like DTS-i and Exhaust tech etc are making these 100cc bikes work very efficiently than never before////

so i think companies wont be able to decide the future but future will make companies to stay in 100cc bike market////

Its great that somebody has created some thing on bikes  after a very long time i think people had neglected this segment altogether...thanks Mr. Rawat for raising your question.

I would not agree with you here Mr. Rawat, why would somebody invest in things which would not be beneficial for him, Bajaj would have rightly done research before taking this important decision, and yes 100cc bikes would be future, as these bikes are more fuel efficient and with    the whole world talking in terms of Green these days, these 100cc bikes can get lot more greener than any other upgradation models like 150 or 200cc for that matter, so with fuel prices rising time and again people would go for something that gives better mileage and which is more fuel efficient.. so yes 100cc will be the future in the bike categories.