Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd has revealed that its most successful model, the Honda Shine has reached a replacement milestone of getting quite 90 Lakh customers. The Shine was first launched in 2006 and since then it’s a been great success within the 125cc motorcycle segment.
For the year 2020, Honda sold 94,414 units as compared in 75,144 units during an equivalent period last year and thus recording double-digit year-on-year growth. Currently, it’s a market share of 39% in its segment and thus making it the very best shareholder in its segment. When Shine was launched within the year 2006 with the Optimax technology it became the highest-selling bike in its segment in only 2 years. Just after 54 months, is had already added, 10 lakh customers. 7 years later i.e. in 2013, it had been claimed that each third motorcycle within the 125cc class was a Honda Shine. A year later in 2014, Honda Shine had already acquired a 33% market share with 30 lakh customers.
To keep up with the competition within the market, Honda has constantly updated the Shine with all the newest features just like the introduction of Combi-Brake System (CBS) in 2015. within the year 2017, 11 years after its first launch Shine had reached the milestone of fifty lakh customers and this number grew to 70 lakhs within the year 2018 when it had been sold because the CB Shine and claimed that each second bike sold within the 125cc segment was a Honda Shine.
The latest iteration of the top-selling bike within the 125cc has been equipped with the PGM-FI HET technology including Enhanced Smart Power (eSP). The engine produces 10.59 HP of power and 11 Nm of torque. The motorcycle features a conventional telescopic suspension on the front twin shock-absorbers with preload adjustment on the rear and is comes with 18-inch wheels. Currently, Honda Shine is obtainable with two variants; one with the front drum brakes with the worth tag of INR 70,744 and therefore the other variant comes with front disk brake which is priced at INR 75,447 (ex-showroom pan-India). There are a complete of six colour options; blue, grey, black and two reminder red.