Hero is currently the world's second largest motorcycle manufacturer. It peaked production at 7.8 million units. If you assume 300 working days ie 6 days a week plus holidays, That's 26,000 motorcycles per day. That's 20 motorcycles per minute.
The photos shown are for the XPulse, a 200cc adventure bike. I think the collaboration with HD is for a ~300cc bike which is currently dominated by Royal Enfield (RE), the road oriented Bullet and the Adv Himalayan. However, RE has been developing various bikes on their 650cc twin parallel engined platform, and have just announced a cruiser type bike the Super Meteor, which is squarely aimed at the market formerly occupied by the HD Street 750, and now to a lesser degree the lower end Softails. At a price 1/6th of a Fatboy and ½ of the Street, it will seriously eat into HD market share.
In India, 650cc is more than enough to give very good performance both in the city and on the highways, and with RE's extensive dealer network, it will be a preferred choice.
One of India's most highest customer service rated dealers, Bison HD, closed shop when Harley quit India, and is now selling Royal Enfield. His experience will stand him in good stead.
11-30-2022, 03:48 PM
Harley and Hero Working on Jointly-Developed Motorcycle
