Yamaha Ray – A New Step into Indian Two Wheeler Industry by Yamaha – Review and general information

The old runners of Indian roads are about to vanish now. Very popular two wheelers in scooter category like Vespa, Lambretta etc are hard to find these days on Indian roads. The all new, trendy Sports bike has replaced them in recent years. Still, an Indian mentality believes on proverb – OLD IS GOLD. The result is, people try to give new look to old bikes and try to conserve them. YAMAHA’s old bikes like RX100 are still seen on the roads.

YAMAHA bikes are of 2 strokes. That simply means the mileage of Yamaha bikes is way lower as compared to today’s leading two wheeler manufactures in India. Again Indian mentality – “old is gold”; you will find these noise making and heavy fuel drinking Yamaha bikes. The important point to note here is Yamaha never introduced and advertised their bikes as “fuel saver bikes”. In India, Yamaha is more identified for better pick-ups, speedy two wheeler bikes.

 

Yamaha’s position in Indian Market

Yamaha, originally from Japan is spread across all over the world. Two wheeler manufacturing is a small part of Yamaha organization. However, today Yamaha have made presence in whole world. Yamaha is manufacturing two wheelers since 1955. Also Yamaha is well established in Ship engines, helicopters, robots manufacturing. Since start of the company, Yamaha introduced bikes for daily use, bikes for racing and today hundreds of models are present in market.

There was huge demand for Yamaha’s two stroke bikes in India. However, Yamaha’s bikes were popular in a particular class of people. Youth with above average financial condition and who were fond of speed used to think about Yamaha bikes. With the inventions of 4-Stroke engine, fuel saving bikes came to Indian market. The Indian mentality is more leaned towards savings when it comes to money matter. The introduction of 4-stroke based fuel saving bikes changed the focus of Indian people choice for two wheeler bikes. Yamaha quickly spotted this trend and introduced 4-stroke based bikes like Spark, G5, and FZ.  However, the Yamaha still haven’t got the firm base in Indian Market. FZ caught attention, but other Yamaha bikes got very poor response.

 

Yamaha Ray

Based on previous experience Yamaha has stepped in Indian two-wheeler gearless market by introducing Ray. Yamaha Ray was launched in India in September 2012. Yamaha Ray is manufactured and is targeted for Ladies in India. The advertisement of Yamaha Ray was also broad casted to target Indian Ladies. As part of promotion Yamaha launched two wheeler driving sessions for Women. Also Yamaha Ray was manufactured in the plant which was fully operated by Women employees. After this innovative promotion also, Yamaha Ray got poor response from Indian customers. I think Yamaha follows the principle – “try try but never cry”. Yamaha launched again new Gearless two wheeler –

Mercedes CLS 350 – review and features about India launch

Mercedes CLS 350 – review and features about India launch.

Mercedes!! The name says it all. Mercedes is in love with India auto market. India has proved as a potential market for Mercedes Benz. Mercedes have got huge response in Indian auto market. Especially Mercedes Mumbai is hot favorite.

Needless to say, Mercedes always launch their new cars in Mumbai first.

Toyota ETIOS Sedan: Another comfortable car in sedan category from Toyota

In recent days many auto companies have launched different cars in Indian market. Important thing to notice is that, possibility of recession is revolving around auto industry still Sedan, Hatchback, MUV car types were introduced in Indian auto market.

Another important thing has been noticed that, Indian customers were giving more preference to Hatchback type of cars but recent trend has proved that, customers are getting attracted towards Sedan type of cars. Companies have introduced only medium size sedan cars in Indian market. This might be the start of sedan cars in Indian market.

Toyota a big auto industry player has introduced ETIOS; a sedan type car. Toyota has also introduced LIVA, which is based on ETIOS model only but it is of type Hatchback.