Xpulse 200 BS6 VS Royal Enfield Himalayan BS6

Hero HF Deluxe BS6 VS Honda CD 110 Dream BS6

Bajaj Pulsar 125 Neon BS6 VS Honda SP 125 BS6

Hero Glamour BS6 VS Honda Shine BS6

TVS Apache RTR 160 BS6 4V VS Hero Xtreme 160R BS6

Honda CB350 H'ness VS Royal Enfield Meteor 350

<p>The 160cc segment offers various options and Honda too continues its battle with the BS6 compliant xBlade. We love the way it looks, specially the LED headlamp and the muscular tank. The 162cc engine remans torquey and efficient. The xBlade offers a good mix of ride and handling and is feature loaded too - from the low maintainance sealed chain to a full digi console and a hazard switch too. It migth not be as quick as the Pulsar NS160 or as agile as the Hero Xtreme BS6, but comes across as a great all-rounder to us</p>


<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none">The Japanese behemoth Honda Motor Company entered the two-wheeler market of India in the year 1999. Honda is a Japanese manufacturer worldwide acclaimed for its cars, motorcycles, and power equipment appliances. When Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) started its India operations in 1999, it was Honda&rsquo;s fourth automotive joint-venture in India. However, in 2010 the company decided to move out of the <i>Hero-Honda</i> joint venture and started focusing on its entirely-owned Indian subsidiary HMSI. Honda is a very popular two-wheeler brand in India especially famous for its gearless scooters like the Activa range which always sells more than 2 lakh units a month and mile-muncher commuters like the Honda Shine. Honda also offers a host of other motorcycles in India with variable engine displacements and it also retails premium motorcycles in India through its BigWing Dealerships.&nbsp;</span></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-kerning: none">Hero MotoCorp Limited, formerly known as Hero Honda, is one of India&rsquo;s oldest and leading two-wheeler manufacturers. Hero Honda was formed back in 1984 as a joint venture between Hero Cycles of India and Honda of Japan. The joint-venture parted their ways in 2010 and Hero Group started its second inning in India as Hero MotoCorp. The Indian bike-maker, Hero MotoCorp, is not just India&rsquo;s but the world&rsquo;s largest two-wheeler manufacturer. Till date, the Indian motorcycle brand has sold more than 75 million two-wheelers and enjoys unbeatable success in the mass-market segment of the country. Hero MotoCorp has a wide range of products in its portfolio ranging from the affordable mile-muncher Hero Splendor to the off-roader Hero Xpulse 200 and even youthful scooters like the Hero Maestro Edge. The company enjoys about 46% market share in the two-wheeler category with a tagline &lsquo;<i>Hum Main Hai Hero</i>&rsquo; and a beautiful advertising slogan &lsquo;Fill It - Shut It - Forget It!&rsquo;</span></p>


<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Suzuki is the maker of the Iconic Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle which is popularly known in India as the <i>Dhoom bike</i>. Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational company known for making various mobility solutions like cars, motorcycles, ATVs and more. The Japanese automaker entered the Indian two-wheeler market in 1982 and formed a joint venture with TVS. However, the TVS-Suzuki alliance separated their ways in 2001 and Suzuki re-entered India as Suzuki Motorcycles India in 2006. The core philosophy of Suzuki Motorcycles is to provide Value-packed Products and the company nails in doing it as they offer good value for money products. Suzuki&rsquo;s India portfolio includes popular scooters like the Access 125, Burgman Street and sporty motorcycles like the Gixxer series. The company also sells Moto GP Edition models in India along with some big bikes. Further, the company has been promoting motorsports with regular race series every year.&nbsp;</span></p>

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<div>TVS Motor Company is a widely-known and reputed two-wheeler and three-wheeler brand in the Indian Automotive World. What was once started as a transportation company back in 1911, is now the second-largest exporter in India with exports to over 60 countries of the world. This Madras-based inland bike-maker now ranks as India&rsquo;s third-largest two-wheeler manufacturer and has annual sales of over 30 lakhs units. TVS Motor Company has gained immense popularity in India in recent years due to its well-rounded products in every segment. TVS manufactures India&rsquo;s cheapest moped, good practical commuters, and sports bikes, and sporty scooters like the Apache series and the TVS Ntorq. TVS has now even entered the electric vehicle space in India with its debut product TVS iQube. Its a little known fact but they&nbsp;also manufacture the famous 310 series of bikes for BMW in India.&nbsp;</div>

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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Royal Enfield is a very popular name-plate in India, famous for its signature &lsquo;thump&rsquo; and retro-appeal in almost every household of the country. Royal Enfield is an Indian motorcycling brand which originated in the United Kingdom and started its journey way-back in 1901. This Iconic two-wheeler manufacturer has a tag of the oldest motorcycle brand in the world in continuous production. In fact, the Royal Enfield Bullet enjoys the title of the longest motorcycle production run of all time. This Madras-based home-grown two-wheeler manufacturer currently deals in a lot of evocative motorcycle series like the Bullet, Classic, Thunderbird, Himalayan Adventure motorcycle and the RE 650 twins. Royal Enfield is now a subsidiary of the Indian automaker Eicher Motors Limited and the company churns out a healthy (nearly) 50,000 sales volume every month.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Pune-based Bajaj Auto is an Indian two-wheeler giant that now stands as the world&rsquo;s largest three-wheeler manufacturer, India&rsquo;s second-largest manufacturer of motorcycles and the world&rsquo;s third-largest two-wheeler maker. Bajaj Auto was founded in 1945 and it started selling imported two-wheelers and three-wheelers back then. Later, the company started its own manufacturing unit and in 1972 Bajaj launched its iconic scooter - Bajaj Chetak. Chetak was an affordable means of transportation for millions of Indian families for decades and is lovingly called &lsquo;<i>Hamara Bajaj</i>.&rsquo; Bajaj Auto also made everyone say wow with its Pulsar series of motorcycles that debuted in 2001. The Pulsar brand completed its glorious 18 years of existence in 2019 and till date, more than one crore Pulsars have been sold worldwide. Bajaj Auto is also known for making versatile motorcycles ranging from entry-level commuters to sports motorcycles and even sports tourers and the Indian bike-maker enjoys good sales numbers of around 3 lakh units a month. Recently, Bajaj also rejuvenated the Chetak nameplate in India as an all-electric scooter and became the first mainstream Indian two-wheeler manufacturer to do so.</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-kerning: none">Yamaha is a Japanese bike-maker popularly known for its two-stroke motorcycles like the Yamaha RX 100 and the Yamaha RD (Rajdoot) 350 back in the nineties. Yamaha Motor Company formed an alliance with Escorts and entered the Indian market in the year 1985. However, in 2001 Yamaha Motor India Limited was formed as a 100% Indian subsidiary of the Japanese manufacturer Yamaha Motor Company. Yamaha is known for making fun-to-drive, reliable, and powerful mad machines and it was Yamaha who started the affordable performance motorcycling segment in India with the R15. The Yamaha R15 is still a benchmark in its category and along with it, Yamaha sells a lot of other mass-market products like 125cc scooters and 160cc bikes. As of March 2020, Yamaha has stopped selling 100-125cc motorcycles as these were not BS6 compliant.&nbsp;</span></p>


<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none">KTM is an Austrian motorcycle and sports car manufacturer owned by Pierer Mobility AG and India&rsquo;s Bajaj Auto. Bajaj Auto holds around 48% share in KTM AG and it was in collaboration with Bajaj that KTM entered the Indian market in 2012 with its debut product, KTM Duke 200. KTM motorcycles redefined the affordable performance motorcycling segment in India as they were strictly for the youth and offered great bang for the buck. KTM manufactures its motorcycles at Bajaj&rsquo;s Chakan plant located near Pune in Maharashtra. KTM currently sells 9 motorcycles in India of different displacements under two series - Duke and RC. The Duke series comprises of naked streetfighters while the RC consists of fully-faired motorcycles. Today KTM has become an aspirational brand in India and is very popular among the youth and&nbsp;biking enthusiasts. Their latest launch has been the much awaited 390 Adventure.&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Benelli is a renowned Italian Motorcycle manufacturer well-known for making high-performance motorcycles at accessible prices. This Italian two-wheeler company was established in 1911 but Benelli entered India only in recent years. Benelli initially formed an alliance with Pune&rsquo;s DSK Group and </span><span style="font-kerning: none">entered the Indian market in October 2014. The DSK-Benelli partnership gained some success in the domestic market because of their high-performance motorcycles at affordable prices but the companies parted their ways in 2018. Benelli re-entered the Indian market with Hyderabad&rsquo;s Mahavir group in October 2019 and this time they came with an aggressive product strategy. Benelli India 2.0 has widened its reach and enjoyed a fair amount of success in the country in such a short span of time. The motorcycle brand now sells a lot of bikes ranging from affordable retro-cruisers to adventure motorcycles, scramblers, and even twin-cylinders and inline-four bikes.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Ather Energy is an Indian electric two-wheeler start-up founded by IITians Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain in 2013. Ather is a young company but this young enterprise has set a benchmark in the electric two-wheeler space of the country. Ather Energy received seed-funding from Flipkart&rsquo;s co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal and the brand launched its first electric scooter Ather 450 in India in 2018. Ather 450 was initially sold only in Bengaluru followed by Chennai and the Indian audience was hugely impressed by this product. Following the 450, Ather also launched the more affordable Ather 340 in India but it was later discontinued and recently the brand has launched its flagship E-scooter Ather 450X. Ather is gradually expanding its reach in the country and the brand is the most sought-after electric two-wheeler because of its interesting products and a unique DC fast charging infrastructure for electric vehicles called Ather Grid. Ather also has its own set of distinctive experience centers known as Ather Space.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Jawa is an iconic name-plate in the Indian Motorcycling history. The Jawa Motorcycles were first introduced in India in the 1950s and the brand has a cult following till date. Mysore-based Indian motorcycle company Ideal Jawa Limited used to sell Jawa branded motorcycles in India from 1960s and Yezdi branded motorcycles from 1970s but in 1996 the company was obsoleted. The Icon made a comeback in the Indian market in 2018 as Mahindra and Mahindra through its subsidiary Classic Legends acquired the Jawa brand. Jawa Motorcycles currently has three motorcycles in its portfolio - Jawa Classic, Jawa 42 and the bobber Jawa Perak. The Jawa brand has a huge fan following and it has become immensely popular in its second inning in India within&nbsp;a short span of time.</span></p>

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