Thanks for sharing Crazy Driver, hope this becomes a monthly thing now. I really enjoy pouring through the numbers and charts. Few questions and observations as well as some quotes from last months report to see how things have changed
- In your first post, the column names in the top gainers and losers tables are incorrect. Instead of September to October, it says August to September. The numbers are correct for September to October.
- Bajaj has done well in the last two months. From 2 months of hovering around the 2,00,000 units mark, they have quickly moved to 2,81,582.
- Royal Enfield seems to have found its footing at around the 70,000 units mark. Surely they are aiming for even higher numbers.
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Originally Posted by neil.jericho Bajaj dispatched 46.8% more (67,450 against 45,921 units) Platinas as compared to August 2018. Thats quite a leap. And its not like the numbers in August were a drop in the year. Very interesting to see how this pans out in the next few months. |
The Platina juggernaut rolls out. From an average of 36,125 monthly dispatches in the first half of the year, the Platina did 74064 in October. Is it the only due to the Platina Comfortec?
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Originally Posted by neil.jericho - The Pulsar 220 with 8586 units outsells the Duke 200, Duke 250, Duke 390, Dominar and V15 combined! Astounding to see the old workhorse do so well so many years later. |
This month the Pulsar 220 did 9970 units. The Duke 200, Duke 250, Duke 390, Dominar and V15 combined did a paltry 6,491 units. Ouch. Speaking of the Dominar, its sad to see such a competent bike not do well in the market. That's one dud that Bajaj's marketing campaign can take full credit for.
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Originally Posted by neil.jericho Meanwhile I just hopped on over to the Facebook page of the Silicon Honda (Bangalore) dealership and found that they have delivered several Fireblades in 2018. |
- Honda's CBR1000RR sales figures for the year are definitely wrong.
- Did the Versys really have zero dispatches in the last 5 months? That must certainly be worrying the boffins at Kawasaki India.
- Im surprised by the big spike in Z900 dispatches. I doubt their dealers are sitting on that many orders so its likely the company has pushed inventory onto dealers. Given that its already November, I strongly suspect that there are going to be a bunch of left over 2018 stock of Z900s that might have some discount come Q1 2019.
- Only 78 dispactches of the ZX10R all year after they announced their ground breaking pricing? Are people with bookings really still waiting all these months later? Or is the market genuinely this small? I remember predicting a run of 100 units.
- After 4 months of the SR125 outselling the SR150, Aprilia seems to be pushing the SR150 again. Higher purchase price and higher profits. Win win.
- Bad month for the RE 500cc offerings. They have sold the same number of bikes overall as compared to the previous month but they have sold a lot more of the 350 cc bikes. Not a very profitable month for them. Then again, they will be sitting on a ton of cash with the 650 twin bookings so I doubt they will complain.
- The V Strom 650XT (
not Storm ) makes things very interesting. If they can continue the momentum and allay the concerns on frequent services and associated expenses, the bigger adventure bike manufacturers need to be really worried.
- The evergreen Hayabusa sells an average of 17 motorcycles a month while the ZX14R has done zero in 2018. Thats amazing.
- Rough year for Triumph with their numbers all over the place. The expensive Street Twin is barely in double digits and even though the price difference between the two bikes is 3x, the Interceptor 650 is going to sway a lot of potential Street Twin buyers the RE way. The Street Triple RS variant easily outsells the S again, which just goes to show how badly they messed up pricing of the new generation Triple. Troublingly, only 2 dispatches of Tigers for the month.
- R15 with very impressive numbers for the month. I see a lot of them, almost all in Yamaha blue though, here in Cochin. But still no ABS. Imagine how much better the product and sales could have been had the wise boffins at Yamaha deemed to bestow the bike with ABS! Best month of the year for the FZ25 as well.