HONDA's GLOBAL motorcycle sales in the first half of its financial year to30 September fell by 11.7 per cent year-on-year to a mere 4.58 millionunits. But this drop wasn't serious, the company claimed, because it was dueto a reduction in the number

HONDA INDIA along with other motorcycle and scooter manufacturers Bajaj and Kinetic are considering the development of gas-powered bikes.In a country where buses, cars and auto-rickshaws already widely use LPG - a clean-burning and high

PT ASTRA Honda Motor, Honda's joint-venture motorcycle manufacturing and sales operation in Indonesia, has just celebrated a total production of 20 million bikes since it was established in 1971. The company now has an annual motorcycle production

The SWA (Supertest World Association), the organisation that groups together 10 of the world's most important motorcycle publications, has this year awarded the "Best Bike of the Year" title to the Ducati 1098. MO (Germany), MOTO 73 (Netherlands

A PROPOSED electric two-wheeler joint venture between Hero Group - the majority shareholder in Indian motorcycle giant Hero Honda - and British electric vehicle components specialist Ultra Motor has been binned. The two companies have decided

WITH THE spectre of recession rippling around the globe, the vast powered two-wheeler markets of the Indian Subcontinent, South East Asia and China are now bracing themselves for plummeting motorcycle and scooter sales.Indian manufacturers, after