Scooters Again Becoming Rage Beating Motorcycle

It appears that scooters are becoming a rage again or one can call it the magic of advertisement that sale of scooters has beaten motorcycles. Hero Activa has emerged as the largest selling scooter in India with more than 1 Crore users in a single country making it best selling two wheeler in the world.

Have a look at the results reported by Honda company for their two wheeler segment.

Last year in March, Honda was able to sell 108,815 units of Activa, which has gone up to 179,956 units in March, 2014. Compared to Hero Splendor, Activa has a decent lead of 13,000 units which makes it India’s best selling two wheeler.

Earlier this month, Honda had reported that it has witnessed 55% direct growth in their 2-wheeler sales all over the country. They were able to sell 3,92,148 units in March, 2014 compared to 2,52,787 units during the same period last year.

Motor bikes registered an increase of 57 per cent at 1,90,091 units in March, 2014 as compared to 1,20,796 units last year. On the same hand, motor scooters (Activa/Deo) registered 53 per cent increase 2,02,057 units from 1,31,991 units in March, 2013.

Somehow from safety aspects scooters are much better as compared to motorcycles which leads to numerous accidents due to over speeding and youngsters doing the same to get the speed thrill which kills.

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