Hero Honda and Bajaj Auto
An interesting fact I read in news… last month, Hero Honda sold more scooters than the Bajaj Auto. The market leader was Honda. And apparently, Bajaj Auto which was once the dominating player in the Indian scooter market has currently just one model of scooters on sale today!
I find it totally interesting. Not surprising considering Indians now prefer to buy motorcycles to scooters. And of course, Hero Honda is the market leader in that segment! Bajaj Auto has transformed themselves to more of a bike manufacturer and this has screwed them in the scooters market!
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:12 pm
I do agree that Bajaj has become now a major player in Bike industry and thus they have lost the market leadership in manufaturing/selling of Scooters. However, if we ask at least 10 people to their preferred scooters, they will soon reply that if theypurchase, it would be a Bajaj Chetak. Only brand name says it all
April 3rd, 2007 at 01:01 am
Legend, Chetak 4S, Saphire, Wave, Rave all flopped miserably shows that Bajaj didn’t understand how scooter works since 1948 !! They just manufactured blindly and assembled them according to Vespa’s drawings. Bajaj crystal is another born flop scooter !!
Look at Hero Honda and Honda , they flattened Bajaj in just one shot.
Bajaj’s bread and butter is just Pulsar 150, this bike still having complaints of gearbox, clutch system, right now it’s share is taken by Apache/New Unicorn/Achiever and ofcourse Xtreme. All bikes from Honda are reliable. Bajaj’s quest for No.1 slot is impossible. Hero Honda is known for reliability and good service to bikes n customers.
Bajaj will close it’s shutters b’cos the bad mouthing will happen from their customers itself….Bajaj owners will not recommend to anybody….sure one day it may have to close the shop.
Shabash HONDAS !!
April 3rd, 2007 at 01:02 am
Legend, Chetak 4S, Saphire, Wave, Rave all flopped miserably shows that Bajaj didn’t understand how scooter works since 1948 !! They just manufactured blindly and assembled them according to Vespa’s drawings. Bajaj crystal is another born flop scooter !!
Look at Hero Honda and Honda , they flattened Bajaj in just one shot.
Bajaj’s bread and butter is just Pulsar 150, this bike still having complaints of gearbox, clutch system, right now it’s share is taken by Apache/New Unicorn/Achiever and ofcourse Xtreme. All bikes from Honda are reliable. Bajaj’s quest for No.1 slot is impossible. Hero Honda is known for reliability and good service to bikes n customers.
Bajaj will close it’s shutters b’cos the bad mouthing will happen from their customers itself….Bajaj owners will not recommend to anybody….sure one day it may have to close the shop.
Shabash HONDAS !!
April 4th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Bajaj Auto Sub-dealers are certainly the most un-happy among all brand of Indian Automobile Dealerships, no matter whether it is 4 wheeler or 2 wheeler dealership. Bajaj Auto subdealers are always busy to save them from their main dealers craftiness and have to compete with them for their survival. Bajaj subdealers have no energy left to compete with other competetive products and the company has no mentality to look after their subdealers. This is one of the biggest reason, why Bajaj still cant beat Hero Honda.
September 6th, 2007 at 09:38 pm
BABAJ ONE THING I MUST SAY STYLING IS DAMN GOOD BUT LOOKING TO THE PERFORMANCE,ENGINE JUST GOES DOWN AFTER ONE YEAR!!!!BUT FOR HERO HONDA STYLING IS NOT SOOO GUD BUT!!THE QUALITY OF ENGINE IS SIMPLY SUPERB,,DATS THE DAMN GOOD QUALITY IN HERO HONDA STUFFS!!!
September 11th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
ya no doubt hero hond’s market is better.coz their vehicles r available at ne tym.but what exactly the meanin of bike only bajaj company knows what bike means exactly.so stylin is sexy pick-up now smooth n over all bike is sporty.but the coz of hero honda is on they only preferr luks thats it.no metter what engine is.every year no changes is their bikes exept luks n whole bike is same as prier…..so i think bajaj pulsars the best bike.n i only preffer the quality.not a toy.so bajaj pulsar is no.1 bike n even in sale.i got pulsars ryt now 1st is 150 dts-i n then 200 dts-i.m happy wid both the bikes.200 gives fully bikin mazaa.
February 27th, 2008 at 04:14 pm
Like most of us in the age group of 40 and above, I once admired Bajaj like heaven on earth. Not anymore.
It is all about the un-innovative mindset. e.g., we hardly saw any change in the Bajaj autorickshaw models during its 30-40 years of history.
We cant blame only Bajaj for that. We Indians value the managers more than the designers while the Japanese (and Koreans now), value a designer as much as a manager. Even if a designer is valued in India, he or she needs to be in the R&D cell aligned to their managers and as a result all the creative mindset elsewhere in the organization have no role to play.
Well, you can easily beat a tumhara Bajaj.