The Indian two-wheelers Industry can be broadly classified as scooters, motorcycles and mopeds. These segments as shown below constitute the domestic two wheeler sales of 3.4mn in FY99.In the last six years, the domestic two-wheeler industry has seen structural changes.
This can be seen from the change in composition of two-wheeler sales, where the motorcycles have consistently gained market share from the scooter and moped segments to corner a share of 41% of total two-wheeler sales. This trend is expected to continue in the next two years till the four-stroke scooters make their presence felt in the segment
150cc vehicles from Bajaj Auto and LML dominate the scooter market, with the rest being served by 100cc variometric scooters from Kinetic Honda.
For scooters, northern India is the major market contributing nearly 46% of the total scooter sales. Western and southern India takes up second and third position with 27.5% and 15.7% respectively.
In motorcycles sales, western region leads with a market share of 40% of the total motorcycle sales. South and north regions come second and third with a market share of 27.5% and 17.4% of total motorcycle sales respectively.
The Indian motorcycle industry can be broadly categorized in to Indian motorcycles and Indo-Japanese motorcycles. Hero group, Bajaj and Escorts dominate the Indo-Japanese motorcycle segment in collaboration with Japanese vehicle manufacturers Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha respectively. Bajaj (M80), Escorts and Royal Enfield dominate the Indian motorcycles segment.
In terms of two-wheeler vehicle population, Maharashtra stands first with a population of 2.96mn vehicles and Gujarat stands second with 2.64mn vehicles as on March 31st 1997. Tamil Nadu is the third largest state with 2.45mn two-wheeler population.
This can be seen from the change in composition of two-wheeler sales, where the motorcycles have consistently gained market share from the scooter and moped segments to corner a share of 41% of total two-wheeler sales. This trend is expected to continue in the next two years till the four-stroke scooters make their presence felt in the segment
150cc vehicles from Bajaj Auto and LML dominate the scooter market, with the rest being served by 100cc variometric scooters from Kinetic Honda.
For scooters, northern India is the major market contributing nearly 46% of the total scooter sales. Western and southern India takes up second and third position with 27.5% and 15.7% respectively.
In motorcycles sales, western region leads with a market share of 40% of the total motorcycle sales. South and north regions come second and third with a market share of 27.5% and 17.4% of total motorcycle sales respectively.
The Indian motorcycle industry can be broadly categorized in to Indian motorcycles and Indo-Japanese motorcycles. Hero group, Bajaj and Escorts dominate the Indo-Japanese motorcycle segment in collaboration with Japanese vehicle manufacturers Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha respectively. Bajaj (M80), Escorts and Royal Enfield dominate the Indian motorcycles segment.
In terms of two-wheeler vehicle population, Maharashtra stands first with a population of 2.96mn vehicles and Gujarat stands second with 2.64mn vehicles as on March 31st 1997. Tamil Nadu is the third largest state with 2.45mn two-wheeler population.