Archive : Kawasaki

The blogosphere is buzzing with news of Bajaj shutting down bookings for the Ninja 650R till festival time. As IndianCarsBikes says, the Ninja 650R came, saw and has conquered biker’s hearts. Launched a few weeks ago, the 650cc Ninja took everyone by storm as it was priced lower than everyone expected. Keeping the 250R’ prices as framework, people expected the Ninja to touch 6 lakh rupees, [...]

Be it an arcade game or a street race, “boost” and “turbo” are the two most important power options everyone looks for. Irrespective of whether we drive a Hero Honda Splendor or a Suzuki Hayabusa, we want more power from our bike. The enormous increase in the sales of performance add-ons over the past five years complements the previous statement. In this article, we present [...]

Bajaj’s has brought out enough successful products in the past to showcase what it is capable of. From the time of the Chetak, KB 100 (aka the Kawasaki gto-100) to the Caliber, etc, some have been Bajaj’s own designs and some were taken from its tech partner Kawasaki. Even the Pulsar’s engine was derived from the Kaswasaki’s KLX series. So seeing the company’s track record [...]

KTM, Kawasaki and Bajaj have a tieup in India. Bajaj being the backbone of the tie-up is taking care of the manufacturing of the motorcycles whilst KTM and Kawasaki will be bringing in the technology. On an interview conducted, Mr. Rajiv Bajaj, CEO of BAL told media that the the new plans in development will include expansion of the existing plants. This is done to better suit the production of all [...]

Bajaj is planning to fire in all cylinders. Apart from the KTM Duke 125, it plans to bring the Kawasaki Ninja 650R as well to India. It has been a little over a year since Bajaj brought the Ninja 250R in India and over a 1000 units of the Ninja 250 has been sold till date. Mr. Rajiv Bajaj, MD Bajaj Auto in an interview has said that they could bring in the 650cc Ninja to India by the end of the financial [...]

Kawasaki has unveiled the 2011 Ninja 250R at the EICMA in Milan, Italy. The 2011 Ninja’s been given subtle additions and there are no noticeable changes to its looks. Kawasaki has stuck to the the continuous dual front head lamp, unlike the bigger Kwackers which have turned to the split lamp arrangement. For 2011, power comes from the same 249cc, liquid-cooled parallel twin engine that’s [...]

Kawasaki, currently selling under a JV with Bajaj, will launch its Indian arm India Kawasaki Motors during the course of today in Pune, sources have told Indian Motos Blog. This Unit will also be in partnership with Bajaj and will operate from the Chakan plant. India Kawasaki Motors (IKM) will focus on bikes in the 200cc+ category and will have them either imported or assembled here. This way, Kawasaki [...]

Superbike manufacturers such as Ducati, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha have been taken aback by the response their high-end machines have received way up in the mountains. The manufacturers are reporting decent sales figures of their high-end bikes from Northern and North-Eastern parts of the country. Atul Gupta, Vice-President, Marketing and Sales, Suzuki Motorcycle India Private Limited [...]

Here are some more images of the 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R. The image which we  revealed yesterday was the only official image of the bike released by Kawasaki until now. These new images are of the bike being tested at Japan’s Suzuka race circuit, in order for the Kawasaki engineers to prep up the bike for the assault on next season’s World Superbike Championship title. The 2011 Kawasaki [...]

After revealing the design sketches and a teaser video, Kawasaki has now revealed the first official picture of its 2011 Ninja ZX-10R litre-class superbike. The image revealed is of the track version of the bike and not of the production version, which will be available in Kawasaki showrooms, once the bike has been launched sometime in 2011. The image has been released as a pre-cursor to a test of [...]