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Yamaha to launch gearless scooters

CHENNAI: Two-wheeler manufacturer, India Yamaha Motor Private Ltd. is planning to launch gearless scooters in India next year. Sanjay Tripathi, Division Head (Product Planning & Marketing) told The Hindu recently that the scooters, with automatic transmission, would be as powerful as its motorcycles.

The parent company, Yamaha Motor Company, Japan, which is the world’s largest gearless scooter maker with a wide range of scooters starting from 50 cc to 500 cc, is undertaking feasibility studies for introducing its gearless scooters in India.

Right from inception in India in 1985, the company was commanding a good market share in its motorcycle segment till 1990 especially with its RX 100 model highly popular among the youth, Mr. Tripathi said.

Subsequently its market share dropped and it was less than two per cent last year.

However, in the current year the company could show some improvement in sales and in the 10 months ended October 2008, it sold 1.4 lakh motorcycles.

The company is setting up additional facilities at its manufacturing plant in Surajpur, Uttar Pradesh.

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