Scheduled for India launch in 2015, the Bajaj Qute has been challenged on safety grounds due to light weight and low safety features.

The new generation Pulsar NS 160 caters to the fast-growing segment of customers who seek premium quality, international style and performance, Bajaj Auto said in a statement.

Several retail chains have advanced their end-of-season sales by a month to clear their inventory before the new tax regime kicks in.

The company has decided to offer post-GST reduced prices to customers with immediate effect from June 14, 2017 itself, it added.

Two-wheeler majors Hero MotoCorp, Suzuki Motorcycle, Bajaj Auto and even Ducati and Kawasaki are offering heavy discounts till March 31.

The Pune based company is focusing on its partnership with Austrian firm KTM, under which it has been converting its Probiking outlets, where Kawasaki motorcycles were also sold, into KTM dealerships.

KTM is the largest motorcylce brand in the Europe selling over 2 lakh units worth 1.14 billion euros in 2016 and Bajaj Auto picked a little over 49 per cent in the company in 2008 when it was financially in trouble.

\"If your innovation in the country depends on the Government approval or the judicial process, it will not be a case of 'Made in India', but 'Mad in India'. After five years, we are still waiting for permission to sell our four-wheeler in the country,\" the Managing Director of Bajaj Auto said.

Peeved at hurdles being faced by his company to launch its quadri-cycle in India, industrialist Rajiv Bajaj today said stifling of innovation by regulatory agencies will turn 'Made in India' into 'Mad in India', taking potshots at the Centre's flagship manufacturing initiative.

India's two-wheeler major Hero MotoCorp today forayed into the Argentinian market with the global launch of its 125 cc bike 'New Glamour' as part of its aggressive global expansion plans.

Motorcycle sales during the month decreased by 18 per cent to 2,03,312 units from 2,47,782 units in the same month in 2015, the company said in a regulatory filing.

It is precisely this kind of brand loyalty among people in villages and smaller towns that helped TVS XL touch the 10-million sales mark last year, the second two-wheeler brand in India to achieve this milestone (besides Hero Splendor).

Consumers are willing to splurge once again on a range of products. This is just what the doctor ordered for the Indian economy.

Every Sunday morning, the Gurgaon-Faridabad highway buzzes with the revving up of premium bikes - hundreds of them - with enthusiasts zipping past the scenic landscape. This weekend scene plays out also on the Delhi-Jaipur expressway and most urban highways across the country.

Succession is almost always a thorny issue for any Indian business family. From Reliance to Bajaj, India Inc. is replete with protracted legal wrangles and messy battles being fought in public.

The firm posted sales of 9.94 lakh units (motorcycles plus commercial vehicles)  in the quarter under consideration against 10.13 lakh units in the Q1 of last fiscal.

\"We are ramping up the production by September as we are very positive that these numbers will only continue to grow and sustain the Bajaj V as one of the best selling premium commuter motorcycles in the country.\"

Getting past Splendor, the world's largest-selling two-wheeler between 2001 and 2015 is no mean feat, especially if we consider that the scooter category was all but given up for dead a few years ago and most firms decided to focus on motorbikes.

Stressing on worrying macroeconomic theme, Rahul Bajaj said in his address to the company's shareholders in the Annual Report for 2015-2016 that each year India is producing an extra 12 million young people of an age that makes them ready for the nation's workforce.

Eicher under Siddhartha Lal is getting ready to conquer more and more frontiers.