Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) has said that its popular mini-bike, the Honda Navi, has crossed the 60,000 sales mark, far ahead of the 50,000 sales target it was meant to achieve. When HMSI introduced the Navi at the 2016 Auto Expo, the company had expected to sell only around 2,000 units a month in the first year of production. In just over a year since the Navi's launch in February 2016, now the 'made by India, for India' mini-bike has sold over 60,000 units.
"The Honda Navi has sold over 60,000 units till date, exceeding the target of 50,000," HMSI Senior Vice President (Sales and Marketing) YS Guleria told media persons at an interaction in Goa. Guleria was talking to reporters at the Honda Navi Goa Hunt 2017, an event organised in association with the Goa Tourism Development Corporation. The Honda Navi Goa Hunt is a two-day activity aimed at exploring Goa riding the Navi, and reaching the final destination after surprise tasks at each location.
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The Honda Navi is developed from scratch - from concept development to commercial production - by Honda India R&D, and uses the bestselling automatic scooter Honda Activa's 110 cc HET engine. The unprecedented market response to the Honda Navi prompted HMSI to add additional production numbers, increasing capacity to 100,000 just over a year after the Navi was launched.
The Honda Navi is manufactured at the company's Tapukara plant in Rajasthan. Although the Navi was manufactured only for India, HMSI is shipping the bike to Nepal as well. The company is looking at exporting the Navi to other SAARC markets like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as well. HMSI has four plants across India - Manesar in Haryana, Tapukara in Rajasthan, Narsapara in Karnataka and Vithalpur in Gujarat, with an installed capacity of 5.8 million units. Once completed, the 1.8 million Narsapara plant will become the world's largest two-wheeler facility in the world, with over 2.4 million capacity.
