Aparajith

I agree that BAJAJ is feeling the pinch too hard, but then this is not a good idea at all!! In fact they might earn disrespect from all those "morons" who bought a 220 for its Fi (knowing the advantages)! And this coming up at a time when almost all niggles have been ironed out is sending a negative message. If any of u feel different am sorry, but this is just IMO. They cud have instead spent all their R&D to extract performance out of the Fi unit and beef up the chassis/suspension and given a much worthier cruiser. Then we would have had an RTR/R15 competitor. Till then they will be just that - BAJAJ!

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insanebiker

Yeah, Bajaj s policies suck. Bajaj doesnt have any reason to why it should keep it s current customers happy.

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abhijeet080808

They wanted to make premium bikes cheaper. Nothing wrong with that.

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vipin_s

I think P220 DTSi is a desperate attempt at R15/FZ/RTR180, not well thought out plan I guess, Bajaj feels they can clinch market by playing with 'price' and sell 'speed'. Let's see what happens.

ravi@17bhp

Sigh! Seems many are seriously believing what CNBC says. What came to my mind when I saw this thread was, "Ninja launch as a competitor with price at 1 lakh."

satyenpoojary

Damn! seriously what a mockery! Unless they pull out a new 'thing' or the ninja soon!


I just lost my sleep sir, and this is what I saw first on the tracker!

I do agree on the Bajaj gameplan bit, it has always played on the price cards..... but a 250CC with FI developed here vs the Ninja.... Ahem thats kinda difficult to digest!

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outworldly maniac

its awesome thing to do
all hail BAJAJ

if not anything
this will teach YAMAHA and HONDA how to price things right
but they should not learn to remove the FI

most dumbos out there as they always do will run for this.....
baap re..... yeh bike to sabse fastest hain........
aur R15 se sasta bhi hain yar.......
and it will seriously hit the sales of the R15 , FZ , the evergreen KARIZMA , and may be what not
if it will really be out at that price
will be a nail in yamaha's and hh 's arse

now the reason to discard FI is i think bal are expecting huge orders for the carb version that they will not have time to think on the FI version
and also wont have to spend time and money to teach those stupid mechs how to treat the FI related problems

spiderweb

Us Sorry to say, but I for one will never ever buy a Bajaj after all this what am seeing from last 2-3 months...
NOW everyone owns a P200, except for P220 owners & seeing the Bajaj's pace, they'll also fall in the same league sometime soon...
No Offence to anyone


What made you think that? R15 is in its own league man, it's sales will hardly get affected by all this Bajaj Speed crap. While ZMA/Honda loyal people will never fall prey to this too, Dont you see P220/P200 got their own share, which hardly affected the sales of ZMA. It still sells, while more faster machines like P220 & R15 are already around.
So it might also be that ke Bajaj will nail itself! (Ye India hai meri jaan, yaha kuch bhi ho sakta hai)

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ravi@17bhp

+1. I will not go for Bajaj unless it is revolutionary. I am using a Honda now, and would prefer a Honda again.

spiderweb

Yeh man!
See, I already said that HONDA loyals will always stick to a HONDA only

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