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Originally posted by rossiter
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Arey Dost, That's the fact...But are we really asking for a Sports Tourer, 400cc, 40 bhp for 65 thousand....Give us the same machine, for thrice that amount. yehi to baat mein kehta hoon....!!!! PEACE!Its not about the BHP or the CC, its about one common religion called Biking!!!
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No, what's happening here is that everyone is asking for a different machine that suits their expectation, but they all want it cheaper than an MP's character.
That pretty much sums this thread up.
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Damn. I am paying for the Tata Nano, and I will never buy that car.Originally posted by rossiter View PostThe whole line of discussion is missing one important factor here. That the Nano is priced at this level, BECAUSE and ONLY BECAUSE Tata went shopping with a specific list of demands and sops.. Tax free status, virtually interest free loans etc. The cost of the Nano would be substantially higher if Tata had to shell out the usual capital expansion cost that any normal company would have to pay in a typically industrialised state.
Do you think if Tata had not got these terms anywhere, or if even all the governments approached to base the plant in their states, refused to provide the sops, the Nano would be priced at 1.xx lakhs?
So the 1 lakh car isn't one lakh. It is hugely subsidised by the taxpayer, you and me included. Tata has pulled off an economic and strategic coup here.
Firstly, you cannot simply plonk a 600cc on a bike and expect go!!! performance. Car engines are different from bike engines. You simply cannot think that since Nano, a 600cc, costs 1.xx lakh so a bike of 500 cc should cost...etc etc. There is a lot of thought process that goes into creating any automobile. If the volume of metal being used to build an automobile/engines reflects its price then just imagines the prices of trucks compared to cars. It's not that simple.DoN\'t LivE tO DiE, dIe tO LiVeComment
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I just want to say i think the sales volumes of the "Big Bikes" is no where near to the numbers of the 100cc bikes sales anywhere, yet these bikes are present in other markets at a resonable price, then why not here in India.:DsigpicComment
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Actually what you are saying is available, a decent 400cc twin @ 3 lacs., But not in India. Indian manufactrers can obviously make that, but again the same question rises, will it sell? a Rs.3 lac bike? or else the company will be at huge losses. whats the point when only u n me gonna buy it? there had to be other buyers too, so company can make profits. Even if its not the question of a poser-ownership, Lets say i dint liked the design (*proper good looking bike with power n aerodynamics matters to me atleast) after the bike rolls out, I wont buy it & if those few buyers company is targeting at, have a design consious mind like me... the project will be a total failure & again LOSES! maybe, it can be even that ke you dont like the design, again the bike will saturate to a very less numbers of buyers, lets say 100-150! Will it be worth making such a bike just for the few of us & taking back only losses???Originally posted by svjhonda View Post
**And dude our traffic police is good for nothing...
Even I guess so...Originally posted by Synn View Post
Last edited by spiderweb; 04-14-2009, 03:36 PM.
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Hey yaar now everyone's taking the price issue...... so when Zma was first launched it was priced around 88k whereas other bikes were around 35k-55k..... but at time also there were buyers...... now we already have bikes costing more than a lac n people are buying...... but then also no one is ready to take a step ahead and bring something good......Comment
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Bro jus wait for a few months n u'll be seeing a ninja 250, KTMs, a bajaj miniSBK & a few more...Originally posted by pads View Post
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
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Yeah, quite true. This "low numbers of buyers" argument by the manufacturers sound like crap to me. IMO, in India a VFM product always sells regardless of the actual price of the product.Originally posted by pads View PostYour biking tells a lot about the person you are!Comment
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HOLY FUDGE! I think I was ripped when I bought my 8500 Rupees Bycycle..... that thing doesnt even run on ANY engine!
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Indeed. Why the hell is someone mentioning a 4.5 crore car? Do we not have Rs 12 lakh and Rs. 40 lakh bikes?
The simple matter of fact is that no one in this thread has any clear cut idea what they want. All they know is they want things cheap.
Well, newsflash. There are very cheap two wheelers out there that barely qualify as a proper motorcycle/ moped/ whatever. Just like how the Nano barely qualifies as a proper car. Now don't give me the whole, "But it drives much better than the 800!" deal. It does. But compared to any car from a couple of segments up, it IS inadequate. That's nothing to be ashamed of. It's not meant to compete with them.
Just like how your Platina's and TVS champs are not meant to compete with the Karizmas and the R15s and the Pulsar 220s. Get.Some.Perspective.
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