Query Closed. It might become a battleground.

Power and smoothness are not really inter-connected. A powerful vehicle may be either smooth or rough or a mix of both at different rpms', depending on a lot of other factors.

Let me tell you how they reach these figures: Unicorn's engine is largely unchanged all these years, except for some viscous air filter upgrade, etc. It is a smooth bike, with plenty of midrange torque so its top end is acceptable, i.e. 13.4 PS.

Generally the industry average for 150cc (excluding R15/ CBR150R) has been around 14 PS. Pulsar 150 was also 14 PS from 2007 onwards. But it got an update few years back, probably a better carb and some tuning, which raises its output to around 15 PS.


And when you talk about quality in Indian context, remember than it depends a lot on the vendors. A bad quality part supplied by a vendor, sometimes ends up jeopardizing the 2 wheeler company's name too.

@^ +1 Apart from what you said, the sample size used by the thread starter is just 1 bike of each kind. I have seen 5-7 year old Pulsar 150 engines running smooth as new even today.