Re: Honda CBR 600RR to be pulled back from product line-up

Very sad news CBR 600RR was such a popular bike....we all have ridden a CBR600RR at some point of time or the other...I will really miss seeing this bike on our roads multiple times daily...

Honda should make an exception for India, the biggest market for the CBR 600RR worldwide, and keep on producing it here, we don't even have them pollution norms kicking in yet...think of all the people involved in manufacturing the thousands of units of the CBR600RR every year in India - what will they do now?


Very sad day indeed.

Re: Honda CBR 600RR to be pulled back from product line-up

Had to read your post twice to get the sarcasm 😂

Re: Honda CBR 600RR to be pulled back from product line-up

Very Sad indeed. Hope the R6 and ZX-6r does not end up like this

Re: Honda CBR 600RR to be pulled back from product line-up

We have a fair idea of what other manufacturers are doing actually.

Ducati - 899 Panigale upgraded to the 959 Panigale to meet Euro IV norms.

Yamaha - The 2017 R6 is due in a few months and will in all likelihood be Euro IV compliant since it's the first major upgrade to the R6 in over 3 years.

Suzuki - Gsxr-750 will in all likelihood be phased out. It is the grandpa of the middleweight category anyway. I don't see them spending anything to upgrade it after all these years.

Kawasaki - ZX6R - No update.

Triumph - Lot of speculation here. Not about the emission norms but about the bike itself. The Daytona 675 maybe a gorgeous bike but if rumours are to be believed Triumph is all set to can the project given the high costs and low returns. Triumph has also stopped providing race spec variants of the Daytona to teams across the world. It in all likelihood is a rumour with no bite to it but we'll have to wait and see.

MV Agusta - Word out there is that six new models which are all Euro IV compliant are on their way.

KTM - Theyve already started upgrading their 390 to Euro IV compliance so the Duke690 shouldn't be far away.

Re: Honda CBR 600RR to be pulled back from product line-up

The new Daytona would never have seen the light of the day. It got a but lucky as Triumph was in advanced stages of production readiness when the global downturn hit else it would have been canned. Anyways, in Uk sales are not even in hundreds per year for the cbr600. There would be huge discounts just before the new norms kick in to clear out stock. These would be collector's items in 10 years time😉

Re: Honda CBR 600RR to be pulled back from product line-up

Every manufacturer is moving out of the 600cc supersport category. Triumph is rumored to be going up a few displacements from 675 to 765 to meet Euro 4. Yamaha has already said the current R6 will only sell till Euro 4 is enforced. Kawasaki has said it will study the market and decide what to do, i.e., discontinue or build a replacement model. Suzuki will phase its models out too.

Development costs for a 600 is just as equal as development of a 1000. Hence why no manufacturer has gone into replacing their ageing models. Plus dwindling sales in that segment means there is no potential market for the replacement who's price will only be higher than the outgoing model. The already smaller price gap between the 600 and 1000 will get even smaller and people would rather pay a little more for a 1000 anyway especially when the newer model adds another 10kg or so to combat emission/noise regulations.

Re: Honda CBR 600RR to be pulled back from product line-up

In my opinion, a right business decision.

There's no point in re-making a 600, because in whichever markets there's a 600, there's usually an equally focussed 1000 too (few exceptions maybe).

And the costs in making a bike Euro 4 compliant is not the only thing. Employee satisfation is, too. The thing is, if I was an R&D employee in Japan or Europe, I most probably wouldn't enjoy making a bike Euro 4 capable.
One would have to use clever engineering and lots of testing to absorb/ cut the pollution, still a slightly heavier exhaust is coming anyhow.

In the end result, you have an aged version of the original bike, that no true biker-employee would be proud of.

And if you really need more performance, then go up the cc ladder, which is like saying, just get a 1000 with more torque all through the range, and a few kgs extra.

When we have 1000cc's ready, what's the point in making a 650cc or 725cc or some odd config, anyways unusable as per racing categories?
If they work on making the existing 1000cc's lighter, that would be appreciated double time anyhow, instead of a heavier, slower 600.

Of course, this opinion is just for one company, not for the market itself.

Of course, I wonder how many will end their lives over this decision in India. God bless their noble spirits.