Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, Private Limited
Private
Industry Automotive
Founded 1999
Headquarters Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Key people
Minoru Kato, President and CEO[1]
Products Motorcycles, scooters
Parent Honda Motor Company, Limited
Website honda2wheelersindia.com

Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, Private Limited (HMSI) is the wholly owned Indian subsidiary of Honda Motor Company, Limited, Japan.[2] Founded in 1999,[2] it was the fourth Honda automotive venture in India, after Kinetic Honda Motor Ltd (1984-1998), Hero Honda (1984-2011) and Honda Siel Cars India (1995-2012).[3] HMSI was established in 1999 at Manesar, District Gurgaon, Haryana.

Currently HMSI has four manufacturing locations at Manesar in Haryana, Tapukara in Rajasthan, Narsapura, Kolar in Karnataka and Vithalpur, NW of Ahmedabad.

Scooter -exclusive plant in Gujarat. Its facility in Narsapura is the largest amongst its four locations and has a capacity of 6,600 vehicles per day. Honda India sales skyrocketed up to 4.28 million motorcycles and scooters backed by scooterization of India via bestselling scooter Activa over 350,000 scooter sales in September 2017. Honda scooter Activa sales record expected 3.5million scooters in 2017/18. Honda motorcycle & scooter started independent operation since 2010s after separation from Hero Honda motors J/V since 1984. 6million production capacity establishment within 7 years record in India, Top world motorcycle market.

Vehicles

Motorcycles

  • X Blades
  • CB Hornet160R
  • CB Unicorn160
  • CB Unicorn 150
  • CB Shine SP
  • CB Shine
  • Livo
  • Dream Yuga
  • Dream Neo
  • CD110 Dream DX

Scooters

Mopeds

  • NAVi 110

Sports Bikes

Discontinued

Scooters

  • Honda Eterno

Motorcycles/Sports Bikes

  • Honda CB Trigger 150
  • Honda CB Unicorn Dazzler 150
  • Honda CB Twister 110
  • Honda CBF Stunner 125
  • Honda CBR 150R
  • Honda CD110 Dream

ISO 14001

HMSI got ISO 14001 certification in December 2002. HMSI plans to use the PDCA cycle for its environmental management system.[4]

References

  1. "HMSI opens second two-wheeler plant", The Hindu, June 2, 2011
  2. 1 2 HMSI --> About Us Archived 2007-08-04 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. HMSI --> About Us --> The Group Companies Archived 2007-08-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. HMSI --> Honda Window --> Environment Archived 2007-08-13 at the Wayback Machine.
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